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Scena, 9.

The Duchess enters, and sees them embracing. Cleander Amynter.
Cl.
By heaven Ile kill them both.

offers to draw.
Am.
Fie fie, be more
advis'd and temperate.

Closes with him, and leads him out.
Duc.
Unparallel'd impudence!
embrace in publique! the very action
of coupling! no strumpet lost to shame
and abandoned to infamy, wod e're have don't:
I burn no less with rage and jealousie,
then they with lust; and the fire of my love
is quite extinguisht by't, as greater fires
extinguish lesser ones.
I'le be reveng'd on both,
for her I now do loath her
worse then a Toad or Snake;
and for him, ungrateful as he is, I'le let him see
since he wod not have me for a friend,
what 'tis to have me for an enemy.