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If you, my son, should now prevaricate, / / And, to your own particular lusts, employ / / So great and catholic a bliss; be sure / / A curse will follow, yea, and overtake / / Your subtle and most secret ways. / / BEN JONSON.
Whatever passed between Cromwell and the Lady Constantia must remain secret, as neither were of a particularly communicative disposition. Lady Frances, indeed, laboured hard to succeed and comprehend the whole matter, but in vain. She waylaid her friend on her passage from the room of audience, and observed, in a tone and manner that betrayed her anxiety on the subject,