He is silenced now, I hope.

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F.Here’s his curst lute:

I took it from him.

R.Ha! then give it to me.

The very thing. I’ll step into the gap,

And take the blame of this untimely singing

Upon myself. Go in and leave me here:

And if to-morrow any ask who ’twas

That played and sang at midnight—why ’twas I.