Page 1904 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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[aside] Exit.
And yet you will; and yet, another “yet”.
VALENT INE
What means your ladyship? Do you not like it?
SILVIA
Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ; [115]
But, since unwillingly, take them again.
Nay, take them.
VALENT INE
Madam, they are for you.
SILVIA
Ay, ay; you writ them, sir, at my request,
But I will none of them; they are for you.
I would have had them writ more movingly. [120]
VALENT INE
Please you, I’ll write your ladyship another.
SILVIA
And when it’s writ, for my sake read it over;
And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
VALENT INE
If it please me, madam, what then?
SILVIA
Why, if it please you, take it for your labour. [125]
And so, good morrow, servant.
SPEED
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible
As a nose on a man’s face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
My master sues to her; and she hath taught her suitor,
He being her pupil, to become her tutor. [130]
O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better,
