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SCEN. I.
Dypsas, Tyndarus.Tyn.
If it be not immodesty to demaund
So bold a question; I would be resolv'd
Of one doubt yet.
Dyps.
Speak boldly, by all holinesse
My answer shall be true.
Tyn.
When you were young,
And lively appetite revelled in your bloud,
Did you not finde rebellion in your veins?
Did not the same embraces tedious grow?
And cause a longing in your thoughts to taste
Varieties of men?
Dyps.
I blush, I cannot answer
With a deniall; not a proper Gentleman
But forc'd my goatish eye to follow him:
And when I had survey'd his parts, I would
With any losse of honour, wealth, and friendship,
Have bought him to my bed: and truely, Sir,
'Twas cheap at any rate.
Tyn.
Steel'd impudence!
What fruit can I expect the bough should beare
That grows from such a stock?
Dyps.
I had of late
A moneths minde Sir to you: Y'ave the right make
To please a Lady.
Tyn.
Sure this old piece of lust
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And tempt the worms to adulterate her carcasse.
Dyps.
And that's the reason I have cross'd my daughter
To further mine own love. Pity me, Sir,
For though the fewel's spent, there is a spark
Rak'd up ith' embers.—But I now desist.
Please you to go to Ballios house, my daughter
Shall meet you there—I hope that out of duty
She will not grutch her mother a good turn
When she is married—now and then.
Tyn.
Is there no house
To meet at, but this Ballios? Is Evadne
Acquainted there? is that the rendevous
Of her hot meetings?—yet I still suspect
This womans malice to her childe not lost.
I will bestow some time, and go to see
The strange event of this dark mysterie.
Exit Tyndarus.
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