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Chapters (43)
  1. Cover Page
  2. The Witch
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. FURTHER READING
  7. The Witch
  8. [DRAMATIS PERSONAE]
  9. THE WITCH
  10. [Act I,] Scene ii
  11. Act II, Scene i
  12. [Act II,] Scene ii
  13. [Act II,] Scene iii
  14. Act III, Scene i
  15. [Act III,] Scene ii
  16. [Act III,] Scene iii
  17. Act IV, Scene i
  18. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  19. [Act IV,] Scene iii
  20. Act V, Scene i
  21. [Act V,] Scene ii
  22. [Act V,] Scene iii
  23. APPENDIX
  24. In a maiden time profess’d
  25. Come Away, Hecate!
  26. Notes
  27. Thomas Holmes, Esquire
  28. Act I, Scene i
  29. [Act I,] Scene ii
  30. Act II, Scene i
  31. [Act II,] Scene ii
  32. [Act II,] Scene iii
  33. Act III, Scene i
  34. [Act III,] Scene ii
  35. [Act III,] Scene iii
  36. Act IV, Scene i
  37. [Act IV,] Scene ii
  38. Act IV Scene iii
  39. Act V, Scene i
  40. [Act V,] Scene ii
  41. [Act V,] Scene iii
  42. Appendix
  43. Footnotes

Act III, Scene i

Enter DUCHESS leading ALMACHILDES (blindfold)

ALMACHILDES
This’s you that was a maid? How are you born
To deceive men! I’d thought to have married you;
I had been finely handled, had I not?
I’ll say that man is wise ever hereafter
That tries his wife beforehand. ’Tis no marvel 5
You should profess such bashfulness to blind one,
As if you durst not look a man i’th’ face,
Your modesty would blush so. Why do you not run
And tell the duchess now? Go, you should tell all.
Let her know this too. Why here’s the plague now! 10
’Tis hard at first to win ’em; when they’re gotten
There’s no way to be rid on ’em; they stick
To a man like bird-lime. My oath’s out.
Will you release me? I’ll release myself else.
DUCHESS
Nay, sure, I’ll bring you to your sight again. 15

[Removes the blindfold]