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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.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
12 |
Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!
Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest
Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:
Wish me partaker in thy happiness
When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,
If ever danger do environ thee,
Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
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3 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Valentine |
31 |
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won;
However, but a folly bought with wit,
Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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4 |
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.
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5 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Valentine |
58 |
Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.
To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
Of thy success in love, and what news else
Betideth here in absence of thy friend;
And likewise will visit thee with mine.
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6 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
63 |
All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!
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7 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Valentine |
64 |
As much to you at home! and so, farewell.
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8 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
66 |
He after honour hunts, I after love:
He leaves his friends to dignify them more,
I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
75 |
But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.
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10 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
76 |
Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,
And I have play'd the sheep in losing him.
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11 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Proteus |
97 |
But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?
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12 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
98 |
Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,
a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a
lost mutton, nothing for my labour.
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13 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
107 |
From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,
'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to
your lover.
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14 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
116 |
Now you have taken the pains to set it together,
take it for your pains.
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15 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
119 |
Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.
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16 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
131 |
Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no,
not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:
and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I
fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your
mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as
hard as steel.
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17 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 1] |
Speed |
138 |
No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To
testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned
me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your
letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.
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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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19 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2] |
Julia |
151 |
But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,
Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?
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20 |
Two Gentlemen of Verona
[I, 2] |
Lucetta |
157 |
Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind
According to my shallow simple skill.
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