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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...shortly of his land. Millisent. Treason to my heart's truest sovereign: How soon is love smothered in foggy gain! Aside. Dorcas. But how shall we prevent this dangerous match? Clare. I have a plot, a trick, and this it is. Under this colour I'll break off the match; I'll tell the knight, that now my mind is chang'd For marrying of my daughter; for I intend To send her unto 10 Cheston nunnery. Millisent. O me accurst! Clare. There to become a most religious nun. Millisent. I'll first be buried quick. Clare. To spend her beauty 'in most private prayers. Millisent. I'll sooner be a sinner in forsaking Mother and father. Clare. How dost like my plot? Dorcas. Exceeding well: but is it your intent She shall continue there? Clare. Continue there? ha, ha, that were a jest: You know a virgin may continue there A twelve-month and a day, only on trial. There shall my daughter sojourn some three months, Qy. if we ought not to read " A Turky-merchant." C. 10 Cheston nunnery. At Cheshunt there was a Benedictine nunnery dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was founded before the year 1183, and augmented with lands and tenements of the Canons of Cathale, in the twenty-fourth year of King Henry the Third: but yet upon the general dissolution it was valued only at 14/. Is. per Ann. See England illustrated, 4to. 1764. vol. I. p. 818. And in mean time I'll compass a fair match 'Twixt youthful Jerningham, the lusty heir Of sir Ralph Jerningham, dwelling in the forest. I think they'll both come hither with Mounchensey. Dorcas. Your care argues the love you bear our child; I will subscribe to any thing you'll have me., Exeunt Sir Arthur and Dorcas Millisent. You will subscribe to it?--good, good,t 'tis well; Love hath two chairs of state, heaven and hell....