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Go to my trusty men in Selwood's chase
That through the thicket hunt the burlèd boar;
Tell them how stands with me the present case,
And bid them revel down at Watchet's shore,
And saunt about in halkes and woods no more;
Let each adventurous knight his armour brace,
Their meats be man's flesh, and their beverage gore,
Hancele, or hanceled from, the human race.
Bid them, like me their leader, shape their mind
To be a bloody foe, in arms 'gainst all mankind.
Ralph.
That through the thicket hunt the burlèd boar;
Tell them how stands with me the present case,
And bid them revel down at Watchet's shore,
And saunt about in halkes and woods no more;
Let each adventurous knight his armour brace,
Their meats be man's flesh, and their beverage gore,
Hancele, or hanceled from, the human race.
Bid them, like me their leader, shape their mind
To be a bloody foe, in arms 'gainst all mankind.
I go my boon-companions for to find.
[Exit Ralph.
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