If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
3.7.21857I know not how I shall assure you further,
3.7.31858But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,
3.7.51860Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
In any staining act. Nor would I wish you.
3.7.81864First give me trust: the count he is my husband,
3.7.91865And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
3.7.101866Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,
3.7.111867By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
Err in bestowing it. I should believe you,
3.7.131870For you have showed me that which well approves
You're great in fortune. Take this purse of gold,
3.7.151873And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
3.7.181877Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
3.7.191878Resolves to carry her. Let her in fine consent
3.7.201879As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.
3.7.211880Now his important blood will naught deny
3.7.221881That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,
3.7.231882That downward hath succeeded in his house
3.7.241883From son to son some four or five descents
3.7.251884Since the first father wore it. This ring he holds
3.7.261885In most rich choice. Yet in his idle fire
3.7.271886To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,
Now I see the bottom of your purpose.
You see it lawful then. It is no more
3.7.311890But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,
3.7.321891Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
3.7.351894To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns
To what is passed already. I have yielded.
3.7.371897Instruct my daughter how she shall persever
3.7.381898That time and place with this deceit so lawful
3.7.391899May prove coherent. Every night he comes
3.7.401900With musics of all sorts and songs composed
3.7.411901To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us
3.7.421902To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
As if his life lay on 't. Why then, to night
3.7.441905Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed,
3.7.471908Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.