_Hip._ Yes, me you may, for we are now acquainted: But he's the man, of whom your father warned you; O, he's a terrible, huge, monstrous creature! I'm but a woman to him. _Dor._ I will see him, Except you'll promise not to see my sister. _Hip._ Yes, for your sake, I needs must see your sister. _Dor._ But she's a terrible, huge creature too! If I were not her sister, she would eat me; Therefore take heed. _Hip._ I heard that she was fair, And like you. _Dor._ No, indeed, she's like my father, With a great beard; 'twould fright you to look on her: Therefore that man and she may go together, They are fit for nobody but one another. _Hip._ [_Looking in_.] Yonder he comes with glaring eyes; fly! fly! Before he sees you. _Dor._ Must we part so soon? _Hip._ You're a lost woman if you see him. _Dor._ I would not willingly be lost, for fear You should not find me. I'll avoid him. [_Exit_ DOR. _Hip._ She fain would have deceived me, but I know Her sister must be fair, for she's a woman; All of a kind, that I have seen, are like To one another: All the creatures of The rivers and the woods are so. _Enter_ FERDINAND. _Ferd._ O, well encountered! you are the happy man! You've got the hearts of both the beauteous women. _Hip._ How, sir! pray, are you sure on't? _Ferd._ One of them charged me to love you for her sake. _Hip._ Then I must have her. _Ferd._ No, not till I am dead. _Hip._ How dead? what's that?--But whatsoe'er it be, I long to have her. _Ferd._ Time and my grief may make me die. _Hip._ But, for a friend, you should make haste; I ne'er Asked any thing of you before. _Ferd._ I see your ignorance, And, therefore, will instruct you in my meaning. The woman, whom I love, saw you, and loved you; Now, sir, if you love her, you'll cause my death. _Hip._ Be sure I'll do it then. _Ferd._ But I am your friend; And I request you that you would not love her. _Hip._ When friends request unreasonable things, Sure they're to be denied. You say she's fair; And I must love all who are fair: for, to tell you A secret, sir, which I have lately found Within myself, they're all made for me. _Ferd._ That's but a fond conceit: You're made for one, And one for you. _Hip._ You cannot tell me, sir; I know I'm made for twenty hundred women, (I mean, if there so many be i'the world,) So that, if I once see her, I shall love her. _Ferd._ Then do not see her. _Hip._ Yes, sir, I must see her: For I would fain have my heart beat again, Just as it did when I first saw her sister. _Ferd._ I find I must not let you see her then. _Hip._ How will you hinder me? _Ferd._ By force of arms. _Hip._ By force of arms! My arms, perhaps, may be as strong as yours.