Come all the praises, that I now bestow;) He is compleat in feature and in mind, DUKE. Beshrew me, Sir, but if he makes this good, As meet to be an emperor's counsellor. VAL. Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he. For Valentine, I need not cite him to it: [Exit Duke. VAL. This is the gentleman, I told your ladyship, SIL. Belike, that now fhe hath enfranchis'd them VAL. Nay, fure, I think, fhe holds them pris'ners still. SIL. Nay, then he should be blind: and, being blind, How could he fee his way to feek out you? VAL. Why, lady, love hath twenty pair of eyes. THU. They fay, that love hath not an eye at all. VAL. To fee fuch lovers, Thurio, as yourself: Upon a homely object love can wink. SCENE VI. Enter Protheus. SIL. Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman. VAL. Welcome, dear Protheus: mistress, I beseech you, Confirm his welcome with some special favour. SIL. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, SIL. Too low a mistress for so high a servant. VAL. Leave off discourse of disability: PRO. No. That you are worthless. Enter fervant. SER. Madam, my lord your father would fpeak with you. SIL. I'll wait upon his pleasure: [Exit ferv.] Come, Sir Thurio, Go with me. And once more, new fervant, welcome: I'leave you to confer of home-affairs; When you have done, we look to hear from you. PRO. We'll both attend upon your ladyship. [Exit Sil. and Thu. SCENE VII. VAL. Now tell me, how do all from whence you came? PRO. Your friends are well, and have them much com mended. VAL. And how do yours ? PRO. I left them all in health. VAL. How does your lady? and how thrives your love? VAL. Ay, Protheus, but that life is alter'd now; And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, There is no woe to his correction, Now no difcourse, except it be of love; Now can I break my faft, dine, fup, and fleep PRO. Enough: I read your fortune in your eye. Was this the idol, that you worship so? VAL. Even she; and is the not an heav'nly faint? VAL. Call her divine. PRO. I will not flatter her. VAL. O flatter me: for love delights in praife. And I must minister the like to you. VAL. Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, Yet let her be a principality, Sov'reign to all the creatures on the earth. PRO. Except my mistress. VAL. Sweet, except not any; Except thou wilt except against my love. PRO. Why, Valentine, what bragadism is this? PRO. Then let her alone. VAL. Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own : And I as rich in having fuch a jewel, As twenty feas, if all their fand were pearl, Is gone with her along, and I must after; For love thou know'ft is full of jealousy. PRO. But he loves you VAL. Ay, and we are betroth'd; nay more, our marriage hour, With all the cunning manner of our flight, Determin'd of; how I must climb her window, Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness. Good Protheus, go with me to my chamber, PRO. Go on before; I fhall enquire you forth. Some neceffaries that I needs must use; And then I'll presently attend you. VAL. Will you make haste ? PRO. I will. Ev'n as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another; [Exit Val. [Exit. |