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a tear, And then thou art a piece expressing fully The _Carthage_ Queen, when from a cold Sea Rock, Full with her sorrow, she tyed fast her eyes To the fair _Trojan_ ships, and having lost them, Just as thine eyes do, down stole a tear, _Antiphila_; What would this Wench do, if she were _Aspatia_? Here she would stand, till some more pitying God Turn'd her to Marble: 'tis enough my Wench; Shew me the piece of Needle-work you wrought. _Ant_. Of _Ariadne_, Madam? _Asp_. Yes that piece. This should be _Theseus_, h'as a cousening face, You meant him for a man. _Ant_. He was so Madam. _Asp_. Why then 'tis well enough, never look back, You have a full wind, and a false heart _Theseus_; Does not the story say, his Keel was split, Or his Masts spent, or some kind rock or other Met with his Vessel? _Ant_. Not as I remember. _Asp_. It should ha' been so; could the Gods know this, And not of all their number raise a storm? But they are all as ill. This false smile was well exprest; Just such another caught me; you shall not go so _Antiphila_, In this place work a quick-sand, And over it a shallow smiling Water. And his ship ploughing it, and then a fear. Do that fear to the life Wench. _Ant_. 'Twill wrong the story. _Asp_. 'Twill make the story wrong'd by wanton Poets Live long and be believ'd; but where's the Lady? _Ant_. There Madam. _Asp_. Fie, you have mist it here _Antiphila_, You are much mistaken Wench; These colours are not dull and pale enough, To shew a soul so full of misery As this sad Ladies was; do it by me, Do it again by me the lost _Aspatia_, And you shall find all true but the wild Island; I stand upon the Sea breach now, and think Mine arms thus, and mine hair blown with the wind, Wild as that desart, and let all about me
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