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My power will know no bounds.
[Exit with Thurloe. All bow, except Carr.
Carr [alone at the front of the stage.
My power will know no bounds. And thus it is
That he doth abdicate, the damned usurper!

Scene 11.—Carr, Whitelocke, Waller, Sergeant Maynard, Colonel Jephson, Colonel Grace, Sir William Murray, Lenthall, Lord Broghill.

[As Cromwell goes off they look after him with an air of disappointment, and stare at Carr in surprise and envy.

Sir William Murray [to the other courtiers at the back of the stage.

You saw how courteously his Highness spoke
With yonder fellow!
Carr [still alone at the front of the stage.] ⁠ Ah! what villainy!
Lenthall.⁠He deigned to smile on him.
Carr. He deigned to smile on him. He dares to flout met
Col. Jephson.⁠Such honour!
Carr. Such honour! Such a gibe! How be revenged!
Waller.⁠He is some favourite.
Carr. He is some favourite. Thus I'm his dupe,
Like all the rest! Not even I escape
The tyrant's yoke!
Murray. The tyrant's yoke! He has whate'er he wills!
Carr.⁠Cromwell would take from me my only treasure—
My virtue! I, Nebuchadnezzar serve!
I, in his court! what! I, in Zion's sight,
E'en as the linen once as white as snow
The which the Temple traffickers have stained