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An honour'd name.(Exit Keeper. Retire, my love:(to Elizabeth.) I cannot bear to have thy woes exposed Before a stranger's gaze.

It is the son of Rayner: in his form And face, tho' thus half turn'd from us, I see His father. Still a soldier and a gentleman In ev'ry plight be seem'd. A clown or child Had sworn him such clad in a woollen rug. (Advancing to Rayner.) Young soldier, I did know your gallant father; Regard me not as an intruding stranger.

I thank you, courteous sir: in other days Such greeting to my heart had been most welcome. A gallant father and condemned son May in the letter'd registers of kindred Alliance have; but in the mind's pure record, They no relation bear: let your brave friend Still be to you as one who had no son.