Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Burg. Is shee not apt?
King. King.
King. Our Tongue is rough, Coze, and my Conditi- on is not smooth: so that hauing neyther the Voyce nor the Heart of Flatterie about me, I cannot so coniure vp the Spirit of Loue in her, that hee will appeare in his true likenesse.
Burg. Burg.
Burg. Pardon the franknesse of my mirth, if I answer you for that. If you would coniure in her, you must make a Circle: if coniure vp Loue in her in his true likenesse, hee must appeare naked, and blinde. Can you blame her then, being a Maid, yet ros'd ouer with the Virgin Crimson of Modestie, if shee deny the apparance of a naked blinde Boy in her naked seeing selfe? It were (my Lord) a hard Condition for a Maid to consigne to.
King. Yet they doe winke and yeeld, as Loue is blind and enforces.
Burg. They are then excus'd, my Lord, when they see not what they doe.
King. Then good my Lord, teach your Cousin to consent winking.
Burg. I will winke on her to consent, my Lord, if you will teach her to know my meaning: for Maides well Summer'd, and warme kept, are like Flyes at Bartholo- mew-tyde, blinde, though they haue their eyes, and then they will endure handling, which before would not abide looking on.
King. This Morall tyes me ouer to Time, and a hot Summer; and so I shall catch the Flye, your Cousin, in the latter end, and shee must be blinde to.
Burg. As Loue is my Lord, before it loues.
King. It is so: and you may, some of you, thanke Loue for my blindnesse, who cannot see many a faire French Citie for one faire French Maid that stands in my way.
French King. French King.