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Ne'er earn'd withal such lofty exaltation As Varus now enjoys.

Thy words amaze me, friend; what is their meaning?

They cannot be explain'd with hasty speech In such a place. If thou would'st really know— And may such light

Why dost thou check thy words, And look so much disturb'd, like one in doubt?

What am I doing! Zeal, perhaps, betrays me. Yet, wherefore hide salvation from a man Who is so worthy of it?

Why art thou agitated thus? What moves thee?

And would'st thou really know it?

Dost thou doubt me? I have an earnest, most intense desire.

Sent to thy heart, brave Roman, by a Power Which I may not resist.[Bowing his head. But go not with me now in open day. At fall of eve I'll meet thee in the suburb, Close to the pleasure-garden of Sulpicius; Where in a bushy crevice of the rock