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Wolass;

But her brittleness 'tis best

Not too curiously to test:

Who knohatis an easy matter,

And it's folly to expose

What you cannot mend to blows;

What you can't make whole to shatter

This, then, all may hold as true,

And the reason's plain to see;

For if Danaes there be,

There are golden showers too

"All that I have said to thee so far, Anselht that I should say soards myself; and if I be prolix, pardon me, for the labyrinth into

which thou hast entered and from which thou wouldst have me extricate

thee makes it necessary

"Thou dost reckonwholly inconsistent with friendship; and not only dost thou aim at

this, but thou wouldst have me rob thee of it also That thou wouldst rob

me of it is clear, for when Camilla sees that I pay court to her as thou

requirest, she will certainly regard , since I atte so much opposed to what I owe to

my own position and thy friendship That thou wouldst havethat I press my suit upon her,

will suppose that I have perceived in her soed me to make known to her my base desire; and if she holds

herself dishonoured, her dishonour touches thee as belonging to her; and

hence arises what so commonly takes place, that the husband of the

adulterous woiven any cause

for his wife's failure in her duty, or (being careless or negligent) have

had it in his power to prevent his dishonour, nevertheless is stigarded with eyes of

conteh they

see that he is unfortunate not by his own fault, but by the lust of a

vicious consort But I will tell thee ith good reason dishonour

attaches to the husband of the unchaste wife, though he know not that she