By aught that I can speak in his difprai fe, THU. Therefore as you unwind her love from him, You must provide to bottom it on me: Which must be done, by praifing me as much As you in worth difpraise Sir Valentine. DUKE. And, Protheus, we dare trust you in this kind, Because we know, on Valentine's report, You are already love's firm votary; And cannot foon revolt and change your mind. may For Orpheus' lute was ftrung with poets' finews; Whofe golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tygers tame, and huge Leviathans Vifit by night your lady's chamber-window DUKE. This difcipline fhews, thou hast been in love. To fort fome gentlemen well skill'd in musick; I have a fonnet, that will ferve the turn, To give the onset to thy good advice. DUKE. About it, gentlemen, PRO. We'll wait upon your grace, 'till after fupper; And afterwards determine our proceedings. DUKE. Ev'n now about it. I will pardon you. ACT IV. SCENE I A foreft, leading towards Mantua. Enter certain Outlaws. IOUT-LA W. ELLOWS, ftand faft: I fee a paffenger. [Exe. 2 OUT. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em. Enter Valentine and Speed." 3 OUT. Stand, Sir, and throw us what you have about you; If not, we'll make you, Sir, and rifle you. SPEED. Sir, we are undone; thefe are the villains, that all the travellers do fear. fo much. VAL. My friends,· I OUT. That's not fo, Sir; we are your enemies. 2 OUT. Peace; we'll hear him. 3 OUT. Ay, by my beard, will we; for he is a proper man. VAL. Then know, that I have little wealth to lose : A man I am, cro s'd with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the fum and fubftance that I have. 2 OUT. Whither travel you? VAL. TO Verona. I OUT. Whence came you? 3 OUT. Have you long fojourn'd there? VAL. Some fixteen months; and longer might have staid, If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. I OUT. What, were you banish'd thence ? VAL. I was. 2 OUT. For what offence? VAL. For what, which now torments me to rehearse : I kill'd a man, whofe death I much repent; But yet I flew him manfully in fight, Without falfe vantage or base treachery. I OUT. Why ne'er repent it, if it were done fo. But were you banish'd for fo fmall a fault? VAL. I was, and held me glad of fuch a doom. I OUT. Have you the tongues? VAL. My youthful travel therein made me happy, Or elfe I often had been miferable. 3 OUT. By the bare fcalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, This fellow were the king for our wild faction. I OUT. We'll have him. Sirs, a word. SPEED. Mafter be one of them: it's an honourable kind of thievery. VAL. Peace, villain. 2 OUT. Tell us this; have you any thing to take to? VAL. Nothing, but my fortune. 3 OUT. Know then, that fome of us are gentlemen, Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth Thrust from the company of awful men; 2 OUT. And I from Mantua, for a gentleman Whom, in my mood, I ftabb'd unto the heart. I OUT. And I for fuch like petty crimes as thefe. 2 OUT. Indeed, becaufe you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the reft, we parley to you; Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of neceffity, And live, as we do, in the wilderness ? 3 OUT. What fay'ft thou? wilt thou be our confort Say, ay; and be the captain of us all : We'll do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee; Love thee as our commander, and our king. 1 OUT. But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou dy'st. E 2 OUT. Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd. VAL. I take your offer, and will live with you; Provided that you do no outrages On filly women, or poor passengers. 3 OUT. No, we deteft fuch vile bafe practices. Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews. And fhew thee all the treasure we have got; Which, with ourselves, fhall reft at thy difpofe. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Changes to an open place, under Silvia's apartment, in Milan. Enter Protheus. PRO. Already I've been false to Valentine, |