Cel_. 'Tis certain:
But all this I must now forget.
_Leo_. You shall not
If I have any art: goe up sweet Lady,
And trust my truth.
_Cel_. But good Sir bring him not.
_Leo_. I would not for the honour ye are born to,
But you shall see him, and neglect him too, and scorn him.
_Cel_. You will be near me then.
_Leo_. I will be with ye;
Yet there's some hope to stop this gap, I'le work hard. [_Ex._
_SCENA II._
_Enter Antigonus, Menip. two Gent. Lieutenant, and Lords._
_Ant_. But is it possible this fellow took it?
_2 Gent_. It seems so by the violence it wrought with,
Yet now the fits ev'n off.
_Men_. I beseech your Grace.
_Ant_. Nay, I forgive thy wife with all my heart,
And am right glad she drank it not her self,
And more glad that the vertuous maid escap't it,
I would not for the world 'thad hit: but that this Souldier,
Lord how he looks, that he should take this vomit;
Can he make rimes too?
_2 Gent_. H'as made a thousand Sir,
And plaies the burthen to 'em on a Jews-trump,
_Ant_. He looks as though he were bepist: do you love me Sir?
_Lieu_. Yes surely even with all my heart.
_Ant_. I thank ye;
I am glad I have so good a subject: but pray ye tell me,
How much did ye love me, before ye drank this matter?
_Lieu_. Even as much as a sober man might; and a Souldier
That your grace owes just half a years pay to.
_Ant_. Well remembred;
And did I seem so young and amiable to ye?
_Lieu_. Methought you were the sweetest youth--
_Ant_. That's excellent.
_Lieu_. I truly Sir: and ever as I thought on ye,
I wished, and wished--
_Ant_. What didst thou wish prethee?
_Lieu_. Ev'n, that I had been a wench of fifteen for ye,
A handsom wench Sir.
_Ant_. Why? God a Mercy Souldier:
I seem not so now to thee.
_Lieu_. Not all out:
And yet I have a grudging to your grace still.
_Ant_. Thou wast never in love before?
_Lieu_. Not with a King,
And hope I shall never be again: Truly Sir,
I have had such plunges, and such bickrings,
And as it were such runnings atilt within me,
For whatsoever it was provok't me toward ye.
_Ant_. God a-mercy still.
_Lieu_. I had it with a vengeance,
It plaid his prize.
_Ant_. I would not have been a wench then,
Though of this age.
_Lieu_. No sure, I should have spoil'd ye.
_Ant_. Well, goe thy waies, of all the lusty lovers
That e're I saw--wilt have another potion?
_Lieu_. If you will be another thing, have at ye.
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