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CYPRIAN. You must not follow him, / [Aside. (Oh, this news with death o'erwhelms me! ) / Since if he who is the loser / Of what you have gained, expressly / Says he would forget it, you / Should not try his patient temper.
FLORUS. Both by you and him at once / Has mine own been too well tested. / Speak not now unto Justina / About me; for though full vengeance / I propose to take for being / Thus supplanted and rejected, / Every hope of her being mine / Now has ceased, for shameful were it, / In the face of such proved facts, / To persist in my addresses. / [Exit.