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I dare not enter into engagements.

Thou shalt not; I will be engaged and thou shalt be free.

That is impossible: we may both change; I cannot injure thee so far.

How injure me? I will be the happier all my life for having loved thee, if I could only once know that I had ever been dear to thee: I would not change such happiness to—to—

To be made Chancellor of England.

Enter behind, and observing them in earnest discourse, coughs loud several times to give them notice of his presence, without effect, and then comes forward.

How very easy it would be to play the eavesdropper at this interesting moment, when things