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DAUGHTER

These strewings are for their chamber. ’Tis pity they are in prison, and ’twere
pity they should be out. I do think they have patience to make any adversity
ashamed; the prison itself is proud of ’em, and they have all the world in their

chamber. [25]

GAOLER

They are famed to be a pair of absolute men.

DAUGHTER
By my troth, I think fame but stammers ’em; they stand a grece above the
reach of report.

GAOLER
I heard them reported in the battle to be the only doers. [30]

DAUGHTER
Nay, most likely, for they are noble sufferers. I marvel how they would have
looked had they been victors, that with such a constant nobility enforce a

freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and affliction a toy to jest
at. [35]

GAOLER
Do they so?

DAUGHTER
It seems to me they have no more sense of their captivity than I of ruling

Athens; they eat well, look merrily, discourse of many things, but nothing of
their own restraint and disasters. Yet sometime a divided sigh, [40] martyred
as ’twere i’th’deliverance, will break from one of them; when the other
presently gives it so sweet a rebuke that I could wish myself a sigh to be so
chid, or at least a sigher to be comforted.

WOOER

I never saw ’em. [45]

GAOLER