Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Pro. And ev'n that Powre which gaue me first my oath
Pro. Prouokes me to this three‑fold periurie.
Pro. Loue bad mee sweare, and Loue bids me for‑sweare;
Pro. O sweet‑suggesting Loue, if thou hast sin'd,
Pro. Teach me (thy tempted subiect) to excuse it.
Pro. At first I did adore a twinkling Starre,
Pro. But now I worship a celestiall Sunne:
Pro. Vn‑heedfull vowes may heedfully be broken,
Pro. And he wants wit, that wants resolued will,
Pro. To learne his wit, t'exchange the bad for better;
Pro. Fie, fie, vnreuerend tongue, to call her bad,
Pro. Whose soueraignty so oft thou hast preferd,
Pro. With twenty thousand soule‑confirming oathes,
Pro. I cannot leaue to loue; and yet I doe:
Pro. But there I leaue to loue, where I should loue.
Pro. Iulia I loose, and Valentine I loose,
Pro. If I keepe them, I needs must loose my selfe:
Pro. If I loose them, thus finde I by their losse,
Pro. For Valentine, my selfe: for Iulia, Siluia.
Pro. I to my selfe am deerer then a friend,