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These lovers will not keep
the peace.

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Why, boy,
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although our mother, unadvised,
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gave you a dancing rapier
by your side,

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are you so desperate grown
to threat your friends?

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Go to.
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Have your lath glued
within your sheath

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till you know better
how to handle it.

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Meanwhile, sir,
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with what little skill I have,
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full well thou shalt perceive
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how much I dare.
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Ay, boy.
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Grow ye so brave?
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How now, lords!
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Here in the emperor's palace
dare you draw

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and maintain such a quarrel openly?
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Full well I wot
the ground of all this grudge.

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I would not for a million of gold
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the cause were known to them
it most concerns,

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nor would your noble mother
for much more

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be so dishonored
in the court of Rome.

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For shame, put up.
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Not I, till I have sheathed
my rapier in his bosom

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and withal thrust these reproachful
speeches down his throat

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that he hath breathed
in my dishonor here.

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For that I am prepared
and full resolved.

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Foul-spoken coward,
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that thunderest with thy tongue
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and with thy weapon
nothing darest perform.

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Away, I say!
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Now, by the gods
that warlike Goths adore,

:46:26
this petty brabble
will undo us all.

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Why, lords,
think you not how dangerous it is

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to step upon a prince's right?
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What, is Lavinia then become so loose
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or Bassianus so degenerate
that for her love

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such quarrels may be broached
without controlment,

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justice, or revenge?
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Young lords, beware!
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And should the empress know
this discord's ground,

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the music would not please.
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I care not, I,
knew she and all the world.

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I love Lavinia
more than all the world!

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Youngling...
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learn thou to make
some meaner choice.

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Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope.

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