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And did he give

Some privy message?

None: they come as spies

For news of me.

Thine outward news their eyes

Can see; the rest, methinks, thyself will tell.

They have seen all, heard all. I trust them well.

Why were our doors not open long ago?—

Be welcome, strangers both, and pass below

My lintel. In return for your glad words

Be sure all greeting that mine house affords

Is yours.—Ye followers, bear in their gear!—

Gainsay me not; for his sake are ye dear

That sent you to our house; and though my part

In life be low, I am no churl at heart.

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Is this the man that shields thy maidenhood

Unknown, and will not wrong thy father's blood?