Jul. But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.

Thu. What says she to my valour ?

Pro. Oh, sir, she makes no doubt of that.

[Aside.

Jul. She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.

[Aside.

Thu. What says she to my birth?

Pro. That you are well deriv'd.

Jul. True; from a gentleman to a fool.

[Aside,

Thu. Considers she my possessions?

Pro. O, ay; and pities them.

Thu. Wherefore ?

Jul. That such an ass should owe them.

[Aside.

Duke. Why, then she's fled unto that peasant

Valentine;

And Eglamour is in her company.

'Tis true; for friar Laurence met them both,

As he in penance wander'd through the forest:
Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she;
But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it ;
Besides, she did intend confession

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At

At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not:
These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
But mount you presently; and meet with me
Upon the rising of the mountain-foot
That leads toward Mantua, whither they are fled:
Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.

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[Exit Duke.

Thu. Why, this it is to be a peevish girl, That flies her fortune when it follows her: I'll after; more to be reveng'd on Eglamour, Than for the love of reckless Silvia.

Pro. And I will follow, more for Silvia's love, Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.

Jul. And I will follow, more to cross that love, Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love. [Exeunt.

SCENE III.

The Forest. Enter SILVIA, and Out-Laws.

1 Out. Come, come;

Be patient, we must bring you to our captain.

Sil. A thousand more mischances, than this one,

Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.

2 Out. Come, bring her away.

1 Out. Where is the gentleman that was with her? Out. Being nimble-footed, he hath out-run us;

3

But Moyses, and Valerius, follow him.

Go thou with her to the west end of the wood,

There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled; 8.

The thicket is beset, he cannot 'scape.

1 Out. Come, I must bring you to our captain's

cave:

Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,

And will not use a woman lawlessly.

Sil. O Valentine, this I endure for thee! [Exeunt.

SCENE IV.

The Out-Laws' Cave in the Forest. Enter VALENTINE.

Val. How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desart, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns :
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,

And, to the nightingale's complaining notes,
Tune my distresses, and record my woes.
O thou, that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless;
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall,
And leave no memory of what it was !
Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;

Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain !--
What hallowing, and what stir, is this to-day?
These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Have some unhappy passenger in chace :

They love me well; yet I have much to do,
To keep them from uncivil outrages.

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Withdraw thee, Valentine; Who's this comes here?

[VAL. steps aside.

Enter