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SCENE VII.
Teresa and Ferdinando.TERESA.
Well Ferdinando, this is joyous work;
Thou art in truth a special gay gallant.
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To you nor other, will I answer give,
Till face to face with witnesses we meet.—
So! he has sent to call the neighbours in;
And summons up the servants to a show.
Ay, let him call and summon as he may;
The world shall learn who was, or which, to blame.
'Tis shrewd of him, that I must needs admit,
To turn on me and bait me for the scorn.
But fraud is fraud; this will not last them long—
The shallow silvering will soon be bare,
And all the base and counterfeit reveal'd.
TERESA.
You then persist still in your innocence?
FERDINANDO.
I do, and will do, till they shew such proof
As hands may touch, and eyes may look upon.
I am not made so ductile as they deem.
TERESA.
Behold the neighbours and the servants come,
With tearful eyes and faces full of woe;
And Carravagio sadder than them all.
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