KSC 2023 TwoGentlementOfVerona ActingScript v4

The Two Gentlemen
of Verona
By
William Shakespeare
Characters in the Play
VALENTINE, a gentleman of Verona
SPEED, his servant
PROTEUS, a gentleman of Verona
LAUNCE, his servant
ANTONIO, Proteus’ father
PANTINO, an attendant to Antonio
JULIA, a lady of Verona
LUCETTA, her waiting-gentlewoman
SYLVIA, a lady of Milan
DUKE (sometimes Emperor), Sylvia’s father
THURIO, a gentleman
EGLAMOUR, a gentleman
HOST, proprietor of an inn in Milan
OUTLAWS, living in a forest near Mantua
Servants; Musicians; Crab, a dog

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT 1, Scene 1a
ACT 1, SCENE 1A
Enter Valentine and Proteus.
VALENTINE
1 Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.
2 Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
3 Were ’t not affection chains thy tender days
4 To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
5 I rather would entreat thy company
6 To see the wonders of the world abroad
7 Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
8 Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
9 But since thou lov’st, love still and thrive therein,
10 Even as I would when I to love begin.
PROTEUS
11 Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu.
12 Think on thy Proteus when thou haply seest
13 Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel.
14 Wish me partaker in thy happiness
15 When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,
16 If ever danger do environ thee,
17 Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
18 For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
VALENTINE
19 And on a love-book pray for my success?
PROTEUS
20 Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee.
VALENTINE
21 That’s on some shallow story of deep love,
22 For he was more than over shoes in love.
VALENTINE
23 ’Tis true, for you are over boots in love,
24
PROTEUS
25 Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots.
VALENTINE
26 No, I will not, for it boots thee not.
PROTEUS
27 What?
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VALENTINE
28 To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans,
29 Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment’s mirth
30 With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;
31 If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;
32 If lost, why then a grievous labor won;
33 How ever, but a folly bought with wit,
34 Or else a wit by folly vanquishèd.
PROTEUS
35 So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.
VALENTINE
36 So, by your circumstance, I fear you’ll prove.
PROTEUS
37 Yet writers say: as in the sweetest bud
38 The eating canker dwells, so eating love
39 Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
VALENTINE
40 And writers say: as the most forward bud
41 Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
42 Even so by love the young and tender wit
43 Is turned to folly.
44 But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee
45 That art a votary to fond desire?
46 Once more adieu. My father at the road
47 Expects my coming, there to see me shipped.
PROTEUS
48 And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.
VALENTINE
49 Sweet Proteus, no. Now let us take our leave.
50 To Milan let me hear from thee by letters
51 Of thy success in love, and what news else
52 Betideth here in absence of thy friend.
53 And I likewise will visit thee with mine.
PROTEUS
54 All happiness bechance to thee in Milan.
VALENTINE
55 As much to you at home. And so farewell.
He exits.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition
PROTEUS
56 He after honor hunts, I after love.
57 He leaves his friends, to dignify them more;
58 I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love.
59 Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,
60 Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
61 War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
62 Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
ACT 1, SCENE 1B
Enter Speed.
SPEED
1 Sir Proteus, ’save you. Saw you my master?
PROTEUS
2 But now he parted hence to embark for Milan.
SPEED
3 Twenty to one, then, he is shipped already,
4 And I have played the sheep in losing him.
PROTEUS
5 Indeed a sheep doth very often stray,
6 An if the shepherd be awhile away.
SPEED
7 You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then, and I a
8 sheep?
PROTEUS
9 I do.
SPEED
10 Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
PROTEUS
11 It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another.
SPEED
12 The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the
13 shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not
14 me. Therefore I am no sheep.
PROTEUS
15 The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for
16 food follows not the sheep. Thou for wages followest thy
17 master; thy master for wages follows not thee. Therefore
18 thou art a sheep.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT 1, Scene 1b
SPEED
19 Such another proof will make me cry “baa.”
PROTEUS
20 But dost thou hear? Gav’st thou my letter to Julia?
SPEED
21 Ay, sir. I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced
22 mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton,
23 nothing for my labor.
PROTEUS
24 Here’s too small a pasture for such store of muttons.
SPEED
25 If the ground be overcharged, you were best ram her.
PROTEUS
26 Nay, in that you are astray; ’twere best pound you.
SPEED
27 Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for carrying your
28 letter.
PROTEUS
29 Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
SPEED
30 And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
PROTEUS
31 Come, come, open the matter in brief. What said she?
SPEED
32 Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be
33 both at once delivered.
PROTEUS
giving money
34 Very well, here is for your pains. What said she?
SPEED
looking at the money
35 Truly, sir, I think you’ll hardly win her.
PROTEUS
36 Why? Couldst thou perceive so much from her?
SPEED
37 Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her, no, not so much
38 as a ducat for delivering your letter. Give her no token but
39 stones, for she’s as hard as steel.

PROTEUS
40 What said she? Nothing?
SPEED
41 No, not so much as “Take this for thy pains.” To testify your
42 bounty, I thank you, you have testerned me. In requital
43 whereof, henceforth carry your letters yourself. And so, sir,
44 I’ll commend you to my master.
PROTEUS
45 Go, go, begone, to save your ship from wrack,
46 Which cannot perish having thee aboard,
47 Being destined to a drier death on shore.
Speed exits.
48 I must go send some better messenger.

49 I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,
50 Receiving them from such a worthless post.
He exits.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition Act 1, Scene 2a
ACT 1, SCENE 2A
Enter Julia and Lucetta.
JULIA
1 But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,
2 Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?
LUCETTA
3 Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.
JULIA
4 Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
5 That every day with parle encounter me,
6 In thy opinion which is worthiest love?
LUCETTA
7 Please you repeat their names, I’ll show my mind
8 According to my shallow simple skill.
JULIA
9 What think’st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?
LUCETTA
10 As of a knight well-spoken, neat, and fine;
11 But, were I you, he never should be mine.
JULIA
12 What think’st thou of the rich Mercatio?
LUCETTA
13 Well of his wealth, but of himself so-so.
JULIA
14 What think’st thou of the gentle Proteus?
LUCETTA
15 Lord, Lord, to see what folly reigns in us!
JULIA
16 How now? What means this passion at his name?
LUCETTA
17 Then thus: of many good, I think him best.
JULIA
18 Your reason?
LUCETTA
19 I have no other but a woman’s reason:
20 I think him so because I think him so.

JULIA
21 And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?
LUCETTA
22 Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.
JULIA
23 Why, he of all the rest hath never moved me.
LUCETTA
24 Yet he of all the rest I think best loves you.
JULIA
25 His little speaking shows his love but small.
LUCETTA
26 Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.
JULIA
27 They do not love that do not show their love.
LUCETTA
28 O, they love least that let men know their love.
JULIA
29 I would I knew his mind.
LUCETTA,
handing her a paper
30 Peruse this paper, madam.
JULIA
reads
31 “To Julia.”
32 Say from whom.
LUCETTA
33 That the contents will show.
JULIA
34 Say, say who gave it thee.
LUCETTA
35 Sir Valentine’s page; and sent, I think, from Proteus.
36 He would have given it you, but I, being in the way,
37 Did in your name receive it. Pardon the fault, I pray.

JULIA
38 Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!
39 Dare you presume to harbor wanton lines?
40 To whisper and conspire against my youth?
41 Now trust me, ’tis an office of great worth,
42 And you an officer fit for the place.
43 There, take the paper; see it be returned,
44 Or else return no more into my sight.
LUCETTA,
taking the paper
45 To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
JULIA
46 Will you be gone?
LUCETTA
47 That you may ruminate.
She exits.
JULIA
48 And yet I would I had o’erlooked the letter.
49 It were a shame to call her back again
50 And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.
51 What fool is she that knows I am a maid
52 And would not force the letter to my view.
53 How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,
54 When willingly I would have had her here!
55 My penance is to call Lucetta back
56 And ask remission for my folly past.—
57 What ho, Lucetta!
Enter Lucetta.
LUCETTA
58 What would your Ladyship?
JULIA
59 Is ’t near dinner time?
LUCETTA
60 I would it were,
61 That you might kill your stomach on your meat
62 And not upon your maid.
She drops a paper and then retrieves it.
JULIA
63 What is ’t that you took up so gingerly?

LUCETTA
64 Nothing.
JULIA
65 Why didst thou stoop, then?
LUCETTA
66 To take a paper up that I let fall.
JULIA
67 And is that paper nothing?
LUCETTA
68 Nothing concerning me.
JULIA
69 Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.
LUCETTA
70 That I might sing it, madam, to a tune,
71 Give me a note. Your Ladyship can set—
JULIA,
taking the paper
72 Let’s see your song. How now, minion!
LUCETTA
73 Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out.
74 And yet methinks I do not like this tune.
JULIA
75 You do not?
LUCETTA
76 No, madam, ’tis too sharp.
JULIA
77 You, minion, are too saucy.
LUCETTA
78 Nay, now you are too flat
79 And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.
80 There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.
JULIA
81 The mean is drowned with your unruly bass.
LUCETTA
82 Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.

JULIA
83 This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.
84 Here is a coil with protestation.
She rips up the paper. Lucetta begins to pick up the

pieces.
85 Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie.

86 You would be fing’ring them to anger me.
LUCETTA
87 She makes it strange, but she would be best pleased
88 To be so angered with another letter.
She exits.
ACT 1, SCENE 2B
JULIA
1 Nay, would I were so angered with the same!
2 O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
3 Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
4 And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!
5 I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
6 Look, here is writ “kind Julia.” Unkind Julia,
7 As in revenge of thy ingratitude,
8 I throw thy name against the bruising stones,
9 Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.
10 And here is writ “love-wounded Proteus.”
11 Poor wounded name, my bosom as a bed
12 Shall lodge thee till thy wound be throughly healed,
13 And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.
14 But twice or thrice was “Proteus” written down.
15 Be calm, good wind. Blow not a word away
16 Till I have found each letter in the letter
17 Except mine own name. That some whirlwind bear
18 Unto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock
19 And throw it thence into the raging sea.
20 Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ:
21 “Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
22 To the sweet Julia.” That I’ll tear away—
23 And yet I will not, sith so prettily
24 He couples it to his complaining names.
25 Thus will I fold them one upon another.
26 Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition Act 1, Scene 2c
ACT 1, SCENE 2C
Enter Lucetta.
LUCETTA
1 Madam, dinner is ready, and your father stays.
JULIA
2 Well, let us go.
LUCETTA
3 What, shall these papers lie like telltales here?
JULIA
4 If you respect them, best to take them up.
LUCETTA
5 Nay, I was taken up for laying them down.
6 Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.
She picks up the rest of the pieces.
JULIA
7 I see you have a month’s mind to them.
LUCETTA
8 Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;
9 I see things too, although you judge I wink.
JULIA
10 Come, come, will ’t please you go?
They exit.

