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Another part of the forest.
[Enter VALENTINE]
VALENTINE
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How^use | doth breed | a hab|it in | a man?
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This shad|owy des|ert, un|frequen|ted woods
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I bet|ter brook | than flour|ishing peop|led
towns:
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Here can I | sit a|lone, un|seen of | any,
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And to | the night|ingale's | complain|ing notes
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Tune my | distres|ses, and | record | my woes.
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O thou | that dost | inhab|it in | my breast,
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Leave^not | the man|sion so | long ten/antless,
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Lest grow|ing ru|inous,| the build|ing fall,
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And leave | no mem|ory | of what | it was,
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Repair | me, with | thy pres|ence, Silv|ia:
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Thou gent|le nymph,| cherish | thy for/lorn
swain.
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What hal|loing, and / what stir | is this | today?
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These are | my mates,| that make | their wills |
their law,
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Have some | unhap|py pas|senger | in chase;
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They love | me well:| yet I | have much | to do
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To keep | them from / unciv|il out|rages.
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Withdraw | thee Val|entine:| who's^this |
comes here*?
[Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA]
PROTEUS
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Madam,| this serv|ice I | have done | for you
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(Though you | respect | not aught | your serv|ant
doth)
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To haz|ard life,| and res|cue you | from him,
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That would | have forced | your hon|or, and | your
love,
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Vouchsafe | me for | my meed,| but one | fair*
look:
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A smal|ler boon | than this | I can|not beg,
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And less | than this,| I am sure | you can|not
give.)
VALENTINE
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How* like | a dream | is this?| I see,| and hear:
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Love,| lend me | patience | to forbear | awhile.
SILVIA
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O mis|erable,| unhap|py that | I am.
PROTEUS
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Unhap|py were | you (mad|am) ere | I came:
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But by | my co/ming, I have | made you | happy.
SILVIA
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By thy ap|proach thou | makst me | most^un|happy.
JULIA
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And me,| when he | approach|eth to | your
pres||ence.
SILVIA
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Had I | been seiz|ed by | a hung|ry lion,
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I would | have been | a break|fast to | the
beast,
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Rather than | have false Prot|eus res|cue me:
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Oh heaven | bejudge | how I | love^Val|entine,
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Whose^life's | as tend|er to | me as | my soul,
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And full | as much |(for more | there can|not be)
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I do | detest | false perjured | Proteus:
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Therefore | begone,| soli|cit me | no more.
PROTEUS
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What dang|erous ac|tion, stood | it next | to
death
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Would I not | under|go, for | one calm look:
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Oh 'tis | the curse | in love,| and still |
approved,
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When wom|en can|not love,| where they're |
beloved.
SILVIA
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When Prot|eus can|not love,| where he's |
beloved:
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Read^ov|er Jul|ia's heart,|(thy first best love,
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For whose | dear* sake,| thou didst | then rend |
thy faith
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Into | a thous|and oaths;| and all | those oaths,
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Descen|ded in|to per|jury,| to love || me,
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Thou | hast no faith | left now, unless |
thou'dst^two,
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And that's far worse | than none:| better | have
none
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Than plur|al faith,| which is | too* much | by
one:
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Thou count|erfeit,| to thy / true friend.
PROTEUS
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In love,
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Who re|spects friend?
SILVIA
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All | men but | Proteus.
PROTEUS
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Nay, if | the gent|le spirit | of mov|ing words
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Can no | way* change | you to | a mild|er form,
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I'll woo | you like | a sol|dier, at / arms' end,
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And love | you against | the na|ture of love:|
force ye.
SILVIA
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O heaven.
PROTEUS
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I'll force | thee yield |
to my | desire.
VALENTINE
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Ruffian:| let go | that rude | unciv|il touch,
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Thou friend | of an / ill fash|ion.
PROTEUS
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Val|entine.
VALENTINE
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Thou com|mon friend,| that's^with|out faith | or
love,
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For such | is a / friend now:| treache|rous man.
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Thou hast | beguiled | my hopes;| nought but |
mine^eye
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Could have per|suaded | me: now | I dare | not
say
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I have / one friend | alive;| thou wouldst^dis|prove me:
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Who should | be trust|ed, when | one's right hand
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Is per|jured to | the bos|om? Prot|eus
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I am sor|ry I | must nev|er trust | thee more,
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But count | the world | a strang|er for | thy
sake:
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The priv|ate wound | is deep|est: oh | time,
most^||accursed:
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'Mongst all foes | that a friend | should be ||
the worst?
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My shame | and guilt | confounds | me:
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Forgive | me Val|entine:| if hear|ty sorrow
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Be a | suffi|cient rans|om for | offense,
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I tend|er it here:| I do | as tru|ly suffer,
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As ere | I did | commit.
VALENTINE
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Then I | am paid:
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And once | again,| I do | receive | thee
hon||est;
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Who | by repent|ance is | not sa|tisfied,
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Is nor | of heaven,| nor earth;| for these | are
pleased:
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By pen|itence | the Etern|al's wrath's |
appeased:
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And that | my love | may^ap/pear plain | and
free,
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All that was | mine, in | Silvia,| I give thee.
JULIA
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O me | unhap|py.
[Swoons]
PROTEUS
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Look | to the boy.
