Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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I Lady. Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a Will:
I Lady. Whose edge hath power to cut whose will still wills,
I Lady. It should none spare that come within his power.
Prin. Prin.
Prin. Some merry mocking Lord belike, ist so?
Lad.I. Lad.I.
Lad.I. They say so most, that most his humors know.
Prin. Such short liu'd wits do wither as they grow.
Prin. Who are the rest?
2. Lad. 2. Lad.
2. Lad. The yong Dumaine, a well accomplisht youth,
2. Lad. Of all that Vertue loue, for Vertue loued.
2. Lad. Most power to doe most harme, least knowing ill:
2. Lad. For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,
2. Lad. And shape to win grace though she had no wit.
2. Lad. I saw him at the Duke Alansoes once,
2. Lad. And much too little of that good I saw,
2. Lad. Is my report to his great worthinesse.
Rossa. Rossa.