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5 _Speed._ Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia! _Val._ How now, sirrah? _Speed._ She is not within hearing, sir. _Val._ Why, sir, who bade you call her? _Speed._ Your worship, sir; or else I mistook. 10 _Val._ Well, you'll still be too forward. _Speed._ And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. _Val._ Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia? _Speed._ She that your worship loves? _Val._ Why, how know you that I am in love? 15 _Speed._ Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms, like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had lost his A B C; to weep, like a young 20 wench that had buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes diet; to watch, like one that fears robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you fasted, it was presently after 25 dinner; when you looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look on you, I can hardly think you my master. _Val._ Are all these things perceived in me? _Speed._ They are all perceived without ye. 30 _Val._ Without me? they cannot. _Speed._ Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you were so simple, none else would: but you are so without these follies, that these follies are within you, and shine through you like the water in an urinal, that not an eye that 35 sees you but is a physician to comment on your malady. _Val._ But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia? _Speed._ She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper? _Val._ Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean. _Speed._ Why, sir, I know her not. 40 _Val._ Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet knowest her not? _Speed._ Is she not hard-favoured, sir? _Val._ Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured. _Speed._ Sir, I know that well enough. 45 _Val._ What dost thou know? _Speed._ That she is not so fair as, of you, well favoured. _Val._ I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. _Speed._ That's because the one is painted, and the other 50
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