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I tell thee my master is become a hot lover.

LAUNCE

Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself in love. If thou wilt, go
with me to the alehouse; if [45] not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not
worth the name of a Christian.

SPEED

Why?

LAUNCE

Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to go to the ale with a
Christian. Wilt thou go? [50]

SPEED

At thy service.

Exeunt.

Scene VI IT

Enter Proteus solus.

PROT EUS

To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;
To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;
To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn.
And e’en that power which gave me first my oath
Provokes me to this threefold perjury: [5]
Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear.
O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!
At first I did adore a twinkling star,
But now I worship a celestial sun. [10]
Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken;
And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will
To learn his wit t’exchange the bad for better.
Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad
Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred [15]
With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths!
I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;