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THE INDUCTION.
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Dam. Stay! who be these, I pray you?

Boy. Because it is your first question, and these be the prime persons, it would in civility require an answer: but I have heard the poet affirm, that to be the most unlucky scene in a play, which needs an interpreter; especially, when the auditory are awake: and such are you, he presumes; ergo——