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< fw type="PAGENUM">325</fw>
< head rend="case(allcaps)">The
< lb>Unnatural Tragedy</head>
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< head rend="case(allcaps)pre(&rule)post(&rule)">Act 1.</head>
< div n="1" type="SCENE">
< head rend="slant(italic)">Scene 1.</head>
< stage type="ENTRANCE">Enter
< persName rend="slant(italic)">Mon&sieur <hi
rend="slant(upright)">Frere</hi></persName>, and his
Friend.</stage>
< sp who="RUTMFR">
< speaker><hi type="DIC">M</hi>on&sieur Frere</speaker>
< p>Since we are come out of our own Country to
< lb>travel, we will go into
< placeName>Turky</placeName>, if you will, and &see that
Coun­
< lb>try.</p></sp>
< sp who="RUTFRE">
< speaker>Friend</speaker>
< p>With all my heart; but now I think on't better, I
< lb>will &stay here a while longer for the Curtezans &sake: for we
< lb>&shall never get &such &store, nor &such choi&se of
Mi&stri&s&ses; there­
< lb>fore, though the &sober and cha&ste women are kept up here in
< placeName>Italy</placeName>, yet the
< lb>wild and wanton are let loo&se to take their liberty: But in
< placeName>Turky</placeName>, that barba­
< lb>rous Country, all are kept clo&se, thos&se that will, as well
as thos&se that will not;
< lb>but if they had the cu&stome of
< placeName>Italy</placeName>, to keep up only their hone&st
women, it
< lb>were a Charity: for otherwi&se a man lo&ses his time Courting
tho&se wo­
< lb>men that will not, having all &sober faces, and demure countenances,
< lb>coy carriages, and denying words?</p></sp>
< sp who="RUTMFR">
< speaker>Frere</speaker>
< p>But yet they con&sent at la&st: for Importunity and Opportunity, 'tis
< lb>&said, wins the cha&ste&st &she.</p></sp>
< stage type="ENTRANCE">Enter a man to
< persName rend="slant(upright)">Mon&sieur Frere</persName>with
a Letter.</stage>
< sp who="RUTMFR">
< speaker>Frere</speaker>
< p>From whence comes that Letter?</p></sp>
< sp who="RUTSAO">
< speaker>Man</speaker>
< p>From
< placeName>France</placeName> Sir I believe, from your
Father.</p></sp>
< stage rend="align(right)" type="EXIT">Exit man.</stage>
< stage type="BUSINESS">He opens it, and reads it to
him&self.</stage>
< sp who="RUTFRE">
< speaker>Friend</speaker>
< p>What News? Hath thy Father &sent thee money?</p></sp>
< sp who="RUTMFR">
< speaker>Frere</speaker>
< p>Yes, but it is to return home: for he hath &sent me word my Si&ster
< lb>is marry'd to a very rich, hone&st, and &sweet-natur'd man; and
that al&so he
< lb>would have me come home to marry a rich Heir, one that is his
Neighbors
< lb>Daughter: for my Father &says he de&sires to &see me &setled
in the World be­
< lb>fore he dies, having but us two, my Si&ster and I.
< /p></sp>
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< fw rend="slant(italic)" type="CATCH">Friend</fw>
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