279248Claudio My liege, your Highnesse nowe may doe mee

280249good.

281250Pedro My loue is thine to teach, teach it but how,

282251And thou shalt see how apt it is to learne

283252Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

284253Clau. Hath Leonato any sonne, my lord?

285254Pedro No childe but Hero, shees his onely heire:

286255Doost thou affect her Claudio?

287256Claudio O my lord,

288257When you went onward on this ended action,

289258I lookt vpon her with a souldiers eie,

290259That likt, but had a rougher taske in hand,

291260Than to driue liking to the name of loue:

292261But now I am returnde, and that warre-thoughts,

293262Haue left their places vacant: in their roomes,

294263Come thronging soft and delicate desires,

295264All prompting mee how faire yong Hero is,

296265Saying I likt her ere I went to warres.

297266Pedro Thou wilt be like a louer presently,

298267And tire the hearer with a booke of words,

299268If thou dost loue faire Hero, cherish it,

300269And I wil breake with hir, and with her father,

270And thou shalt haue her: wast not to this end,

301271That thou beganst to twist so fine a storie?

302272Clau. How sweetly you do minister to loue,

303273That know loues griefe by his complexion!

304274But lest my liking might too sodaine seeme,

305275I would haue salude it with a longer treatise.

306276Pedro What need the bridge much broder then the flood?

307277The fairest graunt is the necessitie:

308278Looke what wil serue is fit: tis once, thou louest,

309279And I wil fit thee with the remedie,

310280I know we shall haue reuelling to night,

311281I wil assume thy part in some disguise,

312282And tell faire Hero I am Claudio,

313283And in her bosome ile vnclaspe my heart,

314284And take her hearing prisoner with the force