ACT 1, SCENE 3A
Enter Antonio, Pantino, and Launce.
ANTONIO
1 Tell me, Pantino, what sad talk was that
2 Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?
PANTINO
3 ’Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.
ANTONIO
4 Why, what of him?
PANTINO
5 He wondered that your Lordship
6 Would suffer him to spend his youth at home
7 While other men, of slender reputation,
8 Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
9 Some to discover islands far away,
10 Some to the studious universities.
11 For any or for all these exercises
12 He said that Proteus your son was meet,
13 And did request me to importune you
14 To let him spend his time no more at home.
ANTONIO
15 I have considered well his loss of time
16 And how he cannot be a perfect man,
17 Not being tried and tutored in the world.
18 Experience is by industry achieved
19 And perfected by the swift course of time.
20 Then tell me whither were I best to send him.
PANTINO
21 I think your Lordship is not ignorant
22 How his companion, youthful Valentine,
23 Attends the Emperor in his royal court.
ANTONIO
24 I know it well.
PANTINO
25 ’Twere good, I think, your Lordship sent him thither.
26 There shall he practice tilts and tournaments,
27 Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen,
28 And be in eye of every exercise
29 Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.

ANTONIO
30 I like thy counsel. Well hast thou advised.
31 Even with the speediest expedition
32 I will dispatch him to the Emperor’s court.
PANTINO
33 Tomorrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,
34 With other gentlemen of good esteem,
35 Are journeying to salute the Emperor
36 And to commend their service to his will.
ANTONIO
37 Good company. With them shall Proteus go
38 And in good time! Now will we break with him.
39
ACT 1, SCENE 3B
Enter Proteus reading.
PROTEUS,
to himself
1 Sweet love, sweet lines, sweet life!
2 Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;
3 Here is her oath for love, her honor’s pawn.
4 O heavenly Julia!
ANTONIO
5 How now? What letter are you reading there?
PROTEUS
6 May ’t please your Lordship, ’tis a word or two
7 Of commendations sent from Valentine,
8 Delivered by a friend that came from him.
ANTONIO
9 Lend me the letter. Let me see what news.
PROTEUS
10 There is no news, my lord, but that he writes
11 How happily he lives, how well beloved
12 And daily gracèd by the Emperor,
13 Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.
ANTONIO
14 And how stand you affected to his wish?
PROTEUS
15 As one relying on your Lordship’s will
16 And not depending on his friendly wish.

ANTONIO
17 My will is something sorted with his wish.
18 Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed,
19 For what I will, I will, and there an end.
20 I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time
21 With Valentinus in the Emperor’s court.
22 Tomorrow be in readiness to go.
PROTEUS
23 My lord, I cannot be so soon provided.
24 Please you deliberate a day or two.
ANTONIO
25 Look what thou want’st shall be sent after thee.
26 No more of stay. Tomorrow thou must go.—
27 Come with me, Launce; for you shall be employed
28 To hasten on his expedition.
Antonio and Launce exit.
PROTEUS
29 Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning
30 And drenched me in the sea, where I am drowned.
31 I feared to show my father Julia’s letter
32 And with the vantage of mine own excuse
33 Hath he excepted most against my love.
34 O, how this spring of love resembleth
35 The uncertain glory of an April day,
36 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
37 And by and by a cloud takes all away.
Enter Launce.
LAUNCE
38 Sir Proteus, your father calls for you.
39 He is in haste. Therefore, I pray you, go.
PROTEUS
40 Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto.
41 And yet a thousand times it answers “no.”
They exit.
ACT 2, SCENE 1A
Enter Valentine and Speed, carrying a glove.
SPEED
1 Sir, your glove.

VALENTINE
2 Not mine. My gloves are on.
SPEED
3 Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
VALENTINE
4 Ha? Let me see. Ay, give it me, it’s mine.
5 Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
6 Ah, Sylvia, Sylvia!
SPEED
calling
7 Madam Sylvia! Madam Sylvia!
VALENTINE
8 How now, sirrah?
SPEED
9 She is not within hearing, sir.
VALENTINE
10 Why, sir, who bade you call her?
SPEED
11 Your Worship, sir, or else I mistook.
VALENTINE
12 Go to, sir. Tell me, do you know Madam Sylvia?
SPEED
13 She that your Worship loves?
VALENTINE
14 Why, how know you that I am in love?
SPEED
15 Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like
16 Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent; to sigh
17 like a schoolboy that had lost his ABC; to weep like a young
18 wench that had buried her grandam; to fast like one that
19 takes diet; to watch like one that fears robbing; to speak
20 puling like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were wont, when you
21 laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk like
22 one of the lions. When you fasted, it was presently after
23 dinner; when you looked sadly, it was for want of money.
24 And now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that when
25 I look on you, I can hardly think you my master.
VALENTINE
26 Are all these things perceived in me?

SPEED
27 They are all perceived without you.
VALENTINE
28 Without me? They cannot.
SPEED
29 Without you? Nay, that’s certain, for you are so without these
30 follies, that these follies are within you and shine through you
31 like the water in an urinal.
VALENTINE
32 But tell me, dost thou know my Lady Sylvia?
SPEED
33 She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?
VALENTINE
34 Hast thou observed that? Even she I mean.
SPEED
35 Is she not hard-favored, sir?
VALENTINE
36 Not so fair, boy, as well-favored.
SPEED
37 Sir, I know that well enough.
VALENTINE
38 What dost thou know?
SPEED
39 That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favored.
VALENTINE
40 How esteem’st thou me? I account of her beauty.
SPEED
41 You never saw her since she was deformed.
VALENTINE
42 How long hath she been deformed?
SPEED
43 Ever since you loved her.
VALENTINE
44 I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still I see her
45 beautiful.

SPEED
46 If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENTINE
47 Why?
SPEED
48 Because love is blind.
VALENTINE
49 Belike, boy, then you are in love, for last morning you could
50 not see to wipe my shoes.
SPEED
51 True, sir, I was in love with my bed.
VALENTINE
52 Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she
53 loves.
SPEED
54 And have you?
VALENTINE
55 I have.
SPEED
56 Are they not lamely writ?
VALENTINE
57 No, Speed, but as well as I can do them.
58 Peace, here she comes.

ACT 2, SCENE 1B
Enter Sylvia.
SPEED
aside
1 O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
2 Now will he interpret to her.
VALENTINE
3 Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.
SYLVIA
4 Sir Valentine, and servant, to you two thousand.
SPEED
aside
5 O, give ye good ev’n! Here’s a million of manners.
VALENTINE
6 As you enjoined me, I have writ your letter
7 Unto the secret, nameless friend of yours,
8 Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
9 But for my duty to your Ladyship.
He gives her a paper.
SYLVIA
10 I thank you, gentle servant, ’tis very clerkly done.
VALENTINE
11 Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off,
12 For, being ignorant to whom it goes,
13 I writ at random, very doubtfully.
SYLVIA
14 Perchance you think too much of so much pains?
VALENTINE
15 No, madam. So it stead you, I will write,
16 Please you command, a thousand times as much,
17 And yet—
SYLVIA
18 A pretty period. Well, I guess the sequel;
19 And yet I will not name it. And yet I care not.
20 And yet take this again.
She holds out the paper.
21 And yet I thank you,
22 Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.

SPEED
aside
23 And yet you will; and yet another “yet.”
VALENTINE
24 What means your Ladyship? Do you not like it?
SYLVIA
25 Yes, yes, the lines are very quaintly writ,
26 But, since unwillingly, take them again.
27 Nay, take them.
She again offers him the paper.
VALENTINE
28 Madam, they are for you.
SYLVIA
29 Ay, ay. You writ them, sir, at my request,
30 But I will none of them. They are for you.
VALENTINE
31 Please you, I’ll write your Ladyship another.
SYLVIA
32 And when it’s writ, for my sake read it over,
33 And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
VALENTINE
34 If it please me, madam? What then?
SYLVIA
35 Why, if it please you, take it for your labor.
36 And so good-morrow, servant.
Sylvia exits.
ACT 2, SCENE 1C
SPEED
aside
1 O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better?
2 That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter?
VALENTINE
3 How now, Speed? What, are you reasoning with yourself?
SPEED
4 Nay, I was rhyming. ’Tis you that have the reason.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT 2, Scene 1c
VALENTINE
5 To do what?
SPEED
6 To be a spokesman from Madam Sylvia.
VALENTINE
7 To whom?
SPEED
8 To yourself. Why, she woos you by a figure.
VALENTINE
9 What figure?
SPEED
10 By a letter, I should say.
VALENTINE
11 Why, she hath not writ to me!
SPEED
12 What need she when she hath made you write to yourself?
13 Why, do you not perceive the jest?
VALENTINE
14 No, believe me.
SPEED
15 No believing you indeed, sir. But did you perceive her
16 earnest?
VALENTINE
17 She gave me none, except an angry word.
SPEED
18 Why, she hath given you a letter.
VALENTINE
19 That’s the letter I writ to her friend.
SPEED
20 And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.
VALENTINE
21 I would it were no worse.
SPEED
22 I’ll warrant you, ’tis as well.
23 For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty
24 Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply,
25 Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,

26 Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
27 All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why muse you,
28 sir? ’Tis dinnertime.
VALENTINE
29 I have dined.
SPEED
30 Ay, but hearken, sir, though the chameleon love can feed on
31 the air, I am one that am nourished by my dinner and would
32 fain have meat. O, be not like your mistress! Be moved, be
33 moved.
They exit.

ACT 2, SCENE 2A
Enter Proteus and Julia.
PROTEUS
1 Have patience, gentle Julia.
JULIA
2 I must where is no remedy.
PROTEUS
3 When possibly I can, I will return.
JULIA
4 If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
5 Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake.
She gives him a ring.
PROTEUS
giving her a ring
6 Why, then we’ll make exchange. Here, take you this.
JULIA
7 And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
PROTEUS
8 Here is my hand for my true constancy.
9 And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
10 Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
11 The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
12 Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness.
13 My father stays my coming. Answer not.
14 The tide is now—nay, not thy tide of tears;
15 That tide will stay me longer than I should.
16 Julia, farewell.
Julia exits.
17 What, gone without a word?
18 Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
19 For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

ACT 2, SCENE 2B
Enter Launce.
LAUNCE
1 Sir Proteus, you are stayed for.
PROTEUS
2 Go. I come, I come.
Aside.
3 Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
He exits.

