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

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Title: Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Publication: London :: Printed by A. Warren, for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Tho. Dicas ...,; 1662.
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Scene 32.

Enter two Gentlemen.

1 GEnt.

The Lord Melancholy hath such a sober, sad Countenance, as I never saw any young man have the like.

2 Gent.

Indeed I never saw him smile in my life.

1 Gent.

I askt a Gentleman that waits on him, whether his Lord did ever smile, he said he never saw him smile since he parted from his first Lady.

2 Gent.

Then he hath not smiled this nine years, for so long it is since he parted from his first Lady.

1 Gent.

If the siege last one year more, it will be as long a siege as the siege of Troy.

2 Gent.

Indeed the causes of either siege resembles each other, as both for the love of fair Ladyes; I know not whether the effect will prove alike, as whether it will be the destruction of his heart, as the siege of Troy wa•• the destruction of Troy.

1 Gent.

But the Lord Melancholy is rather like Hellen than Menelaus, for he hath had two wives, and the Lady Perfection is as Menelaus, for her Hus∣band is taken away from her, as his wife was from him; but leaving this siege let us return to our own homes.

Exeunt.