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SCENE I.

The SCENE Continues.
Enter Salisbury and Gundamor.
Sal.
How cunningly the weak Wise Man contriv'd
To cheat himself, and hasten lingering Death!

Gun.
To make but one Demand, and lodge it in the Pow'r
Of his worst Foes to form their own Reply!—
Have you prepar'd the Papers? Let me see
The lovely Characters that blush with Blood.

Sal.
This shall be read to Cobham; this he signs;
[Pulling out two Papers.
His Weakness never can observe the Cheat.
So shall blind Folly lend its Hand to skreen
Ingenious Mischief.

Gun.
His dull Innocence
In idle Sorrows may lament his Fate.
The Deed once done, Repentance is too late.

[Exeunt.