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By William Shakespeare

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

VOLUME I BOOK XV

Dramatis Personae

DUKE OF MILAN Father to Silvia. (DUKE)

ANTONIO Father to Proteus.

THURIO a foolish rival to Valentine.

EGLAMOUR Agent for Silvia in her escape.

HOST where Julia lodges. (HOST)

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VALENTINE the twogentlemen.PROTEUS

SPEED a clownish servant to Valentine.

LAUNCE the like to Proteus.h Valentine.UTLAW)OUTLAW)UTLAW)

SCENE Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua.PANTHINO Servant to Antonio.

JULIA beloved of Proteus.

SILVIA beloved of Valentine.

LUCETTA waiting-woman to Julia.

Servants, Musicians.

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VALENTINE Cease to perHome-keeping youth hWeret not affection chTo the sweet glances of I rather would entreat tTo see the wonders of tThan, living dully sluggWear out thy youth witBut since thou lovest, loEven as I would when I

PROTEUS Wilt thou be gThink on thy Proteus, wSome rare note-worthyWish me partaker in thWhen thou dost meet gIf ever danger do enviroCommend thy grievancFor I will be thy beadsm

VALENTINE And on a lo

PROTEUS Upon some bo

VALENTINE Thats on some shallow story of deep love:How young Leander crossd the Helle

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VALENTINE And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,Even so by love the young and tender witIs turnd to folly, blasting in the bud,Losing his verdure even in the primeAnd all the fair effects of future hopes.But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,ACT I

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suade, my loving Proteus:ave ever homely wits.ains thy tender daysthy honourd love,hy companyhe world abroad,ardized at home,h shapeless idleness.ve still and thrive therein,

to love begin.

one? Sweet Valentine, adieu!hen thou haply seest

object in thy travel:y happinessood hap; and in thy danger,n thee,e to my holy prayers,an, Valentine.

ve-book pray for my success?

ok I love Ill pray for thee.

PROTEUS Over the boot

VALENTINE No, I will n

PROTEUS What?

VALENTINE To be in lovwith groans;Coy looks with heart-somoments mirthWith twenty watchful, If haply won, perhaps aIf lost, why then a grievHowever, but a folly boOr else a wit by folly va

PROTEUS So, by your ci

VALENTINE So, by youryoull prove.

PROTEUS Tis love you

VALENTINE Love is youAnd he that is so yokedMethinks, should not b

PROTEUS Yet writers saThe eating canker dwelInhabits in the finest w nay, give me not the boots.

, for it boots thee not.

, where scorn is bought

e sighs; one fading

eary, tedious nights:apless gain;

us labour won;ght with wit,quished.

umstance, you call me fool.

ircumstance, I fear

vil at: I am not Love.

aster, for he masters you:y a fool,

chronicled for wise.

as in the sweetest bud, so eating loves of all.

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That art a votary to fond desire?Once more adieu! my father at the roadExpects my coming, there to see me shippd.

PROTEUS And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.

VALENTINE Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.To Milan let me hear from thee by lettersOf thy success in love, and what news elseBetideth here in absence of thy friend;And likewise will visit t

PROTEUS All happiness

VALENTINE As much to

PROTEUS He after honoHe leaves his friends toI leave myself, my frienThou, Julia, thou hast mMade me neglect my stWar with good counselMade wit with musing

[Enter SPEED]

SPEED Sir Proteus, save

PROTEUS But now he pafor Milan.

SPEED Twenty to one thAnd I have playd the sh

PROTEUS Indeed, a sheeAn if the shepherd be a

SPEED You conclude ththen, and I a sheep?

PROTEUS I do.

SPEED Why then, my howake or sleep.

PROTEUS A silly answer

SPEED This proves me s

PROTEUS True; and thy

SPEED Nay, that I can d

PROTEUS It shall go har

SPEED The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me: therefore I am no sheep.

PROTEUS The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for wages follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.

SPEED Such another proof will make me cry baa.

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you at home! and so, farewell.

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ur hunts, I after love: dignify them more,ds and all, for love.

etamorphosed me,udies, lose my time,, set the world at nought;weak, heart sick with thought.

you! Saw you my master?

rted hence, to embark

en he is shippd already,eep in losing him.

p doth very often stray, while away.

at my master is a shepherd,

rns are his horns, whether I

and fitting well a sheep.

till a sheep.

master a shepherd.

eny by a circumstance.

d but Ill prove it by another.

to Julia?

SPEED Ay sir: I, a lost ma laced mutton, and shlost mutton, nothing fo

PROTEUS Heres too smof muttons.

SPEED If the ground bestick her.

PROTEUS Nay: in that ypound you.

SPEED Nay, sir, less thacarrying your letter.

PROTEUS You mistake;

SPEED From a pound toTis threefold too little your lover.

PROTEUS But what said

SPEED [First nodding]

PROTEUS NodAyw

SPEED You mistook, sirme if she did nod; and

PROTEUS And that set t

SPEED Now you have tatake it for your pains.

PROTEUS No, no; you sh

SPEED Well, I perceive

PROTEUS Why sir, how

SPEED Marry, sir, the lenothing but the word

PROTEUS Beshrew me, bhear? gavest thou my letter

tton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton, gave me, a my labour.

ll a pasture for such store

vercharged, you were best

u are astray, twere best

a pound shall serve me for

mean the pound,a pinfold.

a pin? fold it over and over,r carrying a letter to

he?

Ay.

y, thats noddy.

I say, she did nod: and you asksay, Ay.

gether is noddy.

en the pains to set it together,

ll have it for bearing the letter.

must be fain to bear with you.

o you bear with me?

ter, very orderly; having oddy for my pains.

ut you have a quick wit.


SPEED And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

PROTEUS Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?

SPEED Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once delivered.

PROTEUS Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?

SPEED Truly, sir, I think

PROTEUS Why, couldst from her?

SPEED Sir, I could percenot so much as a ducat being so hard to me thashell prove as hard to yher no token but stones

PROTEUS What said she

SPEED No, not so much testify your bounty, I thme; in requital whereofyourself: and so, sir, Ill

PROTEUS Go, go, be gonfrom wreck,Which cannot perish haBeing destined to a drie

I must go send some beI fear my Julia would noReceiving them from su

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[Enter JULlA and LUC

JULIA But say, Lucetta, nWouldst thou then coun

LUCETTA Ay, madam, so

JULIA Of all the fair resoThat every day with parIn thy opinion which is

LUCETTA Please you repmy mind according to m

JULIA What thinkst thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?

LUCETTA As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine;But, were I you, he never should be mine.

JULIA What thinkst thou of the rich Mercatio?

LUCETTA Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so.

JULIA What thinkst thou of the gentle Proteus?

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tter messenger:t deign my lines,ch a worthless post.

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ow we are alone,sel me to fall in love?

you stumble not unheedfully.

rt of gentlemenle encounter me, worthiest love?

eat their names, Ill show y shallow simple skill.

LUCETTA Ay, if you tho

JULIA Why he, of all th

LUCETTA Yet he, of all

JULIA His little speakin

LUCETTA Fire thats clo

JULIA They do not love

LUCETTA O, they love ltheir love.

JULIA I would I knew h

LUCETTA Peruse this pa

JULIA To Julia. Say, f

LUCETTA That the cont

JULIA Say, say, who gav

LUCETTA Valentines pfrom Proteus.He would have given itDid in your name recefault I pray. youll hardly win her.

thou perceive so much

ive nothing at all from her; no, for delivering your letter: and t brought your mind, I fear ou in telling your mind. Give ; for shes as hard as steel.

? nothing?

as Take this for thy pains. To ank you, you have testerned , henceforth carry your letters commend you to my master.