ACT 2, SCENE 3A
Enter Lance, weeping, with his dog, Crab.
LAUNCE
1 Nay,’twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind
2 of the Lances have this very fault. I have received my
3 proportion like the Prodigious Son and am going with Sir
4 Proteus to the Imperial’s court.
5
6 I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives:
7 my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our
8 maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house
9 in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed
10 one tear. He is a stone, a very pibble stone, and has no
11 more pity in him than a dog. A statue would have wept to
12 have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes,
13 look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I’ll show you
14 the manner of it.
He takes off his shoes.
15 This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father; no, no,
16 this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither.
17 Yes, it is so, it is so; it hath the worser sole. This shoe with
18 the hole in it is my mother; and this my father. A vengeance
19 on ’t, there ’tis! Now sir, this staff is my sister, for, look you,
20 she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is
21 Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I
22 am the dog. O, the dog is me, and I am myself. Ay, so, so.
23
24 Now come I to my father: “Father, your blessing.” Now
25 should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I
26 kiss my father. Well, he weeps on. Now come I to my
27 mother. O, that she could speak now like a wood woman!
28 Well, I kiss her. Why, there ’tis; here’s my mother’s breath up
29 and down. Now come I to my sister. Mark the moan she
30 makes! Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor
31 speaks a word. But see how I lay the dust with my tears.
ACT 2, SCENE 3B
Enter Servant.
SERVANT 1
1 Launce, away, away! Aboard. Thy master is shipped, and
2 thou art to post after with oars. What’s the matter? Why
3 weep’st thou, man? Away, ass. You’ll lose the tide if you
4 tarry any longer.
LAUNCE
5 It is no matter if the tied were lost, for it is the unkindest tied
6 that ever any man tied.

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SERVANT 1
7 What’s the unkindest tide?
LAUNCE
8 Why, he that’s tied here, Crab my dog.
SERVANT 1
9 Tut, man. I mean thou’lt lose the flood and, in losing the
10 flood, lose thy voyage and, in losing thy voyage, lose thy
11 master and, in losing thy master, lose thy service and, in
12 losing thy service
Lance covers the Servant’s mouth.
13 Why dost thou stop my mouth?
LAUNCE
14 For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.
SERVANT 1
15 Where should I lose my tongue?
LAUNCE
16 In thy tale.
SERVANT 1
17 In thy tail! Come. Come away, man. I was sent to call
18 thee.
LAUNCE
19 Well, call me what thou dar’st.
SERVANT 1
20 Wilt thou go?
LAUNCE
21 Well, I will go.
They exit.

ACT 2, SCENE 4A
Enter Valentine, Sylvia, Thurio, and Speed.
SYLVIA
1 Servant!
VALENTINE
2 Mistress?
SPEED
3 Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.
VALENTINE
4 Ay, Speed, it’s for love.
SPEED
5 Not of you.
VALENTINE
6 Of my mistress, then.
SPEED
7 ’Twere good you knocked him.
SYLVIA
to Valentine
8 Servant, you are sad.
VALENTINE
9 Indeed, madam, I seem so.
THURIO
10 Seem you that you are not?
VALENTINE
11 Haply I do.
THURIO
12 So do counterfeits.
VALENTINE
13 So do you.
THURIO
14 What seem I that I am not?
VALENTINE
15 Wise.

THURIO
16 What instance of the contrary?
VALENTINE
17 Your folly.
THURIO
18 And how quote you my folly?
VALENTINE
19 I quote it in your jerkin.
THURIO
20 My “jerkin” is a doublet.
VALENTINE
21 Well, then, I’ll double your folly.
THURIO
22 How!
SYLVIA
23 What, angry, Sir Thurio? Do you change color?
VALENTINE
24 Give him leave, madam. He is a kind of chameleon.
THURIO
25 That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your
26 air.
VALENTINE
27 You have said, sir.
THURIO
28 Ay, sir, and done too for this time.
VALENTINE
29 I know it well, sir. You always end ere you begin.
SYLVIA
30 A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.
VALENTINE
31 ’Tis indeed, madam. We thank the giver.
SYLVIA
32 Who is that, servant?

VALENTINE
33 Yourself, sweet lady, for you gave the fire.
34 Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your Ladyship’s looks and
35 spends what he borrows kindly in your company.
THURIO
36 Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit
37 bankrupt.
VALENTINE
38 I know it well, sir. You have an exchequer of words and, I
39 think, no other treasure to give your followers.
SYLVIA
40 No more, gentlemen, no more. Here comes my father.
ACT 2, SCENE 4B
Enter Duke.
DUKE
1 Now, daughter Sylvia, you are hard beset.—
2 Sir Valentine, your father is in good health.
3 What say you to a letter from your friends
4 Of much good news?
VALENTINE
5 My lord, I will be thankful
6 To any happy messenger from thence.
DUKE
7 Know you Don Antonio, your countryman?
VALENTINE
8 Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
DUKE
9 Hath he not a son?
VALENTINE
10 Ay, my good lord.
DUKE
11 You know him well?

VALENTINE
12 I knew him as myself, for from our infancy
13 We have conversed and spent our hours together,
14 And though myself have been an idle truant,
15 Yet hath Sir Proteus—for that’s his name—
16 Made use and fair advantage of his days:
17 His years but young, but his experience old;
18 His head unmellowed, but his judgment ripe;
19 And in a word—for far behind his worth
20 Comes all the praises that I now bestow—
21 He is complete in feature and in mind,
22 With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
DUKE
23 Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,
24 He is as worthy for an empress’ love,
25 As meet to be an emperor’s counselor.
26 Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me
27 With commendation from great potentates,
28 And here he means to spend his time awhile.
29 I think ’tis no unwelcome news to you.
VALENTINE
30 Should I have wished a thing, it had been he.
DUKE
31 Welcome him then according to his worth.
32 Sylvia, I speak to you—and you, Sir Thurio.
33 For Valentine, I need not cite him to it.
34 I will send him hither to you presently.
Duke exits.
ACT 2, SCENE 4C
VALENTINE
1 This is the gentleman I told your Ladyship
2 Had come along with me but that his mistress
3 Did hold his eyes locked in her crystal looks.
SYLVIA
4 Belike that now she hath enfranchised them
5 Upon some other pawn for fealty.
VALENTINE
6 Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.
SYLVIA
7 Nay, then, he should be blind, and being blind
8 How could he see his way to seek out you?

VALENTINE
9 Why, lady, love hath twenty pair of eyes.
THURIO
10 They say that Love hath not an eye at all.
VALENTINE
11 To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself.
12 Upon a homely object, Love can wink.
SYLVIA
13 Have done, have done. Here comes the gentleman.
ACT 2, SCENE 4D
Enter Proteus.
VALENTINE
1 Welcome, dear Proteus.—Mistress, I beseech you
2 Confirm his welcome with some special favor.
SYLVIA
3 His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,
4 If this be he you oft have wished to hear from.
VALENTINE
5 Mistress, it is. Sweet lady, entertain him
6 To be my fellow-servant to your Ladyship.
SYLVIA
7 Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
PROTEUS
8 My duty will I boast of, nothing else.
SYLVIA
9 And duty never yet did want his meed.
10 Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.
PROTEUS
11 I’ll die on him that says so but yourself.
SYLVIA
12 That you are welcome?
PROTEUS
13 That you are worthless.
Enter Eglamour.
EGLAMOUR
14 Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.

SYLVIA
15 I wait upon his pleasure.
Eglamour exits.
16 Come, Sir Thurio,
17 Go with me.—Once more, new servant, welcome.
18 I’ll leave you to confer of home affairs.
19 When you have done, we look to hear from you.
PROTEUS
20 We’ll both attend upon your Ladyship.
Sylvia and Thurio exit.
ACT 2, SCENE 4E
VALENTINE
1 Now tell me, how do all from whence you came?
PROTEUS
2 Your friends are well and have them much commended.
VALENTINE
3 And how do yours?
PROTEUS
4 I left them all in health.
VALENTINE
5 How does your lady? And how thrives your love?
PROTEUS
6 My tales of love were wont to weary you.
7 I know you joy not in a love discourse.
VALENTINE
8 Ay, Proteus, but that life is altered now.
9 I have done penance for contemning Love,
10 Whose high imperious thoughts have punished me
11 With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
12 With nightly tears, and daily heartsore sighs,
13 For in revenge of my contempt of love,
14 Love hath chased sleep from my enthrallèd eyes
15 And made them watchers of mine own heart’s sorrow.
16 O gentle Proteus, Love’s a mighty lord
17 And hath so humbled me as I confess
18 There is no woe to his correction,
19 Nor, to his service, no such joy on Earth.
20 Now, no discourse except it be of love.
21 Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep
22 Upon the very naked name of Love.

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PROTEUS
23 Enough; I read your fortune in your eye.
24 Was this the idol that you worship so?
VALENTINE
25 Even she. And is she not a heavenly saint?
PROTEUS
26 No, but she is an earthly paragon.
VALENTINE
27 Call her divine.
PROTEUS
28 I will not flatter her.
VALENTINE
29 O, flatter me, for love delights in praises.
PROTEUS
30 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
31 And I must minister the like to you.
VALENTINE
32 Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,
33 Yet let her be a principality,
34 Sovereign to all the creatures on the Earth.
PROTEUS
35 Except my mistress.
VALENTINE
36 Sweet, except not any,
PROTEUS
37 Have I not reason to prefer mine own?
VALENTINE
38 And I will help thee to prefer her too:
39 She shall be dignified with this high honor—
40 To bear my lady’s train, lest the base earth
41 Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss.
PROTEUS
42 Why, Valentine, what braggartism is this?
VALENTINE
43 Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing
44 To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing.
45 She is alone—

PROTEUS
46 Then let her alone.
VALENTINE
47 Not for the world! Why, man, she is mine own,
48 And I as rich in having such a jewel
49 As twenty seas if all their sand were pearl,
50 The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
51
52 Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,
53 Because thou seest me dote upon my love.
54 My foolish rival, that her father likes
55 Is gone with her along, and I must after,
56 For love, thou know’st, is full of jealousy.
PROTEUS
57 But she loves you?
VALENTINE
58 Ay, and we are betrothed; nay more, our marriage hour,
59 With all the cunning manner of our flight
60 Determined of: how I must climb her window,
61 The ladder made of cords, and all the means
62 Plotted and ’greed on for my happiness.
63 Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
64 In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
PROTEUS
65 Go on before. I shall inquire you forth.
66 I must unto the road to disembark
67 Some necessaries that I needs must use,
68 And then I’ll presently attend you.
VALENTINE
69 Will you make haste?
PROTEUS
70 I will.
Valentine and Speed exit.

