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SIR PETER HARPDON'S END

In an English Castle in Poictou

Sir Peter Harpdon, a Gascon knight in the English
service, and
John Curzon, his lieutenant.

John Curzon

Of those three prisoners, that before you came
We took down at St. John's hard by the mill,
Two are good masons; we have tools enough,
And you have skill to set them working.

Sir Peter

So—.
What are their names?

John Curzon

Why, Jacques Aquadent,
And Peter Plombiere, but—