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[Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and
other Attendants]
BOYET
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Now mad|am sum|mon up | your dear|est spirits,
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Consid|er who | the king | your fath|er sends,
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To whom | he sends,| and what's | his em|bassy.
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Yourself,| held pre/cious in | the world's |
esteem,
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To par|ley with | the sole | inhe|ritor
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Of all | perfec|tions that | a man | may owe,
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Matchless | Navarre,| the plea | of no less
weight
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Than A|quitaine,| a dow|ry for | a queen.
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Be now | as prod|igal | of all dear grace
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As Na|ture was | in mak|ing gra|ces dear,
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When she | did starve | the gene|ral world |
beside,
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And pro|digal|ly gave | them all | to you.
PRINCESS
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Good* Lord | Boyet,| my beaut|y though | but
mean,
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Needs not the paint|ed flour|ish of | your
praise:
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Beauty | is bought | by judg|ment of | the eye,
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Not ut|tered by / base sale | of chap|men's
tongues:
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I am / less proud | to hear | you tell | my
worth,
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Than you | much wil/ling to | be count|ed wise,
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In spend|ing your | wit in | the praise | of
mine.
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But now | to task | the task|er, good | Boyet,
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You are / not ig|norant,/ all-tel|ling fame
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Doth^noise | abroad,| Navarre | hath made | a
vow,
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Till pain|ful stud|y shall out|wear three years,
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No^wom|an may | approach | his sil|ent court:
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Therefore | to us see|meth it | a need|ful
course,
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Before | we ent|er his | forbid|den gates,
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To know | his pleas|ure, and | in that | behalf
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Bold of | your worth|iness,| we sing|le you
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As our / best-mov|ing fair | soli|citor:
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Tell him | the daught|er of | the King | of
France,
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On ser|ious bus|iness, crav|ing quick | dispatch,
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Importunes | perso|nal confe|rence with | his
grace.
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Haste, sig/nify* | so much | while we | attend,
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Like humble-vis|aged suit|ors his / high will.
BOYET
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Proud of | employ|ment, wil|lingly | I go.
PRINCESS
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All pride is wil|ling pride,| and yours | is so:
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Who are | the vot|aries | my lov|ing lords,
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That are / vow-fel|lows with | this vir|tuous
duke?
FIRST LORD
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Longa|ville is | one.
PRINCESS
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Know you | the man?
MARIA
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I know | him mad|am at | a mar|riage feast,
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Between | Lord Perigort | and the beaut|eous heir
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Of Jaq|ues Falc|onbridge | solem|nized.
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In Nor|mandy | saw I | this Long|aville,
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A man | of sove|reign parts | he is | esteemed:
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Well fit/ted in | arts, glo/rious | in arms:
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Nothing | becomes | him ill | that he | would
well.
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The on|ly soil | of his / fair vir|tue's gloss,
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If vir|tue's gloss | will stain | with an|y soil,
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T . T
Is a / sharp wit | matched with | too blunt a
will:
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Whose edge | hath power | to cut | whose^will |
still* wills,
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It should / none spare | that come | within | his
power.
PRINCESS
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2 ,
Some mer|ry mock|ing lord | belike,| is it so?
MARIA
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They say | so most | that most | his hum|ors
know.
PRINCESS
T T T
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Such short-lived | wits do^|wither | as they
grow.
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Who are | the rest? \\
KATHARINE
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The young | Dumain,| a well-|accomp|lished youth,
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Of all | that vir|tue love,| for vir|tue loved.
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Most^power | to do | most^harm,| least^know|ing
ill:
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For he | hath wit | to make | an^ill shape good,
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And shape | to win | grace though | he had | no
wit.
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I saw | him at | the Duke | Alen|con's once,
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And much | too lit|tle of | that good | I saw,
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Is my | report | to his / great worth|iness.
ROSALINE
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Anoth|er of | these stud|ents at | that time
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Was there | with him,| as I | have heard | a
truth.
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Berowne | they call | him, but | a mer|rier man,
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Within | the lim|it of | becom|ing mirth,
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I nev|er spent | an ho|ur's talk | withal.