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ACT 2, SCENE 4F
71 Even as one heat another heat expels,
72 Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
73 So the remembrance of my former love
74 Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
75 Is it mine eye, or Valentine’s praise,
76 Her true perfection, or my false transgression,
77 That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
78 She is fair, and so is Julia that I love—
79 That I did love, for now my love is thawed,
80 Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire
81 Bears no impression of the thing it was.
82 Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,
83 And that I love him not as I was wont.
84 O, but I love his lady too too much,
85 And that’s the reason I love him so little.
86 How shall I dote on her with more advice
87 That thus without advice begin to love her?
88 ’Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
89 And that hath dazzled my reason’s light;
90 But when I look on her perfections,
91 There is no reason but I shall be blind.
92 If I can check my erring love, I will;
93 If not, to compass her I’ll use my skill.
He exits.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT 2, Scene 5
ACT 2, SCENE 5
Enter Speed and Lance, with his dog, Crab.
SPEED
1 Launce, by mine honesty, welcome to Tinseltown.
LAUNCE
2 Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I
3 reckon this always: that a man is never undone till he be
4 hanged, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot
5 be paid and the Hostess say welcome.
SPEED
6 Come on, you madcap. For one shot of five pence, thou
7 shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how did thy
8 master part with Madam Julia?
LAUNCE
9 Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted
10 very fairly in jest.
SPEED
11 But shall she marry him?
LAUNCE
12 No.
SPEED
13 How then? Shall he marry her?
LAUNCE
14 No, neither.
SPEED
15 What, are they broken?
LAUNCE
16 No, they are both as whole as a fish.
SPEED
17 Why then, how stands the matter with them?
LAUNCE
18 Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it stands well with
19 her.
SPEED
20 What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.

LAUNCE
21 What a block art thou that thou canst not! My staff
22 understands me.
SPEED
23 It stands under thee indeed.
LAUNCE
24 Why, “stand under” and “understand” is all one.
SPEED
25 But tell me true, will ’t be a match?
LAUNCE
26 Ask my dog. If he say “Ay,” it will; if he say “No,” it will; if he
27 shake his tail and say nothing, it will.
SPEED
28 The conclusion is, then, that it will.
LAUNCE
29 Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a
30 parable.
SPEED
31 ’Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayst thou that my
32 master is become a hot lover.
LAUNCE
33 Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself in love. If
34 thou wilt, go with me; if not, thou art a heathen, and not
35 worth the name of a Christian.
SPEED
36 Why?
LAUNCE
37 Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to go to
38 with a Christian. Wilt thou go?
SPEED
39 At thy service.
They exit.

ACT 2, SCENE 6
Enter Proteus alone.
PROTEUS
1 To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn.
2 To love fair Sylvia, shall I be forsworn.
3 To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn.
4 And ev’n that power which gave me first my oath
5 Provokes me to this threefold perjury.
6 Love bade me swear, and love bids me forswear.
7 O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
8 Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it.
9 I cannot leave to love, and yet I do.
10 But there I leave to love where I should love.
11 Julia I lose, and Valentine I lose;
12 If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;
13 If I lose them, thus find I by their loss:
14 For Valentine, myself; for Julia, Sylvia.
15 I to myself am dearer than a friend,
16 For love is still most precious in itself,
17 And Sylvia—witness heaven that made her fair—
18 Shows Julia but a lowly kitchen wench.
19 I will forget that Julia is alive,
20 Rememb’ring that my love to her is dead;
21 And Valentine I’ll hold an enemy,
22 Aiming at Sylvia as a sweeter friend.
23 I cannot now prove constant to myself
24 Without some treachery used to Valentine.
25 This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
26 To climb celestial Sylvia’s chamber window,
27 Myself in counsel his competitor.
28 Now presently I’ll give her father notice
29 Of their disguising and pretended flight,
30 Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine,
31 For Thurio he intends shall wed his daughter.
32 But Valentine being gone, I’ll quickly cross
33 By some sly trick blunt Thurio’s dull proceeding.
34 Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
35 As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift.
He exits.

ACT 2, SCENE 7
Enter Julia and Lucetta.
JULIA
1 Counsel, Lucetta. Gentle girl, assist me;
2 And ev’n in kind love I do conjure thee—
3 To lesson me and tell me some good mean
4 How with my honor I may undertake
5 A journey to my loving Proteus.
LUCETTA
6 Alas, the way is wearisome and long.
JULIA
7 A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
8 To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
9 Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly,
10 And when the flight is made to one so dear,
11 Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.
LUCETTA
12 Better forbear till Proteus make return.
JULIA
13 O, know’st thou not his looks are my soul’s food?
14 Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
15 Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
16 As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
LUCETTA
17 I do not seek to quench your love’s hot fire,
18 But qualify the fire’s extreme rage,
19 Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
JULIA
20 The more thou damm’st it up, the more it burns.
21 Then let me go and hinder not my course.
LUCETTA
22 But in what habit will you go along?
JULIA
23 Not like a woman, for I would prevent
24 The loose encounters of lascivious men.
25 Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such clothes
26 As may beseem some well-reputed page.
LUCETTA
27 Why, then, your Ladyship must cut your hair.

JULIA
28 No, girl, I’ll knit it up in silken strings
29 With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.
LUCETTA
30 What fashion, madam, shall I make your breeches?
JULIA
31 Why, ev’n what fashion thou best likes, Lucetta.
LUCETTA
32 You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.
JULIA
33 Out, out, Lucetta. That will be ill-favored.
34 But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
35 For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
36 I fear me it will make me scandalized.
LUCETTA
37 If you think so, then stay at home and go not.
JULIA
38 Nay, that I will not.
LUCETTA
39 Then never dream on infamy, but go.
40 If Proteus like your journey when you come,
41 No matter who’s displeased when you are gone.
42 I fear me he will scarce be pleased withal.
JULIA
43 That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear.
44 A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears,
45 And instances of infinite of love
46 Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.
LUCETTA
47 All these are servants to deceitful men.
JULIA
48 Base men that use them to so base effect!
49 But truer stars did govern Proteus’ birth.
50 His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
51 His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
52 His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
53 His heart as far from fraud as heaven from Earth.
LUCETTA
54 Pray heav’n he prove so when you come to him.

JULIA
55 Now, as thou lov’st me, do him not that wrong
56 To bear a hard opinion of his truth.
57 Only deserve my love by loving him.
58 And presently go with me to my chamber
59 To take a note of what I stand in need of
60 To furnish me upon my longing journey.
61 Come, answer not, but to it presently.
62 I am impatient of my tarriance.
They exit.

ACT 3, SCENE 1A
Enter Duke, Thurio, and Proteus.
DUKE
1 Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;
2 We have some secrets to confer about.
Thurio exits.
3 Now tell me, Proteus, what’s your will with me?
PROTEUS
4 My gracious lord, that which I would discover
5 The law of friendship bids me to conceal,
6 But when I call to mind your gracious favors
7 Done to me, undeserving as I am,
8 My duty pricks me on to utter that
9 Which else no worldly good should draw from me.
10 Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine my friend
11 This night intends to steal away your daughter;
12 Myself am one made privy to the plot.
13 I know you have determined to bestow her
14 On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates.
15 Thus, for my duty’s sake, I rather chose
16 To cross my friend in his intended drift
17 Than, by concealing it, heap on your head
18 A pack of sorrows which would press you down,
19 Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.
DUKE
20 Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care.
21 This love of theirs myself have often seen.
22 And that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,
23 I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,
24 The key whereof myself have ever kept,
25 And thence she cannot be conveyed away.
PROTEUS
26 Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean
27 How he her chamber-window will ascend
28 And with a corded ladder fetch her down;
29 For which the youthful lover now is gone,
30 And this way comes he with it presently,
31 Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.
32 But, good my lord, do it so cunningly
33 That my discovery be not aimèd at;
34 For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
35 Hath made me publisher of this pretense.
DUKE
36 Upon mine honor, he shall never know
37 That I had any light from thee of this.

PROTEUS
38 Adieu, my lord. Sir Valentine is coming.
Proteus exits.
ACT 3, SCENE 1B
Enter Valentine.
DUKE
1 Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?
VALENTINE
2 Please it your Grace, there is a messenger
3 That stays to bear my letters to my friends,
4 And I am going to deliver them.
DUKE
5 Be they of much import?
VALENTINE
6 The tenor of them doth but signify
7 My health and happy being at your court.
DUKE
8 Nay then, no matter. Stay with me awhile;
9 I am to break with thee of some affairs
10 That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.
11 ’Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought
12 To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.
VALENTINE
13 I know it well, my lord, and sure the match
14 Were rich and honorable.
15 Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?
DUKE
16 No. Trust me, she is peevish, sullen, froward,
17 Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,
18 Neither regarding that she is my child
19 Nor fearing me as if I were her father;
20 And may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
21 Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her.
22 I now am full resolved to take a wife
23 And turn her out to who will take her in.
VALENTINE
24 What would your Grace have me to do in this?

DUKE
25 There is a lady in the city here
26 Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy,
27 And nought esteems my agèd eloquence.
28 Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor
29 How and which way I may bestow myself
30 To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.
VALENTINE
31 Win her with gifts if she respect not words;
32 Dumb jewels often in their silent kind
33 More than quick words do move a woman’s mind.
DUKE
34 But she did scorn a present that I sent her.
VALENTINE
35 A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.
36 Send her another; never give her o’er,
37 For scorn at first makes after-love the more.
38 If she do frown, ’tis not in hate of you,
39 But rather to beget more love in you.
40 If she do chide, ’tis not to have you gone,
41 Forwhy the fools are mad if left alone.
42 Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
43 For “get you gone” she doth not mean “away.”
44 That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man
45 If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
DUKE
46 But she I mean is promised by her friends
47 Unto a youthful gentleman of worth
48 And kept severely from resort of men,
49 That no man hath access by day to her.
VALENTINE
50 Why, then, I would resort to her by night.
DUKE
51 Ay, but the doors be locked and keys kept safe,
52 That no man hath recourse to her by night.
VALENTINE
53 What lets but one may enter at her window?
DUKE
54 Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,
55 And built so shelving that one cannot climb it
56 Without apparent hazard of his life.

