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Into my [cousin’s] hands, Doctor Bellario,

And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,

Bring them, I pray thee, with imagin’d speed

Unto the [traject], to the common ferry

Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,

But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.

Balth.

Madam, I go with all convenient speed.

[Exit.]

Por.

Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand

That you yet know not of. We’ll see our husbands

Before they think of us.

Ner.

Shall they see us?

Por.

They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit

That they shall think we are accomplished

With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,

When we are both accoutered like young men,

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,

And wear my dagger with the braver grace,

And speak between the change of man and boy

With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride; and speak of frays

Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,

How honorable ladies sought my love,

Which I denying, they fell sick and died.