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[Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog]
LAUNCE
When a man's servant shall play the cur with him (look you) it goes hard:
one that I brought up of a puppy: one that I saved from drowning, when three
or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it: I have taught him (even as one would say precisely, thus I would teach a dog) I was sent to
deliver him, as a present to Mistress Silvia, from my master; and I came no
sooner into the dining chamber, but he steps me to her trencher, and steals
her capon's leg: O, 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all
companies: I would have (as one should say) one that takes upon him to be a
dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more
wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been
hanged for it: sure as I live he had suffered for it: you shall judge: He
thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentlemanlike dogs,
under the duke's table: he had not been there (bless the mark) a pissing
while, but all the chamber smelt him: Out with the dog (says one) What cur
is that (says another) Whip him out (says the third) Hang him up (says the
duke). I having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and
goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs: Friend (quoth I) you mean to whip
the dog: Aye marry do I (quoth he) you do him the more wrong (quoth I)
'twas I did the thing you wot of: He makes me no more ado, but whips me out
of the chamber: How many masters would do this for his servant? Nay, I'll be
sworn I have sat in the stocks, for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he
had been executed: I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed,
otherwise he had suffered for it: Thou thinkst not of this now: nay, I
remember the trick you served me, when I took my leave of Madam Silvia: did
not I bid thee still mark me, and do as I do; when didst thou see me heave up
my leg, and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst thou ever
see me do such a trick?
[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]
PROTEUS
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Sebas|tian is | thy name:| I like | thee well,
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And will | employ | thee in | some serv|ice
pre||sently.
JULIA
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In what | you please,| I'll do | what I can.
PROTEUS
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I hope | thou wilt.
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How now | you whore|son
peas||ant,
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Where | have you been | these two | days
loit/ering?
LAUNCE
Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.
PROTEUS
And what says she to my little jewel?
LAUNCE
Marry she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish thanks is good
enough for such a present.
PROTEUS
But she received my dog?
LAUNCE
No indeed did she not:
Here have I brought him back again.
PROTEUS
What, didst thou offer her this from me?
LAUNCE
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Aye sir:| the oth|er squirrel | was stolen | from
me
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By the / hangman's | boys in | the mark|et place,
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And then | I of|fered her | mine own,| who is | a
dog (hex with next)
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As big | as ten | of yours,| and there|fore the
gift | the grea||ter.
PROTEUS
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Go*, get | thee hence,| and find | my dog | again,
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Or nere | return | again | into | my sight.
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Away,| I say:| stayst thou | to vex | me here;
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A slave,| that still | an end,| turns me | to
shame:
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Sebas|tian,| I have | enter|tained thee,
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Partly | that I | have need | of such | a youth,
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That can | with some di|scretion | do my
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For 'tis | no trust|ing to / yond fool|ish lout;
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But chief|ly, for | thy face,| and thy be|havior,
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Which (if | my aug|ury | deceive | me not)
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Witness | good* bring|ing up,| fortune,| and
truth:
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Therefore | know thee,| for this | I ent|ertain
|| thee.
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Go | presently,| and take | this ring | with
thee,
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Deliv|er it | to mad|am Silv|ia;
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She loved | me well,| deliv|ered it | to me.
JULIA
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It seems | you loved | not her,| to leave | her
token:
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She is dead | belike?
PROTEUS
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Not so:| I think | she lives.
JULIA
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Alas.
PROTEUS
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Why dost | thou cry | alas?
JULIA
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I can|not choose | but pi|ty her.
PROTEUS
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Wherefore shouldst | thou pi|ty her? (tetra
with prev two)
JULIA
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Because,| methinks | that she | loved^you | as
well
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As you | do love | your la|dy Silv|ia:
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She dreams | on him,| that has | forgot | her
love,
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You dote | on her,| that cares | not* for | your
love.
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'Tis pi|ty love,| should be | so con|trary:
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And think|ing on | it, makes | me cry | alas.
PROTEUS
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Well:| give her | that ring,| and there|withal
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This letter:| That's her | chamber:| Tell my
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I claim | the prom|ise for her heaven|ly
pic|ture:
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Your mes|sage done,| hie home | unto my |
chamber,
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Where thou | shalt find | me sad,| and sol|itary.
[Exit]
JULIA
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How many | women | would do | such a | message?
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Alas | poor Prot|eus, thou | hast ent|ertained
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A fox,| to be | the shep|herd of | thy lambs;
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Alas,| poor fool,| why do | I pi|ty him
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That with | his ve|ry heart | despis|eth me?
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Because | he loves her,| he despis|eth me,
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Because | I love^|him, I | must pi|ty him.
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This ring | I gave | him, when | he part|ed from
me,
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To bind | him to | remem|ber my / good will:
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And now | am I |(unhap|py mes|senger)
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To plead | for that,| which I | would not |
obtain;
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To car|ry that,| which I | would have | refused;
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To praise | his faith,| which I | would have |
dispraised.
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I am | my mast|er's true | confir|med love,
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But can|not be true | servant | to my | master,
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Unless | I prove | false trait/or to | myself.
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Yet will | I woo | for him,| but yet | so
cold||ly,
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As |(heaven it | knows) I would | not have | him
speed.
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Gentle|woman,| good day:| I pray | you be | my
mean
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To bring | me where | to speak | with mad|am
Silv|ia. (hex with prev)
SILVIA
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What would | you with | her, if | that I | be
she?
