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Fair Em (Quarto 1, 1593)
The Millers daughter
1465I tell thee Manuile, hadst thou beene blinde,
1466Or deafe, or dumbe, or else what impediments
1467might befall to man, Em would haue loued and kept,
1468And honoured thee: yea, begde if wealth had faylde
1469For thy releefe.
1471Em. I do forgiue thee with my heart,
1472And will forget thee too if case I can:
1475Well fare a wench that will.
1476Now, Elner I am thine owne my gyrle.
1479That whilest I liue I will abhor thy company.
1480Manuile. Is it come to this? of late, I had choyce of twaine
1481On either side to haue me to her husband:
1482And now am vtterly reiected of them both.
1483Valingford. My Lord this gentleman when time was
1484Stood some-thing in our light,
1485And now I thinke it not amisse
1487Mountney. Content my Lord, inuent the forme.
1488Ualingford. Then thus.
1490Blanch is faire: Methinkes I see in her,
1492Zweno, receiue a reconciled foe,
1493Not as thy friend, but as thy sonne in law,
1494If so that thou be thus content.
1496Here take my daughter Blanch,
And