LUCETTA Lord, Lord! t

JULIA How now! what

LUCETTA Pardon, dearThat I, unworthy bodyShould censure thus o

JULIA Why not on Pro

LUCETTA Then thus: of

JULIA Your reason?

LUCETTA I have no othI think him so because

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see what folly reigns in us!

eans this passion at his name?

adam: tis a passing shames I am,lovely gentlemen.

us, as of all the rest?

any good I think him best.

, but a womans reason;think him so.

have me cast my love on him?

ght your love not cast away.

rest, hath never moved me.

e rest, I think, best loves ye.

shows his love but small.

st kept burns most of all.

hat do not show their love.

st that let men know

mind.

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JULIA Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?To whisper and conspire against my youth?Now, trust me, tis an office of great worthAnd you an officer fit for the place.Or else return no more into my sight.

LUCETTA To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.

JULIA Will ye be gone?

LUCETTA That you may

JULIA And yet I would IIt were a shame to call hAnd pray her to a fault fWhat a fool is she, that kAnd would not force theSince maids, in modestyWhich they would haveFie, fie, how wayward isThat, like a testy babe, wAnd presently all humbHow churlishly I chid LWhen willingly I would How angerly I taught mWhen inward joy enforcMy penance is to call LuAnd ask remission for mWhat ho! Lucetta!

[Re-enter LUCETTA]

LUCETTA What would y

JULIA Ist near dinner-ti

LUCETTA I would it wereThat you might kill youAnd not upon your mai

JULIA What ist that you

LUCETTA Nothing.

JULIA Why didst thou st

LUCETTA To take a pape

JULIA And is that paper

LUCETTA Nothing conce

JULIA Then let it lie for t

LUCETTA Madam, it willUnless it have a false int

JULIA Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.

LUCETTA That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.Give me a note: your ladyship can set.

JULIA As little by such toys as may be possible.Best sing it to the tune of Light o love.

LUCETTA It is too heavy for so light a tune.

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had oerlooked the letter:er back againor which I chid her.nows I am a maid, letter to my view!, say no to that the profferer construe ay. this foolish loveill scratch the nurse

led kiss the rod!ucetta hence,have had her here!y brow to frown,ed my heart to smile!cetta backy folly past.

our ladyship?

me?

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took up so gingerly?

oop, then?

r up that I let fall.

nothing?

rning me.

hose that it concerns.

not lie where it concernserpeter.

JULIA Heavy! belike it h

LUCETTA Ay, and melo

JULIA And why not you

LUCETTA I cannot reac

JULIA Lets see your so

LUCETTA Keep tune thAnd yet methinks I do

JULIA You do not?

LUCETTA No, madam;

JULIA You, minion, are

LUCETTA Nay, now youAnd mar the concord wThere wanteth but a m

JULIA The mean is dro

LUCETTA Indeed, I bid

JULIA This babble shalHere is a coil with prot

[Tears the letter]

Go get you gone, and lYou would be fingerin

LUCETTA She makes it best pleasedTo be so angerd with

JULIA Nay, would I weO hateful hands, to teaInjurious wasps, to feeAnd kill the bees that yIll kiss each several paLook, here is writ kinAs in revenge of thy inI throw thy name againTrampling contemptuth some burden then?

ous were it, would you sing it.

so high.

. How now, minion!

e still, so you will sing it out:ot like this tune.

is too sharp.

oo saucy.

re too flatth too harsh a descant:n to fill your song.

d with your unruly bass.

e base for Proteus.

ot henceforth trouble me.tation!

the papers lie:them, to anger me.

range; but she would be

other letter.

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so angerd with the same!such loving words!on such sweet honeyld it with your stings!r for amends.Julia. Unkind Julia!atitude,t the bruising stones,sly on thy disdain.


And here is writ love-wounded Proteus.Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bedShall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heald;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 awayTill I have found each letter in the letter,Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bearUnto a ragged fearful-hAnd throw it thence intLo, here in one line is hPoor forlorn Proteus, To the sweet Julia: thaAnd yet I will not, sith sHe couples it to his comThus will I fold them onNow kiss, embrace, con

[Re-enter LUCETTA]

LUCETTA Madam,Dinner is ready, and yo

JULIA Well, let us go.

LUCETTA What, shall thtell-tales here?

JULIA If you respect the

LUCETTA Nay, I was takYet here they shall not l

JULIA I see you have a m

LUCETTA Ay, madam, yI see things too, althoug

JULIA Come, come; will

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ANTONIO Tell me, PanthWherewith my brother

PANTHINO Twas of his

ANTONIO Why, what of

PANTHINO He wonderdWould suffer him to spWhile other men, of slePut forth their sons to s

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 youTo let him spend his time no more at home,Which would be great impeachment to his age,

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ino, what sad talk was thatheld you in the cloister?

nephew Proteus, your son.

him?

that your lordshipend his youth at home,nder reputation,eek preferment out:

PANTHINO Twere goodhim thither:There shall he practise Hear sweet discourse, cAnd be in eye of every eWorthy his youth and n

ANTONIO I like thy couAnd that thou mayst peThe execution of it shaEven with the speediestI will dispatch him to th

PANTHINO To-morrowDon Alphonso,With other gentlemen Are journeying to salutAnd to commend their

ANTONIO Good compaAnd, in good time! now

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PROTEUS Sweet love! swHere is her hand, the agHere is her oath for lovO, that our fathers wouTo seal our happiness wO heavenly Julia!anging rocko the raging sea!is name twice writ,passionate Proteus,t Ill tear away.o prettilyplaining names.e on another:

tend, do what you will.

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ANTONIO Nor needst tto thatWhereon this month II have considerd well And how he cannot beNot being tried and tuExperience is by indusAnd perfected by the sThen tell me, whither w

PANTHINO I think yourHow his companion, yAttends the emperor in

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ou much importune me

ave been hammering.s loss of time perfect man,rd in the world: achievedft course of time.re I best to send him?

ordship is not ignorantthful Valentine,is royal court.

I think, your lordship sent

lts and tournaments,nverse with noblemen.ercisebleness of birth.

sel; well hast thou advised:ceive how well I like it,make known.xpedition emperors court.

ay it please you,

good esteem,the emperorervice to his will.

y; with them shall Proteus go:will we break with him.

et lines! sweet life!nt of her heart;

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ANTONIO How now! what letter are you reading there?

PROTEUS Mayt please your lordship, tis a word or twoOf commendations sent from Valentine,Deliverd by a friend that came from him.

ANTONIO Lend me the letter; let me see what news.

PROTEUS There is no news, my lord, but that he writesHow happily he lives, how well belovedAnd daily graced by the Wishing me with him, p

ANTONIO And how stan

PROTEUS As one relyingAnd not depending on h

ANTONIO My will is somMuse not that I thus sudFor what I will, I will, anI am resolved that thou With Valentinus in the eWhat maintenance he frLike exhibition thou shaTo-morrow be in readinExcuse it not, for I am p

PROTEUS My lord, I cannPlease you, deliberate a

ANTONIO Look, what thou wantst shall be sent after thee:No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go.Come on, Panthino: you shall be employdTo hasten on his expedition.

[Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO]

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ACT II

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VALENTINE Not mine; m

SPEED Why, then, this m

VALENTINE Ha! let me seSweet ornament that deAh, Silvia, Silvia!

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VALENTINE How now, si

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ay be yours, for this is but one.

e: ay, give it me, its mine:cks a thing divine!

adam Silvia!

rrah?

hearing, sir.

o bade you call her?

VALENTINE Well, youll

SPEED And yet I was las

VALENTINE Go to, sir: teMadam Silvia?

SPEED She that your wo

VALENTINE Why, how k

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chidden for being too slow.

