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Scene III.

NORFOLK ALONE.
NORFOLK.
Be cautious! caution is a coward's virtue,
And I despise it, the mean sordid habit
Of low and little minds: it ill becomes
The hero or the lover: when my soul
Was all on fire with beauteous Mary's charms,
Was that a time for this cold blooded statesman
To preach his dull morality? I hate
The lifeless pedant!
Ha! Ridolphi here?
He comes in happy hour.

[Enter Ridolphi.