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Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Two Gentlemen of Verona"

Total: 86

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1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS]


2

I,1,65

Valentine. As much to you at home! and so, farewell.

(stage directions). [Exit]


3

I,1,73

Proteus. He after honour hunts, I after love:
He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.

(stage directions). [Enter SPEED]


4

I,1,149

Proteus. Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,
Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
Being destined to a drier death on shore.
[Exit SPEED]
I must go send some better messenger:
I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
Receiving them from such a worthless post.

(stage directions). [Exit]


5

I,2,150

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter JULlA and LUCETTA]


6

I,2,201

Lucetta. That you may ruminate.

(stage directions). [Exit]


7

I,2,219

Julia. And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter:
It were a shame to call her back again
And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid,
And would not force the letter to my view!
Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that
Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'
Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse
And presently all humbled kiss the rod!
How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,
When willingly I would have had her here!
How angerly I taught my brow to frown,
When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!
My penance is to call Lucetta back
And ask remission for my folly past.
What ho! Lucetta!

(stage directions). [Re-enter LUCETTA]


8

I,2,262

Lucetta. She makes it strange; but she would be best pleased
To be so anger'd with another letter.

(stage directions). [Exit]


9

I,2,289

Julia. Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!
I'll kiss each several paper for amends.
Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia!
As in revenge of thy ingratitude,
I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus.'
Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed
Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd;
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down.
Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away
Till I have found each letter in the letter,
Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear
Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock
And throw it thence into the raging sea!
Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,
'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away.
And yet I will not, sith so prettily
He couples it to his complaining names.
Thus will I fold them one on another:
Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.

(stage directions). [Re-enter LUCETTA]


10

I,2,301

Julia. Come, come; will't please you go?

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


11

I,3,302

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO]


12

I,3,348

Antonio. Good company; with them shall Proteus go:
And, in good time! now will we break with him.

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS]


13

I,3,382

Antonio. Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee:
No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go.
Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd
To hasten on his expedition.

(stage directions). [Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO]


14

I,3,393

Proteus. Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning,
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.
I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter,
Lest he should take exceptions to my love;
And with the vantage of mine own excuse
Hath he excepted most against my love.
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!

(stage directions). [Re-enter PANTHINO]


15

I,3,398

Proteus. Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


16

II,1,399

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter VALENTINE and SPEED]


17

II,1,489

Speed. [Aside] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
Now will he interpret to her.

(stage directions). [Enter SILVIA]


18

II,1,524

Silvia. Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:
And so, good morrow, servant.

(stage directions). [Exit]


19

II,1,564

Speed. Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can
feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my
victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like
your mistress; be moved, be moved.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


20

II,2,565

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]


21

II,2,571

Julia. If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.

(stage directions). [Giving a ring]


22

II,2,587

Proteus. Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o'erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!
My father stays my coming; answer not;
The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell!
[Exit JULIA]
What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

(stage directions). [Enter PANTHINO]


23

II,2,591

Proteus. Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


24

II,3,592

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog]


25

II,3,626

Launce. Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping;
all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I
have received my proportion, like the prodigious
son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's
court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured
dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father
wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat
wringing her hands, and all our house in a great
perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed
one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and
has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have
wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam,
having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my
parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This
shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:
no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that
cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it
hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in
it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance
on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my
sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and
as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I
am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the
dog—Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so,
so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing:
now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:
now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now
come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now
like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there
'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now
come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now
the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a
word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears.

(stage directions). [Enter PANTHINO]


26

II,3,652

Launce. Well, I will go.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


27

II,4,653

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED]


28

II,4,661

Speed. 'Twere good you knocked him.

(stage directions). [Exit]


29

II,4,697

Silvia. No more, gentlemen, no more:—here comes my father.

(stage directions). [Enter DUKE]


30

II,4,737

Duke of Milan. Welcome him then according to his worth.
Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;
For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:
I will send him hither to you presently.

(stage directions). [Exit]


31

II,4,751

Silvia. Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman.

(stage directions). [Exit THURIO]


32

II,4,752

(stage directions). [Exit THURIO]

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS]


33

II,4,770

Proteus. That you are worthless.

(stage directions). [Re-enter THURIO]


34

II,4,777

Proteus. We'll both attend upon your ladyship.

