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 As a league-breaker gave up bound, presum'd Single Rebellion and did Hostile Acts. I was no private but a person rais'd With strength sufficient and command from Heav'n To free my Countrey; if their servile minds Me their Deliverer sent would not receive, But to thir Masters gave me up for nought, Th' unworthier they; whence to this day they serve. I was to do my part from Heav'n assign'd, And had perform'd it if my known offence Had not disabl'd me, not all your force: These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant Though by his blindness maim'd for high attempts, Who now defies thee thrice to single fight, As a petty enterprise of small enforce.
 * Har.With thee a Man condemn'd, a Slave enrol'd,

Due by the Law to capital punishment? To fight with thee no man of arms will deign.
 * Sam.Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster, to survey me,

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