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Rof. Amen, fo you be none !

Biran. Nay, then will I be gone.

King. Madam, your father here doth intimate
The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
Being but th' one half of an entire fum,
Difburfed by my father in his wars.

But fay, that he, or we, as neither havé,
Receiv'd that fun; yet there remains unpaid
A hundred thousand more; in furety of the which,
One part of Aquitain is bound to us,
Although not valu'd to the mony's worth:
If then the King your father will reflore
But that one half which is unfatisfy'd,
We will give up our right in Aquitain,
And hold fair friendship with his Majefty:
But that, it feems, he little purpofeth,
For here he doth demand to have repaid

An hundred thousand crowns, and not demands (6),
On payment of an hundred thousand crowns,

To have his title live in Aquitain ;

Which we much rather had depart withal,

And have the money by our father lent,

Than Aquitain fo gelded as it is.

Dear princess, were not his requests fo far

From reafon's yielding, your fair felf should make
A yielding 'gainft fome reafon in my breaft;

And go well fatisfied to France again.

Prin. You do the King my father too much wrong,, And wrong the reputation the reputation of your name, In fo unfeeming to confefs receipt

(6) The former editions read,

and not demands,

One payment of an hundred thousand Crowns,

To bave bis Tile live in Aquitaine.] I have reftored, I believe,, the genuine Sense of the Paffage. Aquitaine was pledg'd, it feems, to Navarre's father, for 200coo Crowns. The French King pretends to have paid one Moiety of this Debt, (which Navarre knows nothing of,) but demands this Moiety back again: inftead whereof (fays Navarre) he fhould rather pay the remaining Moiety and demand to have Aquitain re-deliver'd up to him. This is plain and eafy Reasoning upon the Fact fuppos'd; and Navarre declares he had rather receive the Refidue of his Debt, than detain the Province mortgag'd for Security of it... THEOBALD. of

Of that, which hath fo faithfully been paid.
King. I do proteft, I never heard of it;
And if you prove it, I'll repay it back,
Or yield up Aquitain.

Prin. We arrest your word :

Boyet, you can produce acquittances
For fuch a fum, from special officers
Of Charles his father.

King. Satisfy me fo.

Boyet. So please your Grace, the packet is not come, Where that and other specialties are bound; To-morrow you shall have a fight of them.

King. It fhall fuffice me; at which interview,
All liberal reafon I will yield unto :

Mean time, receive fuch welcome at my hand,
As honour without breach of honour may
Make tender of, to thy true worthiness.

You may not come, fair Princefs, in my gates;
But here, without, you fhall be fo receiv'd,
As you shall deem your felf lodg'd in my heart,
Tho' fo deny'd fair harbour in my house:
Your own good thoughts excufe me, and farewel;
To-morrow we fhall vifit you again.

Prin. Sweet health and fair defires confort your
Grace!

King. Thy own Wish wish I thee, in every place.

[Exit Biron. Lady, I will commend you to my own heart. Rof. I pray you, do my commendations;

I would be glad to fee it.

Biron. I would, you heard it

Rof. Is the fool fick ?

groan.

Biron. Sick at the heart.

Rof. Alack, let it blood.

Biron. Would that do it good?

Rof. My phyfick fays, ay.

Biron. Will you prick't with your eye

Rof. Non, poynt, with my knife.
Biron. Now God fave thy life!
Rof. And yours from long living!
Biron. I can't tay thanksgiving.

[Exit.

Dum.

Dum. Sir, I pray you a word: what lady is that fame?

Boyet. The heir of Alanfon, Rofaline her name.
Dum. A gallant lady; Monfieur, fare you well.

[Exit Long. I befeech you, a word: what is fhe in white? Boyet. A woman fometimes, if you faw her in the light..

Long. Perchance, light in the light; I defire her

name.

Boyet. She hath but one for herself; to defire That, were a fhame.

Lang. Pray you, Sir, whofe daughter?

Boyet. Her mother's, I have heard.

