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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 1]

Valentine

440

But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?

2

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

687

Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire. Sir
Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,
and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.

3

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

746

Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.

4

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

757

Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him
To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.

5

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Proteus

760

Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant
To have a look of such a worthy mistress.

6

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

762

Leave off discourse of disability:
Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.

7

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Valentine

782

How does your lady? and how thrives your love?

8

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[II, 4]

Proteus

852

I will.
[Exit VALENTINE]
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
She is fair; and so is Julia that I love—
That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd;
Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,
Bears no impression of the thing it was.
Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
And that I love him not as I was wont.
O, but I love his lady too too much,
And that's the reason I love him so little.
How shall I dote on her with more advice,
That thus without advice begin to love her!
'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
And that hath dazzled my reason's 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 I'll use my skill.

9

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[III, 1]

Duke of Milan

1151

There is a lady in Verona here
Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy
And nought esteems my aged eloquence:
Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor—
For long agone I have forgot to court;
Besides, the fashion of the time is changed—
How and which way I may bestow myself
To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.

10

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 1]

Third Outlaw

1596

Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Thrust from the company of awful men:
Myself was from Verona banished
For practising to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the duke.

11

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Host

1708

Gone to seek his dog; which tomorrow, by his
master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady.

12

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Proteus

1721

One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,
You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.

13

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Proteus

1724

Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.

14

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Proteus

1739

I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;
But she is dead.

15

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 2]

Proteus

1750

Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.

16

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 3]

Eglamour

1790

As many, worthy lady, to yourself:
According to your ladyship's impose,
I am thus early come to know what service
It is your pleasure to command me in.

17

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 3]

Silvia

1794

O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman—
Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not—
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd:
Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
I bear unto the banish'd Valentine,
Nor how my father would enforce me marry
Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.
Thyself hast loved; and I have heard thee say
No grief did ever come so near thy heart
As when thy lady and thy true love died,
Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity.
Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,
I do desire thy worthy company,
Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,
But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
And on the justice of my flying hence,
To keep me from a most unholy match,
Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
I do desire thee, even from a heart
As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
To bear me company and go with me:
If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
That I may venture to depart alone.

18

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 3]

Eglamour

1830

I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.

19

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 4]

Julia

1917

Because methinks that she loved you as well
As you do love your lady Silvia:
She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!'

20

Two Gentlemen of Verona
[IV, 4]

Proteus

1923

Well, give her that ring and therewithal
This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady
I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.