Cur. Here’s Gold for thee; I will be secret too.

Guil. Oh, Sir, the poor Maid you speak of is dead.

Cur. Dead! where dy’d she? and how?

Guil. Now am I put to my wits; this ’tis to begin

In Sin, as our Curate said: I must go on: Aside.

—Why, Sir, she came into the Wood—and hard by a

River-side—she sigh’d, and she wept full sore;

And cry’d two or three times out upon Curtius,

—And—then— Howls.

Cur. Poor Cloris, thy Fate was too severe.