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第135章 THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY OF LOCRINE(135)

I thought so: it was a hermit that walked a solitary life in the woods. Well, get you to dinner, and after never leave seeking till you bring some news of them, or I'll hang you both.

[Exit.]

MOUSE.

How now, Rombelo? what shall we do now?

ROMBELO.

Faith, I'll home to dinner, and afterward to sleep.

MOUSE.

Why, then, thou wilt be hanged.

ROMBELO.

Faith, I care not, for i know I shall never find them: well, I'll once more abroad, & if I cannot find them, I'll never come home again.

MOUSE.

I tell thee what, Rombelo, thou shalt go in at one end of the wood and I at the other, and we will meet both together at the midst.

ROMBELO.

Content! let's away to dinner.

[Exeunt.]

ACT V. SCENE I. The Forest.

[Enter Mucedorus solus.]

MUCEDORUS.

Unknown to any here within these woods With bloody Bremo do I led my life.

The monster, he doth murther all he meets, He spareth none and none doth him escape.

Who would continue, who but only I, In such a cruel cutthroat's company?

Yet Amadine is there; how can I choose?

Ah, silly soul, how often times she sits And sighs, and calls: 'come, shepherd, come, Sweet Mucedorus, come and set me free;When Mucedorus present stands her by:

But here she comes.

[Enter Amadine.]