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The same. Garden of JULIA's house.
[Enter JULlA and LUCETTA]
JULIA
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But say | Lucet|ta (now | we are | alone)
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Wouldst^thou | then couns|el me | to fall | in
love?
LUCETTA
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Aye mad/am, so you | stumble | not un|heedfully.
JULIA
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Of all | the fair | resort | of gent|lemen,
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That eve|ry day | with parle | encount|er me,
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In thy | opin|ion which | is worth|iest love?
LUCETTA
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Please you | repeat | their names,| I'll show |
my mind,
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accord|ing to | my shal|low simp|le skill.
JULIA
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What thinkst | thou of | the fair | Sir
Eg|lamour?
LUCETTA
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As of a | knight, well-spok|en, neat,| and fine;
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But were | I you,| he nev|er should | be mine.
JULIA
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What thinkst | thou of | the rich | Merca|tio?
LUCETTA
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Well of | his wealth;| but of him|self, so so.
JULIA
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What thinkst | thou of | the gent|le Prot|eus?
LUCETTA
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Lord, Lord: to see | what fol|ly reigns | in us.
JULIA
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How now?| What means | this pas|sion at | his
name?
LUCETTA
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Pardon | dear* mad|am, 'tis | a pas|sing shame,
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That I |(unworth|y bo|dy as | I am)
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Should cens|ure thus | on love|ly gent|lemen.
JULIA
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Why not | on Prot|eus, as | of all | the rest?
LUCETTA
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Then thus:| of ma|ny good,| I think | him best.
JULIA
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Your reason?
LUCETTA
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have | no oth|er but a wom|an's reason:
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I think | him so,| because | I think | him so.
JULIA
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And wouldst | thou have | me cast | my love | on
him?
LUCETTA
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Aye: if | you thought | your love | not cast |
away.
JULIA
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Why he,| of all | the rest,| hath nev|er moved ||
me.
LUCETTA
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Yet he,| of all | the rest,| I think | best loves
|| ye.
JULIA
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His lit|tle speak|ing, shows | his love | but
small.
LUCETTA
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Fire that's | closest | kept, burns most | of all.
JULIA
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They do | not love,| that do | not show | their
love.
LUCETTA
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Oh, they | love^least,| that let | men know |
their love.
JULIA
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I would | I knew | his mind.
LUCETTA
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Peruse | this pap|er madam.
JULIA
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To Jul|ia: say,| from whom?
LUCETTA
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That the | contents*| will show.
JULIA
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Say*, say:| who gave | it thee? (tri with
prev)
LUCETTA
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Sir Val|entine's | page: and | sent I | think from
| Proteus;
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He would | have given | it you,| but I | being in
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way,
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Did in | your name | receive it:| pardon | the fault
| I pray. (hex with prev)
JULIA
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Now (by | my mod|esty)| a good|ly brok||er:
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Dare | you presume | to har|bor want|on lines?
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To whis|per and | conspire | against | my youth?
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Now trust | me, 'tis | an of|fice of / great
worth,
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And you | an of|ficer | fit for | the place:
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There: take the pap|er: see | it be | returned,
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Or else | return | no more in|to my sight.
LUCETTA
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To plead | for love,| deserves | more fee,| than
hate.
JULIA
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Will ye | be gone?
LUCETTA
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That you | may rum|inate.
[Exit]
JULIA
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And yet | I would | I had | orelooked | the
letter;
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It were | a shame | to call | her back | again,
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And pray | her to a | fault, for | which I | chid
her.
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What a fool | is she,| that knows | I am | a
maid,
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And would | not force | the let|ter to | my view?
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Since^maids,| in mod|esty,| say no,| to that,
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Which they | would have | the prof|ferer
con/strue, aye.
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Fie, fie: how | wayward | is this fool|ish love;
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That (like a tes|ty babe)| will scratch | the
nurse,
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And pres|ently,/ all hum|bled kiss | the rod?
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How churl|ishly,| I chid | Lucet|ta hence,
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When wil|lingly,| I would | have had | her here?
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How ang|erly | I taught | my brow | to frown,
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When in|ward joy | enforced | my heart | to
smile?
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My pen|ance is,| to call | Lucet|ta back
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And ask | remis|sion, for | my fol|ly past.
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What ho:| Lucet|ta.
LUCETTA
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What | would your lad|yship?
JULIA
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Is it / near din|ner time?
LUCETTA
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I would | it were,
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That you | might kill | your stom|ach on | your
meat,
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And not | upon | your maid.
