And miserably doting, that the bond

By such dishonour strainèd will not break?

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‘Or that I cannot bear another son

As good as thou; or, if I choose not bear,

Not beg as good a lusty boy of one

Of all my nymphs,—and some have boys to spare,—

Whom I might train, to whom thine arms made o’er

Should do me kinder service than before,

To smite my foes and keep my honour fair?