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 To join in the good wishes you expressed. Clifford [embarrassed.]Dear Richard—we were saying— Rochester [laughing.] Heaven bless you! Richard.How now! You spoke of me? You are too kind! Barebones [aside.]May hell quench its hot embers in thy flesh! Richard.I do not importune you? Rosebery [stammering.] You?—nay, nay!— Far from it!—We are overjoyed.—Come you To talk with us of some affair of state? Richard.I come for the same cause that brings you hither. Carr [aside.]Can he be of the plot? Willis [aside.] What! Richard, too! Richard [raising his voice.]Ah! Messieurs Sedley, Clifford, Rosebery, I do impeach you here of felony! Rosebery [in terror. What does he say? Clifford [in great perturbation.] Dear Richard!— [Aside.] He knows all! Sedley [in an agony of fear. I swear to you— Richard. Pray hear me to the end, Then justify yourselves, if that may be. Rosebery [to the others, in an undertone. We are discovered! Downie. Ay, 'tis evident! Richard.'Tis nigh ten years that we have been good friends; Balls, hunting-parties, pleasures of all sorts, Permitted or forbidden, hitherto We've shared them all—our sorrows and our joys,