AGLAURA
ACT I
Scene I
Enter Iolas, Iolina
Iol. Married? and in Diana's grove?
Iolin. So was th' appointment, or my sense deceiv'd me.
Iol. Married!
Now, by those powers that tie those pretty knots,
'Tis very fine: good faith, 'tis wondrous fine.5
Iolin. What is, brother?
Iol. Why, to marry, sister;
T' enjoy 'twixt lawful and unlawful thus
A happiness, steal as it were one's own;
Diana's grove, sayest thou? [Scratcheth his head
Iolin. That is the place; the hunt once up, and all10
Engaged in the sport, they mean to leave
The company, and steal unto those thickets,
Where there's a priest attends them.
Iol. And will they lie together, think'st thou?
Iolin. Is there distinction of sex, think you,15
Or flesh and blood?
Iol. True; but the king, sister!
Iolin. But love, brother!
Iol. Thou sayest well; 'tis fine, 'tis wondrous fine!
Diana's grove?
Iolin. Yes, Diana's grove; but, brother,
If you should speak of this now.
Iol. Why, thou knowest20
A drowning man holds not a thing so fast:
Semanthe!
Enter Semanthe; she sees Iolas, and goes in again
She shuns me too!
Iolin. The wound [is] fest'red sure,
The hurt the boy gave her, when first she look'd
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