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{{script|Provocatoria}} Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. <br> | {{script|Provocatoria}} Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. I am tired. <br> | ||
[[Nuncle]], pass the [[deck]]. Know this my council | [[Nuncle]], pass the [[deck]]. Know this my council:<br> | ||
I didst divide, in quarters all our gold reserves. <br> | |||
I am, at last, intent to shake the cares of business; <br> | I am, at last, intent to shake the cares of business; <br> | ||
Conferring them on some younger lance, while I <br> | Conferring them on some younger lance, while I <br> | ||
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To an acumen so sharp to shave the chin <br> | To an acumen so sharp to shave the chin <br> | ||
Or cut the lunch of those cur-struck brigands from the west? <br> | Or cut the lunch of those cur-struck brigands from the west? <br> | ||
Thou art my likeliest inheritors | Thou art my likeliest inheritors. Who shall make it right? <br> | ||
Is there one or two who, perchance between you <br> | Is there one or two who, perchance between you <br> | ||
Hast the stomach and the wisdom for the fight? <br> | Hast the stomach and the wisdom for the fight? <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: Now steady, here, my lady liege: one hears it oftly said <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: Now steady, here, my lady liege: one hears it oftly said:<br> | ||
One head per pair of shoulders is enough <br> | One head per pair of shoulders is enough <br> | ||
Less than | Less than one a lack, for sure <br> | ||
But no less a lack there is | But no less a lack if there is more <br> | ||
{{script|Provocatoria}}: What mean you, Fool? Your riddle stays unspun. <br> | {{script|Provocatoria}}: What mean you, Fool? Your riddle stays unspun. <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: One head’s a head ahead: [[Co-calculation agent|co-heads are none]]. <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: One head’s a head ahead: [[Co-calculation agent|co-heads are none]]. <br> | ||
{{script|Provocatoria}}: Must co-operation e’er be seen | {{script|Provocatoria}}: Must co-operation e’er be a seen fudge? <br> | ||
{{script|Nuncle}}: So try it, ma’am: you be the fool, and I the judge. <br> | {{script|Nuncle}}: So try it, ma’am: you be the fool, and I the judge. <br> | ||
{{script|Provocatoria}}: And here to be answer’d. Tell me, my lords: <br> | {{script|Provocatoria}}: And here to be answer’d. Tell me, my lords: <br> | ||
Should I divest my mandate to a worthy heir <br> | |||
Which heir was you: what wouldst | Which heir was you: what wouldst be your best idea? <br> | ||
How wouldst you drive our | How wouldst you drive our sweetened chariot to the sun? <br> | ||
What wouldst you scheme to make the rabbits run? <br> | |||
He, or she, or they, who enthrall mine eyes: <br> | |||
Shall with royal leave possess our frittered prize. Speak. <br> |