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Enter MARIANA and a Boy
Boy sings
Take, O, take those lips away,MARIANA
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:DUKE VINCENTIO
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
Exit Boy
Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charmMARIANA
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
You have not been inquired after:DUKE VINCENTIO
I have sat here all day.
Enter ISABELLA
I do constantly believe you. The time is come evenMARIANA
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
I am always bound to you.DUKE VINCENTIO
Exit
Very well met, and well come.ISABELLA
What is the news from this good deputy?
He hath a garden circummured with brick,DUKE VINCENTIO
Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
To call upon him.
But shall you on your knowledge find this way?ISABELLA
I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:DUKE VINCENTIO
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
The way twice o'er.
Are there no other tokensISABELLA
Between you 'greed concerning her observance?
No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;DUKE VINCENTIO
And that I have possess'd him my most stay
Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
'Tis well borne up.ISABELLA
I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
Re-enter MARIANA
I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
I do desire the like.DUKE VINCENTIO
Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?MARIANA
Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.DUKE VINCENTIO
Take, then, this your companion by the hand,MARIANA
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.
Will't please you walk aside?DUKE VINCENTIO
Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
O place and greatness! millions of false eyesISABELLA
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
Welcome, how agreed?
She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,DUKE VINCENTIO
If you advise it.
It is not my consent,ISABELLA
But my entreaty too.
Little have you to sayMARIANA
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
'Remember now my brother.'
Fear me not.DUKE VINCENTIO
Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.
Exeunt
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