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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