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CYPRIAN, MOSCON, and CLARIN.
CYPRIAN [aside]. What is this, O heavens! I hear? / Can it be the two are jealous / Of each other at one time? / And I too of both together? -- / Doubtless from some strange delusion / The two suffer, which I welcome / With a sort of satisfaction, / For to it I am indebted / For the fact of their desisting / From their suit and their pretension. -- / Moscon, have for me by morning / A rich court-suit; sword and feathers, / Clarin, be thy care; for love / In a certain airy splendour / Takes delight; for now no longer / Books or studies give me pleasure; -- / Love they say doth murder mind, / Learning dies when he is present. / [Exeunt.