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Val. The tenour of them doth but fignifyows: dusfi My health, and happy being at your Court. 3 970ki Duke. Nay then, no matter; ftay with me a while; I am to break with thee of fome affairs, manos A day That touch me near; wherein thou must be fecret.bod 'Tis not unknown to thee, that I have fought 10 To match my friend, Sir Thurig, to my daughter.di 72 Val. I know it well, my Lord; and, fure, the match Were rich and honourable; befides, the Gentleman! Is full of virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities, aw zea Befeeming fuch a wife as your fair daughter., on a Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him? Boy

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Duke. No, truft me; the is peevish, fullen, froward, Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; ' 'oï Neither regarding that he is my child: nem adT Nor fearing me as if I were her fathers gros ad diw H And may I fay to thee, this pride of hers,d vinⱭ Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her soy tal And, where I thought the remnant of mine ages be A Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty, I now am full refolv'd to take a wife, gan yr 37 And turn her out to who will take her inga (A saw Q Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower san on tadT For me, and my poffeffions, the esteems, not.IV AN Val What would your Grace have me to do in this Duke. There is a Lady, to Sir, in Milan here,jud on Whom I affect; but he is nice and coy,tanque PodsW And nought esteems my aged eloquencedw Now therefore would I have thee to my tutorials OT (For long agone I have forgot to courts of vist bisow Befides, the fashion of the time is chang'd) How, and which way, I may bestow myself, To be regarded in her fun-bright eye. I 19 Val. Win her with gifts, if the respects not words;\

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Advise me where I may have fuch a ladder.
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Val. It will be light, my Lord, that you may bear it Under a cloak that is of any length.

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I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me. What letter is this fame ? what's here To Silvia & And here an engine fit for my proceeding? bq A I'll be fo bold to break the feal for once. [Duke reads. "My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly "And flaves they are to me, that fend them flying AU "Oh, could their mafter come and go as lightly.

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Himself would lodge, where fenfelefs they are lying? "My herald thoughts in thy pure bofom reft them, I }} "While I, their King, that thither them importune, "Do curfe the grace, that with fuch grace hath bleft them, "Becaufe myself do want my fervant's fortune T "I curfe myfelf, for they are fent by medya "That they fhould harbour, where their lord would be.' What's here? Silvia, this night will I enfranchife thee: "Tis fo; and here's the ladder for the purpofe, Why, Phaeton, for thou art Merops' fon, 02 und Wilt thou afpire to guide the heav'nly car, w And with thy daring folly burn the world

Wilt thou reach ftars, because they thine on thee T Go, bafe intruder! over-weening flave!

Beftow thy fawning fmiles on equal mates;

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Is privilege for thy departure hence:

Thank me for this, more than for all the favours,
Which, all too much, I have beftow'd on thee.
But if thon linger in my territories, 15

Longer than fwifteft expedition.

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Will give thee time to leave our royal Court,
By heav'n, my wrath fhall far exceed the love
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Be gone, I will not hear thy vain excuse,

But as thou lov'ft thy life, make fpeed from hence, Exit.
Val. And why not death, rather than living torment?
To die, is to be banish'd from myself,

And Silvia is myself, banish'd from her,'
Is felf from felf: a deadly banishment 40% od W
What light is light, if Silvia be not feen
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by
Unless it be to think, that the is by
And feed upon the fhadow of perfection.
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no mufic in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,

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Pro, Run, boy, run, run, and feek him out. Challe
Laun. So-ho! fo-ho!À 20

Pro. What feeft thou?

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Val. No.
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Val. Neither.
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Val. Nothing.

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Pro. Whom wouldst thou ftrike?
Laun. Nothing.

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Laun. Why, Sir, Pl Atrike nothing's I pray you,——
Pro. I fay, forbear: friend Valentine, a word.

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