Bero. Now step I forth to whip hypocrisie. [Advancing.] Ah good my Liedge, I pray thee pardon me. You found his Moth, the King your Moth did see: O what a Scene of fool'ry have I seene. Of sighes, of grones, of sorrow, and of teene:1 Kin. Too bitter is thy jest. Are wee betrayed thus to thy over-view? Ber. Not you by me, but I betrayed to you. I that am honest, I that hold it sinne To breake the vow I am ingaged in. 160 1tears 170 180 173. tuning: to tune-1Q. by you-CAPELL. I am betrayed by keeping company When shall you see me write a thing in rime? In pruning mee, when shall you heare that I will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye: a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, a legge, a limme. Kin. Soft, Whither a-way so fast? A true man, or a theefe, that gallops so. Ber. I post from Love, good Lover let me go. Enter Jaquenetta and Clowne. Jaqu. God blesse the King. Kin. What Present hast thou there? Clo. Some certaine treason. Kin. What makes treason heere? Clo. Nay it makes nothing sir. 191 200 The treason and you goe in peace away together. Jaqu. I beseech your Grace let this Letter be read, Our person mis-doubts it: it was treason he said. Kin. Berowne, read it over. Kin. Where hadst thou it? He reades the Letter. Cost. Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio. [Biron tears the letter.] Kin. How now, what is in you? why dost thou tear it? Ber. A toy my Liedge, a toy: your grace needes not feare it. 212 Long. It did move him to passion, and therefore let's heare it. 188. Joane: love-1Q. 189-92. 4 rhymed 11.-2RowE. Dum. It is Berowns writing, and heere is his name. [Gathering up the pieces.] Ber. [To Costard] Ah you whoreson loggerhead, you were borne | to doe me shame. Guilty my Lord, guilty: I confesse, I confesse. Kin. What? Ber. That you three fooles, lackt mee foole, to make up the messe.1 1 a set of four He, he, and you: and you my Liedge, and I, 221 Berow. True true, we are fowre: will these Turtles be gone? Kin. Hence sirs, away. Clo. Walk aside the true folke, & let the traytors stay. [Exeunt Costard and Jaquenetta.] Ber. Sweet Lords, sweet Lovers, O let us imbrace, As true we are as flesh and bloud can be, 231 The Sea will ebbe and flow, heaven will shew his face: King. What, did these rent lines shew some love of thine? Ber. Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline, That (like a rude and savage man of Inde.) Bowes not his vassall head, and strooken blinde, 224-9. 4 rhymed 11.-THEOBALD. 232. beaven will shew: heaven show-IQ. 234. are: were-IQ. 3-4F. 240 What peremptory Eagle-sighted eye Dares looke upon the heaven of her brow, Kin. What zeale, what furie, hath inspir'd thee now? Ber. My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Berowne. Doe meet as at a faire in her faire cheeke, Where nothing wants, that want it selfe doth seeke. A wife of such wood were felicitie. O who can give an oth? Where is a booke? That I may sweare Beauty doth beauty lacke, Kin. O paradoxe, Blacke is the badge of hell, 260 270 Ber. Divels soonest tempt resembling spirits of light. 265. word: wood-RowE. 272. Schoole: suit-GLOBE. O if in blacke my Ladies browes be deckt, 280 Dum. To look like her are Chimny-sweepers blacke. Lon. And since her time, are Colliers counted bright. King. And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crake.1 Dum. Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. Ber. Your mistresses dare never come in raine, For feare their colours should be washt away. 1 boast Kin. 'Twere good yours did: for sir to tell you plaine, Ile finde a fairer face not washt to day. 290 Ber. Ile prove her faire, or talke till dooms-day here. Kin. No Divell will fright thee then so much as shee. Duma. I never knew man hold vile stuffe so deere. Lon. Looke, heer's thy love, my foot and her face see. Ber. O if the streets were paved with thine eyes, Her feet were much too dainty for such tread. Duma. O vile, then as she goes what upward lyes? The street should see as she walk'd over head. Kin. But what of this, are we not all in love? 299 Ber. O nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworne. Kin. Then leave this chat, & good Berown now prove Our loving lawfull, and our fayth not torne. Dum. I marie there, some flattery for this evill. 276. painting: painting and-Rowe. 300, 307. 0 out-CAMBRIDGE. |