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There is our captain; we’ll follow him that’s fled. [10]
The thicket is beset; he cannot ’scape.

FIRST OUTLAW

Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave;
Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.

SILVIA

O Valentine, this I endure for thee! [15]

Exeunt.

Scene IV IT

Enter Valentine.

VALENT INE [Noises within]
[Withdraws]
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale’s complaining notes [5]
Tune my distresses, and record my woes.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
And leave no memory of what it was. [10]
Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;
Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain.

What halloing and what stir is this today?
These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Have some unhappy passenger in chase. [15]
They love me well; yet I have much to do
To keep them from uncivil outrages.
Withdraw thee, Valentine. Who’s this comes here?

[Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia]