1849Come Sister: Shepheardesse, looke on him better

1850And be not proud, though all the world could see,

1851None could be so abus'd in sight as hee.

1853Phe. Dead Shepheard, now I find thy saw of might,

1854Who euer lov'd, that lou'd not at first sight?

1855Sil. Sweet Phebe.

1856Phe. Hah: what saist thou Siluius?

1857Sil. Sweet Phebe pitty me.

1858Phe. Why I am sorry for thee gentle Siluius.

1859Sil. Where euer sorrow is, reliefe would be:

1860If you doe sorrow at my griefe in loue,

1861By giuing loue your sorrow, and my griefe

1862Were both extermin'd.

1863Phe. Thou hast my loue, is not that neighbourly?

1864Sil. I would haue you.

1865Phe. Why that were couetousnesse:

1866Siluius; the time was, that I hated thee;

1867And yet it is not, that I beare thee loue,

1868But since that thou canst talke of loue so well,

1869Thy company, which erst was irkesome to me

1870I will endure; and Ile employ thee too:

1871But doe not looke for further recompence

1872Then thine owne gladnesse, that thou art employd.

1873Sil. So holy, and so perfect is my loue,

1874And I in such a pouerty of grace,

1875That I shall thinke it a most plenteous crop

1876To gleane the broken eares after the man

1877That the maine haruest reapes: loose now and then

1878A scattred smile, and that Ile liue vpon.

1880Sil. Not very well, but I haue met him oft,

1881And he hath bought the Cottage and the bounds

1882That the old Carlot once was Master of.

1883Phe. Thinke not I loue him, though I ask for him,

1884'Tis but a peeuish boy, yet he talkes well,

1885But what care I for words? yet words do well

1886When he that speakes them pleases those that heare:

1887It is a pretty youth, not very prettie,

1888But sure hee's proud, and yet his pride becomes him;

1889Hee'll make a proper man: the best thing in him

1890Is his complexion: and faster then his tongue

1891Did make offence, his eye did heale it vp:

1892He is not very tall, yet for his yeeres hee's tall:

1893His leg is but so so, and yet 'tis well:

1894There was a pretty rednesse in his lip,

1895A little riper, and more lustie red

1896Then that mixt in his cheeke: 'twas iust the difference

1897Betwixt the constant red, and mingled Damaske.

1898There be some women Siluius, had they markt him

1899In parcells as I did, would haue gone neere

1900To fall in loue with him: but for my part

1901I loue him not, nor hate him not: and yet

1902Haue more cause to hate him then to loue him,

1903For what had he to doe to chide at me?

1904He said mine eyes were black, and my haire blacke,

1905And now I am remembred, scorn'd at me:

1906I maruell why I answer'd not againe,

1907But that's all one: omittance is no quittance:

1908Ile write to him a very tanting Letter,

1909And thou shalt beare it, wilt thou Siluius?

1910Sil. Phebe, with all my heart.

1911Phe. Ile write it strait:

1912The matter's in my head, and in my heart,

1913I will be bitter with him, and passing short;

1917Iaq. I prethee, pretty youth, let me better acquainted

1918with thee.

1919Ros They say you are a melancholly fellow.

1920Iaq. I am so: I doe loue it better then laughing.

1921Ros. Those that are in extremity of either, are abho-

1922minable fellowes, and betray themselues to euery mo-

1923derne censure, worse then drunkards.

1924Iaq. Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.

1925Ros. Why then 'tis good to be a poste.

1926Iaq. I haue neither the Schollers melancholy, which

1927is emulation: nor the Musitians, which is fantasticall;

1928nor the Courtiers, which is proud: nor the Souldiers,

1929which is ambitious: nor the Lawiers, which is politick:

1930nor the Ladies, which is nice: nor the Louers, which

1931is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine owne, com-

1932pounded of many simples, extracted from many obiects,

1933and indeed the sundrie contemplation of my trauells, in

1934which by often rumination, wraps me in a most humo-

1935rous sadnesse.

1936Ros. A Traueller: by my faith you haue great rea-

1937son to be sad: I feare you haue sold your owne Lands,

1938to see other mens; then to haue seene much, and to haue

1939nothing, is to haue rich eyes and poore hands.

1940Iaq. Yes, I haue gain'd my experience.

1942Ros. And your experience makes you sad: I had ra-

1943ther haue a foole to make me merrie, then experience to

1944make me sad, and to trauaile for it too.

1945Orl. Good day, and happinesse, deere Rosalind.

1946Iaq. Nay then God buy you, and you talke in blanke

1947verse.

1948Ros. Farewell Mounsieur Trauellor: looke you

1949lispe, and weare strange suites; disable all the benefits

1950of your owne Countrie: be out of loue with your

1951natiuitie, and almost chide God for making you that

1952countenance you are; or I will scarce thinke you haue

1953swam in a Gundello. Why how now Orlando, where

1954haue you bin all this while? you a louer? and you

1955serue me such another tricke, neuer come in my sight

1956more.

1957Orl. My faire Rosalind, I come within an houre of my

1958promise.

1959Ros. Breake an houres promise in loue? hee that

1960will diuide a minute into a thousand parts, and breake

1961but a part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs

1962of loue, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapt

1963him oth' shoulder, but Ile warrant him heart hole.

1964Orl. Pardon me deere Rosalind.

1965Ros. Nay, and you be so tardie, come no more in my

1966sight, I had as liefe be woo'd of a Snaile.

1967Orl. Of a Snaile?

1968Ros. I, of a Snaile: for though he comes slowly, hee

1969carries his house on his head; a better ioyncture I thinke

1970then you make a woman: besides, he brings his destinie

1971with him.

1972Orl. What's that?

1973Ros. Why hornes: w^c such as you are faine to be be-

1974holding to your wiues for: but he comes armed in his

1975fortune, and preuents the slander of his wife.