Strength. I own it; yet to slight the Father's words,

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How may that be? Is not that fear the worse?

Heph. Still art thou ruthless, full of savagery.

Strength. There is no help in weeping over him:

Spend not thy toil on things that profit not.

Heph. O handicraft to me intolerable!

Strength. Why loath'st thou it? Of these thy present griefs

That craft of thine is not one whit the cause.

Heph. And yet I would some other had that skill.