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That having two fair gauds of equal sweetness,
Cannot distinguish, but must cry for both!
Enter a Gentleman.
How now, sir?

GENTLEMAN
From the noble Duke your brother, [55]

Madam, I bring you news; the knights are come.

EMILIA
To end the quarrel?

GENTLEMAN
Yes.

EMILIA
Would I might end first!
What sins have I committed, chaste Diana,

That my unspotted youth must now be soiled
With blood of princes, and my chastity [60]
Be made the altar where the lives of lovers −
Two greater and two better never yet

Made mothers joy − must be the sacrifice
To my unhappy beauty?

Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Pirithous, and attendants.

THESEUS
Bring ’em in
Quickly, by any means; I long to see ’em. − [65]

Your two contending lovers are returned,
And with them their fair knights; now, my fair sister,
You must love one of them.

EMILIA
I had rather both

So neither for my sake should fall untimely.