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THE WANDERERS
The PrinceA Man-at-ArmsA Gypsy
Scene: The Edge of the Forest

THE PRINCE
So then, I am crowned to-morrow?

MAN-AT-ARMS
So then, I am crowned to-morrow? Yes, my lord.

PRINCE
How fleet the time runs by! But yesterday
I played in the fountain with the great white hound.
My old, old nurse that died . . .
My old, old nurse that died . . .But all is changed.
I am a man now?

MAN-AT-ARMS
I am a man now?So it seems, my lord.

PRINCE
And I am king to-morrow.
And I am king to-morrow. Ah, dear saints!
This is the saddest day of all my life.
Farewell, farewell, sweet Yesterday! Farewell,
Thou once so sweet To-morrow! Thou for me
Shalt no more beckon down the widening road
That flows through all the forests and the fields,

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