The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Henry Nevil Payne
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Then wishing you long: long and lasting Joys,
Retire, and wish to Copy out your Life. _Anto._ Has _Don Gerardo_ Service for _Antonio_, His own _Antonio_ and yet defers to name it? Speak your Commands, that I as swift may flye To put 'em into Action as I did At first to meet those pleasures Lovers long for. _Ger._ My fears perswade me I shall speak too soon, Yet dress your self, and come into the Garden, I with impatience there will wait to tell you. _Anto._ Go then, you shall not long be silent. [Ex. _Gerardo_. Who waits there? [Enter _Pedro_, and Exit. _Pedro_, call my Wife-- My Wife, said I! _Gerardo_, didst thou know The secret fears contain'd within this Bosome, Thou'dst sooner pitty me, than wish my Life: How can I think her story of the Jewels, And other matters 'bout her Fathers Will, Could have produc'd so scandalous a Meeting? And yet she still avows it! Oh, Jealousie! Where will these panting fears still hurry me? I hourly seek to find what I wou'd give, A thousand Worlds my heart would ne're believe; And yet for what do I thus vex my self? For that, which if 'twas gone, I cou'd not miss; |
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