Page 1732 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces. [295]

BURGUNDY
They are then excused, my lord, when they see not what they do.

KING HENRY
Then good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.

BURGUNDY
I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you [300] will teach her to know my
meaning: for maids, well summered, and warm kept, are like flies at
Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their eyes, and then they will

endure handling, which before would not abide looking on. [305]

KING HENRY
This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer; and so I shall catch the
fly, your cousin, in the latter end, and she must be blind too.

BURGUNDY
As love is, my lord, before it loves.

KING HENRY
It is so: and you may, some of you, thank [310] love for my blindness, who

cannot see many a fair French city for one fair French maid that stands in my
way.

FRENCH KING
Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities turned into a maid; for
they are all girdled with [315] maiden walls that war hath [never] entered.

KING HENRY
Shall Kate be my wife?

FRENCH KING
So please you.

KING HENRY