A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning
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Well done, now--is not this beginning, now,
To purpose? FIRST RETAINER. Our retainers look as fine-- That's comfort. Lord, how Richard holds himself With his white staff! Will not a knave behind Prick him upright? FOURTH RETAINER. He's only bowing, fool! The Earl's man bent us lower by this much. FIRST RETAINER. That's comfort. Here's a very cavalcade! THIRD RETAINER. I don't see wherefore Richard, and his troop Of silk and silver varlets there, should find Their perfumed selves so indispensable On high days, holidays! Would it so disgrace Our family, if I, for instance, stood-- In my right hand a cast of Swedish hawks, A leash of greyhounds in my left?-- GERARD. --With Hugh The logman for supporter, in his right The bill-hook, in his left the brushwood-shears! THIRD RETAINER. Out on you, crab! What next, what next? The Earl! FIRST RETAINER. Oh Walter, groom, our horses, do they match The Earl's? Alas, that first pair of the six-- They paw the ground--Ah Walter! and that brute |
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