_Pro._ As much as I can do, I will effect:
But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough;
You must lay lime to tangle her desires
By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows. 70
_Duke._ Ay,
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
_Pro._ Say that upon the altar of her beauty
You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart:
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears 75
Moist it again; and frame some feeling line
That may discover such integrity:
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews;
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 80
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
After your dire-lamenting elegies,
Visit by night your lady's chamber-window
With some sweet concert; to their instruments
Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence 85
Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
_Duke._ This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
_Thu._ And thy advice this night I'll put in practice.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver, 90
Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.
_Duke._ About it, gentlemen! 95
_Pro._ We'll wait upon your Grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.
_Duke._ Even now about it! I will pardon you. [_Exeunt._
Notes: III, 2.
SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope.
14: _grievously._] _grievously?_ F1. (in some copies only, according
to Malone). _heavily?_ F2 F3. _heavily._ F4.
18: _some_] _sure_ Collier MS.
19: _better_] _bolder_ Capell conj.
20: _loyal_] F1 F3 F4. _royall_ F2.
21: _your_] F1 F3 F4. _you_ F2.
_Grace_] _face_ Anon. conj.
25: _I think_] F1. _I doe think_ F2 F3 F4.
28: _persevers_] F1 F2. _perseveres_ F3 F4.
37: _esteemeth_] F1. _esteemes_ F2. _esteems_ F3 F4.
49: _weed_] Ff. _wean_ Rowe.
55: _worth_] _word_ Capell conj.
64: _Where_] _When_ Collier MS.
71, 72: _Ay, Much_] Capell. _I, much_ Ff. _Much_ Pope.
76: _line_] _lines_ S. Verges conj.
77: _such_] _strict_ Collier MS. _love's_ S. Verges conj. Malone
suggests that a line has been lost to this purport: _'As her
obdurate heart may penetrate.'_
81: _to_] F1. _and_ F2 F3 F4.
84: _concert_] Hanmer. _consort_ Ff.
86: _sweet-complaining_] Capell. _sweet complaining_ Ff.
94: _advice_] F2 F3 F4. _advise_ F1.
ACT IV.
SCENE I. _The frontiers of Mantua. A forest._
_Enter certain _Outlaws_._
_First Out._ Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.
_Sec. Out._ If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.
_Enter VALENTINE and SPEED._
_Third Out._ Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you.
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