The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Ros._ Pray you, do my commendations; I would be 180
glad to see it.
_Biron._ I would you heard it groan.
_Ros._ Is the fool sick?
_Biron._ Sick at the heart.
_Ros._ Alack, let it blood. 185
_Biron._ Would that do it good?
_Ros._ My physic says ‘ay’.
_Biron._ Will you prick’t with your eye?
_Ros._ No point, with my knife.
_Biron._ Now, God save thy life! 190
_Ros._ And yours from long living!
_Biron._ I cannot stay thanksgiving. [_Retiring._
_Dum._ Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?
_Boyet._ The heir of Alençon, Katharine her name.
_Dum._ A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well. [_Exit._ 195
_Long._ I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?
_Boyet._ A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.
_Long._ Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.
_Boyet._ She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.
_Long._ Pray you, sir, whose daughter? 200
_Boyet._ Her mother’s, I have heard.
_Long._ God’s blessing on your beard!
_Boyet._ Good sir, be not offended.
She is an heir of Falconbridge.
_Long._ Nay, my choler is ended. 205
She is a most sweet lady.
_Boyet._ Not unlike, sir, that may be. [_Exit Long._
_Biron._ What’s her name in the cap?
_Boyet._ Rosaline, by good hap.
_Biron._ Is she wedded or no? 210
_Boyet._ To her will, sir, or so.
_Biron._ You are welcome, sir: adieu.
_Boyet._ Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.
[_Exit Biron._
_Mar._ That last is Biron, the merry mad-cap lord:
Not a word with him but a jest.
_Boyet._ And every jest but a word. 215
_Prin._ It was well done of you to take him at his word.
_Boyet._ I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.
_Mar._ Two hot sheeps, marry.
_Boyet._ And wherefore not ships?
No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
_Mar._ You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest? 220
_Boyet._ So you grant pasture for me. [_Offering to kiss her._
_Mar._ Not so, gentle beast:
My lips are no common, though several they be.
_Boyet._ Belonging to whom?
_Mar._ To my fortunes and me.
_Prin._ Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:
This civil war of wits were much better used 225
On Navarre and his book-men; for here ’tis abused.
_Boyet._ If my observation, which very seldom lies,
By the heart’s still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.
_Prin._ With what? 230
_Boyet._ With that which we lovers entitle affected.
_Prin._ Your reason?
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