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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1]

Valentine

2

Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,
Even as I would when I to love begin.

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1]

Valentine

47

And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime
And all the fair effects of future hopes.
But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,
That art a votary to fond desire?
Once more adieu! my father at the road
Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

165

Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us!

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Julia

244

Let's see your song. How now, minion!

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Julia

297

I see you have a month's mind to them.

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2]

Lucetta

298

Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;
I see things too, although you judge I wink.

7

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3]

Antonio

359

Lend me the letter; let me see what news.

8

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

403

Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine:
Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
Ah, Silvia, Silvia!

9

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

461

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

10

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

463

If you love her, you cannot see her.

11

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

469

What should I see then?

12

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Speed

470

Your own present folly and her passing deformity:
for he, being in love, could not see to garter his
hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.

13

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

473

Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last
morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.

14

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 3]

Launce

593

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.

15

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Silvia

744

Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind
How could he see his way to seek out you?

16

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

748

To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:
Upon a homely object Love can wink.

17

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Duke of Milan

1203

Then let me see thy cloak:
I'll get me one of such another length.

18

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Proteus

1315

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.
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 lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts.
Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence;
Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd
Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.
The time now serves not to expostulate:
Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate;
And, ere I part with thee, confer at large
Of all that may concern thy love-affairs.
As thou lovest Silvia, though not for thyself,
Regard thy danger, and along with me!

19

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1]

First Outlaw

1553

Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.

20

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Host

1662

Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where
you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for.