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The further progress of this sad mistake.

She thought with some simplicity indeed;But innocence is hold even at the stake,

And simple in the world, and doth notneed

Nor use those palisades by dames erected,Whose virtue lies in never being detected.

LXU.

It was not that she fear’d the very worst:

His Grace was an enduring, married man,And was not likely all at once to burstInto a scene, and swell the clients’ clanOf Doctors’ Commons; but she dreaded firstThe magic of her Grace’s talisman,

And next a quarrel (as he seemed to fret)With Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet. ;

LXIII.

Her Grace too pass’d for being an Intrigante,And somewhat mechante in her amorous sphere;