Puc. Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn’d this man,

Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.

Shep. ’Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest

The morn that I was wedded to her mother.

25 Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.

Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time

Of thy nativity! I would the milk

[♦] Thy mother gave thee when thou suck’dst her breast,

Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!

[30] Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,