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THE ENGLISH SLAVE.<br />

ACT I.<br />

SCENE I. The Interior of a miserable Cottage.<br />

Enter Editha and Albert.<br />

EDITHA.<br />

ST. Cuthbert save us ! what can ail thee, boy,<br />

To be so testy, wayward, cross, and peevish ?<br />

Some fearful spirit of the stormy moor,<br />

Which thou dost ever haunt, hath on thee cast<br />

An evil eye ;<br />

or the night-roaming hag,<br />

Crossing thy path,<br />

bewitched thee !<br />

ALBERT.<br />

Mother, no<br />

I love to wander when the tempest howls<br />

O'er Dartmoor's lonely wilds, for then I seem<br />

To breathe the mountain air of liberty :<br />

I the fierce stag love to companion where<br />

The herds in freedom rove, for then I seem<br />

To be as free as they : I love to climb<br />

The eagle's granite throne, and see him wave<br />

His broad wings to the wind, for then I feel<br />

As if I from my limbs had dashed the chains<br />

Of loathsome bondage, and, like that proud bird,<br />

Were master of myself.

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