Act 4 — SCENE V.

Enter [535] Nurse, with Cupid as Ascanius. Nurse. My Lord Ascanius, you must go with me. Cup. Whither must I go? I'll stay with my mother. Nurse. No, thou shall go with me unto my house. I have an orchard that hath store of plums, Brown almonds, services, ripe figs, and dates, Dewberries, apples, yellow oranges; A garden where are bee-hives full of honey, Musk-roses, and a thousand sort of flowers; And in the midst doth run a silver stream, Where thou shalt see the red-gill'd fishes leap,10 White swans, and many lovely water-fowls. Now speak, Ascanius, will you go or no? Cup. Come, come, I'll go. How far hence is your house? Nurse. But hereby, child; we shall get thither straight. Cup. Nurse, I am weary; will you carry me? Nurse. I, so you'll dwell with me, and call me mother. Cup. So you'll love me, I care not if I do. Nurse. That I might live to see this boy a man! How prettily he laughs! Go, ye wag! [536] You'll be a twigger [537] when you come to age.—20 Say Dido what she will, I am not old; I'll be no more a widow; I am young; I'll have a husband, or else a lover. Cup. A husband, and no teeth! Nurse. O, what mean I to have such foolish thoughts? Foolish is love, a toy.—O sacred love! If there be any heaven in earth, 'tis love, Especially in women of your years.— Blush, blush for shame! why shouldst thou think of love? A grave, and not a lover, fits thy age.—30 A grave! why, I may live a hundred years; Fourscore is but a girl's age: love is sweet.— My veins are withered, and my sinews dry: Why do I think of love, now I should die? Cup. Come, nurse. Nurse. Well, if he come a-wooing, he shall speed: O, how unwise was I to say him nay! [Exeunt.