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SCENE IX.

STAPHILA alone.
Staph.
What's to be done now? we are both of us,
I and my mistress, on the brink of ruin.
She's just upon delivery, and her shame
Must come at last to light; what hitherto
We have conceal'd, we can no longer hide.
I'll in, and do what master order'd me
Against his coming. Troth I'm sore afraid,
Poor I shall have a bitter pill to swallow.
[Exit Staphila.