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LOCHTARISH.

But now for your petition: see we now

How he receives your suit.

Enter Maclean and Helen.

BENLORA. (eyeing her attentively as she enters.)

A potent foe it is: ay, by my faith,

A fair and goodly creature!

MACLEAN.

Again, good morrow to you, gallant kinsmen:

Come ye to say I can with any favour
The right good liking prove, and high regard
I bear to you, who are my chiefest strength,—
The pillars of my clan?

BENLORA.

Yes, we are come, Maclean, a boon to beg.

LOCHTARISH.

A boon that, granted, will yourself enrich.

MACLEAN.

Myself enrich?

LOCHTARISH.

Yes; thereby wilt thou be