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own, who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift |
the greater. |
PROTEUS. Go, get thee hence and find my dog again, |
Or ne'er return again into my sight. |
Away, I say. Stayest thou to vex me here? Exit LAUNCE |
A slave that still an end turns me to shame! |
Sebastian, I have entertained thee |
Partly that I have need of such a youth |
That can with some discretion do my business, |
For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout, |
But chiefly for thy face and thy behaviour, |
Which, if my augury deceive me not, |
Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth; |
Therefore, know thou, for this I entertain thee. |
Go presently, and take this ring with thee, |
Deliver it to Madam Silvia- |
She lov'd me well deliver'd it to me. |
JULIA. It seems you lov'd not her, to leave her token. |
She is dead, belike? |
PROTEUS. Not so; I think she lives. |
JULIA. Alas! |
PROTEUS. Why dost thou cry 'Alas'? |
JULIA. I cannot choose |
But pity her. |
PROTEUS. Wherefore shouldst thou pity her? |
JULIA. Because methinks that she lov'd you as well |
As you do love your lady Silvia. |
She dreams on him that has forgot her love: |
You dote on her that cares not for your love. |
'Tis pity love should be so contrary; |
And thinking on it makes me cry 'Alas!' |
PROTEUS. Well, give her that ring, and therewithal |
This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady |
I claim the promise for her heavenly picture. |
Your message done, hie home unto my chamber, |
Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary. Exit PROTEUS |
JULIA. How many women would do such a message? |
Alas, poor Proteus, thou hast entertain'd |
A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs. |
Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him |
That with his very heart despiseth me? |
Because he loves her, he despiseth me; |
Because I love him, I must pity him. |
This ring I gave him, when he parted from me, |
To bind him to remember my good will; |
And now am I, unhappy messenger, |
To plead for that which I would not obtain, |
To carry that which I would have refus'd, |
To praise his faith, which I would have disprais'd. |
I am my master's true confirmed love, |
But cannot be true servant to my master |
Unless I prove false traitor to myself. |
Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly |
As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed. |
Enter SILVIA, attended |
Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you be my mean |
To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia. |
SILVIA. What would you with her, if that I be she? |
JULIA. If you be she, I do entreat your patience |
To hear me speak the message I am sent on. |
SILVIA. From whom? |
JULIA. From my master, Sir Proteus, madam. |
SILVIA. O, he sends you for a picture? |
JULIA. Ay, madam. |
SILVIA. Ursula, bring my picture there. |
Go, give your master this. Tell him from me, |
One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget, |
Would better fit his chamber than this shadow. |
JULIA. Madam, please you peruse this letter. |
Pardon me, madam; I have unadvis'd |
Deliver'd you a paper that I should not. |
This is the letter to your ladyship. |
SILVIA. I pray thee let me look on that again. |
JULIA. It may not be; good madam, pardon me. |
SILVIA. There, hold! |
I will not look upon your master's lines. |
I know they are stuff'd with protestations, |
And full of new-found oaths, which he wul break |
As easily as I do tear his paper. |
JULIA. Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. |
SILVIA. The more shame for him that he sends it me; |
For I have heard him say a thousand times |
His Julia gave it him at his departure. |
Though his false finger have profan'd the ring, |
Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong. |
JULIA. She thanks you. |
SILVIA. What say'st thou? |
JULIA. I thank you, madam, that you tender her. |
Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much. |
SILVIA. Dost thou know her? |
JULIA. Almost as well as I do know myself. |
To think upon her woes, I do protest |
That I have wept a hundred several times. |
SILVIA. Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her. |
JULIA. I think she doth, and that's her cause of sorrow. |
SILVIA. Is she not passing fair? |
JULIA. She hath been fairer, madam, than she is. |
When she did think my master lov'd her well, |
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