OSWALD This wood is rich in plants and curious simples.


MARMADUKE (looking at them)
The wild rose, and the poppy, and the nightshade:
Which is your favorite, Oswald?


OSWALD That which, while it is
Strong to destroy, is also strong to heal--
[Looking forward.]
Not yet in sight!--We'll saunter here awhile;
They cannot mount the hill, by us unseen.


MARMADUKE (a letter in his hand)
It is no common thing when one like you
Performs these delicate services, and therefore
I feel myself much bounden to you, Oswald;
'Tis a strange letter this!--You saw her write it?


OSWALD And saw the tears with which she blotted it.


MARMADUKE And nothing less would satisfy him?