You hold o're your affections.
Piſander. To my wiſh:
Haue you acquainted her with the feature
Of the Carthaginians, and with what honours
Leoſthettes comes Crown'd home with?
| Timandra. With all care | 10 |
Timandra. As I gheſſe
With a ſeeming kinde of ioy, but yet appeares not
Tranſported, or proud of his happy fortune.
But when I tell her of the certaine ruine,
| You muſt encounter with at their arriuall | 15 |
Muſt fall vpon you, which you yet repent not;
Eſteeming it a glorious martyrdome,
And a reward of pure vnſpotted loue,
| Preſeru'd in the white robe of Innocence: | 20 |
The fruit vntaſted, for whoſe glad poſſeſſion,
You haue call'd on the furie of your Lord,
| Then that ſhe ſhould be grieu'd, or tainted in | 25 |
Piſander. Doth it worke compunction?
Pitties ſhe my misfortune?
Timandra. Shee expreſs'd
All ſignes of ſorrow, which (her vow obſeru'd),
Could witneſſe a grieu'd heart. At the firſt hearing
| Shee fell vpon her face, rent her faire haire, | 30 |
Of heauens iniuſtice.
Piſander. 'Tis enough: waite carefully,
And vpon all watch'd occaſions, continue
Speech, and difcourſe of me; 'tis time, muſt worke her. 35
Timandra. I'le not be wanting, but ſtill ſtriue to ſerue you.
Piſander. Now, Poliphron, the newes: Exit Timandra.
Poliphron. The conquering Army Enter Poliphron.
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Publication information:
Book title: The Bondman: an Antient Storie.
Contributors: Philip C. Massinger - Editor, Benjamin Townley Spencer - Editor, Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund, University of Cincinnati Graduate School - OrganizationName.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 1932.
Page number: 127.
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