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THE ROBBERS.
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should open! Who is the scoundrel that will betray his Captain[1]?

Switzer.

(Tears the pardon in pieces, and throws it in the Commissary's face.) There! Our pardon is at the mouth of our muskets.—Tell your magistrate, that you have not found one traitor in all our company.—Huzza! Save the Captain! Huzza! Save the Captain!

All.

Save the Captain! Save him! Save our noble Captain!

Moor.

(Untwisting his hand from the tree, and in a transport of joy.) Now my brave lads—Now we are free indeed.—I have a whole host in this single arm.—Death, or liberty! We shall not leave a man of them alive! (They sound the charge with great noise, and exeunt sword in hand.)

END OF ACT SECOND.

ACT

  1. ↑ Germ. Wer hund kein ist rette den Hauptman. He who is not a dog, let him save his Captain.
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