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SAMIPPUS

Listen, Lycinus, or better still come with us if you like. Ill make you a cavalry officer in the fifty thousand.

LYCINUS

Well, Im grateful for the honour, your majesty. I bow my head in Persian style and do obeisance sweeping my hands behind me, honouring your upright turban and your diadem. But make one of these mighty men your cavalry officer. Im dreadfully bad at horses and never sat on a horse in my life before. Im afraid that when the trumpet blows for action Ill fall off and be trampled on by all those hooves in the throng; or the horse may be spirited and take the bit between its teeth and carry me right

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among the enemy; or I shall have to be tied to the saddle if Im going to stay up and hold the reins.

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