The Laws of Candy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 112 pages of information about The Laws of Candy.

The Laws of Candy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 112 pages of information about The Laws of Candy.

Gonzalo: 

And I, and I, we meet in one self-centre
281] Of blest Consent.

Erota: 

      I hope my weakness, Sir,
      Shall not deserve neglect; but if it prove so
      I am not the first Lady has been ruin’d
      By being too credulous; you will smart for’t one day.

Gonzalo: 

      Angel-like Lady, let me be held a Villain,
      If I love not sincerely.

Erota: 

      Would I knew it.

Gonzalo: 

      Make proof by any fit Command.

Erota: 

      What, do you mean to marry me?

Gonzalo: 

      How! mean? nay more, I mean
      To make you Empress of my Earthly Fortunes,
      Regent of my desires, for did you covet
      To be a real Queen, I could advance you.

Erota: 

      Now I perceive you slight me, and would make me
      More simple than my Sexes frailty warrants.

Gonzalo: 

      But say your mind, and you shall be a Queen.

Erota: 

      On those Conditions, call me yours.

Gonzalo: 

      Enough. 
      But are we safe?

Erota: 

      Assuredly.

Gonzalo: 

      In short,
      Yet, Lady, first be plain; would you not chuse
      Much rather to prefer your own Sun-rising,
      Than any’s else though ne’r so near entituled
      By Blood, or right of Birth?

Erota: 

      ’Tis a question
      Needs not a resolution.

Gonzalo: 

      Good; what if
      I set the Crown of Candy on your head?

Erota: 

      I were a Queen indeed then.

Gonzalo: 

      Madam, know
      There’s but a Boy ’twixt you and it; suppose him
      Transhap’d into an Angel.

Erota: 

      Wise Gonzalo,
      I cannot but admire thee.

Gonzalo: 

      ’Tis worth thinking on;
      Besides, your Husband shall be Duke of Venice.

Erota: 

      Gonzalo, Duke of Venice?

Gonzalo: 

You are mine you say?
282]

Erota: 

      Pish:  you but dally with me; and would lull me
      In a rich golden dream.

Gonzalo: 

      You are too much distrustfull of my truth.

Erota: 

      Then you must give me leave to apprehend
      The means, and manner how.

Gonzalo: 

      Why thus—­

Erota: 

      You shall not,
      We may be over-heard; Affairs and counsels
      Of such high nature, are not to be trusted
      Not to the Air it self, you shall in writing,
      Draw out the full design; which if effected,
      I am as I profess.

Gonzalo: 

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