Ber. How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in
your disposition.
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First Lord. A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.
Par. 'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!
There was excellent command,—to charge [in] with our
horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!
First Lord. That was not to be blamed in the [command]
of the service: it was a disaster of war that Cæsar
himself could not have prevented, if he had been there to