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Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore.
[Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE]
DIONYZA
Thy oath remember, thou hast sworn to do it:
'tis but a blow, which never shall be known,
Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon, to yield thee so much
profit. Let not conscience which is but cold, inflaming love in thy bosom,
inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which even women have cast off, melt thee,
but be a soldier to thy purpose.
LEONINE
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I will do it,| but yet | she is a | goodly |
creature.
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The fit|ter then | the gods | should have | her.
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Here || she comes | weeping | for her on|ly
mist|ress' death:
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Thou art | resolved?
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I am | resolved.|
[Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers]
MARINA
No: I will rob Tellus of her weed, to strew thy green with flowers: the
yellows, blues, the purple violets and marigolds, shall as a carpet hang
upon thy grave, while summer days do last. Aye me, poor maid, born in a
tempest, when my mother died: this world to me is like a lasting storm,
hurrying me from my friends.
DIONYZA
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How now,| Marin|a? Why | do you weep | alone?
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How chance my | daughter | is not | with you?
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Do not | consume | your blood | with sor|rowing,
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You have | a nurse | of me.| Lord? How your |
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Changed, with | this un|profi|table | woe:
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Come || give me | your flow|ers, ere | the sea
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Walk with | Leo|nine, the | air is quick there,
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And it pierc/es and | sharpens | the stom|ach;
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Come,|| Leo|nine, take / her by | the arm,|
walk with her.
MARINA
No I pray you, I'll not bereave you of your servant.
DIONYZA
Come, come, I love the king your father, and yourself, with more than
foreign heart; We every day expect him here, when he shall come and find our
paragon, to all reports thus blasted. He will repent the breadth of his
great voyage, blame both my lord and me, that we have taken no care to your
best courses. Go I pray you, walk and be cheerful once again; reserve that
excellent complexion, which did steal the eyes of young and old. Care not
for me, I can go home alone.
MARINA
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Well, I will | go, but | yet I have | no de|sire
to it.
DIONYZA
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Come,| come,| I know |'tis good | for you:
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Walk half an hour,| Leo|nine, at | the least.
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Remem|ber what | I have | said.|
LEONINE
I warrant you, madam.
DIONYZA
I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while: pray walk softly, do not heat
your blood: What, I must have a care of you.
MARINA
My thanks, sweet madam. Is this wind westerly that blows?
LEONINE
Southwest.
MARINA
When I was born, the wind was north.
LEONINE
Was it so?
MARINA
My father, as nurse said, did never fear, but cried good seaman to the
sailors, galling his kingly hands, haling ropes, and clasping to the mast,
endured a sea that almost burst the deck.
LEONINE
When was this?
MARINA
When I was born, never was waves nor wind more violent, And from the ladder
tackle, washes off a canvas-climber, ha, faith one, wilt out? and with a
dropping industry they skip From stern to stem: the boatswain whistles, and
the master calls and trebles their confusion.
LEONINE
Come, say your prayers.
MARINA
What mean you?
LEONINE
If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it, pray, but be not
tedious, for the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn to do my work with
haste.
MARINA
Why, will you kill me?
LEONINE
To satisfy my lady.
MARINA
Why would she have me killed now? As I can remember by my troth, I never did
her hurt in all my life, I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn to any
living creature: believe me now, I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly. I
trod upon a worm once against my will, but I wept for it. How have I
offended, wherein my death might yield her any profit, or my life imply her
any danger?
LEONINE
My commission is not to reason of the deed, but do it.
MARINA
You will not do it for all the world, I hope: you are well favored, and your
looks foreshow you have a gentle heart, I saw you lately when you caught
hurt in parting two that fought: good sooth it showed well in you, do so
now, your lady seeks my life, come you between, and save poor me the weaker.
LEONINE
I am sworn, and will dispatch.
[Enter Pirates]
FIRST PIRATE
Hold villain.
[LEONINE runs away]
SECOND PIRATE
A prize, a prize.
THIRD PIRATE
Half-part mates, half-part. Come let's have her aboard suddenly.
[Exeunt Pirates with MARINA. Enter LEONINE]
LEONINE
These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes, and they have seized
Marina, let her go, there's no hope she will return: I'll swear she's dead,
and thrown into the sea, but I'll see further, perhaps they will but please
themselves upon her, not carry her aboard, if she remain, whom they have
ravished, must by me be slain.
[Exit]