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At a jail in Athens, a young man has come to the jailer to request his daughter’s hand in marriage. The wooer is quite eager, and insists that he and the jailer’s daughter have already made promises to each other, but the jailer puts him off. When the jailer’s daughter arrives, she describes in glowing terms the newest prisoners in the jail: Arcite and Palamon, nobles who have been taken prisoners of war in the recent battle at Thebes. The wooer stands by jealously as his bride-to-be gushes
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JAILER I may depart with little while I live; something I may cast to you, not much. Alas, the prison I keep, though it be for great ones, yet they seldom come; before one salmon you shall take a number of minnows. I am given out to be better lined than it can appear to me report is a true speaker. I would I were really that I am delivered to be. Marry, what I have, be
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