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His eye | begets | occa|sion for | his wit,
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For eve|ry ob|ject^that | the one | doth^catch
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The oth|er turns | to a / mirth-mov|ing jest.
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Which^his / fair tongue |(conceit's | expo|sitor)
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Deliv|ers in | such^apt | and gra|cious words,
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That ag|ed ears | play* tru|ant at | his tales,
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And young|er hear|ings are / quite rav|ished;
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So sweet | and vol|uble | is his | discourse.
PRINCESS
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God bless | my lad|ies, are | they all | in love?
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That eve|ry one | her own | hath garn|ished,
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With such | bedeck|ing orn|aments | of praise.
FIRST LORD
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Here comes | Boyet.
PRINCESS
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Now, what | admit|tance lord?
BOYET
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Navarre | had not|ice of | your fair | approach,
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And he | and his | compet|itors | in oath,
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Were all | addressed | to meet | you gentle |
lady
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Before | I came.| Marry | thus much | I have
learnt,
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He rath|er means | to lodge | you in | the field,
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Like^one | that comes | here to | besiege | his
court,
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Than seek | a dis|pensa|tion for | his oath,
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To let | you ent|er his / unpeo|pled house.
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Here comes | Navarre. \\
[Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BEROWNE, and Attendants]
FERDINAND
Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.
PRINCESS
Fair I give you back again, and welcome I have not yet: the roof of this
court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields, too base to
be mine.
FERDINAND
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You shall | be wel|come mad|am to | my court.
PRINCESS
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I will | be wel|come then,| conduct | me
thith||er.
FERDINAND
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Hear | me dear* lad|y, I | have sworn | an oath.
PRINCESS
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Our Lad|y help | my lord,| he'll be | forsworn.
FERDINAND
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T T T
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Not for the | world fair mad|am, by | my will.
PRINCESS
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Why*, will | shall break | it will,| and noth|ing
else.
FERDINAND
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Your lad|yship | is ig|norant what | it is.
PRINCESS
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Were my / lord so,| his ig|norance | were wise,
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Where now | his know|ledge must^/prove
ig|norance.
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I hear | your grace | hath sworn |
out^house|keeping:
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Tis dead|ly sin | to keep | that oath | my lord,
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And sin | to break | it: \\
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But pard|on me.| I am / too sud|den bold,
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To teach | a tea|cher ill | beseem|eth me.
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Vouchsafe to read | the pur|pose of my | coming,
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And sud|denly | resolve | me in | my suit.
FERDINAND
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Madam,| I will,| if sud|denly | I may.
PRINCESS
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You will | the soon|er that | I were | away,
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For you'll | prove perjured | if you make | me
stay.
BEROWNE
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Did not | I dance | with you | in Bra|bant once?
ROSALINE
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Did not | I dance | with you | in Bra|bant once?
BEROWNE
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I know | you did. (pickup)
ROSALINE
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How need|less was it | then to | ask the |
question?
BEROWNE
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You must | not be | so quick. (picked up)
ROSALINE
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'Tis 'long | of you | that spur | me with such |
questions.
BEROWNE
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Your wit's | too hot,| it speeds | too fast,|
'twill tire.
ROSALINE
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Not till | it leave | the rid|er in | the mire.
BEROWNE
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What time | of day? \\
ROSALINE
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The hour | that fools | should ask.|
BEROWNE
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Now fair | befall | your mask.|
ROSALINE
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Fair fall the face | it cov|ers.
BEROWNE
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And send | you man|y lov|ers.
ROSALINE
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Amen,| so you | be none.|
BEROWNE
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Nay then | will I | be gone.|
(tetra with prev five)
FERDINAND
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Madam,| your fath|er here | doth int|imate,
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The pay|ment of | a hund|red thous|and crowns,
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Being but | the one | half, of | an en/tire sum,
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Disburs|ed by | my fath|er in | his wars.
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But say | that he,| or we,| as neith|er have
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Received | that sum;| yet there re|mains unpaid
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A hund|red thous|and more:| in sure|ty of the
which,
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One part of A|quitaine | is bound | to us,
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Although | not val/ued to | the mon|ey's worth.