VALENTINE
57 Why, then a ladder quaintly made of cords
58 To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,
59 Would serve to scale another Hero’s tower.
DUKE
60 Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,
61 Advise me where I may have such a ladder.
VALENTINE
62 When would you use it? Pray sir, tell me that.
DUKE
63 This very night; for love is like a child
64 That longs for everything that he can come by.
VALENTINE
65 By seven o’clock I’ll get you such a ladder.
DUKE
66 But hark thee: I will go to her alone;
67 How shall I best convey the ladder thither?
VALENTINE
68 It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it
69 Under a coat that is of any length.
DUKE
70 A coat as long as thine will serve the turn?
VALENTINE
71 Ay, my good lord.
DUKE
72 Then let me see thy coat;
73 I’ll get me one of such another length.
VALENTINE
74 Why, any coat will serve the turn, my lord.
DUKE
75 How shall I fashion me to wear a coat?
76 I pray thee, let me feel thy coat upon me.
Pulling off the coat, he reveals
a rope ladder and a paper.
77 What letter is this same? What’s here?
(Reads.)
78 To Sylvia.
79 And here an engine fit for my proceeding.

80 I’ll be so bold to break the seal for once.

(Reads.)
DUKE (CONT.)
(cont.)
81 My thoughts do harbor with my Sylvia nightly,
82 And slaves they are to me that send them flying.
83 O, could their master come and go as lightly,
84 Himself would lodge where, senseless, they are lying.
85 What’s here?
(Reads.)
86 Sylvia, this night I will be married to thee.
87 ’Tis so. And here’s the ladder for the purpose.

88 Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?
89 Go, base intruder, overweening slave,
90 Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates
91 And think my patience, more than thy desert,
92 Is privilege for thy departure hence.
93 But if thou linger in my territories
94 Longer than swiftest expedition
95 Will give thee time to leave our royal court,
96 By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the love
97 I ever bore my daughter or thyself.
98 Begone. I will not hear thy vain excuse,
99 But, as thou lov’st thy life, make speed from hence.
He exits.
ACT 3, SCENE 1C
VALENTINE
100 And why not death, rather than living torment?
101 To die is to be banished from myself,
102 And Sylvia is myself; banished from her
103 Is self from self—a deadly banishment.
104 What light is light if Sylvia be not seen?
105 What joy is joy if Sylvia be not by—
106 Unless it be to think that she is by
107 And feed upon the shadow of perfection?
108 Except I be by Sylvia in the night,
109 There is no music in the nightingale.
110 Unless I look on Sylvia in the day,
111 There is no day for me to look upon.
112 I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom;
113 Tarry I here, I but attend on death,
114 But fly I hence, I fly away from life.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT 3, Scene 1d
ACT 3, SCENE 1D
Enter Proteus and Lance.
PROTEUS
1 Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
LAUNCE
2 So-ho, so-ho!
PROTEUS
3 What seest thou?
LAUNCE
4 Him we go to find. There’s not a hair on ’s head but ’tis a
5 Valentine.
PROTEUS
6 Valentine?
VALENTINE
7 No.
PROTEUS
8 Who then? His spirit?
VALENTINE
9 Neither.
PROTEUS
10 What then?
VALENTINE
11 Nothing.
LAUNCE
12 Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?
PROTEUS
13 Who wouldst thou strike?
LAUNCE
14 Nothing.
PROTEUS
15 Villain, forbear.
LAUNCE
16 Why, sir, I’ll strike nothing. I pray you—

PROTEUS
17 Sirrah, I say forbear.—Friend Valentine, a word.
VALENTINE
18 My ears are stopped and cannot hear good news,
19 So much of bad already hath possessed them.
PROTEUS
20 Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,
21 For they are harsh, untunable, and bad.
VALENTINE
22 Is Sylvia dead?
PROTEUS
23 No, Valentine.
VALENTINE
24 No Valentine indeed for sacred Sylvia.
25 Hath she forsworn me?
PROTEUS
26 No, Valentine.
VALENTINE
27 No Valentine if Sylvia have forsworn me.
28 What is your news?
LAUNCE
29 Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.
PROTEUS
30 That thou art banishèd—O, that’s the news—
31 From hence, from Sylvia, and from me thy friend.
VALENTINE
32 O, I have fed upon this woe already,
33 And now excess of it will make me surfeit.
34 Doth Sylvia know that I am banishèd?
PROTEUS
35 Ay, ay, and she hath offered to the doom
36 A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears;
37 Those at her father’s churlish feet she tendered,
38 With them, upon her knees, her humble self
39 But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
40 Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears
41 Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;
42 But Valentine, if he be ta’en, must die.

VALENTINE
43 No more, unless the next word that thou speak’st
44 Have some malignant power upon my life.
PROTEUS
45 Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
46 And study help for that which thou lament’st.
47 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
48 Hope is a lover’s staff; walk hence with that
49 And manage it against despairing thoughts.
50 The time now serves not to expostulate.
51 Come, I’ll convey thee through the city gate
52 As thou lov’st Sylvia, though not for thyself,
53 Regard thy danger, and along with me.
VALENTINE
54 I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my Speed,
55 Bid her make haste and meet me at the North Gate.
PROTEUS
56 Go, sirrah, find her out.—Come, Valentine.
VALENTINE
57 O, my dear Sylvia! Hapless Valentine!
Valentine and Proteus exit.
INTERMISSION

ACT 3, SCENE 1E
LAUNCE
1 I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit to think my
2 master is a kind of a knave, but that’s all one if he be but one
3 knave. He lives not now that knows me to be in love, yet I
4 am in love, but a team of horse shall not pluck that from me,
5 nor who ’tis I love; and yet ’tis a woman, but what woman I
6 will not tell myself; and yet ’tis a milk-maid; yet ’tis not a
7 maid, for she hath had gossips; yet ’tis a maid, for she is her
8 master’s maid and serves for wages.
He takes out a piece of paper.
9 Here is the catalog of her condition.
(Reads.)
10 Imprimis, She can fetch and carry.
11 Why, a horse can do no more; nay, a horse cannot fetch but

12 only carry; therefore is she better than a jade.
(Reads.)
13 Item, She can milk.
14 Look you, a sweet virtue in a maid with clean hands.
Enter Speed.
SPEED
15 How now, Signior Lance? What news with your Mastership?
LAUNCE
16 With my master’s ship? Why, it is at sea.
SPEED
17 Well, your old vice still: mistake the word. What news, then,
18 in your paper?
LAUNCE
19 The black’st news that ever thou heard’st.
SPEED
20 Why, man? How black?
LAUNCE
21 Why, as black as ink.
SPEED
22 Let me read them.
LAUNCE
23 Fie on thee, jolt-head, thou canst not read.

SPEED
24 Thou liest. I can.
LAUNCE
25 I will try thee. Tell me this, who begot thee?
SPEED
26 Marry, the son of my grandfather.
LAUNCE
27 O, illiterate loiterer, it was the son of thy grandmother. This
28 proves that thou canst not read.
SPEED
29 Come, fool, come. Try me in thy paper.
LAUNCE
giving him the paper
30 There, and Saint Nicholas be thy speed.
SPEED
reads
31 Imprimis, She can milk.
LAUNCE
32 Ay, that she can.
SPEED
33 Item, She brews good ale.
LAUNCE
34 And thereof comes the proverb: “Blessing of your heart, you
35 brew good ale.”
SPEED
36 Item, She can sew.
LAUNCE
37 That’s as much as to say “Can she so?”
SPEED
38 Item, She can wash and scour.
LAUNCE
39 A special virtue, for then she need not be washed and
40 scoured.
SPEED
41 Item, She hath many nameless virtues.

LAUNCE
42 That’s as much as to say “bastard virtues,” that indeed know
43 not their fathers and therefore have no names.
SPEED
44 Here follow her vices.
LAUNCE
45 Close at the heels of her virtues.
SPEED
46 Item, She is not to be kissed fasting in respect of her
47 breath.
LAUNCE
48 Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.
SPEED
49 Item, She hath a sweet mouth.
LAUNCE
50 That makes amends for her sour breath.
SPEED
51 Item, She doth talk in her sleep.
LAUNCE
52 It’s no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.
SPEED
53 Item, She is slow in words.
LAUNCE
54 O villain, that set this down among her vices! To be slow in
55 words is a woman’s only virtue. I pray thee, out with ’t, and
56 place it for her chief virtue.
SPEED
57 Item, She hath no teeth.
LAUNCE
58 I care not for that neither, because I love crusts.
SPEED
59 Item, She is mean.
LAUNCE
60 Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.
SPEED
61 Item, She will often praise her liquor.

LAUNCE
62 If her liquor be good, she shall; if she will not, I will, for good
63 things should be praised.
SPEED
64 Item, She hath more hair than wit.
LAUNCE
65 “More hair than wit”? It may be; I’ll prove it: the hair that
66 covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
67 less. What’s next?
SPEED
68 And more faults than hairs.
LAUNCE
69 That’s monstrous! O, that that were out!
SPEED
70 And more wealth than faults.
LAUNCE
71 Stop there, I’ll have her, and if it be a match, as nothing is
72 impossible—
SPEED
73 What then?
LAUNCE
74 Why, then will I tell thee that thy master stays for thee at the
75 North Gate.
SPEED
76 For me?
LAUNCE
77 For thee? Ay, who art thou? He hath stayed for a better one
78 than thee.
SPEED
79 And must I go to him?
LAUNCE
80 Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so
81 long that going will scarce serve the turn.
SPEED
handing him the paper
82 Why didst not tell me sooner? Pox of your love letters!

She exits.
LAUNCE
83 Now will she be swinged for reading my letter; an
84 unmannerly slave, that will thrust herself into secrets. I’ll
85 after, to rejoice in the girl’s correction.
He exits.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT3, Scene 2a
ACT3, SCENE 2A
Enter Duke and Thurio.
DUKE
1 Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you
2 Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
THURIO
3 Since his exile she hath despised me most,
4 Forsworn my company and railed at me,
5 That I am desperate of obtaining her.
DUKE
6 A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
7 And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
Enter Proteus.
8 How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,

9 According to our proclamation, gone?
PROTEUS
10 Gone, my good lord.
DUKE
11 My daughter takes his going grievously.
PROTEUS
12 A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
DUKE
13 So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
14 Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee,
15 Makes me the better to confer with thee.
16 Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
17 The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter?
PROTEUS
18 I do, my lord.
DUKE
19 And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
20 How she opposes her against my will?
PROTEUS
21 She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.

