Jul. You mistake; the musician likes me not.
Hoft. Why, my pretty youth?
Jul. He plays falfe, father..
Hoft. How, out of tune on

on the strings?

Jul. Not fo, but yet fo false, that he grieves my very heart-ftrings.

Hoft. You have a quick ear.

Jul. Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a flow heart.

Hoft. I perceive you delight not in mufick.

Jul. Not a whit when it jars fo.

Hoft. Hark what fine change is in the mufick.
Jul. Ay; that change is the fpight.

Hoft. You would have them always play but one thing?

Ful. I would always have one play but one thing. But, hoft, doth this Sir Protheus that we talk on, Often refort unto this gentlewoman?

Hoft. I tell you what Launce his man told me, he lov'd her out of all nick.

Jul. Where is Launce?

Hoft. Gone to feek his dog, which to-morrow, by his mafter's command, he muft carry for a prefent to his lady.

Jul. Peace, ftand afide, the company parts.
Pro. Sir Thurio, fear not; I will, fo plead,
That you fhall fay my cunning drift excels.
Thu. Where meet we?
Pro. At Saint Gregory's well.
Thu. Farewel.

[Ex. Thu. and Mufick.

SCENE IV.

Enter Silvia above.

Pro. Madam, good even to your ladyfhip.
Sil. I thank you for your mufick, gentlemen:
Who is that that fpake?

Pro. One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth, You'd quickly learn to know him by his voice.

Sil Sir Protheus, as I take it.

Pro. Sir Protheus, gentle lady, and your fervant.
Sil. What is your
will?

Pro. That I may compass yours,

Sil. You have your wifh; my will is ever this,
That prefently you hie you home to bed,
Thou fubtle, perjur'd, falfe, difloyal man!
Think'st thou I am fo fhallow, o conceitlefs,
To be feduced by thy flattery,

That haft deceiv'd fo many with thy vows?
Return, return, and make thy love amends.
For me, by this pale Queen of night I swear,'
I am fo far from granting thy request,
That I defpife thee for thy wrongful fuit;
And by and by intend to chide my felf,
Ev'n for this time I fpend in talking to thee.
Pro. I grant, fweet love, that I did love a lady,
But fhe is dead.

Jul. [Afide.] 'Twere falfe if I fhould fpeak it;
For I am fure fhe is not buried.

Sil. Say that the be; yet Valentine thy friend
Survives, to whom thy felf art witness,

I am betroath'd: and art thou not asham'd
To wrong him with thy importunacy?
Pro. I likewife hear that Valentine is dead.
Sil. And fo fuppofe am I; for in his
Affure thy felf, my love is buried.

grave,

Pro. Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth,
Sil. Go to thy lady's grave and call her thence,
Or, at the leaft, in hers fepulchre thine.
Jul. [Afide.] He heard not that.

Pro. Madam, if your heart be fo obdurate,
Vouchfafe me yet your picture for my love,
The picture that is hanging in your chamber:
To that I'll fpeak, to that I'll figh and weep:
For fince the fubftance of your perfect self
Is elfe devoted, I am but a fhadow;
And to your fhadow will I make true love.

Ful. [Afide.] If 'twere a substance you would fure deceive it,

And

And make it but a fhadow as I am.

your

Sil. I'm very loath to be your idol, Sir;
But fince falfhood fhall become you well,
To worship fhadows and adore falfe fhapes,
Send to me in the morning and I'll fend it:
And fo good reft.

Pro. As wretches have o'er night,

That wait for execution in the morn.

Jul. Hoft, will you go?

[Exe. Pro, and Sil.

Hoft. By my hallidom I was fast asleep.
Jul. Pray you where lies Sir Protheus?

Hoft. Marry at my house: trust me, I think 'tis al most day.

Jul. Not fos but it hath been the longest night That e'er I watch'd, and the most heavy one.

[Exeunt.

SCENE V.

Enter Eglamour.

Egl. This is the hour that madam Silvia Entreated me to call and know her mind: There's fome great matter fhe'd employ me in. Madam, madam!

Sil. Who calls?

Enter Silvia above.

Egl. Your fervant and your friend;
One that attends your ladyfhip's command.

Sil. Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good-morrow. Egl. As many, worthy lady, to your felf: According to your ladyfhip's impofe,

I am thus early come, to know what fervice
It is your pleasure to command me in.

Sil. Oh Eglamour, thou art a gentleman,

(Think not I flatter, for I fwear I do not,)
Valiant and wife, remorfeful, well accomplish'd;
Thou art not ignorant what dear good-will
I bear unto the banish'd Valentine;

Nor how my father would enforce me marry
Vain Thurio, whom my very foul abhorr'd.
Thy felf haft lov'd, and I have heard thee fay
No grief did come fo near unto thy heart,
As when thy lady and thy true love dy'd;
Upon whofe grave thou vow'dft pure chastity.
Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine

To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode :
And for the ways are dangerous to pass,.
I do defire thy worthy company;
Upon whofe faith and honour I repofe.
Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour;
But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
And on the juftice of my flying hence,
To keep me from a moft unholy match,
Which heav'n and fortune ftill reward with plagues.
I do defire thee, even from a heart

As full of forrows as the fea of fands,
To bear me company, and go with me:
If not, to hide what I have faid to thee,
That I may venture to depart alone.

Egl. Madam, I pity much your grievances;
Which, fince I know they virtuoufly are plac'd,
I give confent to go along with you,
Recking as little what betideth me,

As much I wish all good befortune you.
When will you go?

Sil. This evening coming.
Egl. Where fhall I meet you?
Sil. At friar Patrick's cell;

Where I intend holy confeffion.
Egl. I will not fail your ladyfhip:

Good-morrow, gentle lady.

Sil. Good-morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.

[Exeunt.

SCENE

SCENE VI.

Enter Launce, with his dog.

WHEN a man's fervant shall play, the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: : one that I brought up of a puppy, one that I fav'd from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and fifters went to it! I have taught him, · even as one would fay precifely, thus I would teach a dog. I was fent to deliver him as a prefent to miftrefs Silvia, from my mafter; and I came no fooner into the dining-chamber, but he fteps me to her trencher, and fteals her capon's leg. O, 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep him⚫ felf in all companies! I would have, as one fhould fay, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hang'd for't; fure as I live he had fuffer'd for't; you fhall judge. He thrufts me himfelf into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs, under the Duke's table; he had not been there (blefs the mark) a piffing while, but all the chamber fmelt him. Out with the dog, fays one; what cur is that? fays another; whip him out, fays the third; hang him up, fays the Duke. I having been acquainted with the fmell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs; Friend, quoth I, you mean to whip the dog? Ay marry do I, quoth he. You do him the more wrong, quoth I; 'twas I did the thing you wot of. He makes no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber. How many mafters would do this for their fervant? nay, I'll be fworn I have fat in the ftocks for puddings he hath ftoll'n, otherwise he had been executed; I have ftood on the pillory

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