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 Io.A benefit Having foreshown me, now despoil me not. Pro. Of two discourses, I will give thee one. Io. What two? Declare; and yield the choice to me. Pro. I yield it. Choose that I should clearly name Thy future woes, or my deliverer. Cho. Vouchsafe one grace to her, and one to me; Nor do dishonor to our mutual prayers; To her narrate her future wandering; To me, who shall deliver. This I yearn for. Pro. Since ye desire it, I will question not, Narrating all ye would. Io, to thee, Thy various wand'rings I will first unfold. Which in the book-memorial of thy mind19 Do thou inscribe. What time thy steps have pass'd The strait, the boundary of continents, Toward the fire-eyed, sun-track'd orient—