Two Gentlemen of Verona – KSC Acting Edition ACT3, Scene 2a
DUKE
22 Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
23 What might we do to make the girl forget
24 The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
PROTEUS
25 The best way is to slander Valentine
26 With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
27 Three things that women highly hold in hate.
DUKE
28 Then you must undertake to slander him.
PROTEUS
29 And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
30 ’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
31 Especially against his very friend.
DUKE
32 Where your good word cannot advantage him,
33 Your slander never can endamage him;
34 Therefore the office is indifferent,
35 Being entreated to it by your friend.
PROTEUS
36 You have prevailed, my lord. If I can do it
37 By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
38 She shall not long continue love to him.
39 But say this weed her love from Valentine,
40 It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
THURIO
41 Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
42 You must provide to bottom it on me,
43 Which must be done by praising me as much
44 As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
DUKE
45 And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind
46 Because we know, on Valentine’s report,
47 You are already Love’s firm votary.
48 Upon this warrant shall you have access
49 Where you with Sylvia may confer at large—
50 For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
51 And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you—
52 Where you may temper her by your persuasion
53 To hate young Valentine and love my friend.

PROTEUS
54 As much as I can do I will effect.—
55 But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough.
56 You must lay lime to tangle her desires
57 By wailful sonnets, whose composèd rhymes
58 Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
DUKE
59 Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
PROTEUS
60 Say that upon the altar of her beauty
61 You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart.
62 After your dire-lamenting elegies,
63 Visit by night your lady’s chamber window
64 With some sweet consort; to their instruments
65 Tune a deploring song;
66 This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
DUKE
67 This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
THURIO,
to Proteus
68 And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
69 Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
70 Let us into the city presently
71 To sort some gentlemen well-skilled in music.
72
DUKE
73 About it, gentlemen.
PROTEUS
74 We’ll wait upon your Grace till after supper
75 And afterward determine our proceedings.
DUKE
76 Even now about it! I will pardon you.
They exit.
ACT 4, SCENE 1A
Enter certain Outlaws.
FIRST OUTLAW
1 Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
SECOND OUTLAW
2 If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.

Enter Valentine and Speed.
THIRD OUTLAW
3 Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you.
4 If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
SPEED
5 Sir, we are undone; these are the villains
6 That all the travelers do fear so much.
VALENTINE
7 My friends—
THIRD OUTLAW
8 That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
FIRST OUTLAW
9 Peace. We’ll hear him.
SECOND OUTLAW
10 Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man.
VALENTINE
11 Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
12 A man I am crossed with adversity;
13 My riches are these poor habiliments,
14 Of which, if you should here disfurnish me,
15 You take the sum and substance that I have.
SECOND OUTLAW
16 Whither travel you?
VALENTINE
17 To Verona.
FIRST OUTLAW
18 Whence came you?
VALENTINE
19 From Milan.
FIRST OUTLAW
20 What, were you banished thence?
VALENTINE
21 I was.
SECOND OUTLAW
22 For what offense?

VALENTINE
23 For that which now torments me to rehearse;
24 I killed a man, whose death I much repent,
25 But yet I slew him manfully in fight
26 Without false vantage or base treachery.
THIRD OUTLAW
27 By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
28 This fellow were a king for our wild faction.
SECOND OUTLAW
29 We’ll have him.
FIRST OUTLAW
30 Sirs, a word.
The Outlaws step aside to talk.
SPEED
31 Master, be one of them. It’s an honorable kind of thievery.
VALENTINE
32 Peace, villain.
SECOND OUTLAW
advancing
33 Tell us this: have you anything to take to?
VALENTINE
34 Nothing but my fortune.
FIRST OUTLAW
35 Know then that some of us are gentlemen,
36 Such as the fury of ungoverned youth
37 Thrust from the company of awful men.
38 Myself was from Verona banishèd
39 For practicing to steal away a lady,
40 An heir and near allied unto the Duke.
THIRD OUTLAW
41 And I from Mantua, for a gentleman
42 Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.
SECOND OUTLAW
43 And I for such like petty crimes as these.
44 And partly seeing you are beautified
45 With goodly shape, a man of such perfection
46 As we do in our quality much want—

FIRST OUTLAW
47 Indeed because you are a banished man,
48 Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.
49 Are you content to be our general,
50 To make a virtue of necessity
51 And live as we do in this wilderness?
THIRD OUTLAW
52 What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
53 Say ay, and be the captain of us all;
SECOND OUTLAW
54 We’ll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,
55 Love thee as our commander and our king.
THIRD OUTLAW
56 But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
FIRST OUTLAW
57 Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
VALENTINE
58 I take your offer and will live with you,
59 Provided that you do no outrages
60 On silly women or poor passengers.
FIRST OUTLAW
61 No, we detest such vile base practices.
SECOND OUTLAW
62 Come, go with us; we’ll bring thee to our crews
63 And show thee all the treasure we have got,
64 Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.
They exit.

ACT 4, SCENE 2A
Enter Proteus.
PROTEUS
1 Already have I been false to Valentine,
2 And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.
3 Under the color of commending him,
4 I have access my own love to prefer.
5 But Sylvia is too fair, too true, too holy
6 To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.
7 When I protest true loyalty to her,
8 She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;
9 When to her beauty I commend my vows,
10 She bids me think how I have been forsworn
11 In breaking faith with Julia, whom I loved;
12 And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,
13 The least whereof would quell a lover’s hope,
14 Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
15 The more it grows and fawneth on her still.
16 But here comes Thurio. Now must we to her window
17 And give some evening music to her ear.
ACT 4, SCENE 2B
Enter Thurio and Musicians.
THURIO
18 How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?
PROTEUS
19 Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love
20 Will creep in service where it cannot go.
THURIO
21 Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.
PROTEUS
22 Sir, but I do, or else I would be hence.
THURIO
23 Who, Sylvia?
PROTEUS
24 Ay, Sylvia, for your sake.
THURIO
25 I thank you for your own.—Now, gentlemen,
26 Let’s tune, and to it lustily awhile.

ACT 4, SCENE 2C
Enter Host of the inn, and Julia, disguised as a

page, Sebastian. They stand at a distance and talk.
HOST
1 Now, my young guest, methinks you’re melancholy. I pray
2 you, why is it?
JULIA
as Sebastian
3 Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.
HOST
4 Come, we’ll have you merry. I’ll bring you where you shall
5 hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for.
JULIA
as Sebastian
6 But shall I hear him speak?
HOST
7 Ay, that you shall.
JULIA
as Sebastian
8 That will be music.
HOST
9 Hark, hark.
Music plays.
JULIA
as Sebastian
10 Is he among these?
HOST
11 Ay. But peace; let’s hear ’em.
Song.

PROTEUS AND THURIO

12 Who is Sylvia? What is she,
13 That all our swains commend her?
14 Holy, fair, and wise is she;
15 The heaven such grace did lend her
16 That she might admirèd be.
17
18 Then to Sylvia let us sing,
19 That Sylvia is excelling;
20 She excels each mortal thing
21 Upon the dull earth dwelling.
22 To her let us garlands bring.
HOST
23 How now? Are you sadder than you were before?
24 How do you, man? The music likes you not.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
25 You mistake. The musician likes me not.
HOST
26 Why, my pretty youth?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
27 He plays false, good host.
HOST
28 How, out of tune on the strings?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
29 Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very heart-strings.
30 But, host, doth this Sir Proteus, that we talk on,
31 Often resort unto this gentlewoman?
HOST
32 I tell you what Launce his man told me: he loved her out of
33 all nick.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
34 Where is Launce?
HOST
35 Gone to seek his dog, which tomorrow, by his master’s
36 command, he must carry for a present to his lady.
Music ends.

JULIA,
as Sebastian
37 Peace. Stand aside.
The company parts. Host and Julia move away.
ACT 4, SCENE 2D
PROTEUS
1 Sir Thurio, fear not you. I will so plead
2 That you shall say my cunning drift excels.
THURIO
3 Where meet we?
PROTEUS
4 At Saint Gregory’s well.
THURIO
5 Farewell.
Thurio and the Musicians exit.
ACT 4, SCENE 2E
Enter Sylvia, above.
PROTEUS
6 Madam, good even to your Ladyship.
SYLVIA
7 Sir Proteus, as I take it.
PROTEUS
8 Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.
SYLVIA
9 What’s your will?
PROTEUS
10 That I may compass yours.
SYLVIA
11 You have your wish: my will is even this,
12 That presently you hie you home to bed.
13 Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man,
14 Think’st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,
15 To be seducèd by thy flattery,
16 That hast deceived so many with thy vows?
17 .

PROTEUS
18 I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady,
19 But she is dead.
JULIA
aside
20 ‘Twere false if I should speak it,
21 For I am sure she is not burièd.
SYLVIA
22 Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend
23 Survives, to whom, thyself art witness,
24 I am betrothed. And art thou not ashamed
25 To wrong him with thy importunacy?
PROTEUS
26 I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.
SYLVIA
27 And so suppose am I, for in his grave,
28 Assure thyself, my love is burièd.
PROTEUS
29 Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,
30 Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,
31 The picture that is hanging in your chamber;
32 For since the substance of your perfect self
33 Is else devoted, I am but a shadow;
34 And to your shadow will I make true love.
SYLVIA
35 I am very loath to be your idol, sir;
36 But since your falsehood shall become you well
37 To worship shadows and adore false shapes,
38 Send to me in the morning, and I’ll send it.
39 And so, good rest.
Sylvia exits.
PROTEUS
40 As wretches have o’ernight
41 That wait for execution in the morn.
Proteus exits.
JULIA
as Sebastian
42 Host, will you go?

HOST
43 By my halidom, I was fast asleep. I think ’tis almost day.
JULIA
as Sebastian
44 Not so; but it hath been the longest night
45 That e’er I watched, and the most heaviest.
They exit.

