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And then instruct my family. You are sad;
What do you muse on, sir?

Du. Truth, I was thinking 25

What course to take for the delivery of your letter;
And now I have it. But, faith, did this lady
(For do not gull yourself) for certain know
You kill'd her son?

Rut. Give me a book, I'll swear 't:

Denied me to the officers that pursued me, 30

Brought me herself to the door, then gave me gold
To bear my charges, and shall I make doubt, then,
But that she loved me? I am confident,
Time having ta'en her grief off, that I shall be
Most welcome to her: for then to have woo'd her 35

Had been unseasonable.

Du. Well, sir, there's more money
To make you handsome. I'll about your business:
You know where you must stay.

Rut. There you shall find me.
[Aside] Would I could meet my brother now, to know

Whether the Jew, his genius, or my Christian, 40

Has proved the better friend! [Exit.

Du. Oh, who would trust
Deceiving woman ? or believe that one,
The best and most canònized ever was,
More than a seeming goodness? I could rail now

Against the sex, and curse it; but the theme 45

And way's too common. Yet that Guiomar,
My mother, (nor let that forbid her to be
The wonder of our nation,) she that was
Mark'd out the great example for all matrons,
Both wife and widow; she that in my breeding 50

Express'd the utmost of a mother's care
And tenderness to a son; she that yet feigns
Such sorrow for me; good God, that this mother,
After all this, should give up to a stranger
The wreak she owed her son! I fear her honour. 55

37 make] F2 by misprint "may."

45 the theme And way's too common] The invective of Posthumus ( Cymb. II.
v.), to which Reed refers, and the speech of Hamlet ( I. ii.) to which Weber
points, as the example of this tirade against women, were both probably
suggested by the discourses of Euphues (and Guevara) on the same subject.

55 The wreak] the vengeance.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Maid's Tragedy; Philaster; A King and No King; The Scornful Lady; The Custom of the Country. Contributors: Francis Beaumont - author, John Fletcher - author. Publisher: George Bell and Sons & A. H. Bullen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 566.
    
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