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      Vio. If I did love you in my master's flame,

      With such a suffering, such a deadly life,

      In your denial I would find no sense,

      I would not understand it.

      Oli. Why, what would you?

      Vio. Make me a willow cabin at your gate,

      And call upon my soul within the house;

      Write loyal cantons of contemned love,

      And sing them loud even in the dead of night;

      Holla your name to the reverberate hills,

      And make the babbling gossip of the air

      Cry out, Olivia! O, you should not rest

      Between the elements of air and earth,

      But you should pity me.

      Oli. You might do much: – What is your parentage?

      Vio. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:

      I am a gentleman.

      Oli. Get you to your lord;

      I cannot love him: let him send no more;

      Unless, perchance, you come to me again,

      To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:

      I thank you for your pains: – Spend this for me.

      Vio. I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse;

      My master, not myself, lacks recompense.

      Love make his heart of flint, that you shall love;

      And let your fervour, like my master's, be

      Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.