And makes my thoughts run backwards,
The Accidents oth’ day seems Ominous
To all the House, but most of all to me,
My guilty Breast feels most of misery.
This time will quickly over, then I shall
See what they tend to, or not see at all.
“There’s comfort yet, that miseries at height
Lose their worst property, which is to fright.”
[Exit.
The End of the Third Act.
Act the Fourth.
Caelia on a Couch, Flora by her.
Cael. Flora, I cannot sleep, for all my thoughts Infected with my griefs, flye up and down, Collecting only things to keep me waking.
Flo. I’le not stir from you, Madam, all this Night.
Cael. Flora, thy diligence deserves
Reward,
And I’le not long be backward for to thank thee.
But prethee sing that Song I love so well,
That harmony, perhaps, will Charm my cares,
And give my senses Rest.
The Song.
1.
Flor. sings.
Ah, Choridon, in vain you boast,
You still do Cloris Love;
For better ’tis your heart were lost,
Then thus suspitious prove:
You then would kill me by disdain,
But dying thus you blot my Name._
For all will say
Cloris_ was false, and went astray;
Cloris was false, and did deserve her shame.
2.
For happy shepherd, well you know,
Your Fame does mine excell;
All Gen’rous Choridons do know,
But none my Tale can tell:
Cloris, though true, must lose that Name,
But Choridon will keep his Fame;
For all will say_
Cloris was false, and went astray,
Cloris was false, and did deserve her shame.
3.
But Cruel Shepherd, when you hear
That I am dead indeed,
I do believe you’l shed a tear,
Though new you have decreed,
That Cloris true must lose that Name,
For Choridon to keep his Fame;
And then you’l say
Cloris was true, and ne’re did stray;
Cloris was true, and I deserve her shame.
Flora. She’s faln asleep, may none but happy Dreams Possess her Fancy.
[The Scene shuts.
Enter Antonio_ and Jasper in the Garden._
Anto. Your confidence in this doth much amaze me.
Jasp. Sir, still I’le pawn my Life, that what I said, Appears e’re long a truth Infallible, And your own Eyes will bear me witness of it.
Anto. Well, pitch upon a private stand for us, That you know most convenient.
[Ex. Jasp.
Strange it is,
If this should prove a falshood after this;
I’ve threaten’d him with Death upon the
failer,
Yet still he has persisted to affirm it,
Besides, I climb’d the Garden Wall before him,
And that way gave him time for his escape,