The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Jud._ Madam, your mother would speak with you. _Pleas._ I will not come; I'm mad, I think; I come immediately. Well, I'll go in, and vent my passion, by railing at them, and him too. [_Exit._ _Jud._ You may enter in safety, sir; the enemy's marched off. _Re-enter_ WOODALL. _Wood._ Nothing, but the love I bear thy mistress, could keep me in the house with such a fury. When will the bright nymph appear? _Jud._ Immediately; I hear her coming. _Wood._ That I could find her coming, Mrs Judith! _Enter_ MRS BRAINSICK. You have made me languish in expectation, madam. Was it nothing, do you think, to be so near a happiness, with violent desires, and to be delayed? _Mrs Brain._ Is it nothing, do you think, for a woman of honour, to overcome the ties of virtue and reputation; to do that for you, which I thought I should never have ventured for the sake of any man? _Wood._ But my comfort is, that love has overcome. Your honour is, in other words, but your good repute; and 'tis my part to take care of |
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