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ex|Mains it of a war-horse grown gaunt or lean by lon^ marches and frequent fights. But why

roust Antony, after a profound peace and a long revel m tlie arms of Cleopatra, upon hU return

to Rome, have nothing to ride but an old battered lean war-horse? Besides, lean horses are

That my chief wish should be so oft to die.

Minding thy fault, with death I wish to revel;

Alas! a wench is a perpetual evil.

As this for a neat, frisky counter-hopper;

Here he may revel to his heart's content,

Flounce like a fish in his own element,

And th' ape his parish clerk procur'd to be.

Then made they revel rout and goodly glee;

But, ere long time had passed, they so ill

Men that long for sleep;

Men that wake and revel;--

If an old song leap

All can they play on gitern or ribible.

Revel and truth, as in a low degree,

They be full wroth all day, as men may see.

Young Jóhn: then fear, then joy

Ran revel in the elder boy.

Their night was come now; all

Shorn of his strength and bound in bonds of steel,

Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand,

And shake the pillars of this Commonweal,