TONY. Bravo! your courage I applaud.
But what can we few do? The Faculty
Outnumber us by more than ten to one.
SIMPLE SAPLING. What's ten to one to me, or I to ten to one!
The heart that dares is worth a hundred men
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Who play the role of tyrants. Know ye not
The story of Rienzi, late of Rome?
A FRESHMAN. 'T is true, I had forgotten that.
TONY.
And I.
But let us swear a great and binding oath
To liberate our comrades from their bonds
Of prayers and recitations numerous.
(They form in a ring, and swear.)
TONY. I weep to see such open-mouthed devotion!
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