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How sister? What, already upon business? (observing the countenance of the Duchess) And business of no pleasing kind I see, Ere he has gladden'd at his child. The first Moment belongs to joy. Here, Friedland! father! This is thy daughter.

Yes; pure and lovely hath hope risen on me: I take her as the pledge of greater fortune.

'Twas but a little child when you departed To raise up that great army for the Emperor: And after, at the close of the campaign, When you return'd home out of Pomerania, Your daughter was already in the convent, Wherein she has remain'd till now. Rh