The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Limb._ Mr Woodall, we leave you here--you remember? [_Exeunt_ LIMB. _and_ ALDO. _Wood._ Let me alone.--Ladies, your servant; I have a little private business with a friend of mine. _Mrs Brain._ Meaning me.--Well, sir, your servant. _Trick._ Your servant, till we meet again. [_Exeunt severally._ SCENE II.--_Mr_ WOODALL'S _Chamber._ _Mrs_ BRAINSICK _alone._ _Mrs Brain._ My note has taken, as I wished: he will be here immediately. If I could but resolve to lose no time, out of modesty; but it is his part to be violent, for both our credits. Never so little force and ruffling, and a poor weak woman is excused. [_Noise._] Hark, I hear him coming.--Ah me! the steps beat double: He comes not alone. If it should be my husband with him! where shall I hide myself? I see no other place, but under his bed: I must lie as silently as my fear will suffer me. Heaven send me safe again to my own chamber! [_Creeps under the Bed._ _Enter_ WOODALL _and_ TRICKSY. _Wood._ Well, fortune at the last is favourable, and now you are my |
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