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The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Henry Nevil Payne
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[Ex. _Cælia_.
Yet, if't be possible, I'm resolv'd to see it;
'Twill Cure my fears, perhaps, or change their Natures,
And make 'em certainties the lesser evil cause sooner Cur'd:
For Jealousies with fear doth plague the mind,
But that is Cur'd when certainties we find.
[Ex. _Anto_.


_The Scene changes, Discovers _Jasper_, as from Bed,
Buttoning himself._

_Jasp._ Oh, plague o'this Old Bitch, she has kept me
So awake with her Coughing all Night, that I
Have quite out-slept my self.
[Looks on's Watch.
By Heav'n near Ten a Clock, and she not gone
Yet--plague on her--she'l be catch'd, and I shall
Be turn'd away--why Nurse--make haste, 'tis Ten a
Clock and past, you will be wanting.

_Nurse within._ That cannot be, alas, the times but short
That I've been with thee, my Dear.

_Jasp._ No, perhaps you think so;
But let me ever want money to drink,
If I have not thought the time longer
Then her Life has been, and that began beyond the mem'ry
Of man. What drudgery am I forc'd to undergo to
Get a little money to support me--that I may Live to
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