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18 ROMEO AND JULIET. 

Ah, word ill urg'd to one that is so ill ! 
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. 

Benvolio. I aini'd so near when I suppos'd you lov'd. 

Romeo. A right good mark-man ! And she's fair I love. 

Benvolio. A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. 

Romeo. Well, in that hit you miss : she'll not be hit 
With Cupid's arrow ; she hath Dian's wit. 
And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, 
From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. 
She will not stay the siege of loving terms. 
Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, 
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold ; 
0, she is rich in beauty ! only poor 
That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. 

Benvolio. Then she hath sworn that she will still live 
chaste ? 

Romeo. She hath, and in that sparing makes huge 
waste ; 
For beauty starv'd with her severity 
Cuts beauty off from all prosperity. 
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, 
To merit bliss by making me despair ; 
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow 
Do I live dead that live to tell it now. 

Benvolio. Be rul'd by me, forget to think of her. 

Romeo. 0, teach me how I should forget to think. 

Benvolio. By giving liberty unto thine eyes ; 
Examine other beauties.