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Scene IV.

Cyprian, Moscon, and Clarin.
Clarin.
Well, I'll not be by to see,
That's a comfort.

Moscon.
How? why so?
Need I be chagrined to know,
If the girl's not mine, that she
Thus to you her debt did pay.

Clarin.
No.

Moscon.
This makes my point more strong,
Since to me it were no wrong
If it chanced not on my day.
But our master yonder, see,
How absorbed he seems.

Clarin.
More near,
If he speaks I'd like to hear.

Moscon.
And I, too, would like.

Cyprian.
Ah, me!
[As Moscon and Clarin approach Cyprian from opposite sides, he gesticulates with his arms, and accidentally strikes both.
Love, how great thy agonies!—

Clarin.
Ah! ah, me!

Moscon.
Ah, me! I bawl.

Clarin.
Well, I think that we may call
This the land of the sigh-ah-mes!

Cyprian.
What! and have you both been here?

Clarin.
I, at least, was here, I'll swear.

Moscon.
And I, also.

Cyprian.
O, despair
End at once my sad career!
Ah, what human heart to woe
Like to mine has given a home?