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<T {The Witch of Edmonton}.>
ACT. I, SCAENA i
{Enter} Frank Thorney, Winnifride {with-child}.
{Frank}. Come, Wench; why here's a business soon dispatch'd.
Thy heart I know is now at ease: thou needst not
Fear what the tattling Gossips in their cups
Can speak against thy fame: thy childe shall know
Who to call {Dad} now.
{Win}. You have discharg'd
The true part of an honest man; I cannot
Request a fuller satisfaction
Then you have freely granted: yet methinks
'Tis an hard case, being lawful man and wife,
We should not live together.
{Frank}. Had I fail'd
In promise of my truth to thee, we must
Have then been ever sundred; now the longest
Of our forbearing eithers company,
Is onely but to gain a little time
For our continuing thrift, that so hereafter
The Heir that shall be born may not have cause
To curse his hour of birth, which made him feel
The misery of beggery and want;
Two Devils that are occasions to enforce
A shamef . . .