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ship loves?

ow you that I am in love?

ecial marks: first, you have to wreathe your arms, like a ove-song, like a alone, like one that had the school-boy that had lost his A g wench that had buried her e that takes diet; to watch like speak puling, like a beggar at ur worship, sir; or else I mistoemperor;artner of his fortune.

d you affected to his wish?

on your lordships willis friendly wish.

ething sorted with his wish.denly proceed;d there an end.shalt spend some timemperors court:om his friends receives,lt have from me.ess to go:eremptory.

ot be so soon provided:day or two.

of burning,And drenchd me in thI feard to show my fatLest he should take excAnd with the vantage oHath he excepted mostO, how this spring of loThe uncertain glory of Which now shows all tAnd by and by a cloud

[Re-enter PANTHIN

PANTHINO Sir Proteus,He is in haste; therefor

PROTEUS Why, this it isAnd yet a thousand tim sea, where I am drownd.er Julias letter,ptions to my love; mine own excusegainst my love.e resembleth

n April day,e beauty of the sun,akes all away!

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our father calls for you: I pray you to go.

my heart accords thereto,s it answers no.

[Exeunt]


Hallowmas. You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look on you, I can hardly think you my master.

VALENTINE Are all these things perceived in me?

SPEED They are all perceived without ye.

VALENTINE Without me

SPEED Without you? nayou were so simple, nonwithout these follies, thand shine through you lnot an eye that sees youon your malady.

VALENTINE But tell me,

SPEED She that you gaze

VALENTINE Hast thou o

SPEED Why, sir, I know

VALENTINE Dost thou kand yet knowest her no

SPEED Is she not hard-fa

VALENTINE Not so fair, b

SPEED Sir, I know that w

VALENTINE What dost th

SPEED That she is not so

VALENTINE I mean that favour infinite.

SPEED Thats because thout of all count.

VALENTINE How painted

SPEED Marry, sir, so paiman counts of her beau

VALENTINE How esteemher beauty.

SPEED You never saw he

VALENTINE How long ha

SPEED Ever since you lo

VALENTINE I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful.

SPEED If you love her, you cannot see her.

VALENTINE Why?

SPEED Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes; or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have when you chid at Sir Proteus

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dost thou know my lady Silvia?

on so as she sits at supper?

bserved that? even she, I mean.

her not.

now her by my gazing on her, t?

voured, sir?

oy, as well-favoured.

ell enough.

ou know?

fair as, of you, well-favoured.

her beauty is exquisite, but her

e one is painted and the other

? and how out of count?

nted, to make her fair, that no ty.

est thou me? I account of

r since she was deformed.

th she been deformed?

ved her.

for going ungartered!

VALENTINE What shoul

SPEED Your own presedeformity: for he, beinghis hose, and you, beinyour hose.

VALENTINE Belike, boy,morning you could no

SPEED True, sir; I was inyou swinged me for mybolder to chide you for

VALENTINE In conclusi

SPEED I would you werwould cease.

VALENTINE Last night slines to one she loves.

SPEED And have you?

VALENTINE I have.

SPEED Are they not lam

VALENTINE No, boy, buPeace! here she comes.

SPEED [Aside] O excellO exceeding puppet!Now will he interpret t

[Enter SILVIA]

VALENTINE Madam andgood-morrows.

SPEED [Aside] O, give of manners.

SILVIA Sir Valentine an

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folly and her passing n love, could not see to garter in love, cannot see to put on

hen, you are in love; for last ee to wipe my shoes.

ove with my bed: I thank you, ove, which makes me the ours.

, I stand affected to her.

set, so your affection

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as well as I can do them.

t motion!

her.

mistress, a thousand

good even! heres a million

servant, to you two thousand.

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VALENTINE As you enjoind me, I have writ your letterUnto the secret nameless friend of yours;Which I was much unwilling to proceed inBut for my duty to your ladyship.

SILVIA I thank you gentle servant: tis very clerkly done.

VALENTINE Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;For being ignorant to whom it goesI writ at random, very doubtfully.

SILVIA Perchance you thmuch pains?

VALENTINE No, madamPlease you command, aAnd yet

SILVIA A pretty period! And yet I will not nameAnd yet take this again; Meaning henceforth to

SPEED [Aside] And yet y

VALENTINE What meanslike it?

SILVIA Yes, yes; the linesBut since unwillingly, taNay, take them.

VALENTINE Madam, the

SILVIA Ay, ay: you writ tBut I will none of them;I would have had them

VALENTINE Please you, I

SILVIA And when its wrAnd if it please you, so;

VALENTINE If it please m

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SPEED O jest unseen, insAs a nose on a mans faca steeple!My master sues to her, aHe being her pupil, to bO excellent device! was That my master, being sthe letter?

VALENTINE How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?

SPEED Nay, I was rhyming: tis you that have the reason.

VALENTINE To do what?

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VALENTINE To whom?

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Well, I guess the sequel; it; and yet I care not;and yet I thank you,trouble you no more.

ou will; and yet another yet.

your ladyship? do you not

are very quaintly writ;ke them again.

y are for you.

hem, sir, at my request; they are for you;writ more movingly.

ll write your ladyship another.

it, for my sake read it over,if not, why, so.

e, madam, what then?

you, take it for your labour:ervant.

[Exit]

crutable, invisible,e, or a weathercock on

nd she hath taught her suitor,ecome her tutor.there ever heard a better,cribe, to himself should write

SPEED To yourself: why

VALENTINE What figure

SPEED By a letter, I sho

VALENTINE Why, she h

SPEED What need she, write to yourself? Why

VALENTINE No, believe

SPEED No believing youperceive her earnest?

VALENTINE She gave m

SPEED Why, she hath g

VALENTINE Thats the l

SPEED And that letter han end.

VALENTINE I would it w

SPEED Ill warrant you,For often have you wriOr else for want of idleOr fearing else some mmind discover,Herself hath taught herher lover.All this I speak in printWhy muse you, sir? tis

VALENTINE I have dine

SPEED Ay, but hearken,can feed on the air, I amvictuals, and would fainmistress; be moved, beld say.

h not writ to me?

hen she hath made you o you not perceive the jest?

e.

indeed, sir. But did you

none, except an angry word.

en you a letter.

ter I writ to her friend.

th she delivered, and there

re no worse.

tis as well:to her, and she, in modesty,ime, could not again reply;ssenger that might her

ove himself to write unto

for in print I found it.inner-time.

ir; though the chameleon Love one that am nourished by my have meat. O, be not like your oved.

[Exeunt]


SCENE IIVerona. JULIAs house.

[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]

PROTEUS Have patience, gentle Julia.

JULIA I must, where is no remedy.

PROTEUS When possibly I can, I will return.

JULIA If you turn not, yoKeep this remembrance

[Giving a ring]

PROTEUS Why then, weyou this.

JULIA And seal the barga

PROTEUS Here is my hanAnd when that hour oeWherein I sigh not, JuliaThe next ensuing hour sTorment me for my loveMy father stays my comThe tide is now: nay, noThat tide will stay me loJulia, farewell!

What, gone without a wAy, so true love should dFor truth hath better de

[Enter PANTHINO]

PANTHINO Sir Proteus, y

PROTEUS Go; I come, I cAlas! this parting strikes

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[Enter LAUNCE, lead

LAUNCE Nay, twill be thweeping; all the kind of fault. I have received myprodigious son, and amImperials court. I thinksourest-natured dog tha

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, Ill 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

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[Exit JULIA]

ord?o: it cannot speak;

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[Exeunt]

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is hour ere I have done the Launces have this very proportion, like the

going with Sir Proteus to the Crab, my dog, be the t lives: my mother weeping,

tis; heres my motherscome I to my sister; mathe dog all this while shword; but see how I lay

[Enter PANTHINO]

PANTHINO Launce, awashipped and thou art tomatter? why weepest ththe tide, if you tarry an

LAUNCE It is no matterunkindest tied that eve

PANTHINO Whats the u

LAUNCE Why, he thats

PANTHINO Tut, man, I min losing the flood, losevoyage, lose thy masterthy service, and, in losinstop my mouth?

