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Scen. 1.
Enter Chremes and Simo out of Simoes house.Chr.
Simo enough, I haue enough tride your friendship;
Venturd sufficient hazard: pray now leaue
Intreating. Whilst I seeke to pleasure you
I almost trifled my childes life away.
Sim.
Nay, but I earnestly begge and craue Chremes,
This your good turne now late begun in words
You would in deedes make vp.
Chr.
Note how vniust
You grow, through earnestnesse to worke your aimes:
You nor consider bounds in curtesies,
Nor yet what tis you craue: for if you did,
Yould cease to load me with these iniuries.
Sim.
What iniuries?
Chr.
Oh, doe you question them?
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To one intangled in a strangers loue:
A wilde yong youth abhorring marriage:
To most sure discord, marriage as ensure;
That by her griefe and sorrow I might phisicke
Your riotous sonne: this y'obtain'd: I went on,
Whil'st things permitted: now that the case not brooks it,
You must brooke my deniall. Tis affirmd
This stranger is free borne; hath a childe by him:
Leaue troubling vs.
Sim.
By all the Gods I beg
You would not bend your minde to trust these people,
Whose best aduantage tis, to make him worst.
These things are onely feign'd and fashioned
To dash the wedding: take away the cause
Moues them to this, they'll straightway leaue contriuing.
Chr.
Y'are wide: My selfe saw a maide scolding here
With Dauus.
Sim.
I know't.
Chr.
I but this was done
In good sad earnest; neither of them both
Knowing that I was neere.
Sim.
I doe beleeue it:
And Dauus late told me it would be so.
I know not how I did forget to tell you,
As I had meant.
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