¶ Enter don Pedro, Iohn the bastard.
¶Pedro What
secret hath held you here, that you followed
200Bene. I would your Grace would con
straine me to tell.
¶Pedro I charge thee on thy allegeance.
¶Ben. You heare, Count Claudio, I can be
secret as a dumb
¶man, I woulde haue you thinke
so (but on my allegiance,
205marke you this, on my allegiance) he is in loue, with who? now
¶that is your Graces part: marke how
short his an
swer is, with
¶Hero Leonatoes
short daughter.
¶Clau. If this were
so,
so were it vttred.
210Bened. Like the olde tale, my Lord, it is not
so, nor twas
¶not
so: but indeede, God forbid it
should be
so.
¶Claudio If my pa
ssion change not
shortly, God forbid it
¶Pedro Amen, if you loue her, for the Lady is very well
¶Claudio You
speake this to fetch me in, my Lord.
¶Pedro By my troth I
speake my thought.
¶Claudio And in faith, my Lord, I
spoke mine.
¶Bened. And by my two faiths and troths, my Lorde, I
¶Clau. That I loue her, I feele.
¶Pedro That
she is worthy, I know.
¶Bened. That I neither feele how
she
should be loued, nor
¶know how
she
should be worthie,
is the opinion that fire can
225not melt out of me, I will die in it at the
stake.
¶Pedro Thou wa
st euer an ob
stinate heretique in the de-
¶Clau. And neuer could maintaine his part, but in the force
¶Bene. That a woman conceiued me, I thanke her: that
she
¶brought me vp, I likewi
se giue her mo
st humble thankes: but
¶that I will haue a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my
¶bugle in an inui
sible baldricke, all women
shall pardon mee:
235becau
se I will not doe them the wrong to mi
stru
st any, I will
¶doe my
selfe the right to tru
st none: and the fine is, (for the