JULIA
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If you | be she,| I do | entreat | your
pa||tience
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To hear | me speak | the mes|sage I am / sent on.
SILVIA
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From whom?
JULIA
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From my | master,|
Sir Prot|eus, mad||am.
SILVIA
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Oh:| he sends | you for | a pic|ture?
JULIA
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Aye,|| madam.
SILVIA
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Ursu|la, bring | my pic|ture there,
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Go, give^|your mast|er this:| tell him | from me,
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One Jul|ia, that | his chan|ging thoughts |
forget
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Would better | fit his | chamber,| than this |
shadow.
JULIA
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Madam,| please you | peruse | this let|ter;
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Pardon | me (mad|am) I | have un|advised
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Deliv|ered you | a pap|er that I | should not;
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This is | the let|ter to | your lad|yship.
SILVIA
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I pray | thee let | me look | on that | again.
JULIA
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It may | not be:| good mad|am, pard|on me.
SILVIA
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There, hold: \\
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I will | not look | upon | your mas|ter's lines:
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I know | they are stuffed | with prot|esta|tions,
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And full | of new-found oaths,| which he | will
break
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As ea|sily | as I | do tear | his pa||per.
JULIA
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mad|am, he sends | your lad|yship | this ring.
SILVIA
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The more | shame for | him, that | he sends | it
me;
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For I | have heard | him say | a thous|and times,
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His Jul|ia gave | it him,| at his de|parture.
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Though his false | finger have | profaned | the
ring,
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Mine shall | not do his | Julia | so much wrong.
JULIA
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She thanks you. \\
SILVIA
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What sayst thou? \\
JULIA
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I thank | you mad|am, that | you tend|er her:
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Poor* gentle|woman,| my mast|er wrongs | her
much.
SILVIA
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Dost thou know her? \\
JULIA
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Almost | as well | as I | do know | myself.
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To think | upon | her woes,| I do | protest
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That I | have wept | a hund|red seve|ral times.
SILVIA
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Belike | she thinks | that Prot|eus hath |
forsook || her?
JULIA
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I think | she doth:| and that's | her cause | of
sor||row.
SILVIA
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Is | she not pas|sing fair? \\
JULIA
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She hath | been fair|er (mad|am) than | she is,
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When she | did think | my mast|er loved | her
well;
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She, in | my judg|ment, was | as fair | as you.
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But since | she did | neglect | her
look|ing glass,
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And threw | her sun-|expel|ling mask | away,
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The air | hath starved | the ros|es in | her
cheeks,
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And pinched | the li|ly-tinc|ture of | her face,
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That now | she is | become | as black | as I.
SILVIA
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How tall was she? \\
JULIA
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About | my sta/ture: for | at pent|ecost,
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When all | our pa|geants of | delight | were
played,
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Our youth | got me | to play | the wom|an's part,
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And I | was trimmed | in mad|am Jul|ia's gown,
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Which served | me as fit,| by all | men's
judgments,
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As if | the gar|ment had | been made | for me:
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Therefore | I know | she is a|bout my height,
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And at | that time | I made | her weep | agood,
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For I | did play / a la|mentab|le part.
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(Madam)| 'twas Ar|iad|ne, pas|sioning
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For Thes|eus' per|jury,| and unjust flight;
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Which I | so live|ly act|ed with | my tears:
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That my / poor mist|ress mov|ed there|withal,
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Wept bit/terly:| and would | I might | be dead,
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If I | in thought felt not | her ve|ry
sor||row.
SILVIA
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She | is behol|ding to | thee (gent|le youth)
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Alas |(poor* la|dy) des|olate,| and left;
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I weep | myself | to think | upon | thy words:
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Here youth: there | is my purse;| I give | thee
this
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For thy sweet | mistress' | sake, be|cause thou |
lovst her.| Farewell.
[Exit SILVIA, with attendants]
JULIA
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And she | shall thank | you for it,| if ere | you
know | her. (hex with prev)
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A vir|tuous gentle|woman,| mild, and | beautiful.
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I hope | my mast|er's suit | will be | but cold,
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Since^she | respects | my mist|ress' love | so
much.
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Alas,| how love | can trif|le with | itself:
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Here is | her pic|ture: let | me see,| I think
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If I | had such | a tire,| this face | of mine
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Were full | as love|ly, as | is this | of hers:
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And yet | the paint|er flat|tered her | a little,
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Unless | I flat|ter with | myself | too* much.
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Her hair* is | auburn*,| mine is | perfect |
yellow;
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If that | be all | the dif|ference in | his love,
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I'll get | me such | a col|ored per|iwig:
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Her eyes | are grey | as glass,| and so | are
mine:
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Aye, but her | forehead's low,| and mine's | as
high:
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What should | it be | that he | respects | in her,
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But I | can make | respect|ive in | myself?
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If this fond Love,| were not | a blind|ed god.
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Come* shad|ow, come,| and take | this shad|ow up,
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For 'tis | thy riv|al: O | thou sense|less form,
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Thou shalt | be worsh|ipped, kissed,| loved, and
| adored;
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And were | there sense | in his | idol|atry,
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My sub|stance should | be sta|tue in | thy stead.
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I'll use | thee kind|ly, for | thy mist|ress'
sake
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That used | me so:| or else | by Jove,| I vow,
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I should | have scratched | out your | unsee|ing
eyes,
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To make | my mast|er out | of love | with thee.
[Exit]