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Who’s noble? He that bears a scutcheon? He Whose lineage can be traced to mailéd Knights, That with the Bastard came from Normandy? He that in lacqueys and in hounds delights? Whose fathers jousted in Plantagenet fights?-- Have not all battled with the roaring Flood? Noble is he who honours, Man, thy rights, Sustains thy dignity, is truthful, good; Kings have I known more base than bondsman e’er hath stood!