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LONGAVILLE
Look, here’s thy love (showing his shoe); my foot and her
face see. [275]
BEROWNE
O, if the streets were pavèd with thine eyes,
Her feet were much too dainty for such tread.
DUMAINE
O, vile! Then, as she goes, what upward lies
The street should see as she walked overhead.
KING
But what of this? Are we not all in love? [280]
BEROWNE
O, nothing so sure, and thereby all forsworn.
KING
Then leave this chat, and, good Berowne, now prove
Our loving lawful and our faith not torn.
DUMAINE
Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil!
LONGAVILLE
O, some authority how to proceed! [285]
Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil!
DUMAINE
Some salve for perjury.
BEROWNE
’Tis more than need.
Have at you then, affection’s men-at-arms!
Consider what you first did swear unto:
To fast, to study, and to see no woman - [290]
Flat treason ’gainst the kingly state of youth.
Say, can you fast? Your stomachs are too young,
And abstinence engenders maladies.
