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Florence. The Widow's house.
[Enter BERTRAM and DIANA]
BERTRAM
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They told | me that | your name | was Font|ibell.
DIANA
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No my | good lord,| Diana.
BERTRAM
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Titled | goddess,
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And worth | it with | addi|tion: But / fair soul,
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In your fine frame | hath love | no quality?
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If quick | fire of | youth light not | your mind,
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You are | no maid/en but | a mon|ument
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When you | are dead | you should | be such | a
one
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As you | are now:| for you | are cold | and
stern,
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And now | you should | be as | your moth|er was
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When your / sweet self | was got.
DIANA
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She then | was hon||est.
BERTRAM
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So | should you | be.
DIANA
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No: \\
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My moth|er did | but du|ty, such |(my lord)
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As you | owe to | your wife.
BERTRAM
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No more | of that:
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I prith|ee do | not strive | against | my vows:
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I was | compelled | to her,| but I / love thee
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By love's own sweet | constraint,| and will |
forever
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Do thee all | rights of | service.
DIANA
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Aye* so | you serve us
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Till we | serve^you:| but when | you have | our
roses,
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You bare|ly leave | our thorns | to prick |
ourselves,
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And mock | us with | our bare|ness.
BERTRAM
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How | have I sworn.
DIANA
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'Tis not | the man|y oaths | that makes | the
truth,
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But the / plain sing|le vow,| that is / vowed
true:
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What is not | holy,| that we | swear not by,
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But take the Highst to witness: then pray you
tell me, ????
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If I | should swear | by God's | great
attributes,
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I loved | you dear|ly, would | you believe | my
oaths,
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When I | did love | you ill?| This has | no
hold||ing
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To swear | by him | whom^I | protest | to love
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That I | will work | against him.|
Therefore^|your oaths
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Are words | and poor | condit|ions, but /
unsealed
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At least | in my | opin|ion.
BERTRAM
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Change it,| change it:
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Be not | so ho|ly cruel:| love is | holy,
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And my | integ|rity / nere knew | the crafts
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That you | do charge | men with:| Stand^no | more off,
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But give | thyself | unto | my sick | desires,
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Who then | recov|ers. Say | thou art mine,| and
ever
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My love | as it | begins,| shall so | persever.
DIANA
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I see | that men | make ropes in such | a scarre,
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That we'll | forsake | ourselves.| Give me | that
ring.
BERTRAM
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I'll lend | it thee | my dear;| but have | no
power
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To give | it from | me.
DIANA
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Will | you not | my lord?
BERTRAM
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It is | an hon|or long|ing to | our house,
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Bequeath|ed down | from man|y an|cestors,
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Which were | the great|est ob|loquy | in the
world,
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In me | to lose.
DIANA
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Mine^hon|or's such | a ring,
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My chast|ity's | the jew|el of | our house,
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Bequeath|ed down | from man|y an|cestors,
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Which were | the great|est ob|loquy | in the
world,
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In me | to lose.| Thus your own^|proper | wisdom
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Brings in | the champ|ion Hon|or on | my part,
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Against | your vain | assault.
BERTRAM
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Here, take my ring, ??
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My house,| mine^hon|or, yea | my life | be thine,
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And I'll | be bid | by thee. \\
DIANA
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When mid|night comes,| knock at my | chamber |
window:
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I'll ord|er take,| my moth|er shall / not hear.
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Now will | I charge | you in | the band | of
truth,
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When you | have conq|uered my / yet maid|en bed,
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Remain | there but | an hour,| nor speak | to me:
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My reas|ons are most | strong, and | you shall |
know them,
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When back | again this | ring shall | be
de|livered:
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And on | your fing|er in | the night,| I'll put
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Anoth|er ring,| that what | in time | proceeds,
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May tok|en to | the fut|ure, our / past deeds.
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Adieu | till then,| then fail | not: You | have
won
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A wife | of me,| though there | my hope | be
done.
BERTRAM
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A heaven | on earth | I have won | by woo|ing
thee.
[Exit]
DIANA
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For which,| live long to thank | both^heaven |
and me!
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You may | so in | the end. \\
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My moth|er told | me just | how he | would woo,
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As if | she sat | in his heart.| She says,| all*
men
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Have the / like oaths:| he had sworn | to mar|ry
me
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When his / wife's dead:| therefore | I'll lie |
with him
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When I | am buried.| Since^French|men are / so
braid,
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Marry | that will,| I live | and die | a maid:
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Only in | this dis|guise, I | think it no sin,
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To coz|en him | that would | unjust|ly win.
[Exit]