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稱王道寡 Styling Himself King Again
若不肯與我，教他把鬆箍兒咒念念，退下這個箍子，交還與他，老孫還歸本洞，稱王道寡，耍子兒去罷。」若不肯与我，教他把松箍儿咒念念，退下这个箍子，交还与他，老孙还归本洞，称王道寡，耍子儿去罢。」
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若不肯與我，教他把鬆箍兒咒念念，退下這個箍子，交還與他，老孫還歸本洞，稱王道寡，耍子兒去罷。」
若不肯与我，教他把松箍儿咒念念，退下这个箍子，交还与他，老孙还归本洞，称王道寡，耍子儿去罢。」
but if he will not give them to me, then let him say the fillet-loosening spell and take this band off my head, and I will give it back to him, and old Sun will go home to his own cave, and style himself king and call himself the lonely one, and go off and amuse himself."
鬆箍兒咒 is the counter to the tightening spell Guanyin taught Tripitaka — the one that gives Wukong crippling headaches — and he has asked for it before. 稱王道寡 means to set up as a monarch: 寡, the solitary one, is the word a Chinese ruler used of himself, the way a European king says we.
The threat is the same one he made in the early chapters and it has the same shape: give me what I want or take your collar back and I go home.
What makes it land differently now is the word he chooses for going home. To style himself king and call himself the lonely one is precisely what he did on Flower-Fruit Mountain before Heaven ever noticed him, and the second half of that phrase means alone.
So the threat contains its own answer. He is proposing to go back to being a monkey king with no master, and he says it using the word for a ruler's solitude. He has just spent a poem saying that his master was the cure for that life.