Page 1328 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

PALAMON

And desire her?

ARCITE
Before my liberty.

PALAMON
I saw her first.

ARCITE
That’s nothing.

PALAMON
But it shall be. [215]

ARCITE
I saw her too.

PALAMON

Yes, but you must not love her.

ARCITE

I will not, as you do, to worship her
As she is heavenly and a blessèd goddess,
I love her as a woman, to enjoy her;
So both may love.

PALAMON
You shall not love at all. [220]

ARCITE

Not love at all? Who shall deny me?

PALAMON

I that first saw her; I that took possession
First with mine eye of all those beauties
In her revealed to mankind. If thou lovest her,