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SCENE V.
To the above, PRINCESS, Attendants.[King.]
More retribution dwells in beauty's smile,
Than in whole volumes of an old man's praise.
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These are thy champions; give your women tasks,
Bid all the looms of Pavia ply their labors,
A scarf for every warrior, they'll deserve them.
PRINCESS.
They will not want my thanks, nor such poor tokens
How much I prize their worth; their high-touch'd virtue
Finds in itself the source and end of action;
Secures its right to praise, but scorns to take it.
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