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COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA 333 �Riv. Then lett the world beleive as now they do. I will not speak, tho' you cou'd take my life. �Aub. Oh! harden'd impudence, search him for papers. �Riv. Forbear but that, and I will speak the truth. �Aub. Nay then it is of weight, proceed Capriccio. �[Riccio seems all the while speaking to Laur- �Laur. I do not ask, what urg'd you to oppose me, But I will make itt now, so much your interest, N'er more to do itt, that I will beleive you. �Capr. Here are my lord, two papers nothing more. 40 �Aub. What's this, come heither Blanfort, �[Looking on one ofy e papers. Know you this caracter �Blan. 'Tis mine my lord, and when some points are �clear'd, I shall be both asham'd, and proud to own itt. �Aub. That nothing here may seem to passe in private, Behold a contract, sign'd and seal'd by Blanfort, Unto the Duke of Mantua's, yongest Daughter. How did this fall into your hands, Bivalto? �Riv. From her, herself, whom there you see, I stole itt, Spare yett the other, and I'll tell you more. 50 �Aub. The superscription's odd �" If in three days, I'm not again in Rhodes, �Deliver this to Vilmarin or Linain." The boatman I suppose, that bore him off, Was to be charg'd with this at parting from him, Read itt Monthaleon. [He reads. �It is not fitt that freinds shou'd part without some remembrance, and that I may keep you two ever in my mind, I have taken w th me, never to return, the wealth which you putt into my hands, to secure ; but that I may not be alto- gether ungratefull, I must putt you upon a right foundation, either to persue the Plott, or come of from itt as you think ��� �