ill not.
_Amin_. Sworn!
_Evad_. I.
_Amint_. How? Sworn _Evadne_?
_Evad_. Yes, Sworn _Amintor_, and will swear again
If you will wish to hear me.
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_Amin_. To whom have you Sworn this?
_Evad_. If I should name him, the matter were not great.
_Amin_. Come, this is but the coyness of a Bride.
_Evad_. The coyness of a Bride?
_Amin_. How prettily that frown becomes thee!
_Evad_. Do you like it so?
_Amin_. Thou canst not dress thy face in such a look
But I shall like it.
_Evad_. What look likes you best?
_Amin_. Why do you ask?
_Evad_. That I may shew you one less pleasing to you.
_Amin_. How's that?
_Evad_. That I may shew you one less pleasing to you.
_Amint_. I prethee put thy jests in milder looks.
It shews as thou wert angry.
_Evad_. So perhaps I am indeed.
_Amint_. Why, who has done thee wrong?
Name me the man, and by thy self I swear,
Thy yet unconquer'd self, I will revenge thee.
_Evad_. Now I shall try thy truth; if thou dost love me,
Thou weigh'st not any thing compar'd with me;
Life, Honour, joyes Eternal, all Delights
This world can yield, or hopeful people feign,
Or in the life to come, are light as Air
To a true Lover when his Lady frowns,
And bids him do this: wilt thou kill this man?
Swear my _Amintor_, and I'le kiss the sin off from
thy lips.
_Amin_. I will not swear sweet Love,
Till I do know the cause.
_Evad_. I would thou wouldst;
Why, it is thou that wrongest me, I hate thee,
Thou shouldst have kill'd thy self.
_Amint_. If I should know that, I should quickly kill
The man you hated.
_Evad_. Know it then, and do't.
_Amint_. Oh no, what look soe're thou shalt put on,
To try my faith, I shall not think thee false;
I cannot find one blemish in thy face,
Where falsehood should abide: leave and to bed;
If you have sworn to any of the Virgins
That were your old companions, to preserve
Your Maidenhead a night, it may be done without this
means.
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