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O, good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring to Madam Silvia,
which, out of my neglect, was never done. [90]

PROT EUS

Where is that ring, boy?

JULIA

Here ’tis; this is it.

PROT EUS

How? Let me see. Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.

JULIA

O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook; [95]
This is the ring you sent to Silvia.

PROT EUS

But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart I gave this unto Julia.

JULIA

And Julia herself did give it me;
And Julia herself hath brought it hither. [100]

PROT EUS

How? Julia?

JULIA

Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,
And entertained ’em deeply in her heart.
How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush! [105]
Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
In a disguise of love.
It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
Women to change their shapes than men their minds. [110]

PROT EUS

Than men their minds? ’Tis true. O heaven, were man
But constant, he were perfect! That one error