SUL. Stay, your cue's not come yet. I hate as perfectly this grey-green of yours, As Old Antonio's green-grey. Fie! wise lovers Are most absurd. Were I not full resolved, I should begin to cool mine own affection. For shame, consider well your sister's temper. Her melancholy may much hurt her. Respect her, Or, spite of mine own love, I'll make you stay Six months before you marry me. [LELIO _whispers_. This your so happy news? return'd, and safe? Antonio yet alive? [LELIO _whispers_. And what then? [LELIO _whispers_. Well; all your business must be compassed With winding plots and cunning stratagems. Look to't; for if we be not married ere next morning, By the great love that's hid in this small compass, Flavia and myself will steal you both away, To your eternal shame and foul discredit. [_Exit._ LEL. How prettily this lovely littleness In one breath pleads her own cause and my sister's! Chides me, and loves. This is that pleasing temper I more admire than a continued sweetness That over-satisfies: 'tis salt I love, not sugar. [_Exit._ FOOTNOTES: [327] _Threatens_ in both the editions. Pegge suggested _sweetens_. [328] See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [v. 95.] [329] The quartos read _this word_. [330] The whole of what follows, to the word _away_, is given in the 4º of 1615 as part of the speech of Antonio.--_Collier._ [331] A parody on the speech of the Ghost of Andrea, in "The Spanish Tragedy." [332] _i.e._, Owns. See note to "Cornelia," [v. 232.] [333] [Edits., _Of_.] [334] It appears from Segar ("Honour, Military and Civil," fol. 1602, p. 122), that a person of superior birth might not be challenged by an inferior, or, if challenged, might refuse the combat. Alluding to this circumstance, Cleopatra says-- "These hands do lack nobility, that they strike A meaner than myself." --Act ii. sc. 5. [335] This seems intended to ridicule some of the punctilios of duelling, and probably the author had in his mind the following passage in Ferne's "Blazon of Gentrie," 1586, p. 319: "But if it so happen that the defendour is lame of a legge, or of an arme, or that hee bee blinde of an eye, he may take such armes and weapons, as be most fitte for his owne bodye; and he shall offer such to the approover as shall impeache the like member, or part of the approovers bodye from his dutye and office in the combate, so that he shall be deprived of the use of that member in the combate, even as wel as the defender is through his infirmity of lamenes, or other defect of nature."