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"The King. When I put out my hands this way (stretching them out), then—" After that, having said two or three words to himself, as he stood with his hands and eyes lift up, immediately stooping down, he laid his neck upon the block.7 And then the executioner again putting his hair under his cap, the King, thinking he was going to strike, said, "Stay for the sign."