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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3]

Panthino

307

He wonder'd that your lordship
Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,
While other men, of slender reputation,
Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;
Some to discover islands far away;
Some to the studious universities.
For any or for all these exercises,
He said that Proteus your son was meet,
And did request me to importune you
To let him spend his time no more at home,
Which would be great impeachment to his age,
In having known no travel in his youth.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 3]

Panthino

627

Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped
and thou art to post after with oars. What's the
matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll
lose the tide, if you tarry any longer.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 3]

Launce

631

It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the
unkindest tied that ever any man tied.

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

702

My lord, I will be thankful.
To any happy messenger from thence.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

813

Sweet, except not any;
Except thou wilt except against my love.

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Duke of Milan

1116

Upon mine honour, he shall never know
That I had any light from thee of this.

7

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Valentine

1199

It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
Under a cloak that is of any length.

8

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Valentine

1205

Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.

9

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1]

Second Outlaw

1594

Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?

10

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 4]

Valentine

2149

How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes.
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall
And leave no memory of what it was!
Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;
Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!
What halloing and what stir is this to-day?
These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
They love me well; yet I have much to do
To keep them from uncivil outrages.
Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?