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256 I shall not rest until my innocence

Be made as plain as objects to the sense.

Alm. Come,

You shall not go, I'll think upon't no more.

'Distrusts ruin not friendship,

But build it fairer than it was before.'

Bren. No more but ten from every company;

For many hands are thieves,

And rob the glory, while they take their share.

How goes the night?

Str. Half spent, my lord:

We shall have straight the moon's weaker light.

Bren. 'Tis time, then. Call in the officers.

Friends, if you were men that must be talk'd

Into courage, I had not chosen you.

Danger with its vizard oft before this time

Y' have look'd upon, and outfac'd it too:

We are to do the trick again—that's all.

Here

And yet we will not swear;

For he, that shrinks in such an action,

Is damn'd without the help of perjury.

Doran, if from the virgin-tow'r thou spiest

A flame, such as the east sends forth about

The time the day should break, go tell the king

I hold the castle for him: bid him come on

With all his force; and he shall find a victory

So cheap, 'twill lose the value. If I fall,

The world has lost a thing it us'd not well;

And I, a thing I car'd not for—that world.

Str. Lead us on, Coronel; if we do not fight

Like

Bren. No like! we'll be ourselves' similitude;

And time shall say, when it would tell that men

Did well, they fought like us.