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Pilumnus Vrania.Vra.
Father perswade me not! The power of heaven
Can never force me from Amyntas love;
'Tis rooted here so deepe within my heart
That he which pulls it out, pulls out at once,
That and my soule together.
Pil.
Fond Vrania,
Can ignorant love make thee affect the seede,
The hatefull seede of cursed Lalage?
Did I for this beget thee?
Vra.
Father, you know
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Must not be question'd: When love meanes to sport
(I'have heard your selfe relate it) he can make
The Wolfe and Lambe kisse freindly; force the Lyon
T'forget his Majestie, and in amorous dalliance
Sport with the frisking Kid. When Venus rides,
Shee'le linke the ravenous Kite, and milder Swan
To the same chariot, and will yoak together
The necks of Doves and Eagles; when as shee
Commands, all things loose their Antipathie,
Even contrarieties: can I alone
Resist her will? I cannot, my Amyntas
Shall witnesse that!
Pil.
I blame thee not so much
For loving him, while yet he was Amyntas.
But being mad and having lost himselfe,
Why shouldst not thou loose thy affection too?
Vra.
I love him now the rather; he hath lost
Himselfe for me, and should he loose me too?
It were a sinne he should!
Pil.
What canst thou love
In his distemper'd wildnesse?
Vra.
Only that,
His wildnesse, 'tis the comfort I have left
To make my teares keepe time to his distractions;
To think as wildly as he talks; to marry
Our griefs together, since our selves we cannot.
The Oracle doth aske so strange a Dowry,
That now his company is the only blisse
My love can aime at: but I stay too long
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Pil.
Doe not Vrania.
Vra.
Doe not?
I must and will; Nature commands me no,
But Love more powerfull sayes it shall be so.
Exit.
Pil.
The Gods did well to make their Destinies
Of woemen, that their wills might stand for law
Fixt and unchang'd; who's this? Corymbus? he.
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