[138] Her. O spite! too old to be engaged to young.

[139] Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,—

[140] Her. O hell! to choose love by another’s eyes.

Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,

War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,

[143] Making it momentany as a sound,

Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;

145 Brief as the lightning in the collied night,

[146] That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,

And ere a man hath power to say ‘Behold!’