To slay at once, but with a lingering death

Infect my life—

Por. Nay, calm yourself.

Ser. We met,

Porcia—and from those idle meetings love

Sprang up between us both—for though ’tis true

That at the first I laugh’d at his advances,

And turn’d his boyish suit into disdain,

Yet true it also is that in my heart

There lurk’d a lingering feeling yet behind,