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into custody in the king's name. ( shrieks, and is supported from falling by .)

You must be mistaken, friends; you can have no warrant against a boy like this!

Read there: it is our warrant against Edmond Arden, junior.

O God! (Rushing upon the men.) Ye shall take my life before ye seize him!

And mine too, before you touch a hair of his head! (Brandishing his stick, and rushing furiously upon the men, who keep hold of  .)

Dare ye resist the king' s officers? (Drawing a hanger from his side.)

Ay, or the devil's either! What care I for the flashing of your steel?