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Verona. JULIA'S house.
[Enter JULIA and LUCETTA]
JULIA
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Counsel,^Lu|cetta,| gentle | girl as|sist me,
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And eene | in kind love, I | do con|jure thee,
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Who art | the tab|le where|in all | my thoughts
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Are vis|ibly | charac|tered, and | engraved,
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To les|son me,| and tell | me some / good mean
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How with | my hon|or I | may und|ertake
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A journ|ey to | my lov|ing Prot|eus.
LUCETTA
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Alas,| the way | is wear|isome | and long.
JULIA
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A true | devoted pil|grim is not | weary
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To meas|ure king|doms with | his feeb|le steps,
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Much less | shall she | that hath | Love's wings
to fly,
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And when | the flight | is made | to one | so
dear,
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Of such | divine | perfec|tion as Sir | Proteus.
LUCETTA
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Better | forbear,| till Prot|eus make | return.
JULIA
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Oh, knowst | thou not,| his looks | are my /
soul's food?
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Pity | the dearth | that I | have pin|ed in,
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By long|ing for | that food | so long | a time.
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Didst^thou | but know | the in|ly touch | of
love,
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Thou wouldst | as soon | go kind|le fire | with
snow
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As seek | to quench | the fire | of love | with
words.
LUCETTA
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I do not | seek to | quench your | love's hot
fire,
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But qual|ify | the fi|re's ex/treme rage,
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Lest it should | burn a|bove the | bounds of |
reason.
JULIA
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The more | thou dammst | it up,| the more | it
burns:
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The cur|rent that | with gent|le mur|mur glides
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(Thou knowst)| being stopped,| impa|tiently |
doth rage:
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But when | his fair course | is not | hindered,
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He makes sweet mus|ic with | the enam|eled
stones,
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Giving | a gent|le kiss | to eve|ry sedge
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He ov|ertak|eth in | his pil|grimage.
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And so | by ma|ny wind|ing nooks | he strays
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With wil|ling sport | to the / wild o|cean.
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Then let | me go,| and hind|er not | my course:
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I'll be | as pa|tient as | a gent|le stream,
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And make | a pas|time of each wear|y step,
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Till the / last step | have brought | me to | my
love,
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And there | I'll rest,| as aft|er much^/turmoil
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A bles|sed soul | doth in | Elys|ium.
LUCETTA
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But in | what hab|it will | you go | along?
JULIA
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Not like | a wom|an, for | I would | prevent
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The loose | encount|ers of | lasciv|ious men:
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Gentle | Lucet|ta, fit | me with / such weeds
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As may | beseem | some well-|reput|ed page.
LUCETTA
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Why then | your lad|yship | must cut | your hair.
JULIA
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No girl,| I'll knit | it up | in silk|en strings,
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With twen|ty odd-|conceited | true-love knots:
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To be | fantas|tic, may | become | a youth
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Of great|er time | than I | shall show | to be.
LUCETTA
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What fash|ion (mad|am) shall | I make | your
breech||es?
JULIA
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That fits | as well,| as tell | me (good | my
lord)
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What comp|ass will | you wear | your
farth|ingale?
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Why^eene | what fash|ion thou best | likst
(Lu|cetta).
LUCETTA
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You must needs have | them with a / codpiece
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JULIA
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Out, out, (Lucet|ta) that | will be
ill-|favored.
LUCETTA
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A round | hose (madam) now's |not worth a pin,
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Unless | you have a / codpiece | to stick pins
on.
JULIA
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Lucet|ta, as | thou lovst | me let | me have
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What thou | thinkst meet,/ and is | most
man/nerly.
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But tell | me (wench)| how will the | world
re|pute me
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For und|ertak|ing so un|staid a | journey?
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I fear | me it | will make | me scan|dalized.
LUCETTA
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If you | think so,| then stay | at home,| and go
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Nay, that | I will not.|
LUCETTA
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Then nev|er dream | on in|famy,| but go:
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If Prot|eus like | your journ|ey, when | you come,
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No mat|ter who's | displeased,| when you | are
gone:
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I fear | me he | will scarce | be pleased |
withal.
JULIA
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That is | the least |(Lucet|ta) of | my fear:
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A thous|and oaths,| an o|cean of | his tears,
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And inst|ances | of in|finite | of love,
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Warrant | me wel|come to | my Prot|eus.
LUCETTA
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All these | are serv|ants to | deceit|ful men.
JULIA
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Base men*,| that use | them to / so base |
effect;
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But tru|er stars | did gov|ern Prot|eus' birth,
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His words | are bonds,| his oaths | are or|acles,
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His love | sincere,| his thoughts | immac|ulate,
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His tears,| pure mes/sengers,| sent from | his
heart,
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His heart,| as far | from fraud,| as heaven |
from earth.
LUCETTA
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Pray heaven he prove | so when | you come | to
him.
JULIA
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Now, as | thou lovst | me, do | him not | that
wrong,
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To bear | a hard | opin|ion of | his truth:
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Only | deserve | my love,| by lov|ing him,
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And pres|ently | go^with | me to my | chamber
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To take | a note | of what | I stand | in need |
of,
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To fur|nish me | upon | my long|ing journ|ey:
(hex with prev)
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All that | is mine | I leave | at thy | dispose,
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My goods,| my lands,| my rep|uta|tion,
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Only,| in lieu | thereof,| dispatch | me hence:
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Come;| answer | not, but | to it pres/ently,
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I am | impa|tient of | my tar|riance.
[Exeunt]