And think to wed it, he is fo above me:
'In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind, that would be mated by the lion,
Muft die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague,
To fee him every hour; to fit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart, too capable
"Of every line and trick of his sweet favour,
But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Muft fanctify his relicks. Who comes here?
Enter Parolles.

One that

goes with him I love him for his fake; And yet I know him a notorious liar,

Think him a great way fool, "folely a coward
Yet these fix'd evils fit fo fit in him,

That they take place, when virtue's steely bones
Look bleak in the cold wind: withal, full oft we fee
• Cold wisdom waiting on fuperfluous folly.

Par. Save you, fair

queen.

Hel. And you, monarch.

Par. No.

Hel. And no.

Par. Are you meditating on virginity?

Hel. Ay. You have fome ftain of foldier in you: let

In his bright radiance, &c.]—I must be content to share at a diftance his reflected fplendour, fince I muft defpair of moving in the fame orb-of a more intimate connection with him.

Of every line and trick of his fweet favour,]-of tracing and retaining every peculiar turn, or feature of his face.

folely]-an unexampled.

• Cold wisdom waiting on fuperfluous folly.]-Naked wisdom crouching to folly in full drefs, fuperfluously clad. Pftain]-tincture, fmatch.

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me

me ask you a question: Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him?

Par. Keep him out.

Hel. But he affails; and our virginity, though valiant, in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us fome warlike refiftance.

Par. There is none; man, fitting down before you, will undermine and blow you up.

you,

Hel. Blefs our poor virginity from underminers, and blowers up!-Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men?

Par. Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It is not politick in the commonwealth of nature, to preferve virginity. Lofs of virginity is rational increase; and there was never virgin got, till virginity was firft loft. That, you were made of, is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once loft, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, is ever loft: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it.

Hel. I will ftand for't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.

Par. There's little can be faid in't; 'tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is moft infallible difobedience. He, that hangs himself, is a virgin virginity murders itself; and should be buried in highways, out of all fanctified limit, as a defperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; confumes itself to the very paring, and fo dies with feeding its own ftomach. Befides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of felf-love,

rational increase ;]-tends to the increase of rational beings,

which is the moft inhibited fin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot chufe but lofe by't: Out with't: within ten years it will make itself two, which is a goodly increase; and the principal itself not much the worse: Away with't. Hel. How might one do, fir, to lose it to her own liking?

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Par. Let me fee: Marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it likes. 'Tis a commodity will lofe the glofs with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with't, while 'tis vendible answer the time of requeft. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion; richly suited, but unfuitable juft like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not now: Your 'date is better in your pye and your porridge, than in your cheek: And your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French wither'd pears it looks ill, it eats dryly; marry, 'tis a wither'd pear: it was formerly better; marry, "yes, 'tis a wither'd pear: Will you any thing with it?

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Hel. Not my virginity yet.

There fhall

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your master have a thousand loves, A mother, and a mistress, and a friend,

A phoenix, captain, and an enemy,

A guide, a goddefs, and a fovereign,

ill,]-fhe muft do ill.

brooch]-fome jewel, or fplendid toy, now become antiquated.
date]-pun--the fruit fo called, and Helen's age.

E yet.

"Ay, a minc'd man," &c.

TROILUS and CRESSIDA, A& I, S. 2.

Cr.

Not my virginity yet.]-This line may refer to Parolles's "wither'd pear;" or we may read, will you any thing with us; meaning, Will you fend any thing to court by us; have you any commands there?

a thousand loves, &c.]-Loves that will fupply the place of a mother, &c. and on whom he will fondly bestow thofe tender appellatives, together with a numerous train of adoptious chriftendoms, nicknames, new fangled denominations forged at Cupid's mint.

"One nickname to her purblind fon and heir."

ROMEO AND JULIET, A&t II, S. 1. Mer.
A counsellor,

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A counsellor, a traitrefs, and a dear:
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his difcord dulcet,
His faith, his sweet difafter; with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid goflips. Now fhall he

I know not what he fhall:-God fend him well!

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The court's a learning place ;-and he is one

Par. What one, i̇'faith?

Hel. That I wish well.-'Tis pity-
Par. What's pity?

Hel. That wishing well had not a body in't,
Which might be felt that we, the

poorer born, Whose baser stars do fhut us up in wishes,

Might with effects of them follow our friends,

And fhew what we alone must think; which never Returns us thanks.

Enter Page.

Page. Monfieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.

[Exit Page. Par. Little Helen, farewel: if I can remember thee, I

will think of thee at court.

Hel. Monfieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.

Par. Under Mars, I.

Hel. I especially think, under Mars.

Par. Why under Mars?

Hel. The wars have kept you fo under, that you must needs be born under Mars.

Par. When he was predominant.

learning-place ;]-the only foil for improvement.

7 And fhew &c.]-in reality, by our actual good offices, what, at a distance, we can only kindly intend; which entitles us to no thanks, till put in execution.

Hel.

Hel. When he was retrograde, I think, rather,
Par. Why think you fo?

Hel. You go fo much backward, when you fight.
Par. That's for advantage.

Hel. So is running away, when fear proposes the safety: But the compofition, that your valour and fear makes in you, a is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.

Par. I am fo full of bufineffes, I cannot answer thee acutely I will return perfect courtier; in the which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of courtier's counfel, and understand what advice fhall thrust upon thee; else thou dieft in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away; farewel. When thou hast leisure, fay thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends: get thee a good husband, and ufe him as he uíes thee: fo farewel.

Hel. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free fcope; only, doth backward pull
Our flow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
What power is it, which mounts my love fo high;
That makes me fee, and cannot feed mine eye?

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The mightiest space in nature fortune brings

To join like likes, and kifs like native things.
Impoffible be ftrange attempts, to those

[Exit.

a is a virtue of a good wing,]—like a good hawk, flies well, and will carry you thro' all dangers. the fated fky]-fate, destiny.

The mighteft space in nature, &c.]-Accident fometimes unites moft intimately thofe, whom inequality of rank had fet at the greatest distance; The mightiest space in fortune, &c.-Mutual affection often unites those, between whom fortune has placed the greatest disparity, and causes them to join like perfons in fimilar circumstances.

likes,]-perfons in fimilar circumstances.

native] congenial, formed for each other.

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Impoffible be strange attempts, to those that weigh their pain in sense; and do fuppofe, what hath been cannot be: &c.]-New attempts feem impoffible to thofe, that judge of the fuccefs of their enterprises from ordinary occurrences, and conclude that what hath but rarely happened, will never happen again.

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That