JULIA
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What is it | that you
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Took^up | so gin|gerly?
LUCETTA
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| Nothing.
JULIA
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Why didst | thou stoop | then? \\
LUCETTA
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To take | a pap|er up,| that I | let fall.
JULIA
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And is | that pap|er noth|ing? \\
LUCETTA
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Nothing | concer|ning me. \\
JULIA
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Then let | it lie,| for those | that it |
concerns.
LUCETTA
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Madam,| it will | not lie | where it | concerns,
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Unless | it have | a false | interp|reter.
JULIA
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Some love | of yours,| hath writ | to you | in
rhyme.
LUCETTA
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That I | might sing | it (mad|am) to | a tune:
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Give me | a note,| your lad|yship | can set.
JULIA
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As little | by such^toys,| as may | be pos|sible:
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Best sing / it to | the tune | of Light | of
love.
LUCETTA
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It is / too hea|vy for / so light | a tune.
JULIA
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Heavy?| Belike | it hath | some burd|en then?
LUCETTA
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Aye: and | melod|ious were | it, would / you sing
it.
JULIA
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And why | not you?
LUCETTA
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I can|not reach | so high.
JULIA
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Let's see | your song:
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How now | minion? (di with prev)
LUCETTA
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Keep* tune | there* still,| so you | will sing |
it out:
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And yet | methinks | I do | not like | this tune.
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You do | not?
LUCETTA
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No (mad|am)| 'tis | too sharp.
JULIA
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You (min/ion) are | too saucy.|
LUCETTA
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Nay,| now you | are too | flat;|
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And mar | the concord, with too harsh a descant:
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There want|eth but | a mean | to fill | your
song.
JULIA
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The mean | is drowned | with your | unru|ly bass.
LUCETTA
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Indeed | I bid | the base | for Prot|eus.
JULIA
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This bab|ble shall | not hence|forth troub/le me;
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Here is | a coil | with prot|esta|tion:
[Tears the letter]
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Go,|| get you | gone: and | let the | papers |
lie:
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You would | be fing|ering them,| to ang|er me.
LUCETTA
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She makes | it strange,| but she | would be /
best pleased
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To be so | angered | with a|nother | letter.
[Exit]
JULIA
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Nay* would | I were | so^ang|ered with | the
same:
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O hate|ful hands,| to tear | such lov|ing words;
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Injur|ious wasps,| to feed | on such | sweet*
hon||ey,
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And kill | the bees | that yield | it, with |
your stings;
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I'll kiss | each seve|ral pap|er, for | amends.
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Look, here is writ, kind Julia: Unkind
Julia, ????
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As in | revenge | of thy | ingrat|itude,
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I throw | thy name | against | the bruis|ing
stones,
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Trampling | contemp|tuously | on thy | disdain.
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And here | is writ,| love-wounded Prot|eus.
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Poor wounded name:| my bosom, as | a bed,
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Shall lodge | thee till | thy wound | be
thor|oughly healed;
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And thus | I search | it with | a sove|reign
kiss.
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But twice,| or thrice,| was Prot|eus writ|ten
down:
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Be calm |(good* wind)| blow not a word | away,
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Till I have | found each^|letter,| in the |
letter,
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Except | mine^own / name: that,| some whirl|wind^bear
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Unto | a rag|ged, fear|ful, hang|ing rock,
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And throw | it thence | into | the rag|ing sea.
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Lo, here in one | line is his | name twice
writ:
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Poor for|lorn Prot/eus,| passionate | Proteus:
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To the / sweet Jul|ia: that | I'll tear | away:
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And yet | I will / not, sith | so pret|tily
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He coup|les it,| to his | complain|ing names;
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Thus will I | fold them,| one u|pon a|nother;
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Now kiss,| embrace,| contend,| do what | you
will.
[Enter LUCETTA]
LUCETTA
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Madam:| dinner | is rea|dy: | and
your || father | stays.
JULIA
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Well, let | us go.
LUCETTA
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What,|| shall these | papers | lie, like |
tell-tales here?
JULIA
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If you | respect | them; best | to take | them
up.
LUCETTA
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Nay, I | was taken | up, for | laying | them down.
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Yet here | they shall | not lie,| for catch|ing
cold.
JULIA
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I see | you have | a month's | mind to them.
LUCETTA
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Aye (mad/am) you | may say | what sights | you
see;
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I see | things^too,| although | you judge | I
wink.
JULIA
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Come, come, wilt | please you go.|
[Exeunt]