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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1]

Proteus

78

Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,
An if the shepherd be a while away.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

254

Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

545

No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive
her earnest?

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

663

Indeed, madam, I seem so.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

685

'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver.

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 5]

Speed

906

It stands under thee, indeed.

7

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Valentine

1285

No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia.
Hath she forsworn me?

8

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Launce

1389

That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that,
indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names.

9

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1]

Second Outlaw

1611

Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?

10

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 4]

Launce

1834

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?

11

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 4]

Launce

1886

No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him
back again.

12

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[V, 2]

Julia

2084

[Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.