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Scene 5.
Have you got the Picture?
Yes, but I have seen handsomet men in my opinion than this Picture doth represent.
I perceive you have no judgment in the Originall, nor skill in the Copy; for this Picture is most naturally penselled, the Painter hath drawn it so lively. That one may perceive his noble Soul to appear through his lovely, and lively Countenance; do but observe it well, and you will see as much as I.
That is impossible, unless I had your heart, for though my skill of the Copy, or shadow, may be as much as yours, yet my affections to the Originall is less; which makes my eyes not partiall.
What will the owner take for that Picture?
She will not sell it at any rate:
I wish she would, for I would buy it at any price.
She prizes it as highly as you, loving him as much; or well (as you do.)
How know you that?
Because I know she hath given him proofs of her love, which I believe you never did.
You mistake lust for love, ambition, for merit, I love not for the bodyes sake, but for the soules pure spirit.