Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper. What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear. Biron. Now, in thy likeness, one more fool, ap pear! Long. Ah me! I am forsworn! [Aside. [Aside. Biron. Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers. [Aside. King. In love, I hope; Sweet fellowship in shame! [Aside. Biron. One drunkard loves another of the name. [Aside. Long. Am I the first that have been perjur'd so? [Aside. Biron. I could put thee in comfort; not by two, that I know: [Aside. Thou mak'st the triumviry, the corner-cap of society, The shape of love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity. Long. I fear, these stubborn lines lack power to move: O sweet Maria, empress of my love! These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. Biron. O rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's Did not the heavenly rhetorick of thine eye (Gainst whom the world cannot hold argu Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: Thy grace being gain'd, cures all disgrace in me. Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is: Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhal'st this vapour vow; in thee it is: If broken then, it is no fault of mine; If by me broke, What fool is not so wise, To lose an oath to win a paradise? Biron. [Aside.] This is the liver vein, which makes flesh a deity; A green goose, a goddess: pure, pure idolatry. Enter DUMAIN, with a paper. Long. By whom shall I send this?-Company! stay. [Stepping aside. Biron. [Aside.] All hid, all hid, an old infant play: Like a demi-god here sit I in the sky, And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'er-eye. Biron. O most prophane coxcomb! [Aside. [Aside. Dum. Her amber hairs for foul have amber coted. [Aside. Dum. As upright as the cedar. Stoop, I say; Dum. Her shoulder is with child. Biron. Ay, as some days; but then no sun must [Aside. As fair as day. shine. [Aside. Dum. O that I had my wish! Long. And I had mine! [Aside. [Aside. King. And I mine too, good Lord; Biron. Amen, so I had mine: Is not that a good word? [Aside. Dum. I would forget her; but a fever she Reigns in my blood, and will remember'd be. Biron. A fever in your blood? why, then incision Would let her out in saucers; Sweet misprision! [Aside. Dum. Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ. Biron. Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit. [Aside. Dum. On a day, (alack the day!) Love, whose month is ever May, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow; Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn : Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. That I am forsworn for thee: Thou for whom even Jove would swear, Juno but an Ethiop were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. This will I send; and something else more plain, Would from my forehead wipe a perjur'd note; Long. Dumain, [advancing,] thy love is far from charity, That in love's grief desir'st society: You may look pale, but I should blush, I know, King. Come, sir, [advancing,] you blush; as his your case is such; You chide at him, offending twice as much: I have been closely shrouded in this bush, sion: Ah me! says one; O Jove! the other cries; [To Long. And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath. [To Dumain. What will Birón say, when that he shall hear [Descends from the tree. |