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I protest to these,

Not thee, and for thine answer to thy kin,

If e’er I take thee—

Who against their will

Could take me?

Though untaken thou shalt smart.

What power hast thou to execute this threat?

One of thy daughters is already seized,

The other I will carry off anon.

Woe, woe!

This is but prelude to thy woes.

Hast thou my child?

And soon shall have the other.

Ho, friends! ye will not surely play me false?

Chase this ungodly villain from your land.

Hence, stranger, hence avaunt! Thou doest wrong

In this, and wrong in all that thou hast done.

’Tis time by force to carry off the girl,

If she refuse of her free will to go. 225