_Ber._ Here, take my ring: My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, And I'll be bid by thee. _Dia._ When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window: I'll order take my mother shall not hear. 55 Now will I charge you in the band of truth, When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed, Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me: My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them When back again this ring shall be deliver'd: 60 And on your finger in the night I 'll put Another ring, that what in time proceeds May token to the future our past deeds. Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won A wife of me, though there my hope be done. 65 _Ber._ A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [_Exit._ _Dia._ For which live long to thank both heaven and me! You may so in the end. My mother told me just how he would woo, As if she sat in's heart; she says all men 70 Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid: Only in this disguise I think't no sin 75 To cozen him that would unjustly win. [_Exit._ LINENOTES: Enter....] Enter Bertram and the Maid called Diana. Ff. [2] _Titled goddess_] _Titl'd, goddess_ Capell. [8] _stern_] F3 F4. _sterne_ F1 F2. _stone_ Collier (Collier MS.). [13] _o'_] Rowe. _a'_ Ff. [14] _strive ... vows:_] _drive against my vows:_ Johnson conj. _shrive--against my voice_ Id. conj. [19] _barely_] _basely_ Rowe (ed. 2). [21-31] Dia. _'Tis not ... opinion_] Dia. _'Tis not ... witness._ Ber. _Then ... ill?_ Dia. _This ... opinion_ Staunton conj. [21] _makes_] F1. _make_ F2 F3 F4. [23, 24] _What ... me,_] _But ... by?_ Jackson conj. (inverting the lines). _What ... witness: then, pray_] Bert. _What ... witness._ Diana. _Then, pray_ Johnson conj. [23-29] _What ... against him_] Erased in Collier MS. [23] _swear not by,_] _swear, not 'bides,_ Warburton. [24] _pray you_] _pray_ Pope. [25] _Jove's_] _Joves_ F3 F4. _Ioues_ F1 F2. _love's_ Grant White (Johnson conj.). _God's_ Edd. conj. See note (xv). _attributes_] F1. _attribute_ F2 F3 F4. [28] _by_] _to_ Johnson conj. _whom_] _when_ Singer. [28, 29] _whom I ... him_] _and to protest I love Whom I will work against_ Becket conj. [32] _holy-cruel_] Theobald. _holy cruel_ Ff. _love_] _my love_ Staunton conj. [35, 36] _desires, Who then recover_] Rowe (ed. 2). _desires, Who then recovers_ Ff. _desires, Which then recover_ Pope. _desire, Who then recovers_ Capell.