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What a close and hight kiss was that? I Like not this behaviour, would I were delivered hence, please you give me leave to go about my exercises? My books and studies at the School, I shall be shent else by my Tutor. Will you have me prove a truant then? Never. But I have herd it's a ribaldrous book, and cor rupteth youth to all wantonness. I understand not your Philosophy. No, I know my duty better. Pray mother excuse me, this is no fit place for me. No where, but to wait Upon my Father to the Senate-house, And instantly return. Heavens defend me From this lewd Phaedra — aside. Mother what dee mean To burn me thus with kisses? In what nature Require you that? if as it ought to be, That children love their Parents, I agree. You are too bold, Too impudent. Hence incestuous woman, Thinkest thou to make me wrong my father's bed, And to commit and act so foul as incest? Tempt me no more; by heaven, by earth and all Th'immortall gods, I'll die a thousand death's Ere think a thought on't, much less yield unto it, Your damned wit, nor quaint enticing words Shall not prevail, my hate exceeds my love. Dear father, I beseech you let me know The cause of this your anger and my stripes So cruelly laid on me. Yet now at length, Sir, let me understand What I have done, that thus provokes your wrath, The gods do know my innocence. Fair Thisbe are you here? why now I Like you, You smile upon me, and your countenance Darts amorous glances which before cast frowns, Now you appear Like Ʋ enus. Will you be reformed Upon mature counsel? Come with me then and learn to kiss and smile, You know the back way to my chamber sweet. I do, and will attend you, there we'll meet. Exeunt. Thisbe my love, we must act closely, and with great circumspection, lest we be discovered by the mischievous De meneta, who (as thou sayest) hates me more now than she loved me before. I judge her worthy of death, but who is the person, prithee? I can scarce believe it. You shall do me a courtesy then. Else let me die in scorn and infamy, I'll kill them both, for never shall it be said, That Cnemon knew his father's bed defiled And durst not be revenged, assist my hand Infernal furies, Thisbe led the way That I may do the deed ere see the day. Exeunt Where is the villain, the most worthy lover Of this chaste dame? Grave and learned senate Vouchsafe to hear me speak. I not deny But I came with a drawn sword in my hand, But I will tell you how, please you to hear me. Oh cruel stepmother, and most unkind, For thy cursed sake am I so ill entreated Against all equity and justice too, Thou killest me contrary to course of Law. 'Tis done, now put your hand to't she signs it. Dying Thisbe. she die. See the wretched state Oh false accusers, and their po sonous fate. Exeunt. Had ever any one a kinder stepmother— aside. Mother, you make too much of me, I am not able to deserve your love in so high a strain, my duty cannot countervail it.
Plot summary
Plot — The Strange Discovery
After the death of his daughter, Charicles decides to leave Egypt and return to Greece so that he can die at home. Before he can go, the Ethiopian legate entrusts him with the care of a maiden, whom he adopts as a daughter and names Chariclea; but the legate is expelled from Egypt before he can reveal more of the girl’s history. Back in Greece, Chariclea seems uninterested in men until she meets Theagenes, who has come to Delphos to participate in a religious ceremony. After that, they are both stricken with love-melancholy. A physician diagnoses Chariclea with green-sickness and prescribes sex, so Charicles plans to introduce her to his nephew, whom he hopes she will marry. The visiting Egyptian priest Calasiris realizes otherwise and helps her to abscond with Theagenes to Africa, taking with them a fascia which explains her origins. Chariclea is really the daughter of the King and Queen of Ethiopia. Her fortunes arise from her skin colour: her mother was looking at a picture of a white woman at the moment of conception, so the child too was born white; fearing a charge of adultery, she disposed of the baby and reported her dead. In Egypt, Theagenes attracts the interest of Arsace while her husband, the Deputy, is away at war with Ethiopia, but he is impervious to her advances, even when she has him imprisoned and scourged. Realizing that the problem lies in his love for Chariclea, Arsace plots to poison her, but the poisoned cup goes astray and it is the bawd Cybele who is killed. Chariclea is tried for the murder and found guilty after Arsace provides five false witnesses; but when she is thrown into the fire, it refuses to burn her because she is wearing a magical fire-repelling ring. The Deputy hears of her beauty and has her brought to him along with Theagenes. Arsace commits suicide. Chariclea and Theagenes are captured by the Ethiopians on the way to the Deputy’s camp. It is customary for prisoners of war to be sacrificed, but Chariclea saves herself by producing the fascia describing her origins, and she and Theagenes are appointed Ethiopian priests in succession to her parents. In the sub-plot, Demeneta attempts to seduce her stepson Cnemon, but when he rejects her, she tells his father, Aristippus, that he assaulted her, and thereby gets the young man a thrashing. To further her revenge, she asks Thisbe, her maid, to lead him on. Thisbe encourages him to regain his father’s favour by catching his stepmother in the act of adultery. When he…