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Enter Gomez.

OMNES.

Return'd already, man! Where is thy master?

LUDOVIQUO.

Is he not with thee?

GOMEZ.

I would he were. I left him some leagues hence;

By his command charged to return again,
And follow him no more. Long I entreated
To be permitted still to share his fate,
But was at last constrain'd to leave him.

GAUVINO.

Ha!

Constrain'd! 't is very strange. Where didst thou leave him?

GOMEZ.

In the dark centre of a gloomy forest,

Dismounting, to my care he gave his steed,
And, as I said before, so strictly charged me,
I was constrain'd to leave him.

GAUVINO.

A dark forest?

LUDOVIQUO.

Saw'st thou where he went?

GOMEZ.

He turn'd away, and I with heavy cheer———