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| DON JOHN and CONRAD
enter. |
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| | CONRAD |
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What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus out of |
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measure sad? |
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| CONRAD |
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Really, my lord, why are you so excessively sad? |
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| | DON JOHN |
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There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore |
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the sadness is without limit. |
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| DON JOHN |
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The things that cause my sadness are without limit. Therefore my
sadness is without limit. |
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| | CONRAD |
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You should hear reason. |
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| CONRAD |
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You should listen to reason. Then you'd stop being so
gloomy. |
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| | DON JOHN |
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And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it? |
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| DON JOHN |
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And after I have sat and listened to reason, what's my
prize? |
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| | CONRAD |
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If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance. |
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| CONRAD |
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If not an end to your suffering, then at least you'll
have the means to endure it patiently. |
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| | DON JOHN |
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I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayst thou art, born |
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under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a |
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mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad |
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when I have cause and smile at no man's jests, eat when
I |
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have stomach and wait for no man's leisure, sleep when
I am |
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drowsy and tend on no man's business, laugh when I am |
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merry and claw no man in his humor. |
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| DON JOHN |
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I'm amazed that you—being such a moody man
yourself—are moralizing about my deadly condition. I
can't hide what I am. I'll be sad when I have
reason to be sad and won't smile at anybody's
jokes. I'll eat when I'm hungry and
won't wait until it's convenient.
I'll sleep when I'm tired and won't
rouse myself for anything. I'll laugh when I'm
happy and won't flatter and fawn over anyone. |
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| | CONRAD |
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Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you |
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may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out |
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against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into
his |
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grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but |
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by the fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that |
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you frame the season for your own harvest. |
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| CONRAD |
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Sure, but don't do it at full volume until
there's no danger in it. Not long ago you challenged and
opposed your brother, and it is only very recently that he has
forgiven you. You need to act carefully if you're going
to stay in his good graces. You have to wait for the appropriate
time to let loose. |
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