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With a most piteous and kindly voice:
Here is a daughter who in this bad world
Will yet remain to want a father's care;
Thus let me form a tie which shall be sacred;
(Putting Elizabeth's hand into Mardonio's.)
She has no parent.

Enter Keeper of the Prison.

What brings thee here? we would be left in peace.

KEEPER (to Rayner).

I am by a right noble stranger urged,

Who says he has in many a rough compaign
Serv'd with your valiant father in the wars,
To let him have admittance to your presence.
Bertram conducts him hither.

RAYNER.

Serv'd with mine honour'd father! and thus circumstanc'd,

Now comes to see his son! Well, be it so:
This is no time for pride to winch and rear,
And turn its back upon the patt'ring hail,
Bearing the thunder's shock. Let it e'en be:
Admit him instantly. (Calling him back.)
———Nay, e'er thou goest,
What is he call'd?

KEEPER.

The Gen'ral Hardibrand.