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Stretch'd out to all who need, or all who ask;
And please himself besides, by an alliance
With some slight May, who brings but smiles and bloom
To pay the yearly charges of her state?

MARIAN.

We do not know her yet, and cannot say

That she is poor.

DUNARDEN.

But we may shrewdly guess.

Else why those stealthy visits,—this concealment?
Oh, 't is provoking! This, our Provost's daughter
Is just the match that would have suited us,—
That would support our house, and clear our lands,
And he, forsooth! I'll cast him from my favour!

MARIAN.

I know you will not.

DUNARDEN.

Lady Achinmore,

If he persist I'll say and do it too.
His prepossessions truly! mighty plea!

Supported, too, by Lady Achinmore. (Walking in wrath to the other end of the hall.)