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Tell the empress from me
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that I am of age to keep mine own.
:36:15
Excuse it how she can.
:36:18
Wilt thou betray
thy noble mistress thus?
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My mistress is my mistress.
:36:24
This...
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myself--
:36:28
The vigor and the picture
of my youth.
:36:32
This before all the world
do I prefer.
:36:35
This, 'spite all the world,
will I keep safe,
:36:38
or some of you
shall smoke for it in Rome.
:36:42
By this our mother
is forever shamed.
:36:44
The emperor in his rage
will doom her death.
:36:47
I blush to think
upon this ignomy.
:36:49
Why, there's the privilege
your beauty bears.
:36:53
Fie, treacherous hue,
that will betray with blushing
:36:56
the close enacts
and counsels of the heart!
:37:00
Here's a young lad
framed of another leer.
:37:06
Ha ha! Look!
:37:08
Look how the black slave
smiles upon the father,
:37:13
as who should say,
"Old lad, I am thine own."
:37:19
Aaron, what shall
I say unto the empress?
:37:23
Advise thee, Aaron,
what is to be done,
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so that we may all subscribe
to thy advice.
:37:29
Save thou the child,
so we may all be safe.
:37:33
Then sit we down,
:37:36
and let us all consult.
:37:39
Ah! My son and I will
have the wind of you.
:37:43
Keep there!
:37:50
Now, talk at pleasure
of your safety.
:37:53
How many women saw
this child of his?
:37:56
Ah, so, brave lords!
:37:58
When we join in league,
I am a lamb.