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THE ROBBERS.
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find a better for you than that.—Didn't I always tell you, that I must think for you?

Switzer.

What does that blockhead say? This ass pretends to think for us all.

Spiegelberg.

Poor creatures! poor, lame, helpless animals! No hearts have you to attempt any thing that's great!

Roller.

Well, so we are—you are quite right.—But what do you propose for our relief?—What's your plan for raising us from this pitiful state? Come, give it us!

Spiegelberg.

(Laughing with self-conceit.) Poor things! to raise you from this pitiful state—Ha, ha, ha! Pitiful indeed! I thought you had a thimble-full of brains at least. You have made a fine cavalcade, and now you may stable your horses! Spiegelberg were an ass indeed, if he did not know his own course! I would make heroes of you—barons, princes, demigods!

Razman.

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