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One nickname for her purblind son and heir,
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,'
When king Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.-
He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;
The ape2 is dead, and I must conjure him.—
I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead, and her scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us.

Ben. An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.
Mer. This cannot anger him; 'twould anger him

To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle

Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it, and conjured it down;

That were some spite. My invocation

Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name,

I conjure only but to raise up him.

Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among those trees, To be consorted with the humorous 3 night.

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Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

Mer. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

Now will he sit under a medlar tree,

And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit,

As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.*-
Romeo, good night;-I'll to my truckle-bed;
This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep.

Come, shall we go?

Ben.

Go, then; for 'tis in vain

To seek him here, that means not to be found.

[Exeunt.

1 All the old copies read, Abraham Cupid. The alteration was proposed by Mr. Upton. It evidently alludes to the famous archer Adam Bell. The ballad alluded to is King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid, or, as it is called in some copies, "The Song of a Beggar and a King." It may be seen in the first volume of Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. 2 This phrase, in Shakspeare's time, was used as an expression of tenderness, like poor fool, &c.

3 i. e. the humid, the moist, dewy night. Chapman uses the word in this sense in his translation of Homer.

4 After this line in the old copies are two lines of ribaldry.

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