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Return'd already, man! Where is thy master?

Is he not with thee?

I would he were. I left him some leagues hence; By his command charged to return again, And follow him no more. Long I entreated To be permitted still to share his fate, But was at last constrain'd to leave him.

Ha! In the dark centre of a gloomy forest, Dismounting, to my care he gave his steed, And, as I said before, so strictly charged me, I was constrain'd to leave him.

A dark forest?

Saw'st thou where he went?

He turn'd away, and I with heavy cheer