LAUNCE For fear thou s

PANTHINO Where shou

LAUNCE In thy tale.

PANTHINO In thy tail!

LAUNCE Lose the tide, aand the service, and thwere dry, I am able to fwere down, I could driu will return the sooner. for thy Julias sake.

ll make exchange; here, take

in with a holy kiss.

d for my true constancy;rslips me in the day

mother: nay, that cannso, it hath the worser sit, is my mother, and tthere tis: now, sit, thisshe is as white as a lily is Nan, our maid: I amand I am the dogOhay, so, so. Now come Iblessing: now should nweeping: now should Ion. Now come I to my now like a wood woma 13

be so neither: yes, it is so, it is e. This shoe, with the hole in s my father; a vengeance ont! aff is my sister, for, look you, d as small as a wand: this hat e dog: no, the dog is himself,

he dog is me, and I am myself; my father; Father, your the shoe speak a word for iss my father; well, he weeps other: O, that she could speak ! Well, I kiss her; why, there reath up and down. Now

k the moan she makes. Now ds not a tear nor speaks a he dust with my tears.

, away, aboard! thy master is ost after with oars. Whats the u, man? Away, ass! Youll lose longer.

the tied were lost; for it is the any man tied.

kindest tide?

ied here, Crab, my dog.

ean thoult lose the flood, and, hy voyage, and, in losing thy and, in losing thy master, lose thy service,Why dost thou

ouldst lose thy tongue.

I lose my tongue?

d the voyage, and the master, tied! Why, man, if the river l it with my tears; if the wind the boat with my sighs.


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PANTHINO Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee.

LAUNCE Sir, call me what thou darest.

PANTHINO Wilt thou go?

LAUNCE Well, I will go.

[Exeunt]

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[Enter SILVIA, VALEand SPEED]

SILVIA Servant!

VALENTINE Mistress?

SPEED Master, Sir Thuri

VALENTINE Ay, boy, its

SPEED Not of you.

VALENTINE Of my mistr

SPEED Twere good you

SILVIA Servant, you are

VALENTINE Indeed, mad

THURIO Seem you that y

VALENTINE Haply I do.

THURIO So do counterfe

VALENTINE So do you.

THURIO What seem I th

VALENTINE Wise.

THURIO What instance

VALENTINE Your folly.

THURIO And how quote

VALENTINE I quote it in

THURIO My jerkin is a d

VALENTINE Well, then, I

THURIO How?

SILVIA What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?

VALENTINE Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon.

THURIO That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air.

VALENTINE You have said, sir.

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sad.

am, I seem so.

ou are not?

its.

at I am not?

of the contrary?

you my folly?

your jerkin.

oublet.

ll double your folly.

THURIO Ay, sir, and do

VALENTINE I know it wyou begin.

SILVIA A fine volley of shot off.

VALENTINE Tis indeed

SILVIA Who is that, ser

VALENTINE Yourself, swSir Thurio borrows hisand spends what he bo

THURIO Sir, if you spenmake your wit bankru

VALENTINE I know it wewords, and, I think, nofollowers, for it appearlive by your bare word

SILVIA No more, gentlemy father.

[Enter DUKE]

DUKE Now, daughter SSir Valentine, your fathWhat say you to a letteOf much good news?

VALENTINE My lord, I wTo any happy messeng

DUKE Know ye Don A

VALENTINE Ay, my gooTo be of worth and woAnd not without deser

DUKE Hath he not a so

VALENTINE Ay, my gooThe honour and regarde too, for this time.

l, sir; you always end ere

ords, gentlemen, and quickly

adam; we thank the giver.

nt?

et lady; for you gave the fire. it from your ladyships looks,ows kindly in your company.

word for word with me, I shall.

, sir; you have an exchequer of ther treasure to give your y their bare liveries, that they

en, no more:here comes

via, you are hard beset.rs in good health:from your friends

ll be thankful. from thence.

onio, your countryman?

lord, I know the gentlemanhy estimationo well reputed.

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lord; a son that well deservesf such a father.


DUKE You know him well?

VALENTINE I know him as myself; for from our infancyWe have conversed and spent our hours together:And though myself have been an idle truant,Omitting the sweet benefit of timeTo clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,Yet hath Sir Proteus, for thats his name,Made use and fair advantage of his days;His years but young, but his experience old;His head unmellowd, but his judgment ripe;And, in a word, for far behind his worthComes all the praises that I now bestow,He is complete in featuWith all good grace to g

DUKE Beshrew me, sir, He is as worthy for an eAs meet to be an emperWell, sir, this gentlemanWith commendation frAnd here he means to sI think tis no unwelcom

VALENTINE Should I havbeen he.

DUKE Welcome him thSilvia, I speak to you, anFor Valentine, I need nI will send him hither to

VALENTINE This is the gHad come along with mDid hold his eyes lockd

SILVIA Belike that now sUpon some other pawn

VALENTINE Nay, sure, I prisoners still.

SILVIA Nay, then he shoHow could he see his w

VALENTINE Why, lady, L

THURIO They say that L

VALENTINE To see such Upon a homely object L

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

[Exit THURIO]

[Enter PROTEUS]

VALENTINE Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you,Confirm his welcome with some special favour.

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e wishd a thing, it had

en according to his worth.d you, Sir Thurio;

ot cite him to it: you presently.

[Exit]

entleman I told your ladyshipe, but that his mistress in her crystal looks.

he hath enfranchised them for fealty.

think she holds them

uld be blind; and, being blinday to seek out you?

ove hath twenty pair of eyes.

ove hath not an eye at all.

lovers, Thurio, as yourself:ove can wink.

VALENTINE Mistress, it To be my fellow-servan

SILVIA Too low a mistr

PROTEUS Not so, sweetTo have a look of such

VALENTINE Leave off diSweet lady, entertain h

PROTEUS My duty will

SILVIA And duty neverServant, you are welcom

PROTEUS Ill die on him

SILVIA That you are we

PROTEUS That you are

[Re-enter THURIO]

THURIO Madam, my lowith you.

SILVIA I wait upon his Go with me. Once morIll leave you to confer When you have done,

PROTEUS Well both att

[Ex

VALENTINE Now, tell myou came?

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: sweet lady, entertain himto your ladyship.

s for so high a servant.

dy: but too mean a servantworthy mistress.

ourse of disability: for your servant.

oast of; nothing else.

t did want his meed:e to a worthless mistress.

hat says so but yourself.

ome?

rthless.

your father would speak

easure. Come, Sir Thurio, new servant, welcome: home affairs; look to hear from you.

d upon your ladyship.

unt SILVIA and THURIO]

how do all from whence

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VALENTINE And how do yours?

PROTEUS I left them all in health.

VALENTINE How does your lady? and how thrives your love?

PROTEUS My tales of love were wont to weary you;I know you joy not in a love discourse.

