Page 201 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

To do my work with haste.

MARINA
Why will you kill me?

LEONINE
To satisfy my lady.

MARINA
Why would she have me killed?
Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
I never did her hurt in all my life. [75]

I never spake bad word nor did ill turn
To any living creature. Believe me, law,
I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly.

I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for’t. How have I offended, [80]
Wherein my death might yield her any profit,
Or my life imply her any danger?

LEONINE
My commission

Is not to reason of the deed, but do’t.

MARINA
You will not do’t for all the world, I hope. [85]
You are well-favoured, and your looks foreshow
You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately

When you caught hurt in parting two that fought.
Good sooth, it showed well in you. Do so now.
Your lady seeks my life; come you between, [90]
And save poor me, the weaker.

LEONINE
I am sworn,

And will dispatch.
He seizes her.