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Scena quarta.
Enter Aristippus and Thisbe.This.
Master I doubt not but my sudden comming
Appeareth strange as being unexpected,
The cause whereof I will relate unto you
Without more circumstance, or vaine preambles;
I come here to accuse my selfe unto you;
And to receive such punishment as your
Discretion shall thinke fit for my offence;
By me sir you have partly lost your sonne,
I doe confesse I was an accessary,
Though much against my will; when I perceiv'd
My mistris liv'd not well, but wrong'd your bed,
Not onely provident to shun the danger
Might light upon my selfe for keeping counsell
(If it should come to light by any other)
But chiefly sorrowfull for your mis-hap,
Who should in recompence of all your kindnesse
Vnto your wife, reape such disgrace from her,
I came one night to my yong master Cnemon,
(My selfe not daring to acquaint you with it)
The lecher with my mistris, he enrag'd,
Thinking that then they were in bed together,
Tooke suddenly his sword into his hand,
And notwithstanding that I told them then
They were not at their sport, he would not heare me,
But thinking that I had repented of
Bewraying it, ran like a mad man forth
Unto your bed-side with intent to kill
Th'adulterer, what followed sir you know:
Now to confirme that this I say is true,
If so you please, this night ile shew your wife
My mistris Demeneta with her friend
A bed together in a neighbours house
Without the City.
Aristip.
If thou canst doe this,
Ile make thee free, and pardon all thy faults
For I suppose I should revive againe
So I reveng'd were on my enemy;
I had such a suspition in my head
That she was false, but kept it to my selfe,
Because I wanted cleere proofes to convince her,
But what must I doe Thisbe, tell me wench?
This.
You know the garden where the monument
Of Epicures doth stand, there come a little
Before the night and stay for me; adiew.
Exeunt.
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