VALENTINE Ay, Proteus,I have done penance forWhose high imperious With bitter fasts, with pWith nightly tears and dFor in revenge of my coLove hath chased sleep And made them watcheO gentle Proteus, LoveAnd hath so humbled mThere is no woe to his cNor to his service no suNow no discourse, exceNow can I break my fasUpon the very naked na

PROTEUS Enough; I readWas this the idol that yo

VALENTINE Even she; an

PROTEUS No; but she is

VALENTINE Call her divi

PROTEUS I will not flatte

VALENTINE O, flatter me

PROTEUS When I was siAnd I must minister the

VALENTINE Then speak Yet let her be a principaSovereign to all the crea

PROTEUS Except my mis

VALENTINE Sweet, excepExcept thou wilt except

PROTEUS Have I not rea

VALENTINE And I will heShe shall be dignified wTo bear my ladys train,Should from her vesturAnd, of so great a favouDisdain to root the sumAnd make rough winter

PROTEUS Why, Valentin

VALENTINE Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothingTo her whose worth makes other worthies nothing;She is alone.

PROTEUS Then let her alone.

VALENTINE Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,And I as rich in having such a jewelAs twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,

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thoughts have punishd meenitential groans,aily heart-sore sighs;

ntempt of love,from my enthralled eyesrs of mine own hearts sorrow.s a mighty lord,e, as, I confess,

orrection,ch joy on earth.pt it be of love;t, dine, sup and sleep,me of love.

your fortune in your eye.u worship so?

d is she not a heavenly saint?

an earthly paragon.

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; for love delights in praises.

ck, you gave me bitter pills, like to you.

the truth by her; if not divine,lity,tures on the earth.

tress.

t not any; against my love.

son to prefer mine own?

lp thee to prefer her too:ith this high honour lest the base earthe chance to steal a kissr growing proud,mer-swelling flower everlastingly.

e, what braggardism is this?

The water nectar and tForgive me that I do noBecause thou seest meMy foolish rival, that hOnly for his possessionIs gone with her along,For love, thou knowst

PROTEUS But she loves

VALENTINE Ay, and we marriage-hour,With all the cunning mDetermined of; how I mThe ladder made of coPlotted and greed on fGood Proteus, go withIn these affairs to aid m

PROTEUS Go on beforeI must unto the road, tSome necessaries that IAnd then Ill presently

VALENTINE Will you m

PROTEUS I will.

Even as one heat anothOr as one nail by strenSo the remembrance oIs by a newer object quIs it mine, or ValentineHer true perfection, orThat makes me reasonShe is fair; and so is JulThat I did love, for nowWhich, like a waxen imBears no impression ofMethinks my zeal to VAnd that I love him noO, but I love his lady toAnd thats the reason IHow shall I dote on heThat thus without advi dream on thee,ote upon my love.

r father likes are so huge,nd I must after,s full of jealousy.

ou?

re betrothd: nay, more, our,

nner of our flight,ust climb her window,s, and all the meansr my happiness.e to my chamber,

with thy counsel.

shall inquire you forth: disembarkeeds must use,

ttend you.

e haste?

[Exit VALENTINE]

r heat expels,h drives out another,my former lovee forgotten. praise,y false transgression,

ss to reason thus? that I lovemy love is thawd;ge, gainst a fire,he thing it was.entine is cold,as I was wont. too much,

ove him so little.with more advice,e begin to love her!


Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,And that hath dazzled my reasons 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 Ill use my skill.

[Exit]

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[Enter SPEED and LA

SPEED Launce! by mine

LAUNCE Forswear not thwelcome. I reckon this aundone till he be hangedplace till some certain shsay Welcome!

SPEED Come on, you mayou presently; where, foshalt have five thousanddid thy master part with

LAUNCE Marry, after thevery fairly in jest.

SPEED But shall she mar

LAUNCE No.

SPEED How then? shall h

LAUNCE No, neither.

SPEED What, are they br

LAUNCE No, they are bo

SPEED Why, then, how s

LAUNCE Marry, thus: whstands well with her.

SPEED What an ass art th

LAUNCE What a block arstaff understands me.

SPEED What thou sayest

LAUNCE Ay, and what I and my staff understand

SPEED It stands under th

LAUNCE Why, stand-und

SPEED But tell me true, willt be a match?

LAUNCE Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will.

SPEED The conclusion is then that it will.

LAUNCE Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.

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ry him?

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th as whole as a fish.

tands the matter with them?

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ou! I understand thee not.

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do too: look thee, Ill but lean,s me.

ee, indeed.

er and under-stand is all one.

SPEED Tis well that I gethou, that my master is

LAUNCE I never knew h

SPEED Than how?

LAUNCE A notable lubb

SPEED Why, thou whor

LAUNCE Why, fool, I mthy master.

SPEED I tell thee, my m

LAUNCE Why, I tell thehimself in love. If thou wif not, thou art an Hebrname of a Christian.

SPEED Why?

LAUNCE Because thou has to go to the ale with

SPEED At thy service.

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[Enter PROTEUS]

PROTEUS To leave my JTo love fair Silvia, shallTo wrong my friend, I And even that power wProvokes me to this thrLove bade me swear anO sweet-suggesting LovTeach me, thy temptedAt first I did adore a twBut now I worship a ceUnheedful vows may hAnd he wants wit that wTo learn his wit to exch 17

st not so much charity in thee Christian. Wilt thou go?

[Exeunt]

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lia, shall I be forsworn; be forsworn;all be much forsworn;ich gave me first my oathefold perjury; Love bids me forswear., if thou hast sinned,ubject, to excuse it!

nkling star,stial sun.

edfully be broken,ants resolved willnge the bad for better. it so. But, Launce, how sayestecome a notable lover?

m otherwise.

r, as thou reportest him to be.

son ass, thou mistakest me.

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ster is become a hot lover.

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Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferrdWith 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 lossFor Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.I to myself am dearer thFor love is still most preAnd Silviawitness HeShows Julia but a swarthI will forget that Julia isRemembering that my lAnd Valentine Ill hold Aiming at Silvia as a swI cannot now prove conWithout some treacheryThis night he meaneth wTo climb celestial SilviaMyself in counsel, his coNow presently Ill give hOf their disguising and Who, all enraged, will bFor Thurio, he intends,But, Valentine being goBy some sly trick blunt Love, lend me wings to As thou hast lent me wi

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[Enter JULIA and LU

JULIA Counsel, Lucetta;And even in kind love IWho art the table whereAre visibly characterd aTo lesson me and tell mHow, with my honour, A journey to my loving

LUCETTA Alas, the way i

JULIA A true-devoted piTo measure kingdoms wMuch less shall she thatAnd when the flight is mOf such divine perfectio

LUCETTA Better forbear

JULIA O, knowst thou not his looks are my souls food?Pity the dearth that I have pined in,By longing for that food so long a time.Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snowAs seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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s wearisome and long!

lgrim is not wearyith his feeble steps;

hath Loves wings to fly,ade to one so dear,

n, as Sir Proteus.

till Proteus make return.

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LUCETTA Why, then, yo

JULIA No, girl, Ill knit With twenty odd-concTo be fantastic may beOf greater time than I s

LUCETTA What fashionyour breeches?

JULIA That fits as well aWhat compass will youWhy even what fashion

LUCETTA You must neecodpiece, madam.

JULIA Out, out, Lucetta

LUCETTA A round hosea pin,Unless you have a codpan a friend,cious in itself;aven, that made her fair!y Ethiope.

alive,ove to her is dead;an enemy,eeter friend.stant to myself, used to Valentine.ith a corded ladder

s chamber-window,mpetitor.er father notice

pretended flight;anish Valentine; shall wed his daughter;ne, Ill quickly crossThurios dull proceeding.make my purpose swift,t to plot this drift!

Lest it should burn ab

JULIA The more thou dThe current that with Thou knowst, being sBut when his fair courHe makes sweet musicGiving a gentle kiss toHe overtaketh in his pAnd so by many windWith willing sport to tThen let me go and hiIll be as patient as a geAnd make a pastime oTill the last step have bAnd there Ill rest, as aA blessed soul doth in

LUCETTA But in what h

JULIA Not like a womaThe loose encounters Gentle Lucetta, fit me mmst it up, the more it burns.ntle murmur glides,ppd, impatiently doth rage; is not hindered,ith the enamelled stones,

very sedgegrimage,g nooks he strayse wild ocean.der not my coursetle streameach weary step,ought me to my love;er much turmoillysium.

bit will you go along?

