SCENE XIX.

CYNTHIA _and_ LORD TOUCHWOOD.

CYNT. Now, my lord?

LORD TOUCH. Astonishment binds up my rage! Villainy upon villainy!

Heavens, what a long track of dark deceit has this discovered! I am

confounded when I look back, and want a clue to guide me through the

various mazes of unheard-of treachery. My wife! Damnation! My hell!

CYNT. My lord, have patience, and be sensible how great our happiness

is, that this discovery was not made too late.

LORD TOUCH. I thank you, yet it may be still too late, if we don't

presently prevent the execution of their plots;--ha, I'll do't. Where's

Mellefont, my poor injured nephew? How shall I make him ample

satisfaction?

CYNT. I dare answer for him.

LORD TOUCH. I do him fresh wrong to question his forgiveness; for I know

him to be all goodness. Yet my wife! Damn her:--she'll think to meet

him in that dressing-room. Was't not so? And Maskwell will expect you

in the chaplain's chamber. For once, I'll add my plot too:--let us haste

to find out, and inform my nephew; and do you, quickly as you can, bring

all the company into this gallery. I'll expose the strumpet, and the

villain.

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