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Did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I do? When didst thou see me
heave up my leg [35] and make water against a gentlewoman’s
farthingale? Didst thou ever see me do such a trick?

[Enter Proteus and Julia disguised]

PROT EUS

Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well,
And will employ thee in some service presently.

JULIA

In what you please; I’ll do what I can. [40]

PROT EUS

I hope thou wilt. [To Launce] How now, you whoreson peasant!
Where have you been these two days loitering?

LAUNCE

Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.

PROT EUS

And what says she to my little jewel? [45]

LAUNCE

Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish thanks is good
enough for such a present.

PROT EUS

But she received my dog?

LAUNCE

No, indeed, did she not; here have I brought him back again. [50]

PROT EUS

What, didst thou offer her this from me?

LAUNCE

Ay, sir; the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman boys in the
market-place; and then I offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten
of yours, and therefore the gift the greater. [55]