? 145

_Enter LUCIO._

_Lucio._ Good even. Friar, where's the provost?

_Duke._ Not within, sir.

_Lucio._ O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to
see thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain
to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for my 150
head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to't.
But they say the Duke will be here to-morrow. By my
troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother: if the old fantastical
Duke of dark corners had been at home, he had lived.

[_Exit Isabella._

_Duke._ Sir, the Duke is marvellous little beholding to 155
your reports; but the best is, he lives not in them.

_Lucio._ Friar, thou knowest not the Duke so well as I
do: he's a better woodman than thou takest him for.

_Duke._ Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.

_Lucio._ Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee: I can tell 160
thee pretty tales of the Duke.

_Duke._ You have told me too many of him already,
sir, if they be true; if not true, none were enough.

_Lucio._ I was once before him for getting a wench
with child. 165

_Duke._ Did you such a thing?

_Lucio._ Yes, marry, did I: but I was fain to forswear
it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.

_Duke._ Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest
you well. 170

_Lucio._ By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's
end: if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of it.
Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. [_Exeunt._

NOTES: IV, 3.

SCENE III.] SCENE VIII. Pope.
5: _paper_] _pepper_ Rowe.
11: _Dizy_] F2 F3 F4. _Dizie_ F1. _Dizzy_ Pope. _Dicey_ Steevens conj.
14: _Forthlight_] Ff. _Forthright_ Warburton.
15: _Shooty_] F2 F3 F4. _Shootie_ F1. _Shooter_ Warburton.
_Shoo-tye_ Capell.
17: _are_] _cry_ Anon. conj. See note (XIX).
_now_] _now in_ Pope.
25: _friends_] F1 F2. _friend_ F3 F4.
32: _his_] _the_ Pope.
49: _I_] om. F4.

[Transcriber's Note:
The text does not specify which occurrence of "I" is meant.
The speech begins "Not I: I have..."]

57: _hear_] _heave_ F2.
59: SCENE IX. Pope.
60: _gravel heart_] _grovelling beast_ Collier MS.
61: Given by Hanmer to _Prov._
69: _his_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.
_do_] om. Pope.
76: _whiles_] _while_ Pope.
83: _both Barnard