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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
84 |
A silly answer and fitting well a sheep.
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2 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
119 |
Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
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3 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
128 |
Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?
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4 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2] |
Lucetta |
163 |
Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so.
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5 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2] |
Julia |
292 |
Well, let us go.
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6 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Antonio |
320 |
Nor need'st thou much importune me to that
Whereon this month I have been hammering.
I have consider'd well his loss of time
And how he cannot be a perfect man,
Not being tried and tutor'd in the world:
Experience is by industry achieved
And perfected by the swift course of time.
Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?
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7 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Antonio |
331 |
I know it well.
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8 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Antonio |
337 |
I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised:
And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,
The execution of it shall make known.
Even with the speediest expedition
I will dispatch him to the emperor's court.
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9 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 3] |
Proteus |
360 |
There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
How happily he lives, how well beloved
And daily graced by the emperor;
Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.
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10 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1] |
Valentine |
411 |
Well, you'll still be too forward.
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11 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1] |
Speed |
448 |
Sir, I know that well enough.
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12 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1] |
Valentine |
485 |
No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!
here she comes.
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13 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1] |
Silvia |
505 |
A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;
And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not;
And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,
Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.
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14 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1] |
Speed |
552 |
I'll warrant you, 'tis as well:
For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,
Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;
Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.
Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time.
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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.
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16 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 3] |
Launce |
651 |
Well, I will go.
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17 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
675 |
Well, then, I'll double your folly.
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18 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
683 |
I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.
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19 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
692 |
I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words,
and, I think, no other treasure to give your
followers, for it appears by their bare liveries,
that they live by your bare words.
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20 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4] |
Valentine |
705 |
Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
To be of worth and worthy estimation
And not without desert so well reputed.
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