These private Shades are ours, no jealous Eye

Can interrupt our Heaven of Joy.

Cleo. What mean you? do you know I am your Sister?

Silv. Oh that accursed Name!—why should it check me? [He pauses.

Wouldst thou had rather been some mis-begotten Monster,

That might have startled Nature at thy Birth:

Or if the Powers above would have thee fair,

Why wert thou born my Sister?

Oh, if thou shouldst preserve thy Soul, and mine,

Fly from this Place and me; make haste away,