Mass. Why, in this kiss I show ’t, and in my vowed service
This wooing shall suffice: ’tis easier far
To make the current of a silver brook
Convert his flowing backward to his spring
Than turn a woman wooer. There’s no cause
Can turn the settled course of Nature’s laws.
Isa. My lord, will you pursue the plot? 100
Mass. The letter gives direction here for Pavy.
To horse, to horse! Thus on Eurydice,[232]
With looks regardiant [sic], did the Thracian gaze,
And lost his gift while he desired the sight:
But wiser I, led by more powerful charm,
I’d see the world win thee from out mine arm.
[Exeunt.
[225] Ed. 1631 “plots.”
[226] Old eds. “share.”
[227] Old eds. “againe.”
[228] Old eds. “Arsena.”
[229] The prefix to Massino’s speeches in old eds. is “Rog.”
[230] Old eds. “Dana.”