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Diaphanta is looking for her mistress, Beatrice, now newly married to Alsemero. However, no one knows that Beatrice is no longer a virgin: So that she would be free to marry Alsemero, Beatrice enlisted the help of the servant De Flores to kill her previous fiance. De Flores demanded her virtue as a payment for the deed, and with little recourse, Beatrice submitted to him. Now, Beatrice is worried that Alsemero will learn she is not a virgin, and so uses her maid Diaphanta to test the formulas
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DIAPHANTA Cuds, madam, are you here?
BEATRICE [Aside] Seeing that wench now,
A trick comes in my mind; 'tis a nice piece
Gold cannot purchase.--I come hither, wench,
To look my lord.
DIAPHANTA [Aside] Would I had such a cause
To look him too.--Why, he's i' th' park, madam.
BEATRICE There let him be.
DIAPHANTA Ay, madam, let him
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