(stage directions). [Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO]


35

II,4,877

Proteus. I will.
[Exit VALENTINE]
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
She is fair; and so is Julia that I love—
That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd;
Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,
Bears no impression of the thing it was.
Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
And that I love him not as I was wont.
O, but I love his lady too too much,
And that's the reason I love him so little.
How shall I dote on her with more advice,
That thus without advice begin to love her!
'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
And that hath dazzled my reason's light;
But when I look on her perfections,
There is no reason but I shall be blind.
If I can cheque my erring love, I will;
If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.

(stage directions). [Exit]


36

II,5,878

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally]


37

II,5,929

Speed. At thy service.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


38

II,6,930

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS]


39

II,6,974

Proteus. To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;
To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;
To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;
And even that power which gave me first my oath
Provokes me to this threefold perjury;
Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.
O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!
At first I did adore a twinkling star,
But now I worship a celestial sun.
Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
And he wants wit that wants resolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,
Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd
With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;
But there I leave to love where I should love.
Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:
If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;
If I lose them, thus find I by their loss
For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.
I to myself am dearer than a friend,
For love is still most precious in itself;
And Silvia—witness Heaven, that made her fair!—
Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
I will forget that Julia is alive,
Remembering that my love to her is dead;
And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,
Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.
I cannot now prove constant to myself,
Without some treachery used to Valentine.
This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,
Myself in counsel, his competitor.
Now presently I'll give her father notice
Of their disguising and pretended flight;
Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;
For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;
But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross
By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!

(stage directions). [Exit]


40

II,7,975

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter JULIA and LUCETTA]


41

II,7,1066

Julia. Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrong
To bear a hard opinion of his truth:
Only deserve my love by loving him;
And presently go with me to my chamber,
To take a note of what I stand in need of,
To furnish me upon my longing journey.
All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,
My goods, my lands, my reputation;
Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.
Come, answer not, but to it presently!
I am impatient of my tarriance.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


42

III,1,1067

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DUKE, THURIO, and PROTEUS]


43

III,1,1119

Proteus. Adieu, my Lord; Sir Valentine is coming.

(stage directions). [Exit]


44

III,1,1120

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter VALENTINE]


45

III,1,1242

Duke of Milan. How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?
I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me.
What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'!
And here an engine fit for my proceeding.
I'll be so bold to break the seal for once.
[Reads]
'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,
And slaves they are to me that send them flying:
O, could their master come and go as lightly,
Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying!
My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them:
While I, their king, that hither them importune,
Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them,
Because myself do want my servants' fortune:
I curse myself, for they are sent by me,
That they should harbour where their lord would be.'
What's here?
'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'
'Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaeton,—for thou art Merops' son,—
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
Go, base intruder! overweening slave!
Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,
And think my patience, more than thy desert,
Is privilege for thy departure hence:
Thank me for this more than for all the favours
Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee.
But if thou linger in my territories
Longer than swiftest expedition
Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love
I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse;
But, as thou lovest thy life, make speed from hence.

(stage directions). [Exit]


46

III,1,1261

Valentine. And why not death rather than living torment?
To die is to be banish'd from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is by
And feed upon the shadow of perfection
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon;
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive.
I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:
Tarry I here, I but attend on death:
But, fly I hence, I fly away from life.

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS and LAUNCE]


47

III,1,1335

Valentine. O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!

(stage directions). [Exeunt VALENTINE and PROTEUS]


48

III,1,1354

Launce. I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to
think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's
all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now
that knows me to be in love; yet I am in love; but a
team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who
'tis I love; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I
will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet
'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis
a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for
wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel;
which is much in a bare Christian.
[Pulling out a paper]
Here is the cate-log of her condition.
'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse
can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only
carry; therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item:
She can milk;' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid
with clean hands.

(stage directions). [Enter SPEED]


49

III,1,1446

Speed. Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love letters!

(stage directions). [Exit]


50

III,1,1450

Launce. Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an
unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into
secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction.

(stage directions). [Exit]


51

III,2,1451

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DUKE and THURIO]


52

III,2,1551

Duke of Milan. Even now about it! I will pardon you.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


53

IV,1,1552

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter certain Outlaws]


54

IV,1,1555

Second Outlaw. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.

(stage directions). [Enter VALENTINE and SPEED]


55

IV,1,1629

Third Outlaw. No, we detest such vile base practises.
Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews,
And show thee all the treasure we have got,
Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


56

IV,2,1630

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS]


57

IV,2,1648

Proteus. Already have I been false to Valentine
And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
Under the colour of commending him,
I have access my own love to prefer:
But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,
To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
When I protest true loyalty to her,
She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;
When to her beauty I commend my vows,
She bids me think how I have been forsworn
In breaking faith with Julia whom I loved:
And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window,
And give some evening music to her ear.

