The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Henry Nevil Payne
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page 22 of 146 (15%)
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Watch all apted times for my Revenge on this whole
Family, who Rise upon the Ruines of our House. This Nurse of Ninety never stayes with me but I'de as live have been Rid by a Night-Mare. _Enter Nurse._ _Nurse._ What's that, Night-Mare? Am I a Night-Mare? _Jasp._ No, Nurse, I said, I was troubl'd with a Night-Mare, And should be worse, were it not for thy Company. _Nurse._ Nay, I am good Friend of thine every way. _Jasp._ That's true; but Nurse make haste, for I am Damnably afraid _Flora_ suspects us e're since She took me in your Chamber, and if she shou'd Take you here, and tell my Lady, I should be turn'd Away, for you know she loves me not e're since I Gave my Lord notice of her meeting _Don Lewis_, To give him the money and Jewels, her Father Left privately in her hands for him when he dy'd. _Nurse._ I Chuck, but why didst thou do so? _Jasp._ In hopes to have got some of the money for my Discovery, what made her tempt me with the Trust of money, and give me none to keep Counsel. But prethee Nurse be gone. |
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