[Sidenote: Deliberandum est diu, quod statuendum est semel.] =Ma.= I know that well inough, but that thing requireth long deliberation, and much aduisement, which when it is done, cannot be vndone againe. =Pam.= I haue deliberated vppon it to long for my part. =Ma.= Well (I réede you) take héede, least loue who is not the best counseller beguile you, for men say that loue is blinde. =Pam.= Nay, that loue hath eyes which springeth vpon iudgement: I doe not therfore take you to be such a one as you are, bicause I loue you: but I loue you for that I plainly sée you to be such a one. =Ma.= Beware I say, you mistake me not, you maye bée ouerséene, if you had worne the shoe, then you shoulde perceyue where it wringeth. =Pam.= I must put it in a venture, although by many good tokens I conceyue a hope of better lucke. =Ma.= Whye, are you skilfull in signes and tokens, are you become an Augur? =Pam.= Yea marry am I. [Sidenote: _Augurs bee they which by certaine signes in birdes and beasts descrie things to come._] =Ma.= By what Augurall signes I praye you, do you coniecture that it shal be thus? hath the night Crowe taken hir flight before you? =Pam.= She flieth for fooles. =Ma.= What, haue you séene a cowple of Dooues come flying towardes you on the right hande? =Pam.= No such thing, but I haue knowne for the space of certaine yeares the verteous and honest behauiour of your parents, that is a birde not least to be regarded (I think) to be come of a good stock. Moreouer, I am not ignorant with what wholesome instructions, and verteous examples you haue bene traded and brought vp by them. And truely good education is of more effect than good Parentage. This is an other signe which moueth me to conceyue a good hope, beside this, betwene my parents, which I hope I néede not to be ashamed of and yours, haue (as I suppose) bene, no smal loue and friendship. Yea we our selues from our biggens (as they say) haue bene brought vp togither, & not much vnlike one vnto another in nature and disposition. Now our age, substance, estimation, and bloude are as well betwéene vs two, as betwéene both our parentes in a maner equall. Lastly that which in friendship is the chiefe thing, your maners séemeth not the worste to square vnto my minde and liking, for it maye bee that a thing is simply and of it selfe right excellent and yet not apt and méete for some vse. How my maners frameth vnto your minde againe I knowe not. These, these be the birdes (my Ioy) which putteth mee in an assured hope, that a coniunction betwéene vs two, shall be right ioyfull, pleasant, stable, & swéete, so that you could finde in your hart to sing that song, which I so much desire to beare. =Maria.= What song is that you would haue me to sing. =Pam.= I will teach you the tune therof. _Sum tuus_, say you againe, _Sum tua_. [Sidenote: _I am thine. Be thou mine._]