Long. God's bleffing on your beard! *
Boyet. Good Sir, be not offended.

She is an heir of Faulconbridge.
Long. Nay, my choler is ended:

She is a most sweet lady.

may be.

Biron. What's her name in the cap?

Boyet. Not unlike, Sir; that

Boyet. Catharine, by good hap.

Biron. Is the wedded, or no?

[Exit Long

Boyet. To her will, Sir, or fo

Biron. You are welcome, Sir: adieu!

Boyet. Farewel to me, Sir, and welcome to you..

[Exit Biron.: Mar. That laft is Biron, the merry mad-cap lord ; Not a word with him but a jest.

Boyet. And every jeft a word.

Prin. It was well done of you to take him at his word.

Boyet. I was as willing to grapple, as he was to board.

Mar. Two hot sheeps, marry.

Boyet. And wherefore not fhips?

No sheep, fweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.

* That is, may'ft thou have fenfe and ferioufnefs more proportionate to thy beard, the length of which fuits ill with fuch idle catches of wit.

Mar.

Mar. You sheep, and I pafture; fhall that finish the jest?

Boyet. So you grant pafture for me.

Mar. Not fo, gentle beast;

My lips are no common, though feveral they be (7). Boyet. Belonging to whom?

Mar. To my fortunes and me.

Prin. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles,

agree.

The civil war of wits were much better us'd

On Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abus'd. Boyet. If my obfervation, which very feldom lies, By the heart's ftill rhetorick, difclofed with eyes, Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.

Prin. With what?

Boyet. With that which we lovers intitle affected.
Prin. Your reason ?

Boyet. Why, all his behaviours did make their
retire

To the Court of his eye, peeping thorough defire:
His heart, like an agat with your print impreffed,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride expreffed :
His tongue, all impatient to fpeak and not fee (8),
Did stumble with hafte in his eye-fight to be:
All fenfes to that fenfe did make their repair,
*To feel only looking on fairest of fair;
Methought, all his fenfes were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some Prince to buy ;
Who tendring their own worth, from whence they
were glafst,

Did point out to buy them, along as you past."
His face's own margent did quote fuch amazes,
That all eyes faw his eyes inchanted with gazes :

(7) My lips are no common, though several they be] Several is an enclosed field of a private proprietor; fo Maria fays, ber lips are private property. Of a Lord that was newly married one obferved that he grew fat; Yes, faid Sir Walter Raleigh, any beaft will grow fat, if you take him from the common and graze him in the several.

(8) His tongue, all impatient to speak and not fee,] That is, bis tongue being impatiently defirous to fee as well as speak.

To feel only looking,] Perhaps we may better read, to feed only by looking,

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I'll give you Aquitain, and all that is his,

An' you give him for my fake but one loving kifs.
Prin. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is difpos'd-
Boyet. But to speak that in words, which his eye-
hath disclos'd;

I only have made a mouth of his eye,

By adding a tongue which I know will not lye.

Rof. Thou art an old love-morger, and fpeakeft fkilfully.

Mar. He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of

him.

Rof. Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.

Boyet. Do you hear, my mad wenches ?

Mar. No.

Boyet. What then, do you fee ?

Rof. Ay, our way to be gone.
Boyet. You are too hard for me (9).

[Exeunt.

(9) Boyet. You are too hard for me.] Here, in all the Books, the 2d Act is made to end: but in my opinion very mistakenly. I have ventur'd to vary the Regulation of the four laft Acts from the printed Copies, for thefe Reafons. Hitherto, the ad Act has been of the Extent of 7 Pages; the third but of 5; and the 5th of no less than 29. And this Difproportion of Length has crouded too many Incidents into fome Acts, and left the others quite barren. I have now reduced them into a much better Equality; and diftributed the Bufinefs likewife (fuch as it is) into a more uniform Caft. THEOBALD.

Mr. Theobald has reafon enough to propofe this alteration, but he fhould not have made it in his book without better authority or more need. I have therefore preferved his obfervation, but cons

tinued the former divifion..

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