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Ben. Rom. Mer. Rom. Mer. Rom. Mer. Rom. Mer. Rom. Mer. Rom. 52 And, to sink in it, should you burden love— Too great oppression for a tender thing. Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn. If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. Give me a case to put my visage in. A visor for a visor! What care I What curious eye doth quote deformities? Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. Come, knock and enter, and no sooner in But every man betake him to his legs.
Let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels; For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase, I’ll be a candle-holder and look on; The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done. Tut! dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word! If thou art Dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire Of, save your reverence, love, wherein thou stickst Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! Nay, that’s not so. I mean, sir, in delay We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits Five times in that ere once in our five wits.
2 Cap. ’Tis more, ’tis more! His son is elder, sir; His son is thirty. Cap. Will you tell me that? His son was but a ward two years ago. Rom. ] What lady’s that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight? Serv. I know not, sir. Rom. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear— Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows. The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.