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A gift not mine but God’s thou askest me.

I am a thing of God abhorred.

The more, then, will he grant thy prayer.

Thou givest thine oath?

I see no light; and, seeing not, I may not swear.

Then take me hence. I care not.

Go in peace, and give these children o’er.

Ah no! Take not away my daughters!

[They are taken from him.

Seek not to be master more.

Did not thy masteries of old forsake thee when the end was near?