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1 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
119 |
Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
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2 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
142 |
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.
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3 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Antonio |
378 |
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.
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4 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 2] |
Julia |
567 |
I must, where is no remedy.
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5 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Proteus |
807 |
When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
And I must minister the like to you.
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6 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
828 |
Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.
Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.
My foolish rival, that her father likes
Only for his possessions are so huge,
Is gone with her along, and I must after,
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.
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7 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
839 |
Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our,
marriage-hour,
With all the cunning manner of our flight,
Determined of; how I must climb her window,
The ladder made of cords, and all the means
Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.
Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
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8 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Proteus |
847 |
Go on before; I shall inquire you forth:
I must unto the road, to disembark
Some necessaries that I needs must use,
And then I'll presently attend you.
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9 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 6] |
Proteus |
931 |
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!
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10 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7] |
Lucetta |
1019 |
Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair.
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11 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 7] |
Lucetta |
1028 |
You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
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12 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1] |
Duke of Milan |
1128 |
Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile;
I am to break with thee of some affairs
That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.
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13 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1] |
Proteus |
1296 |
Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom—
Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force—
A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:
Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd;
With them, upon her knees, her humble self;
Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them
As if but now they waxed pale for woe:
But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;
But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.
Besides, her intercession chafed him so,
When she for thy repeal was suppliant,
That to close prison he commanded her,
With many bitter threats of biding there.
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14 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1] |
Speed |
1442 |
And must I go to him?
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15 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1] |
Launce |
1443 |
Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long
that going will scarce serve the turn.
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16 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 2] |
Proteus |
1487 |
Ay, if his enemy deliver it:
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
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17 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 2] |
Duke of Milan |
1490 |
Then you must undertake to slander him.
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18 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 2] |
Thurio |
1503 |
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 much
As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
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19 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 2] |
Proteus |
1518 |
As much as I can do, I will effect:
But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough;
You must lay lime to tangle her desires
By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
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20 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2] |
Proteus |
1631 |
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.
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