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12 :Rave. Turn your eye—thither Upon you haughty mansion—you have heard?—
 * Walf. Much idle rumour.
 * Rave. Do you deem it so.

Whence then, and who is this imperious dame, That holds herself above her fellow creatures, And scorns our church's discipline: her means— Her business here?
 * Walf. The ignorant and envious

May find, in her superior intellect— E'en in her ample wealth and proud reserve Food for their hate, and therefore their suspicion; But for us, Ravensworth—
 * Rave. No more, ere long,

These questions must be answer'd.
 * Walf. Be it so;

I shall be ready in all lawful ways To seek the truth.
 * Rave. 'Tis well, we soon may need you.

What public tidings hear you?
 * Walf. That King Philip

Our savage foe, after his late defeat, Has gained his rocky hold, where he now lies, With scarce a fragment of his former force.
 * Rave. Where are our troops?
 * Walf. They watch the enemy.
 * Rave. They should have followed up their victory.

To the extermination of the heathen.— Has there aught chanc'd in the village?
 * Walf. There have arrived

Two persons from the court of Charles.
 * Rave. More vanity!

What do they here?
 * Walf. The elder, it is said,

Brings letters to the government.


 * Rave. Charles Stuart,

Is growing much concern'd about the people