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VALENTINE, ANGELICA, JENNY.
ANGELICA
Well, have you been there?--Come hither.
JENNY
Yes, madam; Sir Sampson will wait upon you presently.
[Aside to ANGELICA.]
VALENTINE
You are not leaving me in this uncertainty?
ANGELICA
Would anything but a madman complain of uncertainty?
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an
insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers
the folly of the chase. Never let us know one another better, for
the pleasure of a masquerade is done when we come to show our faces;
but I'll tell you two things before I leave you: I am not the fool
you take me for; and you are mad and don't know it.
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