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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].

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SCENE V. Fields without the Town. Enter Duke in his own habit, and Friar Peter.

Duke.
These letters⁷ ^note

at fit time deliver me. [Giving letters.
The provost knows our purpose, and our plot.
The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
And hold you ever to our special drift;

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Though sometimes you do blench from this to that⁸ ^note

,
As cause doth minister. Go, call at Flavius' house,
And tell him where I stay: give the like notice,
To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,
And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;
But send me Flavius first.

F. Peter.
It shall be speeded well. [Exit Friar. Enter Varrius.

Duke.
I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste;
Come, we will walk: There's other of our friends
Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius. [Exeunt.
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