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CASTRUCCIO CASTRUCANI.

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ACT I.

Scene I.—A Market-place.

Citizens grouped together, talking earnestly.

1st citizen.

How was he taken? for he would have fought

A dozen single handed.

2nd citizen.

Last night, returning from the Count Arrezi,

To whose fair daughter he has been betrothed,
He was surrounded by those foreign bandits
That wear Count Ludolph's colours.

1st citizen.

Work fitting to their mercenary hands.

2nd citizen.

I saw the whole, for I was late at work.

Castruccio pass'd me as I hurried home;