Page 1901 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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VALENT INE
How painted? And how out of count?
SPEED
Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no [55] man counts of her
beauty.
VALENT INE
How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty.
SPEED
You never saw her since she was deformed.
VALENT INE
How long hath she been deformed? [60]
SPEED
Ever since you loved her.
VALENT INE
I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still I see her beautiful.
SPEED
If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENT INE
Why? [65]
SPEED
Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had
the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at Sir Proteus for going
ungartered!
VALENT INE
What should I see then?
SPEED
Your own present folly, and her passing deformity; [70] for he, being in
love, could not see to garter his hose; and you, being in love, cannot see to
