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Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.DUKE
So that from point to point now have you heardFirst Lord
The fundamental reasons of this war,
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
And more thirsts after.
Holy seems the quarrelDUKE
Upon your grace's part; black and fearful
On the opposer.
Therefore we marvel much our cousin FranceSecond Lord
Would in so just a business shut his bosom
Against our borrowing prayers.
Good my lord,DUKE
The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
But like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a council frames
By self-unable motion: therefore dare not
Say what I think of it, since I have found
Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
As often as I guess'd.
Be it his pleasure.First Lord
But I am sure the younger of our nature,DUKE
That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
Come here for physic.
Welcome shall they be;
And all the honours that can fly from us
Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
When better fall, for your avails they fell:
To-morrow to the field.
Flourish. Exeunt
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