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Annabella and Soranzo are newly married, and at their wedding feast, Soranzo’s former lover Hippolita curses their marriage, charging that Annabella birth “monsters” and Soranzo “father bastards.” Following this spectacle (and Hippolita’s death), Soranzo attacks Annabella, demanding to know if she has been faithful to him. Unknown to Soranzo before he married her, Annabella had an affair with her own brother Giovanni, and is indeed pregnant by him. However, while she admits to being pregnant,
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SORANZO Come, strumpet, famous whore! Were every drop
Of blood that runs in thy adulterous veins
A life, this sword (dost see't?) should in one blow
Confound them all. Harlot, rare, notable harlot,
That with thy brazen face maintainst thy sin,
Was there no man in Parma to be bawd
To your loose cunning whoredom else but I?
Must your hot itch and
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