1 Esdras 4:31
“And yet for all this, the King gaped and gazed vpon her with open mouth: if she laughed vpon him, hee laughed also: but if she tooke any displeasure at him, the King was faine to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him againe.”
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1 Esdras 4:31 Context
29Yet did I see him and Apame the Kings concubine, the daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the King, 30And taking the crowne from the Kings head, and setting it vpon her owne head; she also strooke the King with her left hand. 31And yet for all this, the King gaped and gazed vpon her with open mouth: if she laughed vpon him, hee laughed also: but if she tooke any displeasure at him, the King was faine to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him againe. 32O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they doe thus? 33Then the king & the princes looked one vpon another: so he began to speake of the trueth.
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And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.
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