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Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch

of them, than in the tongues of the French

council; and they should sooner persuade

Harry of England than a general petition of

monarchs. Here comes your father.

Bur. God save your majesty! My royal

cousin, teach you our princess English?

K. Hen. I would have her learn, my fair

cousin, how perfectly I love her; and that is

good English.

Bur. Is she not apt?

K. Hen. Our tongue is rough, coz, and my

condition is not smooth; so that, having neither

the voice nor the heart of flattery about me, I

cannot so conjure up the spirit of love in her,

that he will appear in his true likeness.

Bur. Pardon the frankness of my mirth if I

answer you for that. If you would conjure in

her, you must make a circle; if conjure up Love

in her in his true likeness, he must appear

naked and blind. Can you blame her then,

being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin

crimson of modesty, if she deny the appearance

of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing self?

It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid

to consign to.

K. Hen. Yet they do wink and yield, as love

is blind and enforces.

Bur. They are then excused, my lord, when

they see not what they do.

 318 circle; cf. n. 