ACT 4, SCENE 3
Enter Eglamour.
EGLAMOUR
1 This is the hour that Madam Sylvia
2 Entreated me to call and know her mind;
3 There’s some great matter she’d employ me in.
4 Madam, madam!
Enter Sylvia, above.
SYLVIA
5 Who calls?
EGLAMOUR
6 Your servant, and your friend,
7 One that attends your Ladyship’s command.
SYLVIA
8 Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.
EGLAMOUR
9 As many, worthy lady, to yourself
10 According to your Ladyship’s impose,
11 I am thus early come to know what service
12 It is your pleasure to command me in.
SYLVIA
13 O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
14 Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished.
15 Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
16 I bear unto the banished Valentine,
17 Nor how my father would enforce me marry
18 Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhorred.
19 Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say
20 No grief did ever come so near thy heart
21 As when thy lady and thy true love died.
22 Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
23 To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
24 And for the ways are dangerous to pass,
25 I do desire thee, even from a heart
26 As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
27 To bear me company and go with me;
28 If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
29 That I may venture to depart alone.

EGLAMOUR
30 Madam, I pity much your grievances,
31 Which, since I know they virtuously are placed,
32 I give consent to go along with you,
33 Recking as little what betideth me
34 As much I wish all good befortune you.
35 When will you go?
SYLVIA
36 This evening coming.
EGLAMOUR
37 Where shall I meet you?
SYLVIA
38 At Friar Patrick’s cell,
39 Where I intend holy confession.
EGLAMOUR
40 I will not fail your Ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.
SYLVIA
41 Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.
They exit.

ACT 4, SCENE 4A
Enter Lance, with his dog, Crab.
LAUNCE
1 When a man’s servant shall play the cur with him, look you,
2 it goes hard. I was sent to deliver him as a present to
3 Mistress Sylvia from my master; and I came no sooner into
4 the dining chamber but he steps me to her trencher and
5 steals her chicken leg.
6
7 O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all
8 companies! If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault
9 upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hanged for
10 ’t. Sure as I live, he had suffered for ’t.
11
12 You shall judge. He thrusts me himself into the company of
13 three or four gentlemanlike dogs under the Duke’s table; he
14 had not been there—bless the mark!—a pissing while but all
15 the chamber smelt him. “Out with the dog!” says one. “What
16 cur is that?” says another. “Whip him out!” says the third.
17 “Hang him up!” says the Duke. I, having been acquainted
18 with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to
19 the fellow that whips the dogs. “Friend,” quoth I, “You mean
20 to whip the dog?” “Ay, marry, do I,” quoth he. “You do him
21 the more wrong,” quoth I. “’Twas I did the thing you wot of.”
22 He makes me no more ado but whips me out of the
23 chamber. How many masters would do this for his servant?
24
25 Nay, I’ll be sworn I have sat in the stocks for puddings he
26 hath stolen; otherwise he had been executed. I have stood
27 on the pillory for geese he hath killed; otherwise he had
28 suffered for ’t.
To Crab.
29 Thou think’st not of this now. Nay, I remember the trick you
30 served me when I took my leave of Madam Sylvia. Did not I
31 bid thee still mark me, and do as I do? When didst thou see
32 me heave up my leg and make water against a
33 gentlewoman’s farthingale? Didst thou ever see me do such
34 a trick?

ACT 4, SCENE 4B
Enter Proteus and Julia disguised as Sebastian.
PROTEUS
1 Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well
2 And will employ thee in some service presently.
JULIA
as Sebastian
3 In what you please. I’ll do what I can.
PROTEUS
4 I hope thou wilt.
To Launce.
5 How now, you whoreson peasant?
6 Where have you been these two days loitering?
LAUNCE
7 Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Sylvia the dog you bade me.
PROTEUS
8 And what says she to my little jewel?
LAUNCE
9 Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you currish
10 thanks is good enough for such a present.
PROTEUS
11 But she received my dog?
LAUNCE
12 No, indeed, did she not. Here have I brought him back again.
PROTEUS
13 What, didst thou offer her this from me?
LAUNCE
14 Ay, sir. The other squirrel was stolen from me by the
15 hangman’s boys in the market-place, and then I offered her
16 mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and
17 therefore the gift the greater.
PROTEUS
18 Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again,
19 Or ne’er return again into my sight.
20 Away, I say. Stayest thou to vex me here?

Launce exits with Crab.
PROTEUS (CONT.)
21 A slave that still an end turns me to shame.
22 Sebastian, I have entertainèd thee,
23 Chiefly that I have need of such a youth
24 That can with some discretion do my business—
25 For ’tis no trusting to yond foolish lout.
26 Go presently, and take this ring with thee;
27 Deliver it to Madam Sylvia.
28 She loved me well delivered it to me.
He gives her a ring.
JULIA
as Sebastian
29 It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.
30 She is dead belike?
PROTEUS
31 Not so; I think she lives.
JULIA
as Sebastian
32 Alas!
PROTEUS
33 Why dost thou cry “Alas”?
JULIA
as Sebastian
34 I cannot choose but pity her.
PROTEUS
35 Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?
JULIA
as Sebastian
36 Because methinks that she loved you as well
37 As you do love your lady Sylvia.
38 She dreams on him that has forgot her love;
39 You dote on her that cares not for your love.
40 ’Tis pity love should be so contrary,
41 And thinking on it makes me cry “Alas.”

PROTEUS
42 Well, give her that ring and therewithal
He gives her a paper.
43 This letter. That’s her chamber. Tell my lady
44 I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.
45 Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,
46 Where thou shalt find me sad and solitary.
Proteus exits.
ACT 4, SCENE 4C
JULIA
1 How many women would do such a message?
2 Alas, poor Proteus, thou hast entertained
3 A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
4 Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him
5 That with his very heart despiseth me?
6 Because he loves her, he despiseth me;
7 Because I love him, I must pity him.
8 This ring I gave him when he parted from me,
9 To bind him to remember my good will;
10 And now am I, unhappy messenger,
11 To plead for that which I would not obtain,
12 To carry that which I would have refused,
13 To praise his faith, which I would have dispraised.
14 I am my master’s true confirmèd love,
15 But cannot be true servant to my master
16 Unless I prove false traitor to myself.
17 Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly
18 As—Heaven it knows!—I would not have him speed.
Enter Sylvia.
ACT 4, SCENE 4D
JULIA
As Sebastian.
1 Gentlewoman, good day. I pray you be my mean
2 To bring me where to speak with Madam Sylvia.
SYLVIA
3 What would you with her, if that I be she?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
4 If you be she, I do entreat your patience
5 To hear me speak the message I am sent on.

SYLVIA
6 From whom?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
7 From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.
SYLVIA
8 O, he sends you for a picture?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
9 Ay, madam.
SYLVIA,
10 Go, give your master this. Tell him from me,
11 One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
12 Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
13 Madam, please you peruse this letter.
SYLVIA
14 I will not look upon your master’s lines;
15 I know they are stuffed with protestations
16 And full of new-found oaths, which he will break
17 As easily as I do tear his paper.
She tears the paper.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
18 Madam, he sends your Ladyship this ring.
She offers Sylvia a ring.
SYLVIA
19 The more shame for him, that he sends it me;
20 For I have heard him say a thousand times
21 His Julia gave it him at his departure.
22 Though his false finger have profaned the ring,
23 Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
24 She thanks you.
SYLVIA
25 What sayst thou?

JULIA,
as Sebastian
26 I thank you, madam, that you tender her;
27 Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much.
SYLVIA
28 Dost thou know her?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
29 Almost as well as I do know myself.
30 To think upon her woes, I do protest
31 That I have wept a hundred several times.
SYLVIA
32 Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
33 I think she doth, and that’s her cause of sorrow.
SYLVIA
34 Is she not passing fair?
JULIA,
as Sebastian
35 She hath been fairer, madam, than she is;
36 When she did think my master loved her well,
37 She, in my judgment, was as fair as you.
38 But since she did neglect her looking-glass,
39 The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks
40 And pinched the lily tincture of her face.
41
SYLVIA
42 She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.
43 Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!
44 I weep myself to think upon thy words.
45 Here, youth, there is my purse. I give thee this
She gives Julia a purse.
46 For thy sweet mistress’ sake, because thou lov’st her.
47 Farewell.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
48 And she shall thank you for ’t if e’er you know her.
Sylvia exits.

ACT 4, SCENE 4E
JULIA
49 A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful.
50 Here is her picture; let me see. I think
51 If I had such a tire, this face of mine
52 Were full as lovely as is this of hers;
53 And yet the painter flattered her a little,
54 Unless I flatter with myself too much.
55 Her hair is auburn; mine is perfect yellow;
56 Her eyes are gray as glass, and so are mine.
57 What should it be that he respects in her
58 But I can make respective in myself?
59 Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
60 For ’tis thy rival. O, thou senseless form,
61 Thou shalt be worshipped, kissed, loved, and adored;
62 And were there sense in his idolatry,
63 My substance should be statue in thy stead.
64 I’ll use thee kindly for thy mistress’ sake,
65 That used me so, or else, by Jove I vow,
66 I should have scratched out your unseeing eyes
67 To make my master out of love with thee.
She exits.

ACT 5, SCENE 1
Enter Eglamour.
EGLAMOUR
1 The sun begins to gild the western sky,
2 And now it is about the very hour
3 That Sylvia at Friar Patrick’s cell should meet me.
4 She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,
5 Unless it be to come before their time.
Enter Sylvia.
6 See where she comes.—Lady, a happy evening.
SYLVIA
7 Amen, amen. Go on, good Eglamour,
8 Out at the postern by the abbey wall.
9 I fear I am attended by some spies.
EGLAMOUR
10 Fear not. The forest is not three leagues off;
11 If we recover that, we are sure enough.
They exit.

ACT 5, SCENE 2A
Enter Thurio, Proteus, and Julia, disguised as

Sebastian.
THURIO
1 Sir Proteus, what says Sylvia to my suit?
PROTEUS
2 O sir, I find her milder than she was,
3 And yet she takes exceptions at your person.
THURIO
4 What? That my leg is too long?
PROTEUS
5 No, that it is too little.
THURIO
6 I’ll wear a boot to make it somewhat rounder.
JULIA
aside
7 But love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
THURIO
8 What says she to my face?
PROTEUS
9 She says it is a fair one.
THURIO
10 Nay, then the wanton lies; my face is rough.
THURIO
11 What says she to my valor?
PROTEUS
12 O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.
JULIA
aside
13 She needs not when she knows it cowardice.
THURIO
14 Considers she my possessions?
PROTEUS
15 O, ay, and pities them.

