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Rh. Then seeing that come it must, you had best speak out.

. I will speak no further. Rage if you have a mind to; bring out all the fierceness that is in your heart.

. That will I. I will not spare to speak my thoughts. Listen to what I have to say. It seems to me that you have helped to plot the deed; and, short of doing it with your own hands, have done the deed yourself. Had you eyesight I would declare that you alone had done it.

. So that is what you say? I charge you to obey the decree that you your­ self have made, and from this day out to speak neither to these nor to me. You are the defiler of this land.

. So brazen in your impudence? How do you hope to escape punishment?

. I have escaped; my strength is in my truth.

. Who taught you this? You never got it by your art.

. You, because you have spurred me to speech against my will.

. What speech? Speak it again that I may learn it better.

. You are but tempting me—you understood me well enough.

. No; not so that I can say I know it; speak it again.