ROS.
Hither--if this be Poland;
But with no ill design on her, and therefore
Taking it ill that we should thus be stopt
Upon her threshold so uncivilly.

CLO.
Whither in Poland?

ROS.
To the capital.

CLO.
And on what errand?

ROS.
Set me on the road,
And you shall be the nearer to my answer.

CLO. (aside).
So resolute and ready to reply,
And yet so young--and--
(Aloud.)
Well,--
Your business was not surely with the man
We found you with?

ROS.
He was the first we saw,--
And strangers and benighted, as we were,