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Exhausts its power. Unskill'd to earn such gifts, I may not wear them.—Yonder comes Rovani, A noble soldier; stay and learn from him The story of the war. Word-bound he is not: He'll tell it willingly. No, no! I am in haste, farewell, farewell! [Exit with his followers.

He goes, I trow, less grandly than he came.

Such hasty steps, indeed, somewhat derange The order of his high nobility.

Yet, pompous as he is, I have been told He is no coward,

I suspect him much.

But thou art wrong; although he doth assume Those foolish airs of martial gallantry, He is as brave as others.