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you, and shine [35] through you like the water in an urinal, that not an eye
that sees you but is a physician to comment on your malady.

     VALENT INE

But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?

     SPEED

She that you gaze on so, as she sits at supper? [40]

     VALENT INE

Hast thou observed that? Even she I mean.

     SPEED

Why, sir, I know her not.

     VALENT INE

Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet knowest her not?

     SPEED

Is she not hard-favoured, sir? [45]

     VALENT INE

Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.

     SPEED

Sir, I know that well enough.

     VALENT INE

What dost thou know?

     SPEED

That she is not so fair as, of you, well favoured.

     VALENT INE

I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her [50] favour infinite.

     SPEED

That’s because the one is painted, and the other out of all count.
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