198175Pedro What secret hath held you here, that you followed

199176not to Leonatoes?

200177Bene. I would your Grace would constraine me to tell.

202178Pedro I charge thee on thy allegeance.

203179Ben. You heare, Count Claudio, I can be secret as a dumb

204180man, I woulde haue you thinke so (but on my allegiance,

205181marke you this, on my allegiance) he is in loue, with who? now

206182that is your Graces part: marke how short his answer is, with

207183Hero Leonatoes short daughter.

209184Clau. If this were so, so were it vttred.

210185Bened. Like the olde tale, my Lord, it is not so, nor twas

211186not so: but indeede, God forbid it should be so.

212187Claudio If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it

213188should be otherwise.

214189Pedro Amen, if you loue her, for the Lady is very well

215190worthy.

216191Claudio You speake this to fetch me in, my Lord.

217192Pedro By my troth I speake my thought.

218193Claudio And in faith, my Lord, I spoke mine.

219194Bened. And by my two faiths and troths, my Lorde, I

220195spoke mine.

221196Clau. That I loue her, I feele.

222197Pedro That she is worthy, I know.

223198Bened. That I neither feele how she should be loued, nor

224199know how she should be worthie,

is the opinion that fire can

225200not melt out of me, I will die in it at the stake.

227201Pedro Thou wast euer an obstinate heretique in the de-

228202spight of Beauty.

229203Clau. And neuer could maintaine his part, but in the force

230204of his wil.

231205Bene. That a woman conceiued me, I thanke her: that she

232206brought me vp, I likewise giue her most humble thankes: but

233207that I will haue a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my

234208bugle in an inuisible baldricke, all women shall pardon mee:

235209because I will not doe them the wrong to mistrust any, I will

236210doe my selfe the right to trust none: and the fine is, (for the