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THE BRIDE: A DRAMA.
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FIRST ATTENDANT.

Poor, indeed!


SECOND ATTENDANT (advancing).

Fy, nurse! how canst thou so forget thyself?

Thy words are rude; my lady is offended.

FIRST ATTENDANT.

Who would not, so provoked, forget herself?

Ah! the rich treasures of Rasinga's palace!
His gaudy slaves, his splendid palanquins!
They have pass'd from us like a mummer's show,
Seen for an hour and gone.

Enter a Female Domestic.


DOMESTIC.

My master bids me say, the lady's chamber

Is now in readiness.[Exeunt.




SCENE III.

The Court of the Castle.
 
Enter Two Domestics, meeting.


FIRST DOMESTIC.

The merry revelry continues still

As if but just begun, though Samarkoon