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 Sam.I could be well content to try thir Art, Which to no few of them would prove pernicious. Yet knowing thir advantages too many, Because they shall not trail me through thir streets Like a wild Beast, I am content to go. Masters commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection; And for a life who will not change his purpose? (So mutable are all the ways of men) Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
 * Off.I praise thy resolution, doff these links:

By this compliance thou wilt win the Lords To favour, and perhaps to set thee free.
 * Sam.Brethren farwel, your company along

I will not wish, lest it perhaps offend them To see me girt with Friends; and how the sight Of me as of a common Enemy, So dreaded once, may now exasperate them Rh