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Cou. Nay, then you made mad Work with your self indeed; I am sure I directed you just the contrary. But to tell you the Truth, if you took nothing but my Directions, it was a very innocent thing; it would have done you neither good nor harm.
Lady. Ay, but it purged and vomited my Life away almost, and threw me into a [1] violent Fever.
Cou. Why, you were certainly with Child then, and the fright put you into that Condition.
Lady. I believe it did; for I had no sooner swallowed it down, but I was in the greatest Agony imaginable, at the Thoughts of what I had done; I was struck as if an Arrow had been shot thro' me; I was all horror and disorder, Soul and Body,
Cou. Ay, you frighted your self Sick: I am sure what I gave you Directions to take would have done you no hurt, if you had been with Child.
Lady. Are you sure of it?
Cou. Don't you remember how earnestly I persuaded you against the Thing it self.
Lady. Yes, very well.
Cou. And how I argued with you, that it was as much Murther as if the Child had been grown to its maturity in your Womb.
Lady. Yes, yes, I remember it particularly.
Cou. Well, Cousin; And do you think then I would have given you a Dose to kill the Child
- ↑ Here she tells her the whole Story as it happened, and as related above.
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