The Hunchback by James Sheridan Knowles
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Her mornings gives to mercers, milliners,
Shoemakers, jewellers, and haberdashers; Her noons, to calls; her afternoons, to dressing; Evenings, to plays and drums; and nights, to routs, Balls, masquerades! Sleep only ends the riot, Which waking still begins! Wal. I'm all amaze! How bears Sir Thomas this? Heart. Why, patiently; Though one can see with pain. Wal. She loves him? Ha! That shrug is doubt! She'd ne'er consent to wed him Unless she loved him!--never! Her young fancy The pleasures of the town--new things--have caught, Anon their hold will slacken; she'll become Her former self again; to its old train Of sober feelings will her heart return; And then she'll give it wholly to the man Her virgin wishes chose! Heart. Here comes Sir Thomas; And with him Master Modus. Wal. Let them pass: I would not see him till I speak with her. [They retire into one of the Arbours.] |
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