(stage directions). [Enter THURIO and Musicians]


58

IV,2,1658

Thurio. I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,
Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile.

(stage directions). [Enter, at a distance, Host, and JULIA in boy's clothes]


59

IV,2,1667

Julia. That will be music.

(stage directions). [Music plays]


60

IV,2,1716

Thurio. Farewell.

(stage directions). [Exeunt THURIO and Musicians]


61

IV,2,1717

(stage directions). [Exeunt THURIO and Musicians]

(stage directions). [Enter SILVIA above]


62

IV,2,1771

Proteus. As wretches have o'ernight
That wait for execution in the morn.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PROTEUS and SILVIA severally]


63

IV,2,1779

Julia. Not so; but it hath been the longest night
That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


64

IV,3,1780

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter EGLAMOUR]


65

IV,3,1785

Eglamour. This is the hour that Madam Silvia
Entreated me to call and know her mind:
There's some great matter she'ld employ me in.
Madam, madam!

(stage directions). [Enter SILVIA above]


66

IV,3,1832

Silvia. Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.

(stage directions). [Exeunt severally]


67

IV,4,1833

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog]


68

IV,4,1873

Launce. When a man's servant shall play the cur with him,
look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a
puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or
four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it.
I have taught him, even as one would say precisely,
'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver
him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master;
and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he
steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg:
O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself
in all companies! I would have, as one should say,
one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be,
as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had
more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did,
I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I
live, he had suffered for't; you shall judge. He
thrusts me himself into the company of three or four
gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had
not been there—bless the mark!—a pissing while, but
all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says
one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him
out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke.
I, having been acquainted with the smell before,
knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that
whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip
the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him
the more wrong,' quoth I; 'twas I did the thing you
wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out
of the chamber. How many masters would do this for
his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the
stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had
been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese
he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't.
Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the
trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam
Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I
do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make
water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst
thou ever see me do such a trick?

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]


69

IV,4,1928

Proteus. Well, give her that ring and therewithal
This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady
I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.

(stage directions). [Exit]


70

IV,4,2019

Silvia. She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.
Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!
I weep myself to think upon thy words.
Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this
For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lovest her.
Farewell.

(stage directions). [Exit SILVIA, with attendants]


71

IV,4,2047

Julia. And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her.
A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful
I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
Since she respects my mistress' love so much.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Here is her picture: let me see; I think,
If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Were full as lovely as is this of hers:
And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,
Unless I flatter with myself too much.
Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.
Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:
Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
What should it be that he respects in her
But I can make respective in myself,
If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!
And, were there sense in his idolatry,
My substance should be statue in thy stead.
I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,
That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes
To make my master out of love with thee!

(stage directions). [Exit]


72

V,1,2048

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter EGLAMOUR]


73

V,1,2063

Eglamour. Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off;
If we recover that, we are sure enough.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


74

V,2,2064

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA]


75

V,2,2097

Julia. Here comes the duke.

(stage directions). [Enter DUKE]


76

V,2,2119

Duke of Milan. Why then,
She's fled unto that peasant Valentine;
And Eglamour is in her company.
'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both,
As he in penance wander'd through the forest;
Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,
But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it;
Besides, she did intend confession
At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not;
These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
But mount you presently and meet with me
Upon the rising of the mountain-foot
That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:
Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.

(stage directions). [Exit]


77

V,2,2124

Thurio. Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,
That flies her fortune when it follows her.
I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
Than for the love of reckless Silvia.

(stage directions). [Exit]


78

V,2,2127

Proteus. And I will follow, more for Silvia's love
Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.

(stage directions). [Exit]


79

V,2,2130

Julia. And I will follow, more to cross that love
Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love.

(stage directions). [Exit]


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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter Outlaws with SILVIA]


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Silvia. O Valentine, this I endure for thee!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter VALENTINE]


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Valentine. 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?

(stage directions). [Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA]


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Julia. O me unhappy!

(stage directions). [Swoons]


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Julia. And I mine.

(stage directions). [Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO]


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Valentine. Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear
The story of your loves discovered:
That done, our day of marriage shall be yours;
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]


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