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IVANHOE.
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CHAPTER XI.
I Outlaw. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you;
If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.
Speed. Sir, we are undone! these are the villains
That all the travellers do fear so much.
Val. My friends,———
1 Out. That's not so, sir, we are your enemies.
2 Out. Peace! we'll hear him.
3 Out. Aye, by my beard, will we;
For he's a proper man.
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.
Speed. Sir, we are undone! these are the villains
That all the travellers do fear so much.
Val. My friends,———
1 Out. That's not so, sir, we are your enemies.
2 Out. Peace! we'll hear him.
3 Out. Aye, by my beard, will we;
For he's a proper man.
Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The nocturnal adventures of Gurth were not yet concluded; indeed he himself became partly of that mind, when, after passing one or two straggling houses which stood in the outskirts of the village, he found himself in a deep lane, running between two banks, overgrown with hazle and holly, while here and there a dwarf oak flung its arms altogether across the path. The lane was moreover much rutted and broken up by the carriages which had recently transported articles