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LOLLINGDON DOWNS

Cotta

Rightly.


Lucius

Perhaps.


Cotta

We get no thanks.


Lucius

We strip the men for troops abroad
And leave the women and the slaves
For merchants and their kind. The graves
Of half each province line the road.
These people could not stand a day
Against the tribes, with us away.


Cotta

Rightly.


Lucius

Perhaps.


Cotta

Here comes the Chief.