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Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire,
Tell me you'll love, or that my Suit is vain, Do any thing to ease me of my pain. Gods, Madam, why d'ye keep me in suspence? This cannot be the effects of Innocence; By Heaven, I'll know the cause, where e'er it lies, Nor shall you fool me with your feign'd disguise. Pis. Alcip. 'Twas kindly urg'd, prithee be near me still, And tell me of the faults that look unmanly. Gal. Er.
No Woman without Vizard in the Nation Can see it twice, and keep her reputation That's certain, Forgetting That he himself, in every gross Lampoon, Her leuder Secrets spread about the Town; Whilst their feign'd Niceness is but cautious Fear, Their own Intrigues should be unravel'd here. Our next Recourse was dwindling down to Farce, Then Zounds, what Stuff's here?
Then she that Constancy profess'd Was but a well Dissembler at the best; And that imaginary Sway She feign'd to give, in seeming to obey, Was but the height of prudent Art, To deal with greater liberty her Heart. Ela. This does not divert me; Nor nothing will, till Scaramouch return, And bring me News of Cinthio. Mop.
Patron thou art of every gross abuse; The sullen husband's feign'd excuse, When the ill humours with his wife he spends, And bears recruited wit, and spirits to his friends The son of Bacchus pleads thy pow'r As to the glass he still repairs Pretends but to remove thy cares, Snatch from thy shades, one gay, and smiling hour, And drown thy kingdom in a purple show'r.
But what dost think I did? being damnably in love I feign'd a Letter as from the Hague, wherein was a Relation of this same Bellmour's being hang'd. Bel. Is't possible, Sir, you cou'd devise such News? Sir Feeb. Possible, Man!
'Passing from Italy to Greece, the tales Which poets of an elder time have feign'd To glorify their Tempe, bred in me Desire of visiting Paradise. To Thessaly I came, and living private, Without acquaintance of more sweet companions Than the old inmates to my love, my thoughts, I day by day frequented silent groves And solitary walks.
This Prince perceived some Alterations in the Favourite, which were at first excused, under Pretence of some feign'd Indispositions, and the Monarch was so easy as to take her Word without any farther Examination into the Truth of her Excuses.
Hot-headed Carolina, Well may you curl your lip; With all your bondsmen, bless the destiny Which brings you no such breed as this. Arise, young North! Our elder blood flows in the veins of cowards: The gray-hair'd sneak, the blanch'd poltroon, The feign'd or real shiverer at tongues, That nursing babes need hardly cry the less for Are they to be our tokens always?
It will be remembered that Beatrice had something to say on the subject. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, I. p. 122 Docity. II, p. 441, The Feign'd Curtezans. p. 123 Don Del Phobos. The adventures of the Knight of the Sun and his brother Rosiclair belong to the Amadis school of romance.
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