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ROMIERO: A TRAGEDY.
GUZMAN.
And fine-spun niceties of sentiment.
I'll comprehend thee better presently.
ROMIERO.
Though from a perilous state, gives to Zorada
Slight pleasure: her affections and concern
Are all engross'd by what is duty call'd
To her unhappy father. I am nothing.
GUZMAN.
ROMIERO.
GUZMAN.
Surely the men in these degenerate days,
When every high-plumed youth and idle stripling
Hath leave to play his gambols in the sight
Of maids and married dames without reproof,
And pour bewitching nonsense in their ears
At feast or tourney, is most fortunate,
Who can but charge a young and lovely wife
With too much duteous love for her old father.
(Laughing heartily.)
I needs must laugh: thou art fantastical.
ROMIERO.