To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn?
2.6.4931To love faire Silvia, shall I be forsworn?
2.6.5932To wrong my friend I shall be much forsworn.
2.6.6933And ev'n that pow'r which gave me first my oath
2.6.7934Provokes me to this three-fold perjury.
2.6.8935Love bad me swear, and Love bids me forswear.
2.6.9936O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
2.6.10937Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it.
2.6.11938At first I did adore a twinkling star,
2.6.13940Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
2.6.14941And he wants wit that wants resolved will
2.6.15942To learn his wit t'exchange the bad for better.
2.6.16943Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad
2.6.17944Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred
2.6.18945With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
2.6.19946I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;
2.6.20947But there I leave to love where I should love.
2.6.22949If I keep them, I needs must lose my self.
2.6.23950If I lose them, thus find I by their loss:
2.6.24951For Valentine, my self; for Julia, Silvia.
2.6.25952I to my self am dearer than a friend,
2.6.26953For love is still most precious in itself,
2.6.27954And Silvia, witness heaven that made her fair,
2.6.30957Rememb'ring that my love to her is dead.
2.6.32959Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
2.6.33960I cannot now prove constant to my self
2.6.34961Without some treachery used to Valentine.
2.6.35962This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
2.6.36963To climb celestial Silvia's chamber window,
2.6.38965Now presently I'll give her father notice
2.6.39966Of their disguising and pretended flight,
2.6.40967Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine,
2.6.41968For Turio he intends shall wed his daughter.
2.6.42969But Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross
2.6.43970By some sly trick blunt Turio's dull proceeding.
2.6.44971Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
2.6.45972As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.