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th’other curses a suing fellow and her garden-house. [55]
[She sings]
I will be true, my stars, my fate, etc.
Exit.

GAOLER
What think you of her, sir?

DOCTOR
I think she has a perturbed mind, which I cannot minister to.

GAOLER
Alas, what then? [60]

DOCTOR
Understand you she ever affected any man ere she beheld Palamon?

GAOLER
I was once, sir, in great hope she had fixed her liking on this gentleman my
friend.

WOOER
I did think so too, and would account I had a [65] great penn’orth on’t, to

give half my state that both she and I at this present stood unfeignedly on
the same terms.

DOCTOR
That intemperate surfeit of her eye hath distempered the other senses; they
may return and [70] settle again to execute their preordained faculties, but
they are now in a most extravagant vagary. This you must do: confine her to

a place where the light may rather seem to steal in than be permitted; take
upon you, young sir her friend, the name of Palamon; say you [75] come to
eat with her and to commune of love. This will catch her attention, for this

her mind beats upon; other objects that are inserted ’tween her mind and eye
become the pranks and friskins of her madness. Sing to her such green songs
of love as she says Palamon hath [80] sung in prison; come to her stuck in as
sweet flowers as the season is mistress of, and thereto make an addition of