The Law of Lombardy A Tragedy |
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SCENE IV.
KING, Counsellors, Knights, Attendants.[Lucio.]
Health to your Majesty!
KING.
Thanks, gentle friends!
But why this faintness in your salutations?
Why wear your brows that ominous livery?
I trust our gallant spirits will not palter,
Because a rash invader threatens us.
When I was young as you, to hear of war
Made my blood dance: but these good days are past,
This sapless trunk shrinks from its mailed bark;
Yet age has still its use, count me your steward,
Holding the honours of the state in trust
For all deservers;—She shall better thank you;
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