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No, madam, we will bring you on your way.
BEROWNE
Our wooing doth not end like and old play; [860]
Jack hath not Jill. These ladies’ courtesy
Might well have made our sport a comedy.
KING
Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
And then ’twill end.
BEROWNE
That’s too long for a play.
Enter Armado.
ARMADO
Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me - [865]
PRINCESS
Was not that Hector?
DUMAINE
The worthy knight of Troy.
ARMADO
I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am a votary; I have vowed to
Jaquenetta to hold the plough for her sweet love three year. But, most
esteemed [870] greatness, will you hear the dialogue that the two learned
men have compiled in praise of the owl and the cuckoo? It should have
followed in the end of our show.
KING
Call them forth quickly; we will do so.
ARMADO
Holla! Approach! [875]
Enter all.
This side is Hiems, winter; this Ver, the spring; the one maintained by the