; for I would prevent lascivious men:ith such weedsell-reputed page.

ur ladyship must cut your hair.

t up in silken stringsited true-love knots.ome a youthhall show to be.

madam shall I make

Tell me, good my lord, wear your farthingale? thou best likest, Lucetta.

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madam, nows not worth

iece to stick pins on.

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JULIA Lucetta, as thou lovest me, let me haveWhat thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly.But tell me, wench, how will the world repute meFor undertaking so unstaid a journey?I fear me, it will make me scandalized.

LUCETTA If you think so, then stay at home and go not.

JULIA Nay, that I will not.

LUCETTA Then never drIf Proteus like your jourNo matter whos displeaI fear me, he will scarce

JULIA That is the least, LA thousand oaths, an ocAnd instances of infinitWarrant me welcome to

LUCETTA All these are se

JULIA Base men, that usBut truer stars did gove

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

LUCETTA Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him!

JULIA Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrongTo bear a hard opinion of his truth:

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[Enter DUKE, THUR

DUKE Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;We have some secrets to confer about.

[Exit THURIO]

Now, tell me, Proteus, whats your will with me?

PROTEUS My gracious lowould discoverThe law of friendship biBut when I call to mindDone to me, undeservinMy duty pricks me on toWhich else no worldly gKnow, worthy prince, SThis night intends to steMyself am one made prI know you have determOn Thurio, whom your

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Haply when they have And oftentimes have puSir Valentine her compBut fearing lest my jealAnd so unworthily disgA rashness that I ever yI gave him gentle looksThat which thyself hastAnd, that thou mayst pKnowing that tender yoI nightly lodge her in anThe key whereof myselAnd thence she cannoty and my court:s aim might errce the man, have shunnd,hereby to findow disclosed to me.ceive my fear of this,th is soon suggested,upper tower,ave ever kept;

e conveyd away.sorrows which would press yrevented, to your timeless gr

eus, I thank thee for thine hrequite, command me while f theirs myself have often se

judged me fast aeam on infamy, but go.ney when you come,sed when you are gone:be pleased withal.

ucetta, of my fear:ean of his tears

e of love my Proteus.

rvants to deceitful men.

e them to so base effect!rn Proteus birth

Only deserve my love bAnd presently go with mTo take a note of what To furnish me upon mAll that is mine I leave My goods, my lands, mOnly, in lieu thereof, diCome, answer not, butI am impatient of my ta

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And should she thus beIt would be much vexatThus, for my dutys sakTo cross my friend in h loving him;e to my chamber,stand in need of, longing journey.t thy dispose, reputation;patch me hence.o it presently!riance.

[Exeunt]

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PROTEUS Know, noble lord, they have devised a meanHow he her chamber-window will ascendAnd with a corded ladder fetch her down;For which the youthful lover now is goneAnd this way comes he with it presently;Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.But, good my Lord, do it so cunninglyThat my discovery be not aimed at;For love of you, not hate unto my friend,Hath made me publisher of this pretence.

DUKE Upon mine honoThat I had any light from

PROTEUS Adieu, my Lor

[Enter VALENTINE]

DUKE Sir Valentine, wh

VALENTINE Please it youThat stays to bear my leAnd I am going to deliv

DUKE Be they of much i

VALENTINE The tenor ofMy health and happy be

DUKE Nay then, no matI am to break with thee That touch me near, whTis not unknown to theTo match my friend Sir

VALENTINE I know it wethe matchWere rich and honouraIs full of virtue, bounty,Beseeming such a wife aCannot your Grace win

DUKE No, trust me; sheProud, disobedient, stuNeither regarding that sNor fearing me as if I wAnd, may I say to thee, Upon advice, hath drawAnd, where I thought thShould have been cherisI now am full resolved tAnd turn her out to whThen let her beauty be hFor me and my possessi

VALENTINE What would your Grace have me to do in this?

DUKE There is a lady in Verona hereWhom I affect; but she is nice and coyAnd nought esteems my aged eloquence:Now therefore would I have thee to my tutorFor long agone I have forgot to court;Besides, the fashion of the time is changedHow and which way I m

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them doth but signifying at your court.

ter; stay with me awhile;of some affairserein thou must be secret.e that I have sought

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ll, my Lord; and, sure,

ble; besides, the gentleman worth and qualitiess your fair daughter: her to fancy him?

is peevish, sullen, froward,bborn, lacking duty,he is my childere her father;this pride of hers,n my love from her;e remnant of mine agehd by her child-like duty,o take a wifeo will take her in:er wedding-dower;ons she esteems not.

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DUKE But she did scorn

VALENTINE A woman socontents her.Send her another; neveFor scorn at first makesIf she do frown, tis notBut rather to beget moIf she do chide, tis notFor why, the fools are mTake no repulse, whateFor get you gone, sheFlatter and praise, comThough neer so black,That man that hath a toIf with his tongue he ca

DUKE But she I mean isUnto a youthful gentlemAnd kept severely fromThat no man hath acce

VALENTINE Why, then,

DUKE Ay, but the doorsThat no man hath reco

VALENTINE What lets bher window?

DUKE Her chamber is aAnd built so shelving thWithout apparent haza

VALENTINE Why then, aTo cast up, with a pair Would serve to scale anSo bold Leander would

DUKE Now, as thou artAdvise me where I mayay bestow myselfn-bright eye.

gifts, if she respect not words:eir silent kinddo move a womans mind.

a present that I sent her.

metimes scorns what best

give her oer;after-love the more.in hate of you, love in you:

o have you gone;ad, if left alone.er she doth say;doth not mean away!end, extol their graces;

ay they have angels faces.gue, I say, is no man,not win a woman.

promised by her friendsan of worth,

resort of men,s by day to her.

would resort to her by night.

be lockd and keys kept safe,rse to her by night.

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oft, far from the ground,at one cannot climb itd of his life.

ladder quaintly made of cords,f anchoring hooks,ther Heros tower,dventure it.

gentleman of blood,have such a ladder.


VALENTINE When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that.

DUKE This very night; for Love is like a child,That longs for every thing that he can come by.

VALENTINE By seven oclock Ill get you such a ladder.

DUKE But, hark thee; I will go to her alone:How shall I best convey the ladder thither?

VALENTINE It will be lighUnder a cloak that is of

DUKE A cloak as long as

VALENTINE Ay, my good

DUKE Then let me see thIll get me one of such a

VALENTINE Why, any clo

DUKE How shall I fashioI pray thee, let me feel tWhat letter is this sameAnd here an engine fit fIll be so bold to break t

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My thoughts do harboAnd slaves they are to mO, could their master coHimself would lodge whMy herald thoughts in tWhile I, their king, thatDo curse the grace that blessd them,Because myself do wantI curse myself, for they That they should harboWhats here?Silvia, this night I will Tis so; and heres the laWhy, Phaeton,for thoWilt thou aspire to guidAnd with thy daring folWilt thou reach stars, bGo, base intruder! overwBestow thy fawning smiAnd think my patience,Is privilege for thy depaThank me for this moreWhich all too much I hBut if thou linger in myLonger than swiftest exp

Will give thee time to leave our royal court,By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the loveI 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.

