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Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll

To every varied object in his glance;

Which parti-coated presence of loose love

Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,

Have misbecom’d our oaths and gravities,

Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,

Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,

Our love being yours, the error that love makes

Is likewise yours. We to ourselves prove false,

By being once false for ever to be true

To those that make us both—fair ladies, you;

And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,

Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.

Prin.

We have receiv’d your letters full of love;

Your favors, embassadors of love;

And in our maiden council rated them

At courtship, pleasant jest, and courtesy,

As bombast and as lining to the time;

But more devout than this [in] our respects

Have we not been, and therefore met your loves

In their own fashion, like a merriment.

Dum.

Our letters, madam, show’d much more than jest.

Long.

So did our looks.

Ros.

We did not cote them so.