Is she kind, as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: To help him of his blindness; Then to Silvia let us sing, Host. How now? are you sadder than you were How do you, man? the music likes you not. Jul. He plays false, father. Host. How? out of tune on the strings? And by and by intend to chide myself, Jul. 'Twere false, if I should speak it. I am betroth'd: And art thou not asham'd Pro. I likewise hear, that Valentine is dead. Pro. Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth. [Aside. Pro. Madam, if your heart be so obdúrate, Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love, Jul. Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my The picture that is hanging in your chamber; very heart-strings. Host. You have a quick ear. Jul. Ay, I would I were deaf! it makes me have a slow heart. Host. I perceive, you delight not in music. Jul. I would always have one play but one But, host, doth this sir Proteus, that we talk on, Host. I tell you what Launce, his man, told me, he loved her out of all nick.' Jul. Where is Launce? Host. Gone to seek his dog; which, to-morrow, by his master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady. Jul. Peace! stand aside! the company parts. Pro. At saint Gregory's well. [Exeunt Thurio and Musicians. Silvia appears above, at her window. Pro. Madam, good even to your ladyship. Sil. I thank you for your music, gentlemen: Who is that, that spake? Pro. One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's You'd quickly learn to know him by his voice. Pro. Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant. Pro. That I may compass yours. To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep; And make it but a shadow, as I am. Aside. Sil. I am very loth to be your idol, sir; Pro. [Exeunt Proteus; and Silvia, from above. Jul. Host, will you go? Host. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Jul. Not so; but it hath been the longest night [Exeunt. Egl. As many, worthy lady, to yourself. Sil. You have your wish; my will is even this,-It is your pleasure to command me in. Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man! That hast deceiv'd so many with thy vows? (1) Beyond all reckoning. Sil. O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman (3) Injunction, command. (4) Pitiful Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity. Which heaven and fortune still reward with I do desire thee, even from a heart As full of sorrows as the sea of sands, To bear me company, and go with me: That I may venture to depart alone. Egl. Madam, I pity much your grievances, As much I wish all good befortune you. Sil. This evening coming. At friar Patrick's cell, Egl. Where shall I meet you? Sil. Good-morrow, kind sir Eglamour. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-The same. Enter Launce, with his dog. served me, when I took my leave of madam Silvia did not I bia thee still mark me, and do as I do? When didst thou see me heave up my leg, and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst thou ever see me do such a trick? Enter Proteus and Julia. Pro. Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well, And will employ thee in some service presently. Jul. In what you please ;-I will do what I can. Pro. I hope, thou wilt.-How now, you whoreson peasant? (To Launce. Where have you been these two days loitering? Laun. Marry, sir, I carried mistress Silvia the dog you bade me. Pro. And what says she, to my little jewel? Laun. Marry, she says, your dog was a cur; and tells you, currish thanks is good enough for such a present. Pro. But she received my dog? Laun. No, indeed, she did not: here have I brought him back again. Pro. What, didst thou offer her this from me? Laun. Ay, sir; the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the marketplace: and then I offer'd her mine own; who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater. 3 She loved me well, delivered it to me. token: Pro. Not so; I think, ne uves. Pro. Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again, Or ne'er return again unto my sight. Away, I say: Stay'st thou to vex me here? A slave, that, still an end, turns me to shame. [Exit Launce. Sebastian, I have entertained thee, When a man's servant shall play the cur with Partly, that I have need of such a youth, That can with some discretion do my business, him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up For 'tis no trusting to yon foolish lowt: of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when But chiefly, for thy face, and thy behaviour; three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went Which (if my augury deceive me not) to it! I have taught him-even as one would say Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth: precisely, Thus I would teach a dog. I was sent Therefore know thou, for this I entertai". thee to deliver him, as a present to mistress Silvia, from Go presently, and take this ring with thee, my master; and I came no sooner into the dining Deliver it to madam Silvia: chamber, but he steps me to her trencher, and steals her capon's leg. O'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one should say, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I live, he had suffered for't: you shall judge. He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentlemenlike dogs, under the duke's table: he had not been there (bless the mark) a pissing while; but all the As you do love your lady Silvia: chamber smelt him. Out with the dog, says one; She dreams on him, that has forgot her love; What cur is that? says another; Whip him out, You dote on her, that cares not for your love. says the third; Hang him up, says the duke. I,Tis pity, love should be so contrary; having been acquainted with the smell before, And thinking on it makes me cry, alas! knew it was Crab; and goes me to the fellow that Pro. Well, give her that ring, and therewithal whips the dogs: Friend, quoth I, you mean to This letter;-that's her chamber.