The Double-Dealer, a comedy by William Congreve
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LADY TOUCH. Both indebted to him! Yes, we are both indebted to
him, if you knew all. Villain! Oh, I am wild with this surprise of treachery: it is impossible, it cannot be. He love Cynthia! What, have I been bawd to his designs, his property only, a baiting place? Now I see what made him false to Mellefont. Shame and distraction! I cannot bear it, oh! what woman can bear to be a property? To be kindled to a flame, only to light him to another's arms; oh! that I were fire indeed that I might burn the vile traitor. What shall I do? How shall I think? I cannot think. All my designs are lost, my love unsated, my revenge unfinished, and fresh cause of fury from unthought of plagues. SCENE VIII. [To her] SIR PAUL. SIR PAUL. Madam, sister, my lady sister, did you see my lady my wife? LADY TOUCH. Oh! Torture! SIR PAUL. Gads-bud, I can't find her high nor low; where can she be, think you? LADY TOUCH. Where she's serving you, as all your sex ought to be served, making you a beast. Don't you know you're a fool, brother? SIR PAUL. A fool; he, he, he, you're merry. No, no, not I, I know |
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