SCENE—A Library.

MR. SELBY. KATHERINE.

Selby. Do not too far mistake me, gentlest wife;

I meant to chide your virtues, not yourself,

And those too with allowance. I have not

Been blest by thy fair side with five white years

Of smooth and even wedlock, now to touch

With any strain of harshness on a string

Hath yielded me such music. 'Twas the quality