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The frontiers of Mantua. A forest.
[Enter certain Outlaws]
FIRST OUTLAW
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Fellows,| stand fast: I | see^a pas|senger.
SECOND OUTLAW
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If there | be ten, shrink not,| but down | with
'em.
[Enter VALENTINE and SPEED]
THIRD OUTLAW
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Stand sir,| and throw us | that you | have a|bout
ye.
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If not:| we'll make | you sit,| and rif|le you.
SPEED
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Sir we | are un|done; these / are the | villains
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That all | the trav|ellers | do fear | so much.
VALENTINE
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My friends.
FIRST OUTLAW
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That's not |
so, sir: we | are your en||emies.
SECOND OUTLAW
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Peace:| we'll hear | him.
THIRD OUTLAW
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Aye | by my || beard will / we: for | he is | a
prop|er man.
VALENTINE
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Then know | that I | have lit|tle wealth | to
lose;
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A man | I am,| crossed with | adver|sity:
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My rich|es, are / these poor | habil|iments,
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Of which,| if you | should here | disfurn|ish me,
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You take | the sum | and sub|stance^that | I
have.
SECOND OUTLAW
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Whither | travel | you?
VALENTINE
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To Ve|rona.
FIRST OUTLAW
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Whence^came || you?
VALENTINE
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From Mil|an.
THIRD OUTLAW
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Have |
you long | sojourned there?
VALENTINE
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Some* six|teen* months,| and long|er might | have
stayed,
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If crook|ed for|tune had / not thwart|ed me.
FIRST OUTLAW
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What, were you | banished | thence?
VALENTINE
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I | was.
SECOND OUTLAW
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For | what offense?
VALENTINE
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For that | which now | torments | me to |
rehearse;
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I killed | a man,| whose death | I much | repent,
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But yet | I slew | him man|fully | in fight,
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Without | false van/tage, or | base treach/ery.
FIRST OUTLAW
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Why nere | repent | it, if | it were / done so;
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But were | you ban|ished for / so small | a
fault?
VALENTINE
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I was,| and held | me glad | of such | a doom.
SECOND OUTLAW
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Have you | the tongues? \\
VALENTINE
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My youth|ful travel | therein | made me | happy,
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Or else | I of|ten had | been mise|rable.
THIRD OUTLAW
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By the bare | scalp of | Robin | Hood's fat
friar,
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This fel|low were | a king,| for our wild |
faction.
FIRST OUTLAW
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We'll have | him: Sirs,| a word. \\
SPEED
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Master,| be one | of them: \\
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It's an | honor|able | kind of |
thievery.
VALENTINE
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Peace | villain. \\
SECOND OUTLAW
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Tell us | this: have | you an|ything | to take || to?
VALENTINE
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Noth|ing but | my fort|une. \\
THIRD OUTLAW
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Know then,| that some | of us | are gent|lemen,
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Such as | the fu|ry of / ungov|erned youth
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Thrust from | the comp|any | of aw|ful men.
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Myself | was from | Vero|na ban|ished,
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For prac|ticing | to steal | away | a la|dy,
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An heir | and niece,| allied | unto | the duke.
SECOND OUTLAW
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And I | from Man|tua,| for a gent|leman,
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Who, in | my mood,| I stabbed | unto | the heart.
FIRST OUTLAW
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And I,| for such like pet|ty crimes | as these,
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But to | the pur|pose: for | we cite | our
faults,
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That they | may hold | excused | our law|less
lives;
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And part|ly see|ing you | are beaut|ified
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With good|ly shape;| and by | your own | report,
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A lin|guist, and a | man of | such per|fection,
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As we | do in our | quali|ty much want.
SECOND OUTLAW
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Indeed | because | you are | a ban|ished man,
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Therefore,| above | the rest,| we par|ley to you:
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Are you | content | to be | our gen|eral?
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To make | a vir|tue of | neces|sity,
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And live | as we | do in | this wild|erness?
THIRD OUTLAW
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What sayst | thou? Wilt | thou be | of our /
consort?
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Say aye, and be | the cap|tain of | us all:
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We'll do | thee hom|age, and | be ruled | by
thee,
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Love thee,| as our | command|er, and | our king.
FIRST OUTLAW
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But if | thou scorn | our court|esy,| thou diest.
SECOND OUTLAW
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Thou shalt | not live,| to brag | what we | have
of||fered.
VALENTINE
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I take | your of|fer, and | will live | with you,
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Provid|ed that | you do | no out|rages
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On sil|ly wom|en, or / poor pas|sengers.
THIRD OUTLAW
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No, we | detest | such^vile | base practises.
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Come, go / with us,| we'll bring | thee to | our
crews,
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And show | thee all | the treas|ure we | have
got:
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Which, with | ourselves,| all rest | at thy |
dispose.
[Exeunt]