Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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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,
Pro. For Loue is still most precious in it selfe,
Pro. And Siluia (witnesse heauen that made her faire)
Pro. Shewes Iulia but a swarthy Ethiope.
Pro. I will forget that Iulia is aliue,
Pro. Remembring that my Loue to her is dead.
Pro. And Valentine Ile hold an Enemie,
Pro. Ayming at Siluia as a sweeter friend.