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Scene XX.

Love for Love

by William Congreve





VALENTINE, ANGELICA, JENNY.

ANGELICA
Well, have you been there?--Come hither.

JENNY
Yes, madam; Sir Sampson will wait upon you presently.
[Aside to ANGELICA.]

VALENTINE
You are not leaving me in this uncertainty?

ANGELICA
Would anything but a madman complain of
uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a
wish discovers the folly of the chase. Never let us know one another
better, for the pleasure of a masquerade is done when we come to show
our faces; but I'll tell you two things before I leave you: I am not
the fool you take me for; and you are mad and don't know it.







                                                                                    

 

 

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Love for Love

Prologue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mr Betterton.
Epilogue. Spoken, at the opening of the new house, by Mrs Bracegirdle.
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