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THE BRIDE: A DRAMA.
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EHLEYPOOLIE.

Ay, pioneers who through a tangled thicket

Make room as quickly as the supple trunk
Of a wild elephant; whilst forest birds,
From their rent haunts dislodged, fly up and wheel
In mazy circles, raising clam'rous cries,
And casting noon-day shadows, like a cloud,
On the green woods beneath.

MIHDOONY.

In truth, my lord, he makes it well appear

He is not given to boasting.

RASINGA (smiling).

Not a whit!

As meek and modest as a Padur's child.
And having done so much for show and speed,
Good Ehleypoolie, I will take for granted
The chiefest point of all, security,
Has not been overlook'd; for mountain robbers
May yet be lurking near some narrow pass.

EHLEYPOOLIE.

Well, let them lurk, and burst upon us too;

'T will be as though a troop of mowing monkeys,
With antic mimic motions of defiance,
Should front the brinded tiger and his brood.
Full soon, I trow, their hinder parts they turn,
Lank and unseemly, to the enemy,