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LXXVII.

Hur.
What dost thou mean? this Ælla's but a man.
Now by my sword, thou art a very berne.
Of late I did thy coward valour scan,
When thou didst boast so much of action derne.

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But I to war my doings now must turn,
To cheer the soldiers on to desperate deed.

Mag.
I to the knights on every side will burn,
Telling them all to make their foemen bleed.
Since shame or death on either side will be,
My heart I will upraise, and in the battle slea.

[Exeunt.