atchful eyes,
Nor once afford me any conference
With any man, except with Master Churms,
Whose crafty brain beguiles my father so,
That he reposeth trust in none but him:
And though he seeks for favour at my hands,
He takes his mark amiss, and shoots awry;
For I had rather see the devil himself
Than Churms the lawyer. Therefore
How I should meet them by the forest-side
I cannot possibly devise.

NURSE.
And Master Churms must be the man must work the means: you must this
night send for him; make him believe you love him mightily; tell him you
have a secret friend dwells far away beyond the forest, to whom, if he
can secretly convey you from your father, tell him, you will love him
better than ever God loved him: and when you come to the place
appointed, let them alone to discharge the knave of clubs: and that you
must not fail, here receive this ring, which Fortunatus sent you for a
token, that this is the plot that you must prosecute; and this from
Sophos, as his true love's pledge.

LELIA.
This ring my brother sent, I know right well:
But this my true love's pledge I more esteem
Than all the golden mines the solid earth contains--
And see, in happy time, here comes Master Churms.

_Enter_ CHURMS.

Now love and fortune both conspire,
And sort their drifts to compass my desire.
Master Churms, y'are well met; I am glad to see you.

CHURMS.
And I as glad to see fair Lelia,
As ever Paris was to see his dear;
For whom so many Trojans' blood was spilt:
Nor think I would do less than spend my dearest blood
To gain fair Lelia's love, although by loss of life.

NURSE.
'Faith, mistress, he speaks like a gentleman. Let me persuade you; be
not hard-hearted. Sophos? Why, what's he? If he had loved you but half
so well, he would ha' come through stone walls, but he would have come
to you ere this.

LELIA.
I must confess, I once lov'd Sophos well;
But now I cannot love him, whom
All the world knows to be a dissembler.

CHURMS.
Ere I would wrong my love with one day's absence,
I would pass the boiling Hellespont,
As once Leander did for Hero's love,
Or undertake a greater task than that,
Ere I would be disloyal to my love.
And if that Lelia give her free consent,
That both our loves may sympathise in one,
My hand, my heart, my love, my life, and all,
Shall ever tend on Lelia's fair command.

LELIA.
Master Churms,
Methinks 'tis strange you should make such a motion:
Say, I should yield and grant you lov