Were not you even now with the Countess 658Olivia?

Even now, sir; on a moderate pace, I have since 660arrived but hither.

She returns this ring to you, sir. You might 662have saved me my pains to have taken it away your663self. She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord 664into a desperate assurance she will none of him. And one 665thing more: that you be never so hardy to come again 666in his affairs, unless it be to report your lord's taking 667of this. [Offering the ring] Receive it so.

She took the ring of me; I'll none of it.

Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and 670her will is, it should be so returned. [Throwing the ring down] If it be worth 671stooping for, there it lies, in your eye; if not, be it his that 672finds it.

[To the audience] [Picking up the ring] I left no ring with her. What means this lady?

2.2.7674Fortune forbid my outside have not charmed her!

2.2.8675She made good view of me; indeed so much

2.2.9676That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,

2.2.10677For she did speak in starts distractedly.

2.2.11678She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion

2.2.12679Invites me in this churlish messenger.

2.2.13680None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none;

2.2.14681I am the man! If it be so, as 'tis,

2.2.15682Poor lady, she were better love a dream.

2.2.16683Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,

2.2.17684Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

2.2.18685How easy is it for the proper false

2.2.19686In women's waxen hearts to set their forms.

2.2.20687Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,

2.2.21688For such as we are made of, such we be.

2.2.22689How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,

2.2.23690And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,

2.2.24691And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.

2.2.25692What will become of this? As I am man,

2.2.26693My state is desperate for my master's love;

2.2.27694As I am woman--now alas the day--

2.2.28695What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe?

2.2.29696O time, thou must untangle this, not I,

2.2.30697It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.