-Tell my lady, whip the dog? Ay, marry, do I, quoth he. You I claim the promise for her heavenly picture. do him the more wrong, quoth I; 'twas I did the Your message done, hie home unto my chamber, thing you wot of. He makes me no more ado, Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary. but whips me out of the chamber. How many masters would do this for their servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the stocks for puddings he nath stolen, otherwise he had been executed: have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed. otherwise he had suffered for: thou think'st not of this now!--Nay I remember the trick you (1) Caring. (2) Restrain. (3) In the end. Fro. Why dost thy cry, alas! [Exit Proteus This ring I gave him, when he parted from me, To praise his faith, which I would have dísprais'd. Enter Silvia, attended. Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean Jul. From my master, sir Proteus, madam. Sil. Ursula, bring my picture there. [Picture brought. Gio, give your master this: tell him from me, One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget, Would better fit his chamber, than this shadow. Jul. Madam, please you peruse this letter.Pardon me, madam; I have unadvis'd Delivered you a paper that I should not; This is the letter to your ladyship. Sil. I pray thee, let me look on that again. I will not look upon your master's lines: Jul. Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. Sil. What say'st thou? Jul. I thank you, madam, that you tender her: As if the garment had been made for me: I Sil. She is beholden to thee, gentle youth!— Alas, poor lady! desolate and left!— weep myself, to think upon thy words. Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lov'st her Farewell. [Exit Silvia. Jul. And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her. A virtuous gentlewoman, mild, and beautiful. I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes, ACT V. Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much. SCENE I.-The same. An abbey. Sil. Dost thou know her? Jul. Almost as well as I do know myself: To think upon her woes, I do protest, Sil. Belike, she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her. Jul. I think she doth, and that's her cause of Eglamour. Ente, Pro. O, sir, I find her milder than she was; Thu. I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat Pro. But love will not be spurr'd to what 't loaths. Thu. What says she to my face? Pro. She says, it is a fair one. Thu. Nay, then the wanton lies; my face is black. Pro. But pearls are fair; and the old saying is, Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. Jul. 'Tis true; such pearls as put out ladies' eyes; For I had rather wink than look on them. [Aside. Pro. Ill, when you talk of war. Thu. But well, when I discourse of love, and peace? Jul. But better, indeed, when you hold your peace. [Aside. Thu. What says she to my valour? Thu. What says she to my birth? Jul. True; from a gentleman to a fool. Thu. Wherefore? Be patient, we must bring you to our captain. 1 Out. Where is the gentleman that was with 3 Out. Being nimble-footed, he hath out-run us, But Moyses, and Valerius, follow him. Go thou with her to the west end of the wood, 1 Out. Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave: Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another part of the Forest. Val. How use doth breed a habit in a man Jul. That such an ass should owe1 them. [Aside. What halloing, and what stir, is this to-day? And Eglamour is in her company. 'Tis true; for friar Laurence met them both, These are my mates, that make their wills their law, Have some unhappy passenger in chace: Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia. (Though you respect not aught your servant doth,) Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look; Pro. Unhappy, were you, madam, ere I came ; happy. Jul. And me, when he approacheth to your At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not: 1) Own. (2) Foolish. (3) Careless. The Sil. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, Pro. What dangerous action, stood it next t death, Would I not undergo for one calm look? O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approv'd,' Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love, Pro. How! Julia! Jul. Behold her that gave amm2 to all thy oaths, For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy Be thou asham'd, that I have took upon me eye Could have persuaded me: Now I dare not say I am sorry, I must never trust thee more, Val. Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas'd; Pro. Look to the boy. [Faints. Val. Why, boy! why, wag! how now? what is the matter? Look up; speak. O good sir, my master charg'd me To deliver a ring to madam Silvia ; Which, out of my neglect, was never done. Pro. Where is that ring, boy? Jul. Here 'tis: this is it. [Gives a ring. Pro. How! let me see: Why this is the ring I gave to Julia. Jd. O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook; This is the ring you sent to Silvia. [Shows another ring. Pro. But, how cam'st thou by this ring? at my depart, gave this unto Julia. Jul. And Julia herself did give it me; And Julia herself hath brought it hither. (1) Felt, experienced. (2) Direction. (3) An allusion to cleaving the pin in archery. Such an immodest raiment; if shame live It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, Women to change their shapes, than men their minds. Pro. Than men their minds? 'tis true: 0 heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect: that one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins: Inconstancy falls off, ere it begins: Val. Come, come, a hand from either: ever. Jul. And I have mine. Enter Out-laws, with Duke and Thurio. Out. A prize, a prize, a prize Val. Forbear, I say; It is my lord the duke. Your grace is welcome to a man disgrac'd, Banish'd Valentine. Come not within the measure of my wrath: I claim her not, and therefore she is thine. I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine, |