VALENTINE
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Why*, boy?
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Why wag:| how now?| What's the mat|ter? Look /
up: speak.
JULIA
O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring to Madam Silvia: which
(out of my neglect) was never done.
PROTEUS
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Where is | that ring?| Boy?
JULIA
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Here |'tis: this | is it.
PROTEUS
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How? let | me see. \\
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Why this | is the ring | I gave | to Jul|ia.
JULIA
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Oh, cry | you mer|cy sir,| I have | mistook:
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This is | the ring | you sent | to Silv|ia.
PROTEUS
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But how camst | thou by | this ring?| At my
de|part
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I || gave this | unto | Jul||ia.
JULIA
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And Jul|ia | herself | did give | it me,
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And Jul|ia | herself | hath brought | it
hith||er.
PROTEUS
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How?| Julia? \\
JULIA
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Behold | her, that | gave^aim | to all | thy
oaths,
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And ent|ertained |'em deep|ly in | her heart.
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How oft | hast thou | with per|jury cleft | the
root?
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O Prot|eus, let | this hab|it make | thee blush.
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Be thou a|shamed that | I have | took u|pon me,
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Such an | immod|est raim|ent; if / shame live
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In a | disguise | of love? \\
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It is | the les|ser blot | mode|sty finds,
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Women | to change | their shapes,| than men |
their minds.
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Than men | their minds?| 'Tis true:| oh heaven,|
were man
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But const|ant, he | were per|fect; that / one
error
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Fills him with | faults: makes him run |
through^all | the sins;
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Inconst|ancy / falls off,| ere it | begins:
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What is | in Silv|ia's face,| but I | may spy
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More* fresh | in Jul|ia's,| with a const|ant eye?
VALENTINE
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Come,| come: a | hand from | either:|
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Let me | be blessed | to make | this hap|py
close:
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'Twere pity | two such | friends should | be
long foes.
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Bear* wit|ness (Heaven)| I have | my wish |
forev||er.
JULIA
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And / I mine.
[Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO]
OUTLAWS
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A prize:| a prize:| a prize.
VALENTINE
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Forbear,| forbear | I say:| it is my lord | the
duke.
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Your grace | is wel|come to | a man | disgraced,
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Banished | Valen|tine.
DUKE
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Sir | Valen|tine?
THURIO
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Yonder | is Silv|ia:| and Silv|ia's mine.
VALENTINE
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Thurio | give^back;| or else | embrace | thy
death:
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Come* not | within | the meas|ure of | my wrath:
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Do not name Silv|ia thine:| if once | again,
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Veron|a shall / not hold | thee: here | she
stands,
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Take but | posses|sion of | her, with | a touch:
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I dare | thee, but | to breathe | upon | my love.
THURIO
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Sir Val|entine,| I care | not for | her, I:
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I hold | him but | a fool | that will en|danger
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His bo|dy, for | a girl | that loves | him not:
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I claim | her not,| and there|fore she | is
thine.
DUKE
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The more | degen|erate | and base | art thou
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To make | such^means | for her,| as thou | hast
done,
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And leave | her on | such slight | condi|tions.
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Now, by | the hon|or of | my an|cestry,
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I do | applaud | thy spir|it, Val|entine,
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And think | thee worth|y of | an emp|ress' love:
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Know then,| I here | forget | all form|er griefs,
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Cancel | all grudge,| repeal | thee home | again,
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Plead a new state | in thy | unriv|alled merit,
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To which | I thus | subscribe:| Sir Val|entine,
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Thou art | a gent|leman,| and well | derived,
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Take thou thy | Silvia,| for thou | hast
de|served her.
VALENTINE
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I thank | your grace,| the gift | hath made | me
hap||py.
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I | now be|seech you |(for your daught|er's sake)
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To grant one boon | that I | shall ask | of you.
DUKE
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I grant | it (for | thine^own)| whatere | it be.
VALENTINE
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These ban|ished men,| that I | have kept |
withal,
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Are men | endued | with worth|y qual|ities:
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Forgive | them what | they have | commit|ted
here,
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And let | them be | recalled | from their /
exile:
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They are | reform|ed, civ|il, full | of good
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And fit | for great | employ|ment (worth|y lord).
DUKE
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Thou hast | prevailed,| I pard|on them | and
thee:
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Dispose | of them,| as thou | knowst their |
deserts.
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Come, let | us go,| we will in|clude all jars,
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With tri|umphs, mirth,| and rare | solem|nity.
VALENTINE
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And as | we walk | along,| I dare | be bold
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With our | discourse,| to make | your grace | to
smile.
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What think you | of this | page (my | lord)?
DUKE
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I || think the | boy hath | grace in | him, he
| blushes.
VALENTINE
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I war|rant you |(my lord)| more grace,| than boy.
DUKE
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What mean you | by that say|ing?
VALENTINE
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Please you,| I'll tell | you, as | we pass |
along,
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That you | will wond|er what | hath for|tuned:
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Come || Prote|us, 'tis | your pen|ance, but | to
hear
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The sto|ry of | your loves | discov|ered,
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That^done,| our day | of mar|riage shall | be
yours,
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One feast,| one house,| one mu|tual hap|piness.
[Exeunt]