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SCENE I.
Enter CURCULIO, with a ring.CURCULIO.
I have been told, that in some Tragedy,
An antient poet has observ'd, two women
Are worse than one.—The thing is really so.
And yet I never saw, nor ever heard of;
There can't be told of, nor can be imagin'd
A slier woman, or a craftier jade
Than this same mistress is of Phædromus.
Soon as she saw that I had got this ring,
She ask'd me where I had it. Why that question?—
Because the question's of importance to me.
Still I refus'd to tell her; so, to snatch it
Forcibly, with her teeth, she seiz'd my hand—
I'd much ado to gain the door, and fly.
But see the slut herself.
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