12311182Haue with our needles, created both one flower,

12321183Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,

12331184Both warbling of one song, both in one key;

12341185As if our hands, our sides, voyces, and mindes

12351186Had bin incorporate. So wee grewe together,

12361187Like to a double cherry, seeming parted;

12371188But yet an vnion in partition,

12381189Two louely berries moulded on one stemme:

12391190So with two seeming bodies, but one heart,

12401191Two of the first life coats in heraldry,

12411192Due but to one, and crowned with one creast.

12421193And will you rent our auncient loue asunder,

12431194To ioyne with men, in scorning your poore friend?

12441195It is not friendly, tis not maidenly.

12451196Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it;

12461197Though I alone doe fele the iniury.

12471198Her. I am amazed at your words:

12481199I scorne you not. It seemes that you scorne mee.

12491200Hel. Haue you not set Lysander, as in scorne,

12501201To follow mee, and praise my eyes and face?

12511202And made your other loue, Demetrius

12521203(Who euen but now did spurne mee with his foote)

12531204To call mee goddesse, nymph, diuine, and rare,

12541205Pretious celestiall? VVherefore speakes he this,

12551206To her he hates? And wherfore doth Lysander

12561207Deny your loue (so rich within his soule)

12571208And tender mee (forsooth) affection,

12581209But by your setting on, by your consent?

12591210VVhat, though I be not so in grace as you,

12601211So hung vpon with loue, so fortunate?

12611212(But miserable most, to loue vnlou'd)

12621213This you should pittie, rather then despise.

12631214Her. I vnderstand not, what you meane by this.

12641215Hel. I doe. Perseuer, counterfait sad lookes:

12651216Make mouthes vpon mee, when I turne my back: