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.
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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 41.
Enter Sir Thomas Letgo, and the Lady Liberty.
LIberty.

Let me perswade you to be friends: for if you seem to mourn for that which you made slight of, and to quarrel unjustly, and sight for for that you cannot have, nor is not rightly yours, you will be thought im∣prudent, shunn'd as a wrangling Gamester, and accounted a Ranting Di∣sturber, and laught at for a fool, for setting such a Mistris at a stake you thought too much to lose; but if you will save your Reputation, you must seem to rejoyce you are quit of her.

Letgo.

Well, I will take your counsel; and I have this satisfaction, That I am not the first man that hath been deceiv'd by Women, nor shall not be the last.

Liberty.

That's true; and so generally it is known, as 'tis become an or∣dinary saying, and the saying will be made good as long as mankind lasts: for

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though men may dissemble to women, yet it is women that deceive men, and we glory in it.

Exeunt.
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