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The same. The DUKE'S palace.
[Enter PROTEUS]
PROTEUS
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To leave | my Jul|ia; shall | I be | forsworn?
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To love | fair* Silv|ia; shall | I be | forsworn?
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To wrong | my friend,| I shall | be much |
forsworn.
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And eene | that power | which gave | me first |
my oath
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Provokes | me to this | threefold per|jury.
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Love bade me swear,| and Love | bids me forswear;
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O sweet-|sugges|ting Love,| if thou | hast
sinned,
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Teach me |(thy tempt|ed sub|ject) to ex|cuse it.
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At first | I did | adore | a twink|ling star,
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But now | I worsh|ip a | celest|ial sun:
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Unheed|ful vows | may* heed|fully be | broken,
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And he | wants^wit,| that wants | resolv|ed will,
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To learn | his wit,| to exchange | the bad | for
better;
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Fie*, fie,| unreve|rend tongue,| to call | her
bad,
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Whose sove|reignty | so oft | thou hast |
preferred,
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With twen|ty thous|and soul-|confirm|ing oaths,
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I can|not leave | to love;| and yet | I do:
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But there | I leave | to love,| where^I | should
love.
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Julia | I lose,| and Val|entine | I lose,
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If I | keep them,| I needs | must lose | myself;
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If I | lose them,| thus find | I by | their loss,
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For Val|entine,| myself:| for Jul|ia, Sil||via.
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I | to myself | am dear|er than | a friend,
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For love | is still | most pre|cious in | itself,
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And Silv|ia (wit|ness Heaven | that made | her
fair)
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Shows^Jul|ia but | a swarth|y Eth|iope.
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I will | forget | that Jul|ia is | alive,
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Remem|bering that | my love | to her | is dead.
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And Val|entine | I'll hold | an en|emy,
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Aiming | at Silv|ia as | a sweet|er friend.
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I can|not now | prove const|ant to | myself,
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Without | some treach|ery used | to Val|entine.
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This night | he mean|eth with | a cord|ed
ladder
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To climb | celest|ial Silv|ia's chamb|er wind||ow,
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Myself | in couns|el his | compet|itor.
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Now pres|ently | I'll give | her fath|er not||ice
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Of their | disguis|ing and | pretend|ed flight:
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Who^(all | enraged)| will ban|ish Val|entine:
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For Thur|io | he in|tends shall | wed his |
daughter, (hex with after)
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But Val|entine | being gone,| I'll quick|ly cross
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By some sly trick,| blunt Thur/io's | dull
pro|ceeding. (hex with prev)
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Love lend me wings,| to make | my pur|pose
swift
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As thou | hast lent | me wit,| to plot | this
drift.
[Exit]