Page 2494 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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DUMAINE
O, shall I say ‘I thank you, gentle wife’?
KAT HARINE
Not so, my lord. A twelvemonth and a day
I’ll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say.
Come when the King doth to my lady come; [815]
Then, if I have much love, I’ll give you some.
DUMAINE
I’ll serve thee true and faithfully till then.
KAT HARINE
Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
They converse apart.
LONGAVILLE
What says Maria?
MARIA
At the twelvemonth’s end
I’ll change my black gown for a faithful friend. [820]
LONGAVILLE
I’ll stay with patience, but the time is long.
MARIA
The liker you; few taller are so young.
They converse apart.
BEROWNE
Studies my lady? Mistress, look on me.
Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,
What humble suit attends thy answer there. [825]
Impose some service on me for thy love.
ROSALINE
Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Berowne,
Before I saw you, and the world’s large tongue
Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
