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38 Was sadly cross'd—Poor Leonard! when we parted,

He took me by the hand and said to me,

If ever the day came when he was rich,

He would return, and on his Father's Land

He would grow old among us.

LEONARD.

If that day

Should come, 'twould needs be a glad day for him;

He would himself, no doubt, be as happy then

As any that should meet him—

PRIEST.

Happy, Sir—

LEONARD.

You said his kindred all were in their graves,

And that he had one Brother—

PRIEST.

That is but