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with the rest, or be disgraced for ever. Did I put a sword by your side, a cockade in your hat, for this?

A Grove by the Castle; the Scene darkened, and moving Lights seen through the Trees from the Castle, sometimes gleaming from the Battlements, and sometimes from the Windows: Enter, with a Peasant's Surtout over her Dress.

Nin. O, if in this disguise I could but enter the castle! Alas! the company are gone in, and the gate is now shut. I'll wait here till daybreak.—Woe is me! He past by me quickly, and heard me not when I spoke to him.O mercy! Soldiers coming here! (Hides herself amongst some bushes.)

Bounce. Come, let us hector it here awhile; I'll warrant ye we make a noise that might do for the siege of Troy.

1st Soldier. Aye, you're a book-learned man, Corporal: you're always talking of that there siege. Could they throw a bomb in those days, or fire off an eighteen-pounder any better than ourselves?(Firing heard without.)