FERDINAND Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
PRINCESS Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,
Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:
Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it.
But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.
FERDINAND Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.
PRINCESS You will the sooner, that I were away;
For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.
BIRON Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
ROSALINE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
BIRON I know you did.
ROSALINE How needless was it then to ask the question!
BIRON You must not be so quick.
ROSALINE 'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions.
BIRON Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
ROSALINE Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
BIRON What time o' day?
ROSALINE The hour that fools should ask.
BIRON Now fair befall your mask!
ROSALINE Fair fall the face it covers!
BIRON And send you many lovers!
ROSALINE Amen, so you be none.
BIRON Nay, then will I be gone.
FERDINAND Madam, your father here doth intimate
The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
Being but the one half of an entire sum
Disbursed by my father in his wars.
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