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PIRITHOUS

There shall want no bravery.

EMILIA
Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins [155]
Loses a noble cousin for thy sins.
Exeunt.

Scene III IT

Enter Gaoler, Wooer, and Doctor.

DOCTOR
Her distraction is more at some time of the moon than at other some, is it
not?

GAOLER
She is continually in a harmless distemper, sleeps little, altogether without

appetite save often drinking; dreaming of another world, and a better; and
what [5] broken piece of matter soe’er she’s about, the name Palamon lards
it, that she farces every business withal, fits it to every question.
Enter Gaoler’s Daughter.

Look where she comes, you shall perceive her behaviour. [10]

DAUGHTER
I have forgot it quite; the burden on’t was ‘down-a, down-a’, and penned by
no worse man than Geraldo, Emilia’s schoolmaster. He’s as fantastical, too,
as ever he may go upon’s legs; for in the next world will Dido see Palamon,
and then will she be out of love with [15] Aeneas.

DOCTOR
What stuff’s here! Poor soul.

GAOLER
E’en thus all day long.

DAUGHTER