1291And that (me thinkes) is not so well; nor scarcely

1292Could I perswade him to become a Freeman,

1293He made such scruples of the wrong he did

1294To me, and to my Father. Yet I hope

1295When he considers more, this love of mine

1296Will take more root within him: Let him doe

1297What he will with me, so he use me kindly,

1298For use me so he shall, or ile proclaime him

1299And to his face, no-man: Ile presently

1300Provide him necessaries, and packe my cloathes up.

1301And where there is a path of ground Ile venture

1302So hee be with me; By him, like a shadow

1303Ile ever dwell; within this houre the whoobub

1304Will be all ore the prison: I am then

1305Kissing the man they looke for: farewell Father,

1306Get many more such prisoners, and such daughters,

1307And shortly you may keepe your selfe. Now to him.

1310Arcite. The Duke has lost Hypolita; each tooke

1311A severall land. This is a solemne Right

1312They owe bloomd May, and the Athenians pay it

1313To'th heart of Ceremony: O Queene Emilia

1314Fresher then May, sweeter

1315Then hir gold Buttons on the bowes, or all

1316Th'enamelld knackes o'th Meade, or garden, yea

1317(We challenge too) the bancke of any Nymph

1318That makes the streame seeme flowers; thou o Iewell

1319O'th wood, o'th world, hast likewise blest a pace

1320With thy sole presence, in thy rumination

1321That I poore man might eftsoones come betweene

1322And chop on some cold thought, thrice blessed chance

1323To drop on such a Mistris, expectation

1324most giltlesse on't: tell me O Lady Fortune

1325(Next after Emely my Soveraigne) how far

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