Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Page. How chance you went not with Mr Slender?
M.Page. M.Page.
M.Page. Why went you not with Mr Doctor, maid?
Fen. Fen.
Fen. You do amaze her: heare the truth of it,
Fen. You would haue married her most shamefully,
Fen. Where there was no proportion held in loue:
Fen. The truth is, she and I (long since contracted)
Fen. Are now so sure that nothing can dissolue vs:
Fen. Th'offence is holy, that she hath committed,
Fen. And this deceit looses the name of craft,
Fen. Of disobedience, or vnduteous title,
Fen. Since therein she doth euitate and shun
Fen. A thousand irreligious cursed houres
Fen. Which forced marriage would haue brought vpon her.
Ford. Ford.
Ford. Stand not amaz'd, here is no remedie:
Ford. In Loue, the heauens themselues do guide the state,
Ford. Money buyes Lands, and wiues are sold by fate.
Fal. Fal.