Helena

And even for that do I love you the more.

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,

The more you beat me I will fawn on you.

Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, 210

Unworthy as I am, to follow you.

What worser place can I beg in your love –

And yet a place of high respect with me –

Than to be usèd as you use your dog?

DEMETRIUS

Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit; For I am sick when I do look on thee.

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HELENA

And I am sick when I look not on you.

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DEMETRIUS

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Into the hands of one that loves you not; 220

To trust the opportunity of night,

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And the ill counsel of a desert place, With the rich worth of your virginity.

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HELENA

Your virtue is my privilege: for that It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you, in my respect, are all the world.

Then how can it be said I am alone

When all the world is here to look on me?

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DEMETRIUS

I’ll run from thee and hide me in the brakes, And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.

HELENA