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If then | the king | your fath|er will | restore
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But^that one half | which^is | unsat|isfied,
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We will | give^up | our right | in A|quitaine,
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And hold | fair friend/ship with | his maj|esty.
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But that | it seems | he lit|tle pur|poseth,
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For here | he doth | demand | to have | repay,
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A hund|red thous|and crowns,| and not | demands
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One pay/ment of | a hund|red thous|and crowns,
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To have | his tit|le live | in A|quitaine.
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Which^we | much^rath|er had | depart | withal,
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And have | the mon|ey by | our fath|er lent
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Than A|quitaine,| so geld|ed as | it is.
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Dear Prin/cess*, were | not his re|quests so far
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From reas|on's yiel|ding, your | fair* self |
should make
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A yiel|ding against | some^reas|on in | my
breast,
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And go well sat|isfied | to France | again.
PRINCESS
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You do | the king | my fath|er too | much^wrong,
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And wrong | the rep|uta|tion of | your name,
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In so | unseem|ing to | confess | receipt
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Of that | which hath | so faith|fully | been
paid.
FERDINAND
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I do | protest | I nev|er heard | of it,
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And if | you prove | it, I'll | repay | it back,
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Or yield | up A|quitaine.
PRINCESS
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We arrest
| your word:
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Boyet,| you can | produce | acquit|tances
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For such | a sum | from spe|cial of|ficers
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Of Charles | his fath|er.
FERDINAND
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Sa|tisfy | me so.
BOYET
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So please | your grace,| the pack|et is / not
come
,
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Where that | and oth|er spec|ialties | are bound,
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Tomor|row you | shall have | a sight | of them.
FERDINAND
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It shall | suffice | me; at | which int|erview,
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All libe|ral reas|on I | will yield | unto:
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Meantime,| receive | such wel|come at | my hand,
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As hon|or, with|out breach | of hon|or may
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Make^tend|er of,| to thy / true worth|iness.
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You may | not come | fair* prin|cess in | my
gates,
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But here | without | you shall | be so |
received,
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, ,
As you | shall deem | yourself | lodged in | my
heart,
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Though so | denied | fair har/bor in | my house:
,
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Your own | good* thoughts | excuse | me, and |
farewell,
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Tomor|row shall | we vis|it you | again.
PRINCESS
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Sweet* health | and fair | desires | consort |
your grace.
FERDINAND
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Thy own | wish^wish | I thee | in eve|ry place.
[Exit]
BEROWNE
Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.
ROSALINE
Pray you do my commendations, I would be glad to see it.
BEROWNE
I would you heard it groan.
ROSALINE
Is the fool sick?
BEROWNE
Sick at the heart.
ROSALINE
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Alack, let | it blood. (these next are
amphibrachic)
BEROWNE
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Would that do | it good?
ROSALINE
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My physic | says Aye.
BEROWNE
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Will || you prick it with | your eye?
ROSALINE
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No* point, with | my knife.
BEROWNE
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,
Now* God | save^thy life. (di with previous
five)
ROSALINE
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And yours | from long | living.
BEROWNE
2 ,
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I cannot | stay thank|sgiving. (tri with
prev)
Retiring
DUMAIN
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Sir I pray | you a word:| what lad|y is that
same?
BOYET
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The heir of | Alencon,| Katharine | her name.
DUMAIN
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A gal|lant lad|y, Mon/sieur fare | you well.
[Exit]
LONGAVILLE
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, ,
I beseech | you a word:| what is she | in the
white?
BOYET
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A woman | sometimes, if | you saw her | in the
light.
LONGAVILLE
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, ,
Perchance^light | in the light.| I desi|re her
name.
BOYET
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She hath but one | for herself,
2
, ,
To desire* that | were a shame.
LONGAVILLE
,
,
Pray you sir,| whose daughter?
BOYET
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Her mother's,| I have heard.
LONGAVILLE
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2 ___
God's blessing | on your beard.
BOYET
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Good* sir be | not offend|ed,
She is an heir of Falconbridge.
LONGAVILLE
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Nay,| my choler | is ended.
