Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

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Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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London :: Printed by A. Warren, for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas ...,
1662.
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Scene. 7.
Enter the Lady Ward, and Doctor Practice.
DOctor Practice.

How do you Lady?

Lady Ward.

Why very well Doctor, how do you?

Doctor Prac.

Why I was sent, as being believed you are mad.

Lady Ward.

Troth Doctor that's no wonder; for all the world is mad, more or less.

Doctor Prac.

Do you finde any distemper in your head?

Lady Ward.

My head will ake sometimes.

Doctor Pract.

I mean a distemper in your minde.

Lady Ward.

My minde is troubled sometimes.

Doctor Pract.

That is not well: let me feel your pulse.

Lady Ward.

Why Doctor, can you know the temper of my mind, by the feeling of my pulse?

Doctor Pract.

There is a great Sympathy between the Minde and the Body.

Lady Ward.

But I doubt, Doctor, your learned skill is many times de∣ceived by the pulse; you will sooner find a mad distemper in the tongue or actions, than in the wrists.

Doctor Pract.

In troth Lady, you speak reason, which those that are mad do not do.

Lady Ward.

O yes, Doctor, but they doe, as you cure Diseases, by chance.

Exeunt
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