SCENE III.
Enter Mariana.
I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
Isab.
I do desire the like.
Duke.
Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
Mari.
Good Friar, I know you do; and I have found it.
Duke.
Take then this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure; but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.
Mari.
Wilt please you to walk aside?
[Exeunt Mar. and Isab.
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Duke.
O place and greatness!7 note
millions of false* note eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests† note
Upon thy doings: thousand 'scapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams,
And rack thee in their fancies!
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
