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Ay, what is shrewder? we have felt the like, And know it well, my lord.

Yet, ne'ertheless, good son-in-law and chieftain, Believe thou well that with a brother's feelings, Proportion'd to the dire and dismal case That hath befallen, he now receives you; also Receiving these your friends with equal favour. This is indeed to us a woeful meeting, Chieftain of Mull. I see full well the change Which violent grief upon that harrow'd visage So deeply hath impress'd.

Ah! ah! the woeful day!—I cannot speak. Alas, alas!

Alas, in truth,