To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:
Further this act of grace: and from this hour
The heart of brothers govern in our loves
And sway our great designs.
(II. ii. 146.)
And again he realises just what is proper to feel and say to his betrothed, and says it so that we are sure he feels it so long as he is speaking:
My Octavia,
Read not my blemishes in the world’s report:
I have not kept my square: but that to come