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Just prior to this scene, Mirabell has been waiting to call on Millamant while Sir Wilfull (slightly drunk) has been talking to the lady. While Millamant’s aunt wants her to marry Sir Wilfull, neither one is interested in such a match. Instead, Millamant and Mirabell are in love, and when the young suitor is finally admitted, Millamant references Phoebus (the sun god who pursued the nymph Daphne). Mirabell finishes the reference to Daphne, and the two coyly banter into a proposal, satirically
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MIRA. Like Daphne she, as lovely and as coy. Do you lock yourself up from me, to make my search more curious? Or is this pretty artifice contrived, to signify that here the chase must end, and my pursuit be crowned, for you can fly no further?
MILLA. Vanity! No—I’ll fly and be followed to the last moment; though I am upon the very verge of matrimony, I expect
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