Antonio.
If you go on thus, you will kill your self,
And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief,
Against your self.

Leon.
I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve; give not me counsel,
Nor let no comfort else delight mine ear,
But such a one whose wrongs doth sute with mine.
Bring me a father that so lov'd his child,
Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,
And bid him speak of patience;

Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine,
And let it answer every strain for strain:
As thus for thus, and such a grief for such,
In every lineament, branch, shape and form;
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,
And ^{a note}hallow, wag, cry hem, when he should groan,
&plquo;Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk
&plquo;With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,
&plquo;And I of him will gather patience.
&plquo;But there is no such man; for brother, men
&plquo;Can counsel, and give comfort to that grief
&plquo;Which they themselves not feel; but tasting it,
&plquo;Their counsel turns to passion, which before
&plquo;Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
&plquo;Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
&plquo;Charm ach with air, and agony with words.
&plquo;No, no, 'tis all mens office, to speak patience
&plquo;To those that wring under the load of sorrow;
&plquo;But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
&plquo;To be so moral, when he shall endure
&plquo;The like himself; therefore give me no counsel,
&plquo;My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

Ant.
Therein do men from children nothing differ.

Leon.
I pray thee peace; I will be flesh and blood;
&plquo;For there was never yet philosopher,
&plquo;That could endure the tooth-ach patiently;
&plquo;However they have writ the stile of Gods,
&plquo;And made a pish at chance and sufferance.

Ant.
Yet bend not all the harm upon your self.
Make those that do offend you suffer too.

Leon.
There thou speak'st reason, nay I will do so.
My soul doth tell me Hero is bely'd,

And that shall Claudio know, so shall the Prince,
And all of them that thus dishonour her.

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