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Show 40 G U S TA VU S VA S A, S C E N E II. I Enter Arnoldus, who talks apart with Guftavui. ift Delicarlian. '/ How my Blood boils ! 2d Dale. W h o is this hone ft Spokesman ? 3d Dale. What, know ye not Rodolphus of the Mines \ A better J ab'rer ne'er ftruck Steel to Stone. Gu/t. There was a Time, my Friends ! a glorioni Time ; When, had a fmgle M a n of your Forefathers Upon the Frontier met a Hoft in Arms, His Courage fcarce had torfl'd ; himfelf had flood, Alone h d Hood the Bulwark of his Country. Your STes were known but by their manly Fronts, O n their black Brows, enthron'd, fat Liberty, The A w e of Honour, and Contempt of Death. ift Dale W e are not Baftards. 2d Dale. No, 3d Dale. We're DalecarHans. Guft. Come, come ye on then : Here I take my Stand \ Here on the Brink, the very Verge of Liberty ; Altho' Contention rife upon the Cloud?, Mix Heav'n with Earth, and roll the Ruin onward Hare will I fix, and break m e to the Shock, 'Till I, or Denmark fall. Siv. And who art thou ? TW The Deliverer of his\Couutry. 41 Tha' thus- • wou'd ft fwallow all the Glory np Thatftou'd redctm the T i m e s ? Behold this Brcaft, T h e Su-o d has t'JI'd h -, and the Sr\o:% of Slaves Shall nt'er trice H o n o u r here ; fhall never blot The fair [nfcHp ion-s Never jfhall the Cordi QlDaniftj nfole. ud d o w n tbtte A r ms Thar.bore m y royal Matter from the Field Guft H a ! Say you, Brother? Where you t h e r e- Where Liberty and Stenon fell together ? 2jl wai there A hlQodyFidd ltsoer-toild 1 numoh. %**^ «„. u. There Stenon on thi; it |