But as a
man--
_La._ A _Simile_ servant? This room was built for honest meaners, that
deliver themselves hastily and plainly, and are gone. Is this a time or
place for _Exordiums_, and _Similes_ and _Metaphors_? If you have ought to
say, break into't: my answers shall very reasonably meet you.
_El. Lo._ Mistris I came to see you.
_La._ That's happily dispatcht, the next.
_El. Lo._ To take leave of you.
_La._ To be gone?
_El. Lo._ Yes.
_La._ You need not have despair'd of that, nor have us'd so many
circumstances to win me to give you leave to perform my command; is there
a third?
_El. Lo._ Yes, I had a third had you been apt to hear it.
_La._ I? Never apter. Fast (good servant) fast.
_El. Lo._ 'Twas to intreat you to hear reason.
_La._ Most willingly, have you brought one can speak it?
_El. Lo._ Lastly, it is to kindle in that barren heart love and
forgiveness.
_La._ You would stay at home?
_El. Lo._ Yes Lady.
_La._ Why you may, and doubtlesly will, when you have debated that your
commander is but your Mistris, a woman, a weak one, wildly overborn with
passions: but the thing by her commanded, is to see _Dovers_ dreadful
cliffe, passing in a poor Water-house; the dangers of the merciless
Channel 'twixt that and _Callis_, five long hours sail, with three poor
weeks victuals.
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