Jul. Peace, ftand afide, the company parts. Thu. Farewel. SCENE [Exe. Thu. and Mufick. IV. Enter Silvia above. Pro. Madam, good even to your ladyship. Pro. One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth, Sil. Sir Protheus, as I take it. Pro. Sir Protheus, gentle lady, and your fervant. Pro. That I may compass yours. Sil. You have your wifh; my will is ever this, That haft deceiv'd fo many with thy vows? Jul. [Afide.] 'Twere falfe if I fhould speak it; Sil. Say that the be; yet Valentine thy friend 5 thy felf art witnefs, I am I am betroth'd: and art thou not asham'd Pro. I likewife hear that Valentine is dead. Pro. Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth. Pro. Madam, if your heart be fo [ceive it, Jul. [Afide.] If 'twere a fubftance you would fure deAnd make it but a fhadow as I am. Sil. I'm very loth to be your idol, Sir; But fince your falfhood shall become you well And fo, good rest. Pro. As wretches have o'er night, That wait for execution in the morn. [Exe. Pro. and Sil. Jul. Hoft, will you go? Hoft. By my hallidom, I was faft asleep. Jul. Pray you, where lyes Sir Protheus? [moft day. Hoft. Marry, at my houfe: truft me, I think 'tis alJul. Not fo; but it hath been the longest night That e'er I watch'd, and the most heavy one. 6 picture for my love, [Exeunt. SCENE Egl. This is the hour that Madam Silvia Entreated me to call and know her mind: There's fome great matter she'd employ me in. 7 'Madam!` Sil. Who calls? Enter Silvia above. Egl. Your fervant and your friend; Sil. Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good-morrow. I am thus early come, to know what fervice Sil. Oh Eglamour, thou art a gentleman, To Mantua, where, I hear, he makes abode : 7 Madam, Madam !! O 2 8 abhorr'd. And And on the juftice of my flying hence, As full of forrows as the fea of fands, Egl. Madam, I pity much your grievances; As much I wish all good befortune you. Sil. This evening coming. Shall I meet you? Sil. At friar Patrick's cell; Where I intend holy confeffion. Egl. 'I will not fail:` Good-morrow, gentle lady. Sil. Good-morrow, kind Sir Eglamour. [Exeunt. Laun. WHEN a man's fervant fhall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy, one that I fav'd from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and fifters went to it! I have taught him, even as one would fay precisely, thus I would teach a dog. 'I went to deliver him as a present to mistrefs Silvia, from my mafter; and I came no fooner into the dining-chamber, but he fteps me to her trencher, 9 I will not fail your lady ship: I was fent . . . old edit. Theob. emend. 2 trencher, and steals her capon's leg. O, 'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one fhould fay, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hang'd for't; fure as I live he had fuffer'd for't; you fhall judge. He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentlemanlike dogs, under the Duke's table; he had not been there (bless the mark) a piffing while, but all the chamber fmelt him. Out with the dog, fays one; what cur is that? fays another; whip him out, fays a third; hang him up, fays the Duke. I having been acquainted with the fmell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs; Friend, quoth I, you mean to whip the dog? Ay marry do I, quoth he. You do him the more wrong, quoth I; 'twas I did the thing you wot of. He makes no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber. How many mafters would do this for their fervant? nay, I'll be fworn I have fat in the ftocks for puddings he hath ftol'n, otherwise he had been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geefe he hath kill'd, otherwife he had fuffer'd for't. Thou think'ft not of this now. Nay, I remember the trick you ferv'd me when I took my leave of Madam Silvia; did not I bid thee ftill mark me, and do as I do? when didft thou fee me heave up my leg, and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didit thou ever see me do fuch a trick? Pro. Sebaftian is thy name? I like thee well, And will employ thee in fome service presently. Jul. In what you please: I'll do, Sir, what I can. Pro. I hope thou wilt. How now, you whore-fon Where have you been these two days loitering? [peafant, O 3 Laun. 2 fays the third; |