 | Erminia Or, The fair and vertuous Lady |  |
Scena, 3.
The Dutchess Aurindo below.Duc.
Now have you found it yet?
Au.
No Madam, yet I have sought and sought.
D.
Well, you may cease your search, no matter for
the portrait, now the original is so nigh.
Au.
Where is't? I see't not.
Du.
No! run presently
to my apartment, fetch my mirrour here,
and I'le convince thee to thy face thou dost.
Au.
How crafty and cunning she's,
to conceal her love, and to declare it too?
Duc.
Yet you may stay too, I'le be that glass
this once,
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look in my face, see if I do not blush.
Au.
Madam I see no other blushes there,
but such as Aurora, such as the blushing Rose,
or Beauty's self wo'd wear.
Du.
'Tis very good,
I am glad you are so courtly yet.—
Ay me! what can be secret in a Lover,
when their own blushes,
their own loves discover?
learn learn Aurindo, if yet thou dost not know,
when ever thou hear'st one sighing so,
or seest them blush, 'tis onely for Love.
Au.
What's that?
nothing but
affected ignorance can secure me.
Aside.
Duc.
Nay, if thou knowst not, thou canst not imagine
how delicious a thing it is to love,
and be belov'd; nor yet how great a pain
it is to love, and not be lov'd again.
Au.
I know it alas! but too too well unto
my grief. How she goes driving me
Aside.
farther and farther still into the toyles
will inextricably intangle us both, and how
to avoid it I do not know.
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