Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear
Juno but an Ethiop were;
And deny himself for Jove,
Turning mortal for thy love.' 120
This will I send, and something else more plain,
That shall express my true love's fasting pain.
O would the King, Berowne, and Longaville
Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill, 124
Would from my forehead wipe a perjur'd note;
For none offend where all alike do dote.
Long. [Advancing.] Dumaine, thy love is far from charity,
That in love's grief desir'st society: 128
You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
To be o'erheard and taken napping so.
King. [Advancing.] Come, sir, you blush: as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much: 132
You do not love Maria; Longaville
Did never sonnet for her sake compile,
Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
His loving bosom to keep down his heart. 136
I have been closely shrouded in this bush,
And mark'd you both, and for you both did blush.
I heard your guilty rimes, observ'd your fashion,
Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion: 140
Ay me! says one; O Jove! the other cries;
One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:
[To Longaville.] You would for paradise break faith and troth;
[To Dumaine.] And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath. 144
118 Ethiop: i.e. black as a negro
122 fasting: hungry, longing
124 example: furnish a precedent for
