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Rh You cannot label one alone, unless you specify which one. Come now, if you want us to admit the epithet 'fair', you must name the subject.

CALL. Drusiana.

FRIENDS. What? The wife of Prince Andronicus?

CALL. Exactly.

FRIENDS. My dear fellow, you are quite off the track. She has been baptised a Christian.

CALL. I care nothing for that, if I can only make her love me.

FRIENDS. That you will never accomplish.

CALL. And what reason have you for thinking so?

FRIENDS. Well, you have a hard task before you.

CALL. But I am not the first to undertake such a task, am I? Are there not plenty of previous examples to stimulate my courage?

FRIENDS. Look here, brother. The object of your passion is a follower of the teachings of Saint John the Apostle, She has vowed herself entirely to God, so much so that for some time past it