I ’ll prove a busy actor in their play. [Exeunt.

[000] Scene V. Another part of the forest.

AYLI III. 5 Enter Silvius and Phebe.

[001] Sil. Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;

Say that you love me not, but say not so

In bitterness. The common executioner,

Whose heart the accustom’d sight of death makes hard,

005 Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck

But first begs pardon: will you sterner be

[007] Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?