To be feduc'd by thy flattery,

That haft deceiv'd fo many with thy vows?
Return, return, and make thy love amends.
For me, by this pale queen of night, I swear,
I am fo far from granting thy request,
That I defpife thee for thy wrongful fuit;
And, by and by, intend to chide myself,
Ev'n for this time I spend in talking to thee.
Pro. I grant, fweet love, that I did love a lady;
But he is dead.

Jul. [afide] T'were falfe, if I should speak it;
For, I am fure, fhe is not buried.

Sil. Say, that fhe be; yet Valentine, thy friend,
Survives; to whom, thyself art witness,
I am betroth'd; and art thou not afham'd
To wrong him with thy importunacy?

Pro. I likewise hear, that Valentine is dead.
Sil. And fo, fuppofe, am I; for in his grave,
Affure thyfelf, my love is buried.

Pro. Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.
Sil. Go to thy lady's grave and call her thence,
Or, at the leaft, in hers fepulchre thine.
Jul. [afide] He heard not that.

Pro. Madam, if that your heart be so obdurate, Vouchfafe me yet your picture for my love, The picture that is hanging in your chamber: To that I'll fpeak, to that I'll figh and weep: For fince the fubftance of your perfect felf Is elfe devoted, I am but a fhadow;

And to your fhadow will I make true love.

Jul. [afide] If 'twere a substance, you would, fure,

deceive it,

And make it but a shadow, as I am.

Sil. I'm very loath to be your idol, Sir;

But fince your falfhood fhall become you well
To worship fhadows, and adore false shapes;
Send to me in the morning, and I'll send it :
And fo, good rest.

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Pro. As wretches have o'er night, That wait for execution in the morn.

[Exeunt Protheus and Silvia.

Jul. Hoft, will you go?

Hoft. By my hallidom, I was fast asleep
Jul. Pray you, where lies Sir Protheus?

Hof. Marry, at my house: trust me, I think, 'tis almost day.

Jul. Not fo; but it hath been the longest night That e'er I watch'd, and the moft heavieft. [Exeunt.

SCENE

Enter Eglamour.

V.

Egl. HIS is the hour that Madam Silvia

know her mind:

There's fome great matter fhe'd employ me in.
Madam, Madam!

Silvia above, at her window.

Sil. who calls?

Egl. Your fervant, and your friend;
One that attends your ladyfhip's command.

Sil. Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow. Egl. As many, worthy lady, to yourself: According to your ladyship's impose,

I am thus early come, to know what service
It is your pleasure to command me in.

Sil. O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman,
(Think not I flatter, for, I fwear, I do not)
Valiant and wife, remorfeful, well accomplish'd;
Thou art not ignorant, what dear good will
I bear unto the banish'd Valentine;

Nor how my father would enforce me marry
Vain Thurio, whom my very foul abhorr'd.
Thyfelf haft lov'd; and I have heard thee say,
No grief did ever come so near thy heart,

As

As when thy lady and thy true love dy'd;
Upon whofe grave thou vow'dst pure chastity.
Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,

To Mantua, where, I hear, he makes abode:
And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,
I do defire thy worthy company;
Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour;
But think upon my grief, a lady's grief;
And on the juftice of my flying hence;
To keep me from a moft unholy match,
Which heav'n and fortune ftill reward with plagues.
I do defire thee, even from a heart

As full of forrows as the fea of fands,
To bear me company, and go with me:
If not, to hide what I have faid to thee,
That I may venture to depart alone.

Egl. Madam, I pity much your grievances; Which, fince, I know, they virtuously are plac'd, I give confent to go along with you;

Recking as little what betideth me,

As much I wish all good befortune you.
When will you go?

Sil. This evening coming,
Egl. Where fhall I meet you?
Sil. At friar Patrick's cell;

Where I intend holy confeffion.

Egl. I will not fail your ladyship:

Good morrow, gentle lady.

Sil. Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.

SCENE VI.

Enter Launce with his Dog.

[Exeunt.

WHEN a man's fervant fhall play the cur with him,

W look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy, one that I fav'd from drowning, when

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three or four of his blind brothers and fifters went to it! I have taught him, even as one would say precisely, thus I would teach a dog. I went to deliver him, as a prefent to mistress Silvia from my mafter; and I came no fooner into the dining-chamber, but he steps me to her trencher, and fteals her capon's leg. Ó, 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one fhould fay, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had no more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily, he had been hang'd for't; fure as I live, he had fuffer'd for't; you fhall judge. He thrufts me himfelf into the company of three or four gentlemenlike dogs, under the Duke's table: he had not been there (blefs the mark) a piffing while, but all the chamber smelt him. Out with the dog, says one; what cur is that? fays another; whip him out, fays the third; hang him up, fays the Duke. I, having been acquainted with the fmell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs; Friend, quoth I, you mean to whip the dog? Ay, marry, do I, quoth he. You do him the more wrong, quoth I; 'twas I did the thing you wot of. He makes no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber. How many mafters would do this for their fervant? nay, I'll be fworn, I have fat in the flocks for the puddings he hath floll'n, otherwise he had been executed; I have ftood on the pillory for the geefe he hath kill'd, otherwife he had fuffer'd for't. Thou think'ft not of this now. Nay, I remember the trick you ferv'd me, when I took my leave of Madam Julia; did not I bid thee ftill mark me, and do as I do? when did'ft thou see me heave up my leg, and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? did'ft thou ever fee me do fuch a trick?

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when I took my leave of Madam Silvia ;] We fhould certainly read Julia, meaning when his Mafter and he left Verona.

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Pro. SEBASTIAN is thy name? I like thee well; And will employ thee in fome fervice prefently. Jul. In what you pleafe: I'll do, Sir, what I can. Pro. I hope, thou wilt--How now, you whorefon peasant,

Where have you been these two days loitering? Laun. Marry, Sir, I carry'd miftrefs Silvia the dog, you bad me.

Pro. And what fays fhe to my little jewel?

Laun. Marry, fhe fays, your dog was a cur; and tells you, currish thanks is good enough for such a prefent.

Pro. But he receiv'd my dog?

Laun. No, indeed, fhe did not: here have I brought him back again.

Pro. What, didft thou offer her this from me?

Laun. Ay, Sir; the other fquirrel was floll'n from me by the hangman's boy in the market-place; and then I offer'd her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater.

Pro. Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again, Or ne'er return again into my fight:

Away, I fay: ftay'ft thou to vex me here? A flave, that, ftill an end, turns me to fhame. [Exit Launce.

Sebaftian, I have entertained thee,

Partly, that I have need of fuch a youth;
That can with fome difcretion do my bufinefs:
(For 'tis no trufting to yon foolish lowt:)
But, chiefly, for thy face and thy behaviour;
Which, if my augury deceive me not,
Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth:
Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee.

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