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n me to wear a cloak?hy cloak upon me.? Whats here? To Silvia!or my proceeding.he seal for once.

ur with my Silvia nightly,e that send them flying:me and go as lightly,ere senseless they are lying!

hy pure bosom rest them: hither them importune,with such grace hath

my servants fortune:are sent by me,ur where their lord would be.

enfranchise thee.dder for the purpose.u art Merops son,e the heavenly carly burn the world?ecause they shine on thee?

eening slave!les on equal mates, more than thy desert,rture hence: than for all the favours

ave bestowd on thee. territoriesedition

To die is to be banishdAnd Silvia is myself: baIs self from self: a deadWhat light is light, if SiWhat joy is joy, if SilviaUnless it be to think thAnd feed upon the shaExcept I be by Silvia inThere is no music in thUnless I look on Silvia There is no day for meShe is my essence, and If I be not by her fair inFosterd, illumined, chI fly not death, to fly hiTarry I here, I but attenBut, fly I hence, I fly aw

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PROTEUS Run, boy, run

LAUNCE Soho, soho!

PROTEUS What seest th

LAUNCE Him we go to but tis a Valentine.

PROTEUS Valentine?

VALENTINE No.

PROTEUS Who then? hi

VALENTINE Neither.

PROTEUS What then?

VALENTINE Nothing.

LAUNCE Can nothing s

PROTEUS Who wouldst

LAUNCE Nothing.

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LAUNCE Why, sir, Ill strike nothing: I pray you,

PROTEUS Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word.

VALENTINE My ears are stopt and cannot heargood news,So much of bad already hath possessd them.

PROTEUS Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,For they are harsh, untuneable and bad.

VALENTINE Is Silvia dead

PROTEUS No, Valentine

VALENTINE No ValentinHath she forsworn me?

PROTEUS No, Valentine

VALENTINE No ValentinWhat is your news?

LAUNCE Sir, there is a pare vanished.

PROTEUS That thou art the news!From hence, from Silvia

VALENTINE O, I have fedAnd now excess of it wiDoth Silvia know that I

PROTEUS Ay, ay; and sheWhich, unreversed, stanA sea of melting pearl, wThose at her fathers chWith them, upon her knWringing her hands, whAs if but now they waxeBut neither bended kneSad sighs, deep groans, Could penetrate her unBut Valentine, if he be tBesides, her intercessionWhen she for thy repeaThat to close prison he With many bitter threat

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PROTEUS Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,And study help for that which thou lamentst.Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love;Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.Hope is a lovers staff; walk hence with thatAnd manage it against despairing thoughts.Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence;Which, being writ to me, shall be deliverdEven in the milk-white bosom of thy love.The time now serves not

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upon this woe already,ll make me surfeit. am banished?

hath offerd to the doomds in effectual forcehich some call tears:

urlish feet she tenderd;ees, her humble self;ose whiteness so became themd pale for woe:es, pure hands held up,nor silver-shedding tears,compassionate sire;aen, must die. chafed him so,

l was suppliant,commanded her,s of biding there.

less the next word that

ower upon my life:e it in mine ear,y endless dolour.

Come, Ill convey thee And, ere I part with theOf all that may concernAs thou lovest Silvia, thRegard thy danger, and

VALENTINE I pray thee,Bid him make haste an

PROTEUS Go, sirrah, fin

VALENTINE O my dear

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LAUNCE I am but a foolto think my master is aone, if he be but one knknows me to be in lovehorse shall not pluck thand yet tis a woman; bmyself; and yet tis a mshe hath had gossips; ymasters maid, and servqualities than a water-sbare Christian.

[Pulling out a paper]

Here is the cate-log of can fetch and carry. Wnay, a horse cannot fetshe better than a jade. Svirtue in a maid with c

[Enter SPEED]

SPEED How now, Signiyour mastership?

LAUNCE With my mast

SPEED Well, your old vnews, then, in your pap to expostulate:rough the city-gate;

, confer at largethy love-affairs.ugh not for thyself,

along with me!

aunce, an if thou seest my boy, meet me at the North-gate.

him out. Come, Valentine.

lvia! Hapless Valentine!

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LAUNCE The blackest news that ever thou heardest.

SPEED Why, man, how black?

LAUNCE Why, as black as ink.

SPEED Let me read them.

LAUNCE Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read.

SPEED Thou liest; I can.

LAUNCE I will try thee. T

SPEED Marry, the son of

LAUNCE O illiterate loitegrandmother: this prov

SPEED Come, fool, com

LAUNCE There; and St. N

SPEED [Reads] Imprim

LAUNCE Ay, that she can

SPEED She brews good a

LAUNCE And thereof coyour heart, you brew go

SPEED She can sew.

LAUNCE Thats as much

SPEED She can knit.

LAUNCE What need a mwench, when she can kn

SPEED She can wash and

LAUNCE A special virtuewashed and scoured.

SPEED She can spin.

LAUNCE Then may I set can spin for her living.

SPEED She hath many n

LAUNCE Thats as muchindeed, know not their no names.

SPEED Here follow her v

LAUNCE Close at the hee

SPEED She is not to be kissed fasting in respectof her breath.

LAUNCE Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.

SPEED She hath a sweet mouth.

LAUNCE That makes amends for her sour breath.

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LAUNCE Its no matter fher talk.

SPEED She is slow in wo

LAUNCE O villain, that To be slow in words is thee, out witht, and pl

SPEED She is proud.

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LAUNCE I care not for tlove crusts.

SPEED She is curst.

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than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less. Whats next?

SPEED And more faults than hairs,

LAUNCE Thats monstrous: O, that that were out!

SPEED And more wealth than faults.

LAUNCE Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well, Ill have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is impossible,

SPEED What then?

LAUNCE Why, then willstays for thee at the Nor

SPEED For me?

LAUNCE For thee! ay, wbetter man than thee.

SPEED And must I go to

LAUNCE Thou must runlong that going will scar

SPEED Why didst not telove letters!

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DUKE Sir Thurio, fear nNow Valentine is banis

THURIO Since his exile sForsworn my companyThat I am desperate of

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[Enter PROTEUS]

How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countrymanAccording to our proclamation gone?

PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.

DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.

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ot but that she will love you,hd from her sight.

he hath despised me most, and raild at me,obtaining her.

s of love is as a figurewith an hours heatoth lose his form.

er frozen thoughtse shall be forgot.

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DUKE Ay, but shell thin

PROTEUS Ay, if his enemTherefore it must with By one whom she estee

DUKE Then you must u

PROTEUS And that, my Tis an ill office for a geEspecially against his ve

DUKE Where your goodYour slander never canTherefore the office is iBeing entreated to it by

PROTEUS You have prevBy ought that I can speShe shall not long contBut say this weed her loIt follows not that she w I tell theethat thy master th-gate.

ho art thou? he hath stayed for a

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For thou hast shown soMakes me the better to

PROTEUS Longer than ILet me not live to look

DUKE Thou knowst hoThe match between Sir

PROTEUS I do, my lord

DUKE And also, I thinkHow she opposes her a

PROTEUS She did, my lo

DUKE Ay, and perverseWhat might we do to mThe love of Valentine a

PROTEUS The best way onfer with thee.

rove loyal to your gracepon your grace.

willingly I would effecthurio and my daughter.

thou art not ignorantainst my will

d, when Valentine was here.

she persevers so.ake the girl forgetd love Sir Thurio?

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dertake to slander him.

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word cannot advantage him,ndamage him;different,your friend.

ild, my lord; if I can do itk in his dispraise,ue love to him.e from Valentine,

ill love Sir Thurio.

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THURIO Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,Lest it should ravel and be good to none,You must provide to bottom it on me;Which must be done by praising me as muchAs you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.

