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Enter certain OUTLAWS
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Enter certain OUTLAWS
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FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
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FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
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SECOND OUTLAW If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
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SECOND OUTLAW If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
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Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
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Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
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THIRD OUTLAW Stand, sir! And throw us that you have about ye.
If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
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THIRD OUTLAW Stand, sir! And throw us that you have about ye.
If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
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SPEED 5 Sir, we are undone. These are the villains
That all the travelers do fear so much.
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SPEED Sir, we are undone. These are the villains
That all the travelers do fear so much.
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VALENTINE My friends—
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VALENTINE My friends—
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
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SECOND OUTLAW Peace! We’ll hear him.
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SECOND OUTLAW Peace! We’ll hear him.
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THIRD OUTLAW 10 Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
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THIRD OUTLAW Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
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VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me
15 You take the sum and substance that I have.
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VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me
You take the sum and substance that I have.
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SECOND OUTLAW Whither travel you?
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SECOND OUTLAW Whither travel you?
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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FIRST OUTLAW Whence came you?
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FIRST OUTLAW Whence came you?
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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THIRD OUTLAW 20 Have you long sojourned there?
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THIRD OUTLAW Have you long sojourned there?
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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
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FIRST OUTLAW What! were you banished thence?
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FIRST OUTLAW What! were you banished thence?
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VALENTINE I was.
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VALENTINE I was.
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SECOND OUTLAW 25 For what offence?
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SECOND OUTLAW For what offence?
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VALENTINE For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight
Without false vantage or base treachery.
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VALENTINE For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight
Without false vantage or base treachery.
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FIRST OUTLAW 30 Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault?
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FIRST OUTLAW Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault?
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VALENTINE I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
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VALENTINE I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
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SECOND OUTLAW Have you the tongues?
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SECOND OUTLAW Have you the tongues?
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VALENTINE My youthful travel therein made me happy,
35 Or else I often had been miserable.
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VALENTINE My youthful travel therein made me happy,
Or else I often had been miserable.
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THIRD OUTLAW By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
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THIRD OUTLAW By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
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FIRST OUTLAW We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.
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FIRST OUTLAW We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.
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The Outlaws confer in whispers.
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The Outlaws confer in whispers.
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SPEED Master, be one of them.
40 It’s an honorable kind of thievery.
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SPEED Master, be one of them.
It’s an honorable kind of thievery.
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VALENTINE Peace, villain!
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VALENTINE Peace, villain!
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SECOND OUTLAW [Returning to Valentine] Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
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SECOND OUTLAW [Returning to Valentine] Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
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VALENTINE Nothing but my fortune.
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VALENTINE Nothing but my fortune.
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THIRD OUTLAW Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
45 Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
Thrust from the company of awful men.
Myself was from Verona banishèd
For practicing to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
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THIRD OUTLAW Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
Thrust from the company of awful men.
Myself was from Verona banishèd
For practicing to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
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SECOND OUTLAW 50 And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
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SECOND OUTLAW And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
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FIRST OUTLAW And I for suchlike petty crimes as these.
But to the purpose—for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
55 And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape, and by your own report
A linguist, and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want—
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FIRST OUTLAW And I for suchlike petty crimes as these.
But to the purpose—for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape, and by your own report
A linguist, and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want—
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SECOND OUTLAW Indeed, because you are a banished man,
60 Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
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SECOND OUTLAW Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
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THIRD OUTLAW What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
65 Say ay, and be the captain of us all.
We’ll do thee homage, and be ruled by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.
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THIRD OUTLAW What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
Say ay, and be the captain of us all.
We’ll do thee homage, and be ruled by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.
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FIRST OUTLAW But if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest.
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FIRST OUTLAW But if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest.
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SECOND OUTLAW Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
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SECOND OUTLAW Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
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VALENTINE 70 I take your offer and will live with you,
Provided that you do no outrages
On silly women or poor passengers.
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VALENTINE I take your offer and will live with you,
Provided that you do no outrages
On silly women or poor passengers.
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THIRD OUTLAW No, we detest such vile base practices.
Come, go with us. We’ll bring thee to our crews
75 And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
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THIRD OUTLAW No, we detest such vile base practices.
Come, go with us. We’ll bring thee to our crews
And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter certain OUTLAWS
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Enter certain OUTLAWS
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FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
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FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
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SECOND OUTLAW If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
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SECOND OUTLAW If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
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Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
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Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
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THIRD OUTLAW Stand, sir! And throw us that you have about ye.
If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
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THIRD OUTLAW Stand, sir! And throw us that you have about ye.
If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
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SPEED 5 Sir, we are undone. These are the villains
That all the travelers do fear so much.
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SPEED Sir, we are undone. These are the villains
That all the travelers do fear so much.
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VALENTINE My friends—
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VALENTINE My friends—
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
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SECOND OUTLAW Peace! We’ll hear him.
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SECOND OUTLAW Peace! We’ll hear him.
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THIRD OUTLAW 10 Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
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THIRD OUTLAW Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
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VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me
15 You take the sum and substance that I have.
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VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me
You take the sum and substance that I have.
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SECOND OUTLAW Whither travel you?
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SECOND OUTLAW Whither travel you?
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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FIRST OUTLAW Whence came you?
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FIRST OUTLAW Whence came you?
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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THIRD OUTLAW 20 Have you long sojourned there?
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THIRD OUTLAW Have you long sojourned there?
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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
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FIRST OUTLAW What! were you banished thence?
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FIRST OUTLAW What! were you banished thence?
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VALENTINE I was.
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VALENTINE I was.
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SECOND OUTLAW 25 For what offence?
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SECOND OUTLAW For what offence?
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VALENTINE For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight
Without false vantage or base treachery.
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VALENTINE For that which now torments me to rehearse:
I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
But yet I slew him manfully in fight
Without false vantage or base treachery.
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FIRST OUTLAW 30 Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault?
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FIRST OUTLAW Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault?
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VALENTINE I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
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VALENTINE I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
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SECOND OUTLAW Have you the tongues?
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SECOND OUTLAW Have you the tongues?
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VALENTINE My youthful travel therein made me happy,
35 Or else I often had been miserable.
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VALENTINE My youthful travel therein made me happy,
Or else I often had been miserable.
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THIRD OUTLAW By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
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THIRD OUTLAW By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
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FIRST OUTLAW We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.
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FIRST OUTLAW We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.
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The Outlaws confer in whispers.
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The Outlaws confer in whispers.
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SPEED Master, be one of them.
40 It’s an honorable kind of thievery.
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SPEED Master, be one of them.
It’s an honorable kind of thievery.
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VALENTINE Peace, villain!
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VALENTINE Peace, villain!
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SECOND OUTLAW [Returning to Valentine] Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
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SECOND OUTLAW [Returning to Valentine] Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
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VALENTINE Nothing but my fortune.
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VALENTINE Nothing but my fortune.
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THIRD OUTLAW Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
45 Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
Thrust from the company of awful men.
Myself was from Verona banishèd
For practicing to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
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THIRD OUTLAW Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
Thrust from the company of awful men.
Myself was from Verona banishèd
For practicing to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.
|
|
SECOND OUTLAW 50 And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
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SECOND OUTLAW And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
|
|
FIRST OUTLAW And I for suchlike petty crimes as these.
But to the purpose—for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
55 And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape, and by your own report
A linguist, and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want—
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FIRST OUTLAW And I for suchlike petty crimes as these.
But to the purpose—for we cite our faults
That they may hold excused our lawless lives;
And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape, and by your own report
A linguist, and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want—
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|
SECOND OUTLAW Indeed, because you are a banished man,
60 Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
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SECOND OUTLAW Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?
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|
THIRD OUTLAW What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
65 Say ay, and be the captain of us all.
We’ll do thee homage, and be ruled by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.
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THIRD OUTLAW What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
Say ay, and be the captain of us all.
We’ll do thee homage, and be ruled by thee,
Love thee as our commander and our king.
|
|
FIRST OUTLAW But if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest.
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FIRST OUTLAW But if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest.
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SECOND OUTLAW Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
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SECOND OUTLAW Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
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VALENTINE 70 I take your offer and will live with you,
Provided that you do no outrages
On silly women or poor passengers.
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VALENTINE I take your offer and will live with you,
Provided that you do no outrages
On silly women or poor passengers.
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THIRD OUTLAW No, we detest such vile base practices.
Come, go with us. We’ll bring thee to our crews
75 And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
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THIRD OUTLAW No, we detest such vile base practices.
Come, go with us. We’ll bring thee to our crews
And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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