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When you make your way out into the lobby, you loiter there to listen to people who are discussing the play.

"What could they do with a king like that?" one man says. "A man should do what's right, but he's got to be well-served by his king."

"If he's not, perhaps there ought to be a change," another mutters.

"I thought the point was that sometimes a son has to take charge with his old father. You can't let an old man wander out into the street with his breeches down."

"Even if that means taking away his throne," one woman says, but she's hushed by her friends at once.

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