_Thu._ Farewell. 80
[_Exeunt Thu. and Musicians._
_Enter SILVIA above._
_Pro._ Madam, good even to your ladyship.
_Sil._ I thank you for your music, gentlemen.
Who is that that spake?
_Pro._ One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,
You would quickly learn to know him by his voice. 85
_Sil._ Sir Proteus, as I take it.
_Pro._ Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.
_Sil._ What's your will?
_Pro._ That I may compass yours.
_Sil._ You have your wish; my will is even this:
That presently you hie you home to bed. 90
Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!
Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
To be seduced by thy flattery,
That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
Return, return, and make thy love amends. 95
For me,--by this pale queen of night I swear,
I am so far from granting thy request,
That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit;
And by and by intend to chide myself
Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. 100
_Pro._ I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;
But she is dead.
_Jul._ [_Aside_] 'Twere false, if I should speak it;
For I am sure she is not buried.
_Sil._ Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend
Survives; to whom, thyself art witness, 105
I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed
To wrong him with thy importunacy?
_Pro._ I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.
_Sil._ And so suppose am I; for in his grave
Assure thyself my love is buried. 110
_Pro._ Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.
_Sil._ Go to thy lady's grave, and call hers thence;
Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.
_Jul._ [_Aside_] He heard not that.
_Pro._ Madam, if your heart be so obdurate, 115
Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
The picture that is hanging in your chamber;
To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep:
For since the substance of your perfect self
Is else devoted, I am but a shadow; 120
And to your shadow will I make true love.
_Jul._ [_Aside_] If 'twere a substance, you would,
sure, deceive it,
And make it but a shadow, as I am.
_Sil._ I am very loath to be your idol, sir;
But since your falsehood shall become you well 125
To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
Send to me in the morning, and I'll send it:
And so, good rest.
_Pro._ As wretches have o'ernight
That wait for execution in the morn.
[_Exeunt Pro. and Sil. severally._
_Jul._ Host, will you go? 130
_Host._ By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
_Jul._ Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?
_Host._ Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis
almost day.
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