THURIO
16 Wherefore?
PROTEUS
17 That they are out by lease.
JULIA
as Sebastian
18 Here comes the Duke.
ACT 5, SCENE 2B
Enter Duke.
DUKE
1 How now, Sir Proteus?—How now, Thurio?
2 Which of you saw Eglamour of late?
THURIO
3 Not I.
PROTEUS
4 Nor I.
DUKE
5 Saw you my daughter?
PROTEUS
6 Neither.
DUKE
7 Why, then, she’s fled unto that peasant, Valentine,
8 And Eglamour is in her company.
9 ’Tis true, for Friar Lawrence met them both.
10 Therefore I pray you stand not to discourse,
11 But mount you presently and meet with me
12 Upon the rising of the mountain foot
13 That leads toward Mantua, whither they are fled.
14 Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.
He exits.
THURIO
15 Why, this it is to be a peevish girl
16 That flies her fortune when it follows her.
17 I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour
18 Than for the love of reckless Sylvia.
He exits.

PROTEUS
19 And I will follow, more for Sylvia’s love
20 Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.
He exits.
JULIA
21 And I will follow, more to cross that love
22 Than hate for Sylvia, that is gone for love.
She exits.

ACT 5, SCENE 3A
Enter Sylvia, and Outlaws.
FIRST OUTLAW
1 Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to our captain.
SYLVIA
2 A thousand more mischances than this one
3 Have learned me how to brook this patiently.
SECOND OUTLAW
4 Come, bring her away.
FIRST OUTLAW
5 Where is the gentleman that was with her?
THIRD OUTLAW
6 Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us,
7 But Moyses and Valerius follow him.
8 Go thou with her to the west end of the wood;
9 There is our captain. We’ll follow him that’s fled.
10 The thicket is beset; he cannot ’scape.
Second and Third Outlaws exit.
FIRST OUTLAW
11 Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave.
12 Fear not; he bears an honorable mind
13 And will not use a woman lawlessly.
SYLVIA
14 O Valentine, this I endure for thee!
They exit.

ACT 5, SCENE 3B
Enter Valentine.
VALENTINE
1 How use doth breed a habit in a man!
2 This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
3 I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
4 Repair me with thy presence, Sylvia;
5 Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain.
Shouting and sounds of fighting.
6 What hallowing and what stir is this today?
7 These are my mates, that make their wills their law,
8 Have some unhappy passenger in chase.
9 Withdraw thee, Valentine. Who’s this comes here?
He steps aside.
ACT 5, SCENE 3C
Enter Proteus, Sylvia, and Julia, disguised as

Sebastian.
PROTEUS
1 Madam, this service I have done for you—
2 Though you respect not aught your servant doth—
3 To hazard life, and rescue you from him
4 That would have forced your honor and your love.
5 Vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look;
6 A smaller boon than this I cannot beg,
7 And less than this I am sure you cannot give.
VALENTINE,
aside
8 How like a dream is this I see and hear!.
SYLVIA
9 O miserable, unhappy that I am!
PROTEUS
10 Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came,
11 But by my coming, I have made you happy.
SYLVIA
12 By thy approach thou mak’st me most unhappy.
JULIA,
aside
13 And me, when he approacheth to your presence.

SYLVIA
14 Had I been seizèd by a hungry lion,
15 I would have been a breakfast to the beast
16 Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.
17 O heaven, be judge how I love Valentine,
18 Whose life’s as tender to me as my soulTherefore begone;
19 solicit me no more.
PROTEUS
20 What dangerous action, stood it next to death,
21 Would I not undergo for one calm look!
22 O, ’tis the curse in love, and still approved,
23 When women cannot love where they’re beloved.
SYLVIA
24 When Proteus cannot love where he’s beloved.
25 Read over Julia’s heart, thy first best love,
26 For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
27 Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths
28 Descended into perjury to love me.
PROTEUS
29 In love
30 Who respects friend?
SYLVIA
31 All men but Proteus.
PROTEUS
32 Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words
33 Can no way change you to a milder form,
34 I’ll love you ’gainst the nature of love—
SYLVIA
35 O, heaven!
VALENTINE,
advancing
36 Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil tongue,
37 Thou friend of an ill fashion.
PROTEUS
38 Valentine!

VALENTINE
39 Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love,
40 For such is a friend now. Treacherous man,
41 Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye
42 Could have persuaded me. Now I dare not say
43 I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me.
44 Who should be trusted when one’s right hand
45 Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,
46 I am sorry I must never trust thee more,
47 But count the world a stranger for thy sake.
48 The private wound is deepest. O, time most accursed,
49 ’Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
PROTEUS
50 My shame and guilt confounds me.
51 Forgive me, Valentine. If hearty sorrow
52 Be a sufficient ransom for offense,
53 I tender ’t here. I do as truly suffer
54 As e’er I did commit.
VALENTINE
55 Thy shame cannot give physic to my grief;
56 Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss;
57 The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
58 To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
JULIA
aside
59 O me unhappy!
SYLVIA
60 Look to the boy.
VALENTINE
61 Why, boy!
62 Why, wag, how now? What’s the matter? Look up.
63 Speak.
JULIA,
as Sebastian
64 O, good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring to
65 Madam Sylvia, which out of my neglect was never done.
SYLVIA
66 Where is that ring, boy?
JULIA
as Sebastian
67 Here ’tis; this is it.
She rises, and hands him a ring.

PROTEUS
68 How, let me see.
69 Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.
JULIA
as Sebastian
70 O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook.
71 This is the ring you sent to Sylvia.
72 She offers another ring.
PROTEUS
73 But how cam’st thou by this ring? At my depart
74 I gave this unto Julia.
JULIA
75 And Julia herself did give it me,
76 And Julia herself hath brought it hither.
She reveals herself.
PROTEUS
77 How? Julia!
JULIA
78 Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths
79 And entertained ’em deeply in her heart.
80 How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!
81 O, Proteus, let this habit make thee blush.
82 Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me
83 Such an immodest raiment, if shame live
84 In a disguise of love.
85 It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,
86 Women to change their shapes than men their minds.
PROTEUS
87 “Than men their minds”? ’Tis true. O heaven, were man
88 But constant, he were perfect; that one error
89 Fills him with faults, makes him run through all th’ sins;
90 Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
91 What is in Sylvia’s face but I may spy
92 More fresh in Julia’s, with a constant eye?
93 To you was I betrothed ere I strayed.
94 But like in sickness did I loathe this food.
95 But, as in health, come to my natural taste,
96 Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,
97 And will forevermore be true to it.
SYLVIA,
to Julia and Proteus
98 Come, come, a hand from either.
99 Let me be blest to make this happy close.

Sylvia joins the hands of Julia and Proteus. She

turns to Valentine.
PROTEUS
100 Bear witness, heaven, I have my wish forever.
JULIA
101 And I mine.
SYLVIA
102 Within the course of justice, none of us
103 Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
104 And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
105 The deeds of mercy.
PROTEUS
(he turns to Valentine)
106 I am sorry that such sorrow I procure;
107 And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
108 That I crave doom more willingly than mercy.
SYLVIA
109 ’Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.
VALENTINE
110 Then I am paid,
111 And once again I do receive thee honest.
112 By penitence th’ Eternal’s wrath’s appeased.
113 Who by repentance is not satisfied
114 Is nor of heaven nor Earth, for these are pleased.
115 My love to thee may appear plain and free,
116 For what I learn from Sylvia, I give thee.
ACT 5, SCENE 3D
Enter Thurio, Duke, and Outlaws.
OUTLAWS
117 A prize, a prize, a prize!
VALENTINE
118 Forbear, forbear, I say. It is my lord the Duke.
119 The Outlaws release the Duke and Thurio.
120 Your Grace is welcome to a man disgraced,
121 Banished Valentine.
DUKE
122 Sir Valentine?
THURIO
123 Yonder is Sylvia, and Sylvia’s mine.

VALENTINE
124 Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;
125 Come not within the measure of my wrath.
126 I dare thee but to breathe upon my love!
THURIO
127 Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I.
128 I hold him but a fool that will endanger
129 His body for a girl that loves him not.
130 I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.
DUKE
131 The more degenerate and base art thou .
132 Now, by the honor of my ancestry,
133 I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
134 And think thee worthy of an empress’ love.
135 Take thou thy Sylvia, for thou hast deserved her.
VALENTINE
136 I thank your Grace, the gift hath made me happy.
137 I now beseech you, for your daughter’s sake,
138 To grant one boon that I shall ask of you.
DUKE
139 I grant it for thine own, whate’er it be.
VALENTINE
140 These banished men, that I have kept withal,
141 Forgive them what they have committed here,
142 And let them be recalled from their exile;
143 They are reformèd, civil, full of good,
144 And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
DUKE
145 Thou hast prevailed; I pardon them and thee.
146 Dispose of them as thou know’st their deserts.
147 Come, let us go; we will include all jars
148 With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
VALENTINE
149 And as we walk along, I dare be bold
150 With our discourse to make your Grace to smile.
Pointing to Julia.
151 What think you of this page, my lord?
DUKE
152 I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.
VALENTINE
153 I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.

DUKE
154 What mean you by that saying?
VALENTINE
155 Please you, I’ll tell you as we pass along,
156 That you will wonder what hath fortunèd.—
JULIA
157 Come, Proteus, ’tis your penance but to hear
158 The story of your loves discoverèd.
SYLVIA
159 That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
160 One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.
They exit.
Lights fade.

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The Two Gentlemen

VALENTINE, a gentleman of Verona

SPEED, his servant

PROTEUS, a gentleman of Verona

LAUNCE, his servant

ANTONIO, Proteus’ father

PANTINO, an attendant to Antonio

JULIA, a lady of Verona

LUCETTA, her waiting-gentlewoman

SYLVIA, a lady of Milan

DUKE (sometimes Emperor), Sylvia’s father

HOST, proprietor of an inn in Milan

OUTLAWS, living in a forest near Mantua

Servants; Musicians; Crab, a dog

Enter Valentine and Proteus.

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48 I must go send some better messenger.

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Enter Julia and Lucetta.

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32 Say from whom.

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She drops a paper and then retrieves it.

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She rips up the paper. Lucetta begins to pick up the

85 Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie.

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Enter Antonio, Pantino, and Launce.

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Enter Proteus reading.

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Antonio and Launce exit.

Enter Valentine and Speed, carrying a glove.

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He gives her a paper.

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She again offers him the paper.

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She gives him a ring.

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Enter Lance, weeping, with his dog, Crab.

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Enter Valentine, Sylvia, Thurio, and Speed.

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Sylvia and Thurio exit.

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