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On silly women or poor passengers.

3. Out.

No, we detest such vile base practices.

Come, go with us, we’ll bring thee to our crews,

And show thee all the treasure we have got;

Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Proteus.

Pro.

Already have I been false to Valentine,

And now I must be as unjust to Thurio:

Under the color of commending him,

I have access my own love to prefer—

But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,

To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

When I protest true loyalty to her,

She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;

When to her beauty I commend my vows,

She bids me think how I have been forsworn

In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov’d;

And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,

The least whereof would quell a lover’s hope,

Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,

The more it grows, and fawneth on her still.

[Enter] Thurio, Musician[s].

But here comes Thurio. Now must we to her window,

And give some evening music to her ear.