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Scene 33.
Come, I have brought all my bridal guests hither to joyn with yours, for we will go to Church together: Wherefore prethee come away, our Bridegrooms and our Guests stay for you.
I will go to them by and by.
Why, I hope you do not stay to muse upon Phantasmes, saith Mariage will banish them out of your head, you must now imploy your time with Realities.
If I thought Mariage would destroy or disturb my Con∣templations, I would not marry, although my Wedding-guests were come, and my Wedding-dinner ready drest, and my Wedding-cloaths on; nay, were I at the holy Altar, I would return back.
That would be such an action, as all the Kingdome would say you were mad.
I had rather all the World should not only say I were mad, but think me so, rather than my self to be unhappy.
Can want of Contemplation make you unhappy?
Yes, as unhappy as a body can be without a soul; for Con∣templation is the life of the soul, and who can be happy that hath a dead soul?
By my troth I had rather be dead, than have such a dull life.
Madam, the Bridegroom is coming hither.
I will prevent him, and meet him.