.
Why wander I so farre? here, here was she
That was a whole world without spot to me,
Though now a world of spots. Oh what a lightning 185
Is mans delight in women! What a bubble
He builds his state, fame, life on, when he marries!
Since all earths pleasures are so short and small,
The way t'enjoy it is t'abjure it all.
Enough! I must be messenger my selfe, 190
Disguis'd like this strange creature. In, Ile after,
To see what guilty light gives this cave eyes,
And to the world sing new impieties.
_He puts the Frier in the vault and follows. She raps her
self in the arras._
_Exeunt [Servants]._
LINENOTES:
_by the haire_. A omits.
1-4 _O, help . . . my lord_. A omits.
21 _than that_. A, than it.
28 _secret_. A, hateful.
32 _tread_. A, touch.
35 _your terrors_. A omits.
35-6 _Good . . . distracted_. B punctuates:--
Good father cease: your terrors
Tempt not a man distracted.
40 _Heaven_. A, God. _you_. A, ye.
42-4 _Father . . . safety_. A omits.
45 _brest_. A, heart.
46 _Stand [in] the opening_. Emend, ed.; A, Ope the
seven-times heat; B, Stand the opening.
48 _woes_. A, cares.
51 _devouring_. A, enraged.
60 _Heaven_. A, God.
68 _rig'd with quench for_. A, laden for thy.
91 _devoure_. A, distract. _consort_. A, state.
95 _faults_. A, sins.
129 _with any shew . . . cruelty_. A omits.
140 _ever_. A, still.
141 _parallel_. A, like in ill.
_Enter Servants._ A omits.
_with a sword drawne_. A omits.
_Falls and dies._ A omits.
174 _worthy_. A, innocent.
_He . . . arras._ _Exeunt._ A omits; B places _He
. . . arras_ after _Exeunt_.
[SCENA SECUNDA.
_A Room in Montsurry's House._]
_Enter Monsieur and Guise._
_Monsieur._ Now shall we see that Nature hath no end
In her great works responsive to their worths;
That she, that makes so many eyes and soules
To see and fore-see, is stark blind her selfe;
And as illiterate men say Latine prayers
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