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SCENE I.
Enter SOPHOCLIDISCA and LEMNISELENE.SOPHOCLIDISCA.
An untaught, thoughtless, silly girl needs not
So often to be told.—I see you think
I am a country girl, a downright simpleton—
Tho' I drink wine, I drink not your commands—
Me, and my manners, I conceiv'd, by this
You'd tried enough—I've now attended you
Five years almost—Send but a dog to school
As long, he'll know his letters well.—But you,
Speaking or not, not all this while have learn'd
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And leave off stunning me?—I recollect,
Remember, know, and understand you are
Unhappily in love—Love in your mind
Bubbles and boils—But I'll allay the ferment.
Lemn.
To be in love's a miserable state—
[Exit.
Soph.
And to love nothing's, to be good for nothing.
For pray what need of life to such a creature?
I should go now, and do what I am bid,
The sooner to obtain my mistress' freedom.
I'll meet this Toxilus, and stuff his ears
With these my orders which I have receiv'd—
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