DUKE And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind,Because we know, on Valentines report,You are already Loves firm votaryAnd cannot soon revolt Upon this warrant shall Where you with Silvia mFor she is lumpish, heavyAnd, for your friends saWhere you may temper To hate young Valentine

PROTEUS As much as I caBut you, Sir Thurio, are You must lay lime to tanBy wailful sonnets, whosShould be full-fraught w

DUKE Ay,Much is the force of heav

PROTEUS Say that upon tYou sacrifice your tears, Write till your ink be dry

Moist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity:For Orpheus lute was strung with poets sinews,Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,Make tigers tame and huge leviathansForsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.After your dire-lamenting elegies,Visit by night your ladys chamber-windowWith some sweet concert; to their instruments

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VALENTINE My friends,

FIRST OUTLAW Thats no

SECOND OUTLAW Peace!

THIRD OUTLAW Ay, by mproper man.

VALENTINE Then know A man I am crossd witMy riches are these pooOf which if you should You take the sum and s

SECOND OUTLAW Whith

VALENTINE To Verona. so, sir: we are your enemies.

ell hear him.

beard, will we, for hes a

at I have little wealth to lose:adversity;habiliments,ere disfurnish me,stance that I have.

travel you?and change your mind.you have accessay confer at large;, melancholy,

ke, will be glad of you;her by your persuasion and love my friend.

n do, I will effect:not sharp enough;gle her desirese composed rhymesith serviceable vows.

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DUKE This discipline sh

THURIO And thy adviceTherefore, sweet ProteLet us into the city presTo sort some gentlemeI have a sonnet that wiTo give the onset to thy

DUKE About it, gentlem

PROTEUS Well wait upAnd afterward determi

DUKE Even now abouteet-complaining grievance.l inherit her.

ws thou hast been in love.

his night Ill put in practise., my direction-giver,ntly well skilld in music.serve the turngood advice.

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FIRST OUTLAW And I for such like petty crimes as these,But to the purposefor we cite our faults,That they may hold excusd our lawless lives;And partly, seeing you are beautifiedWith goodly shape and by your own reportA linguist and a man of such perfectionAs we do in our quality much want

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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayd,If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.

FIRST OUTLAW What, were you banishd thence?

VALENTINE I was.

SECOND OUTLAW For wh

VALENTINE For that whicto rehearse:I killd a man, whose deaBut yet I slew him manfuWithout false vantage or

FIRST OUTLAW Why, neeBut were you banishd fo

VALENTINE I was, and he

SECOND OUTLAW Have yo

VALENTINE My youthful Or else I often had been

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FIRST OUTLAW Well have

SPEED Master, be one of of thievery.

VALENTINE Peace, villain

SECOND OUTLAW Tell us take to?

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FIRST OUTLAW But if ththou diest.

SECOND OUTLAW Thou have offerd.

VALENTINE I take your Provided that you do nOn silly women or poo

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PROTEUS Already have And now I must be as uUnder the colour of coI have access my own loBut Silvia is too fair, toTo be corrupted with mWhen I protest true loyShe twits me with my fWhen to her beauty I cShe bids me think howIn breaking faith with J

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been false to Valentinejust to Thurio.mending him,e to prefer:

true, too holy, worthless gifts.

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st thou? wilt thou be of

n of us all:d be ruled by thee,nder and our king.

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And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,The least whereof would quell a lovers 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.

[Enter THURIO and Musicians]

THURIO How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?

PROTEUS Ay, gentle ThuWill creep in service wh

THURIO Ay, but I hope,

PROTEUS Sir, but I do; o

THURIO Who? Silvia?

PROTEUS Ay, Silvia; for

THURIO I thank you forLets tune, and to it lust

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HOST Now, my young gallycholly: I pray you, w

JULIA Marry, mine host

HOST Come, well haveyou shall hear music anasked for.

JULIA But shall I hear h

HOST Ay, that you shall

JULIA That will be musi

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HOST Hark, hark!

JULIA Is he among these

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JULIA You mistake; the

HOST Why, my pretty y

JULIA He plays false, fat

HOST How? out of tune

JULIA Not so; but yet soheart-strings.

HOST You have a quick

JULIA Ay, I would I werslow heart.

HOST I perceive you de

JULIA Not a whit, when

HOST Hark, what fine c

JULIA Ay, that change i

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JULIA I would always hBut, host, doth this Sir Often resort unto this g

HOST I tell you what Laloved her out of all nick

JULIA Where is Launce

HOST Gone to seek his masters command, he his lady.

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PROTEUS At Saint Gregorys well.

THURIO Farewell.

[Exeunt THURIO and Musicians]

[Enter SILVIA above]

PROTEUS Madam, good even to your ladyship.

SILVIA I thank you for your music, gentlemen.Who is that that spake?

PROTEUS One, lady, if yoYou would quickly learn

SILVIA Sir Proteus, as I t

PROTEUS Sir Proteus, ge

SILVIA Whats your will?

PROTEUS That I may com

SILVIA You have your wThat presently you hie yThou subtle, perjured, fThinkst thou I am so shTo be seduced by thy flaThat hast deceived so mReturn, return, and makFor me, by this pale queI am so far from grantinThat I despise thee for thAnd by and by intend toEven for this time I spen

PROTEUS I grant, sweet lBut she is dead.

JULIA [Aside] Twere faFor I am sure she is not

SILVIA Say that she be; ySurvives; to whom, thysI am betrothd: and art tTo wrong him with thy

PROTEUS I likewise hear

SILVIA And so suppose aAssure thyself my love is

PROTEUS Sweet lady, let

SILVIA Go to thy ladys gOr, at the least, in hers s

JULIA [Aside] He heard not that.

PROTEUS Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,The picture that is hanging in your chamber;To that Ill speak, to that Ill sigh and weep:For since the substance of your perfect selfIs else devoted, I am but a shadow;And to your shadow will I make true love.

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et Valentine thy friendelf art witness,hou not ashamedimportunacy?

that Valentine is dead.

m I; for in his grave buried.

me rake it from the earth.

rave and call hers thence,epulchre thine.

deceive it,And make it but a shad

SILVIA I am very loath But since your falsehooTo worship shadows anSend to me in the morAnd so, good rest.

PROTEUS As wretches hThat wait for execution

[Exeunt PRO

JULIA Host, will you go

HOST By my halidom,

JULIA Pray you, where

HOST Marry, at my houalmost day.

JULIA Not so; but it hatThat eer I watchd and

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[Enter EGLAMOUR]

EGLAMOUR This is the hEntreated me to call anTheres some great maMadam, madam!

[Enter SILVIA above

SILVIA Who calls?

EGLAMOUR Your servanOne that attends your

SILVIA Sir Eglamour, a e. Trust me, I think tis

been the longest nighthe most heaviest.

[Exeunt]

ENE IIIe same.

ur that Madam Silvia know her mind:er sheld employ me in.

and your friend;dyships command.

ousand times good morrow. substance, you would, sure,

w, as I am.

be your idol, sir; shall become you well adore false shapes,

ing and Ill send it:

ve oernightin the morn.

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was fast asleep.

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EGLAMOUR As many, worthy lady, to yourself:According to your ladyships impose,I am thus early come to know what serviceIt is your pleasure to command me in.

SILVIA O Eglamour, thou art a gentlemanThink not I flatter, for I swear I do notValiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplishd:Thou art not ignorant what dear good willI bear unto the banishd Valentine,Nor how my father would enforce me marryVain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.Thyself hast loved; and I have heard thee sayNo grief did ever come As when thy lady and thUpon whose grave thouSir Eglamour, I would tTo Mantua, where I heaAnd, for the ways are daI do desire thy worthy cUpon whose faith and hUrge not my fathers anBut think upon my grieAnd on the justice of mTo keep me from a mosWhich heaven and fortuI do desire thee, even frAs full of sorrows as theTo bear me company anIf not, to hide what I haThat I may venture to d

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