MASK. I know it. I don't depend upon it. But it will prepare
something else, and gain us leisure to lay a stronger plot. If I
gain a little time, I shall not want contrivance.

One minute gives invention to destroy,
What to rebuild will a whole age employ.



ACT II.--SCENE I.



LADY FROTH and CYNTHIA.

CYNT. Indeed, madam! Is it possible your ladyship could have been
so much in love?

LADY FROTH. I could not sleep; I did not sleep one wink for three
weeks together.

CYNT. Prodigious! I wonder want of sleep, and so much love and so
much wit as your ladyship has, did not turn your brain.

LADY FROTH. Oh, my dear Cynthia, you must not rally your friend.
But really, as you say, I wonder too. But then I had a way. For,
between you and I, I had whimsies and vapours, but I gave them vent.

CYNT. How, pray, madam?