The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Pan._ What says my sweet queen? My cousin will[1557][1558]
fall out with you. You must not know where he sups.[1557][1558][1559] 80
_Par._ I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.[1557][1560][1561]
_Pan._ No, no, no such matter; you are wide: come,
your disposer is sick.[1561]
_Par._ Well, I'll make excuse.[1562]
_Pan._ Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? 85
no, your poor disposer's sick.[1561][1563]
_Par._ I spy.[1564]
_Pan._ You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an
instrument. Now, sweet queen.[1565]
_Helen._ Why, this is kindly done.[1566] 90
_Pan._ My niece is horribly in love with a thing you[1567]
have, sweet queen.
_Helen._ She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord
Paris.
_Pan._ He! no, she'll none of him; they two are twain.[1568] 95
_Helen._ Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.
_Pan._ Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing
you a song now.
_Helen._ Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord,[1569]
thou hast a fine forehead. 100
_Pan._ Ay, you may, you may.[1570]
_Helen._ Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all.
O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!
_Pan._ Love! ay, that it shall, i'faith.
_Par._ Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love. 105
_Pan._ In good troth, it begins so. [_Sings._[1571]
Love, love, nothing but love, still more![1572]
For, O, love's bow[1573]
Shoots buck and doe:[1573][1574]
The shaft confounds,[1575][1576] 110
Not that it wounds,[1575]
But tickles still the sore.
These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die:[1577]
Yet that which seems the wound to kill,[1578]
Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he![1577][1579] 115
So dying love lives still:
Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha![1577]
Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha![1577]
Heigh-ho![1580]
_Helen._ In love, i'faith, to the very tip of the nose. 120
_Par._ He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds[1581]
hot blood and hot blood begets hot thoughts and hot
thoughts beget hot deeds and hot deeds is love.[1582]
_Pan._ Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot[1583]
thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers: is love a[1583][1584] 125
generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's afield to-day?[1583][1585]
_Par._ Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all
the gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day, but[1586]
my Nell would not have it so. How chance my brother
Troilus went not? 130
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