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Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].

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SCENE I. Florence. A Room in the Duke's Palace. Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, attended; two French Lords, and Others.

Duk.
So that, from point to point, now have you heard
The fundamental reasons of this war;
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth,
And more thirsts after.

1. L.
Holy seems the quarrel
Upon your grace's part; but black and fearful
On the opposer's.

Duk.
Therefore we marvel much, our cousin France
Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom
Against our borrowing prayers.

1. L.
Good my lord,
The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
But like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a council frames
By self-unable notion ^note:14Q0399 therefore dare not
Say what I think of it; since I have found
Myself in my incertain grounds to fail,
As often as I guess'd.

Duk.
Be it his pleasure.

2. L.
But I am sure, the younger of our nation ^note,
That surfeit on their ease, will, day by day,
Come here for physick.

Duk.
Welcome shall they be;
And all the honours, that can fly from us,
Shall on them settle: You know your places well;
When better fall, for your avails they fell.
To-morrow to the field. [Exeunt.

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