SCENE VII.

LADY TOUCHWOOD _alone_.

LADY TOUCH. Both indebted to him! Yes, we are both indebted to him, if

you knew all. Villain! Oh, I am wild with this surprise of treachery:

it is impossible, it cannot be. He love Cynthia! What, have I been bawd

to his designs, his property only, a baiting place? Now I see what made

him false to Mellefont. Shame and distraction! I cannot bear it, oh!

what woman can bear to be a property? To be kindled to a flame, only to

light him to another's arms; oh! that I were fire indeed that I might

burn the vile traitor. What shall I do? How shall I think? I cannot

think. All my designs are lost, my love unsated, my revenge unfinished,

and fresh cause of fury from unthought of plagues.

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