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But now for your petition: see we now How he receives your suit.

A potent foe it is: ay, by my faith, A fair and goodly creature!

Again, good morrow to you, gallant kinsmen: Come ye to say I can with any favour The right good liking prove, and high regard I bear to you, who are my chiefest strength,— The pillars of my clan?

Yes, we are come, Maclean, a boon to beg.

A boon that, granted, will yourself enrich.

Myself enrich?

Yes; thereby wilt thou be