I pray thee, cease thy counsel,

Which falls into mine ears as profitless

005 As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;

[006] Nor let no comforter delight mine ear

[007] But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.

Bring me a father that so loved his child,

Whose joy of her is overwhelm’d like mine,

[010] And bid him speak of patience;

Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine,

And let it answer every strain for strain,