The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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Kill me, and all true Lovers that shall live
In after ages crost in their desires, Shall bless thy memory, and call thee good, Because such mercy in thy heart was found, To rid a lingring Wretch. _Evad_. I must have one To fill thy room again, if thou wert dead, Else by this night I would: I pity thee. _Amint_. These strange and sudden injuries have faln So thick upon me, that I lose all sense Of what they are: methinks I am not wrong'd, Nor is it ought, if from the censuring World I can but hide it--Reputation, Thou art a word, no more; but thou hast shown An impudence so high, that to the World I fear thou wilt betray or shame thy self. _Evad_. To cover shame I took thee, never fear That I would blaze my self. _Amint_. Nor let the King Know I conceive he wrongs me, then mine honour Will thrust me into action, that my flesh Could bear with patience; and it is some ease To me in these extreams, that I knew this Before I toucht thee; else had all the sins Of mankind stood betwixt me and the King, I had gone through 'em to his heart and thine. |
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