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Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our general's

O'erflows the measure; those his goodly eyes,

That o'er the files and musters of the war

Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn

The office and devotion of their view

Upon a tawny front; his captain's heart,

Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst

The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,

And is become the bellows and the fan

To cool a gipsy's lust. Look! where they come.

Take but good note, and you shall see in him

The triple pillar of the world transform'd

Into a strumpet's fool; behold and see.

Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd.

Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

 4 plated: armored

8 reneges: renounces

12 triple: one of three; cf. n.

16 bourn: boundary

