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SCENE V.
Room in Walpole's house. (Lights.)Enter Walpole.
So Lord Nithsdale's shipped off. There's an end of one trouble;
When his head's at Boulogne the reward shall be double.
(Seating himself, takes up a book— glances at it, and throws it down.)
Stuff! I wonder what lies the Historians will tell
When they babble of one Robert Walpole! Well, well,
Let them sneer at his blunders, declaim on his vices,
Cite the rogues whom he purchased, and rail at the prices,
They shall own that all lust for revenge he withstood;
And, if lavish of gold, he was sparing of blood;
That when England was threatened by France and by Rome,
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And the Freedom he left, rooted firm in mild laws,
May o'ershadow the faults of deeds done in her cause!
(Enter Veasey.)
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