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[Enter] Proteus, Julia [disguised as Sebastian].

Pro.

Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well,

And will employ thee in some service presently.

Jul.

In what you please; I’ll do what I can.

Pro.

I hope thou wilt.

[To Launce.]

How now, you whoreson peasant,

Where have you been these two days loitering?

Launce. Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.

Pro. And what says she to my little jewel?

Launce. Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish thanks is good enough for such a present.

Pro. But she receiv’d my dog?

Launce. No indeed did she not; here have I brought him back again.

Pro. What, didst thou offer her this from me?

Launce. Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stol’n from me by the hangman’s boys in the market-place; and then I offer’d her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater.

Pro.

Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again,

Or ne’er return again into my sight.

Away, I say! stayest thou to vex me here?