1446Du. Sir Thurio, feare not, but that she will loue you

1447Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight.

1448Th. Since his exile she hath despis'd me most,

1449Forsworne my company, and rail'd at me,

1450That I am desperate of obtaining her.

1451Du. This weake impresse of Loue, is as a figure

1452Trenched in ice, which with an houres heate

1453Dissolues to water, and doth loose his forme.

1454A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,

1455And worthlesse Valentine shall be forgot.

1456How now sir Protheus, is your countriman

1457(According to our Proclamation) gon?

1458Pro. Gon, my good Lord.

1459Du. My daughter takes his going grieuously?

1460Pro. A little time (my Lord) will kill that griefe.

1461Du. So I beleeue: but Thurio thinkes not so:

1462Protheus, the good conceit I hold of thee,

1463(For thou hast showne some signe of good desert)

1464Makes me the better to confer with thee.

1465Pro. Longer then I proue loyall to your Grace,

1466Let me not liue, to looke vpon your Grace.

1467Du. Thou know'st how willingly, I would effect

1468The match betweene sir Thurio, and my daughter?

1469Pro. I doe my Lord.

1470Du. And also, I thinke, thou art not ignorant

1471How she opposes her against my will?

1472Pro. She did my Lord, when Valentine was here.

1473Du. I, and peruersly, she perseuers so:

1474What might we doe to make the girle forget

1475The loue of Valentine, and loue sir Thurio?

1476Pro. The best way is, to slander Valentine,

1477With falsehood, cowardize, and poore discent:

1478Three things, that women highly hold in hate.

1479Du. I, but she'll thinke, that it is spoke in hate.

1480Pro. I, if his enemy deliuer it.

1481Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken

1482By one, whom she esteemeth as his friend.

1483Du. Then you must vndertake to slander him.

1484Pro. And that (my Lord) I shall be loath to doe:

1485'Tis an ill office for a Gentleman,

1486Especially against his very friend.

1487 Du. Where your good word cannot aduantage him,

1488Your slander neuer can endamage him;

1489Therefore the office is indifferent,

1490Being intreated to it by your friend.

1491Pro. You haue preuail'd (my Lord) if I can doe it

1492By ought that I can speake in his dispraise,

1493She shall not long continue loue to him:

1494But say this weede her loue from Valentine,

1495It followes not that she will loue sir Thurio.

1496Th. Therefore, as you vnwinde her loue from him;

1497Least it should rauell, and be good to none,

1498You must prouide to bottome it on me:

1499Which must be done, by praising me as much

1500As you, in worth dispraise, sir Valentine.

1501Du. And Protheus, we dare trust you in this kinde,

1502Because we know (on Valentines report)

1503You are already loues firme votary,

1504And cannot soone reuolt, and change your minde.

1505Vpon this warrant, shall you haue accesse,

1506Where you, with Siluia, may conferre at large.

1507For she is lumpish, heauy, mellancholly,

1508And (for your friends sake) will be glad of you;

1509Where you may temper her, by your perswasion,

1510To hate yong Valentine, and loue my friend.

1511Pro. As much as I can doe, I will effect:

1512But you sir Thurio, are not sharpe enough:

1513You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires

1514By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes

1515Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.

1516Du. I, much is the force of heauen-bred Poesie.

1517Pro. Say that vpon the altar of her beauty

1518You sacrifice your teares, your sighes, your heart:

1519Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares

1520Moist it againe: and frame some feeling line,

1521That may discouer such integrity:

1522For Orpheus Lute, was strung with Poets sinewes,

1523Whose golden touch could soften steele and stones;

1524Make Tygers tame, and huge Leuiathans

1525Forsake vnsounded deepes, to dance on Sands.

1526After your dire-lamenting Elegies,

1527Visit by night your Ladies chamber-window

1528With some sweet Consort; To their Instruments

1529Tune a deploring dumpe: the nights dead silence

1530Will well become such sweet complaining grieuance:

1531This, or else nothing, will inherit her.

1532Du. This discipline, showes thou hast bin in loue.

1533Th. And thy aduice, this night, ile put in practise:

1534Therefore, sweet Protheus, my direction-giuer,

1535Let vs into the City presently

1536To sort some Gentlemen, well skil'd in Musicke.

1537I haue a Sonnet, that will serue the turne

1538To giue the on-set to thy good aduise.

1539Du. About it Gentlemen.

1540Pro. We'll wait vpon your Grace, till after Supper,

1541And afterward determine our proceedings.

1542 Du. Euen now about it, I will pardon you. Exeunt.