Roch. Should I speak first?
Tin. Not for your coronet!
I, as your friend, may make the first advance.
We've come here to be married. Where's the bride?
Wal. There stands she, lord; if 'tis her will to wed,
His lordship's free to take her.
Tin. Not a step!
I, as your friend, may lead her to your lordship.
Fair lady, by your leave.
Julia. No! not to you.
Tin. I ask your hand to give it to his lordship.
Julia. Nor to his lordship--save he will accept
My hand without my heart! but I'll present
My knee to him, and, by his lofty rank,
Implore him now to do a lofty deed
Will lift its stately head above his rank, -
Assert him nobler yet in worth than name, -
And, in the place of an unwilling bride,
Unto a willing debt or make him lord, -
Whose thanks shall be his vassals, night and day
That still shall wait upon him!
Tin. What means this?
Julia. What is't behoves a wife to bring her lord?
Wal. A whole heart, and a true one.
Julia. I have none!
Not half a heart--the fraction of a heart!
Am I a woman it befits to wed?
Wal.
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