The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ not an eye that sees you but is a physician to comment on your malady.

       VALENTINE.

       But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?

       SPEED.

       She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?

       VALENTINE.

       Hast thou observed that? Even she, I mean.

       SPEED.

       Why, sir, I know her not.

       VALENTINE. Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet know’st her not?

       SPEED.

       Is she not hard-favoured, sir?

       VALENTINE.

       Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.

       SPEED.

       Sir, I know that well enough.

       VALENTINE.

       What dost thou know?

       SPEED.

       That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.

       VALENTINE. I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite.

       SPEED. That’s because the one is painted, and the other out of all count.

       VALENTINE.

       How painted? and how out of count?

       SPEED. Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty.

       VALENTINE.

       How esteem’st thou me? I account of her beauty.

       SPEED.

       You never saw her since she was deformed.

       VALENTINE.

       How long hath she been deformed?

       SPEED.

       Ever since you loved her.

       VALENTINE.

       I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still

       I see her beautiful.

       SPEED.

       If you love her, you cannot see her.

       VALENTINE.

       Why?

       SPEED.

       Because Love is blind. O! that you had mine eyes; or your own

       eyes had the lights they were wont to have when you chid at Sir

       Proteus for going ungartered!

       VALENTINE.

       What should I see then?

       SPEED. Your own present folly and her passing deformity; for he, being in love, could not see to garter his hose; and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.

       VALENTINE. Belike, boy, then you are in love; for last morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.

       SPEED. True, sir; I was in love with my bed. I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.

       VALENTINE.

       In conclusion, I stand affected to her.

       SPEED.

       I would you were set, so your affection would cease.

       VALENTINE. Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.

       SPEED.

       And have you?

       VALENTINE.

       I have.

       SPEED.

       Are they not lamely writ?

       VALENTINE.

       No, boy, but as well as I can do them.

       Peace! here she comes.

       [Enter SILVIA.]

       SPEED.

       [Aside] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!

       Now will he interpret to her.

       VALENTINE.

       Madam and mistress, a thousand good morrows.

       SPEED.

       [Aside] O, give ye good even: here’s a million of manners.

       SILVIA.

       Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.

       SPEED. [Aside] He should give her interest, and she gives it him.

       VALENTINE.

       As you enjoin’d me, I have writ your letter

       Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;

       Which I was much unwilling to proceed in,

       But for my duty to your ladyship.

       [Gives a letter.]

       SILVIA.

       I thank you, gentle servant. ‘Tis very clerkly done.

       VALENTINE.

       Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;

       For, being ignorant to whom it goes,

       I writ at random, very doubtfully.

       SILVIA.

       Perchance you think too much of so much pains?

       VALENTINE.

       No, madam; so it stead you, I will write,

       Please you command, a thousand times as much;

       And yet—

       SILVIA.

       A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;

       And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not.

       And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,

       Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.

       SPEED.

       [Aside] And yet you will; and yet another yet.

       VALENTINE.

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