Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ber. Therefore this Article is made in vaine,
Ber. Or vainly comes th'admired Princesse hither.
Fer. Fer.
Fer. What say you Lords?
Fer. Why, this was quite forgot.
Ber. Ber.
Ber. So Studie euermore is ouershot,
Ber. While it doth study to haue what it would,
Ber. It doth forget to doe the thing it should:
Ber. And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
Ber. 'Tis won as townes with fire, so won, so lost.
Fer. We must of force dispence with this Decree,
Fer. She must lye here on meere necessitie.
Ber. Necessity will make vs all forsworne
Ber. Three thousand times within this three yeeres space:
Ber. For euery man with his affects is borne,
Ber. Not by might mastred, but by speciall grace.
Ber. If I breake faith, this word shall breake for me,