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SCENE V.
The Woods.Enter Edmund disguised.
Edmund.
Can I reach Fredda-thorpe my 'scape is sure:
That's but a steed's swift flight across the wolds
Into St. Cuthbert's Franchise; thence not far
To Carleol, where the Cumbrian king resides,
And many a thane and warlike elderman
Keep firm-set shoulder, back'd by him, against
This tyrant, in the Westmere fastnesses;
Their people, half Welsh and whole rebel, think
Their bread most sweet when crush'd from blood-red corn,
And fight like Irish kerns for idle humour:
Better go there and live, than stay and die!
[Exit.
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