DUKE
Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. PROTEUS
Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: Write till your ink be
dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity: For
Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make
tigers tame and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. After your dire-lamenting
elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet concert; to their instruments Tune a
deploring dump: the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance. This, or else
nothing, will inherit her. DUKE
This discipline shows thou hast been in love. THURIO
And thy advice this night I'll put in practise. Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver, Let us into the
city presently To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music. I have a sonnet that will serve the turn To give
the onset to thy good advice. DUKE
About it, gentlemen! PROTEUS
We'll wait upon your grace till after supper, And afterward determine our proceedings. DUKE
Even now about it! I will pardon you.
Exeunt
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