(no subject)
Marry, if you would pit me to verses or to dance for your sake, why you undo me.
I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation,
only downright oaths which I never use till urged, nor ever break for urging.
I speak to thee plain soldier. If thou canst love me for this, take me.
And while thou liv’st take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy,
for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places.
Canst thou love me?
I cannot tell.
Then can any of your neighbors tell? I’ll ask them.
Come, I know thou lovest me. Mock me mercifully, because I love thee cruelly.
Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better…
and therefore tell me, will you have me?
I am content.
I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation,
only downright oaths which I never use till urged, nor ever break for urging.
I speak to thee plain soldier. If thou canst love me for this, take me.
And while thou liv’st take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy,
for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places.
Canst thou love me?
I cannot tell.
Then can any of your neighbors tell? I’ll ask them.
Come, I know thou lovest me. Mock me mercifully, because I love thee cruelly.
Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better…
and therefore tell me, will you have me?
I am content.