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 * "Sim. To you as much, sir! I am beholden to you,

For your sweet music this last night: my ears, I do protest, were never better fed With such delightful pleasing harmony.
 * "Per. It is your grace's pleasure to commend;

Not my desert.
 * "Sim.Sir, you are music's master.

"Per. The worst of all her scholars, my good lord."


 * "Helicanus. No, no, my Escanes; know this of me,—

Antiochus from incest liv'd not free; For which the most high gods not minding longer To withhold the vengeance that they had in store, Due to this heinous capital offence,