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SCENE II.
TWO FORESTERS.FIRST FORESTER.
This place will suit our purpose, 'twere lost time
To lead her further; so we but dispatch her,
No matter for the spot. The deed once done,
The Duke will not be nice, but pay us nobly.
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Half of our hire's to come. How shall we do it
Stab her, or strangle?
FIRST FORESTER.
Make this cord her necklace:
Blood may beget suspicion. When she's dead,
We'll drag her body to yon hazel copse,
And leave the maws of wolves to bury it.
There's scarce a bush in this green labyrinth
But is familiar to me. Many a traveller,
When I was master of as stout a gang
As ere defied the law, here has paid down
His life in conflict for the gold I wanted,
And never more was heard of.
SECOND FORESTER.
Sound your horn.
I told her, we'd a little on before
To give our horses forage, and directed
Her way to follow; shou'd she miss the path,
Her ear will be her guide—See, Carlo! see,
The pretty innocent caught by her eye
Stops for a while to pluck the velvet bells
That blow beneath her feet, then forward bounds,
Light as the roe, till some fresh floweret
Lures her again.
FIRST FORESTER.
Ay, like the lamb that plays,
And crops his pasture, in the butcher's eye,
Even while the knife's a whetting. Hush! She's here.
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