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 "I've come, ,
 * To do a Christian task;

You ask me what would I?
 * It is not much I ask.

"Release these maidens, sir,
 * Whom you dominion o'er—

Particularly her
 * Upon the second floor.



"And if you don't, my lord"—
 * He here stood bolt upright,

And tapped a tailor's sword—
 * "Come out, you cad, and fight!"