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 your self 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 walk aside?
[Ex. Mar. and Isab.
&plquo;Duke.
&plquo;Oh place and greatness! millions of false eyes
&plquo;Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
&plquo;Run with these false and most contrarious quests
&plquo;Upon thy doings: thousand 'scapes of wit
&plquo;Make thee the father of their idle dreams,
&plquo;And rack thee in their fancies! Welcome, how agreed?
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
