Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Perd. Should I (in these my borrowed Flaunts) behold
Perd. The sternnesse of his presence?
Flo. Flo.
Flo. Apprehend
Flo. Nothing but iollity: the Goddes themselues
Flo. (Humbling their Deities to loue) haue taken
Flo. The shapes of Beasts vpon them. Iupiter,
Flo. Became a Bull, and bellow’d: the greene Neptune
Flo. A Ram, and bleated: and the Fire‑roab’d‑God
Flo. Golden Apollo, a poore humble Swaine,
Flo. As I seeme now. Their transformations,
Flo. Were neuer for a peece of beauty, rarer,
Flo. Nor in a way so chaste: since my desires
Flo. Run not before mine honor: nor my Lusts
Flo. Burne hotter then my Faith.
Perd. Perd.
Perd. O but Sir,
Perd. Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis
Perd. Oppos’d (as it must be) by th’powre of the King:
Perd. One of these two must be necessities,