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Pro. By what? by any other house or person?

Of anything the image tell me, that

Hath kept with thy remembrance.

Mira. 'Tis far off;

And rather like a dream than an assurance

That my remembrance warrants. Had I not

Four or five women once that tended me?

Pro. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it

That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?

If thou remember'st aught ere thou cam'st here,

How thou cam'st here thou may'st.

Mira. But that I do not.

Pro. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,

Thy father was the Duke of Milan and

A prince of power.

Mira. Sir, are not you my father?

Pro. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and

She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father

Was Duke of Milan, and his only heir

A princess,—no worse issued.

Mira. O, the heavens!

What foul play had we that we came from thence?

Or blessed was 't we did?

Pro. Both, both, my girl:

By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heav'd thence;

But blessedly holp hither.

Mira. O! my heart bleeds

To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,

Which is from my remembrance. Please you, further.

 50 backward: past

56 piece: masterpiece

59 no worse issued: of no lower birth

64 teen: sorrow

65 from: gone from

