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And why may not this foul address
Presage in love the same success?
Then let us straight, to cleanse our wounds,885
Advance in quest of nearest ponds;
And after, as we first design'd,
Swear I've perform'd what she enjoin'd.[1]
- ↑ The Knight resolves to wash his face and foul his conscience; he was no longer for reducing Ralpho to a whipping, but for deceiving the widow by forswearing himself.