2 ,
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She is a / most sweet | lady.
BOYET
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Not unlike | sir, that | may be.
[Exit LONGAVILLE]
BEROWNE
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,
What's her name | in the cap?
BOYET
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Rosaline,| by good hap.
BEROWNE
, ,
Is she wed|ded or no?
BOYET
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To her will | sir, or so.
BEROWNE
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You are wel|come sir, adieu.
BOYET
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Farewell to | me sir,| and welcome | to you.
[Exit BEROWNE]
MARIA
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That last is | Berowne,| the mer|ry mad|cap^lord:
2 , ,
2 ,
Not a word | with him | but a jest.
BOYET
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And eve|ry jest | but a word. (tri with
prev)
PRINCESS
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, ,
It was well | done^of you | to take^him | at his
word.
BOYET
2
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I was as wil|ling to grap|ple as he | was to
board.
MARIA
D D D
D ->
Two hot | sheeps, mar||ry:
BOYET
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And where|fore not ships?
D D
D D 2
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,
No sheep |(sweet lamb)| unless we feed | on your
lips.
MARIA
D D .
D D 2
, ,
You sheep | and I past|ure: shall that fin|ish
the jest?
BOYET
2
, ,
So you grant^pas|ture for me.
[Offering to kiss her]
MARIA
D D Dx D
Not so | gentle beast.
, ,
, 2 __
My lips are | no common,| though several | they
be.
BOYET
, ,
Belonging | to whom?
MARIA
, __
To | my fortunes | and me.
PRINCESS
D D ,
, ,
Good wits | will be jang|ling, but gent|les agree
,
Dx D ,
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This civil | war of wits | were much *bet|ter
used ??
, ,
, ,
On Navarre | and his book|men*, for here |'tis
abused.
BOYET
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, Dx D
If my obs|ervation |(which very | seldom lies,
,
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By the heart's | still^rheto|ric disclos|ed with
eyes)
, D D
, ,
Deceive me | not now,| Navarre is | infected.
PRINCESS
With what?
BOYET
,
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With that which | we lovers | entitle | affected.
PRINCESS
Your reason?
BOYET
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Why all his | behaviors | did make their | retire
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To || the court of his | eye, peep|ing thorough
| desire.
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His heart like^|an agate | with your
print^|impressed,
,
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D ___
Proud with his | form, in his | eye pride |
expressed:
,
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D D
His tongue all | impatient | to speak and | not
see,
,
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Did stumble | with haste in | his eyesight^|to
be;
, . D D
, __
All senses | to that sense | did make their |
repair,
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, __
To feel on|ly looking | on fairest | of fair:
. D D
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Methought all | his senses | were locked in | his
eye,
,
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D ___
As jewels | in crystal | for some prince | to
buy.
, 2
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___
Who tendering | their own worth*| from where they
| were glassed,
,
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Did point you | to buy them | along as | you
passed.
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, ,
His face's | own margent | did quote such |
amazes
, ,
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That all eyes^|saw his eyes^|enchanted | with
gazes.
, D
. D , ___
I'll give^you | Aquitaine,| and all that | is
his,
,
, , Dx
D
And you give | him for my | sake^but one | loving
kiss.
PRINCESS
, ,
, __
Come to our | pavilion,| Boyet is | disposed.
BOYET
,
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,
But^to speak | that in words | which^his eye |
hath disclosed.
,
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I only | have made | a mouth of | his eye,
, ,
, , ,
By adding | a tongue which^|I know will | not
lie.
ROSALINE
2 , D D
, D Dx
Thou art an old | love-mong|er, and speakst |
skilfully.
MARIA
2 , D
D , D . D
He is Cupid's | grandfath|er and learns | news of
him.
ROSALINE
x D . D
2 , 2 ,
Then was Venus | like her moth|er, for her
fath|er is but grim. ??
BOYET
, ,
Do you hear,| my mad^wench|es?
MARIA
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No.
BOYET
D D ,
What then,| do you see?
ROSALINE
___ D D
,
Aye,| our way | to be gone.
BOYET
,
D . D
You are too | hard for me.
[Exeunt]