Two Noble Kinsmen (Quarto, 1634)

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2. Two Noble Kinsmen, Quarto, 1634 (Old-spelling transcription)
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 The Two Noble Kinsmen. 
 914If thou once thinke upon her.
 915Arc, Yes I love her,
 916And if the lives of all my name lay on it,
 917I must doe so, I love her with my soule,
 918If that will lose ye, farewell Palamon,
 919I say againe, I love, and in loving her maintaine
 920I am as worthy, and as free a lover
 921And have as just a title to her beauty
 922As any Palamon or any living
 923That is a mans Sonne.
 924Pal. Have I cald thee friend?
 925Arc. Yes, and have found me so; why are you mov'd thus?
 926Let me deale coldly with you, am not I
 927Part of you blood, part of your soule? you have told me
 928That I was Palamon, and you were Arcite.
 929Pal. Yes.
 930Arc. Am not I liable to those affections,
 931Those joyes, greifes, angers, feares, my friend shall suffer?
 932Pal. Ye may be.
 933Arc. Why then would you deale so cunningly,
 934So strangely, so vnlike a noble kinesman
 935To love alone? speake truely, doe you thinke me
 936Vnworthy of her sight?
 937Pal. No, but unjust,
 938If thou pursue that sight.
 939Arc. Because an other
 940First sees the Enemy, shall I stand still
 941And let mine honour downe, and never charge?
 942Pal. Yes, if he be but one.
 943Arc. But say that one
 944Had rather combat me?
 945Pal. Let that one say so,
 946And use thy freedome: els if thou pursuest her,
 947Be as that cursed man that hates his Country,
 948A branded villaine.
 949Arc. You are mad.
 950Pal. I must be.
 951Till thou art worthy, Arcite, it concernes me,
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