The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Henry Nevil Payne
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_Anto._ I might have read it then, and ne're askt you, had
I but known it. _Cæl._ If your Lordship pleases you may read it. _Anto._ No, no, I will not, but prethee keep it better. _Cæl._ My Lord, there are some Tenants, who desire to express Their Loves by Rural Recreations-- _Anto._ Bid e'm stay, their sports are more in season after Dinner. So willing now to have it read, and yet before so backward! [Ex. _Cæl_. Why, this confirms me she is false, it was contriv'd On purpose for my sight. The Devil's not so cunning As a Woman. [Enter Nurse. Oh, Beldame, are you come? Tell me, you Bawd, Who Whores my Wife? For Whore I know she is, And you're her Bawd. Tell me, I say, the man, The place, the Circumstance, and very time, Or I will quarter thee, and throw thy flesh to'th' dogs. _Nurse._ Alas, my Lord, I know nothing, but that when You're from Home, _Pedro_ goes to her Chamber, and Stays there all Night, but what they do, I know Not, for none but _Flora's_ with them. _Anto._ _Pedro_! Oh monstrous, she would devour a Legion! Is't every Night, do you say? |
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