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’Tis true. [115]

DAUGHTER
Good e’en, good men. Pray did you ever hear
Of one young Palamon?

GAOLER
Yes, wench, we know him.

DAUGHTER
Is’t not a fine young gentleman?

GAOLER
’Tis, love.

BROTHER
By no mean cross her; she is then distempered

Far worse than now she shows.

FIRST FRIEND
Yes, he’s a fine man. [120]

DAUGHTER
O, is he so? You have a sister.

FIRST FRIEND
Yes.

DAUGHTER
But she shall never have him, tell her so,

For a trick that I know. You’d best look to her;
For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,
And undone in an hour. All the young maids [125]
Of our town are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em,
And let ’em all alone; is’t not a wise course?

FIRST FRIEND