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Scena 1.

Mendatio with a bottle in his hand.
Men.

My Lady Lingua is iust like one of these leane-witted
Comedians, who disturbing all to the fift Act, bring downe some
Mercurie or Iupiter in an Engine, to make all friends. So shee,
but in a contrary manner, seeing her former plots dispurposed,
sends me to an old Witch called Acrasia to helpe to wreake her



spight vpon the Senses: the olde hag after manie an incricled
circumstance, and often naminge of the direfull Hecate, and
Demogorgon, giues mee this bottle of wine mingled with
such hellish drugges and forcible words, that whosoeuer
drinkes of it shall bee presentlie possest with an inraged and
mad kinde of anger.