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Scena. 3.
Cassandra.Cas.
Fayne would I wretch conceale, the spoyle of my virginity,
But O my gilt doth make mee blush, chast virgins here to see:
I monster now, no mayde nor wife, haue stoupte to Promos lust,
The cause was nether sute nor teares, could quench his wātō thurst
What cloke wyl scuse my crime? my selfe, my conscience doth accuse
And shall Cassandra now be termed, in common speeche, a stewes?
Shall she, whose vertues bare the hell, be calld a vicious dame?
O cruell death, nay bell to her, that was constraynd to shame:
Alas few wyll giue foorth I fynd, to saue my brothers lyfe:
And fayntly I through Promos othes, doo hope to be his wife.
For louers feare not how they sweare, to wyn a Lady fayre,
And hauing wonne what they did wish, for othes nor Lady care,
But be he iust or no, I ioy Andrugio yet shall lyue,
But ah, I see a sight, that doth my hart a sunder ryue.
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