Array ( [TITLE] => The Two Gentlemen of Verona [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => DUKE OF MILAN, Father to Silvia. [1] => ANTONIO, Father to Proteus. [2] => THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine. [3] => EGLAMOUR, Agent for Silvia in her escape. [4] => HOST, where Julia lodges. [5] => OUTLAWS, with Valentine. [6] => SPEED, a clownish servant to Valentine. [7] => LAUNCE, the like to Proteus. [8] => PANTHINO, Servant to Antonio. [9] => JULIA, bed of Proteus. [10] => SILVIA, bed of Valentine. [11] => LUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia. [12] => Servants, Musicians. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => VALENTINE [1] => PROTEUS ) [GRPDESCR] => the two Gentlemen. ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua. [PLAYSUBT] => THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Verona. An open place. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS [1] => Exit [2] => Enter SPEED [3] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: [1] => Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. [2] => Were't not affection chains thy tender days [3] => To the sweet glances of thy honour'd , [4] => I rather would entreat thy company [5] => To see the wonders of the world abroad, [6] => Than, living dully sluggardized at home, [7] => Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. [8] => But since thou st, still and thrive therein, [9] => Even as I would when I to begin. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu! [1] => Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest [2] => Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel: [3] => Wish me partaker in thy happiness [4] => When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, [5] => If ever danger do environ thee, [6] => Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, [7] => For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => And on a -book pray for my success? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Upon some book I I'll pray for thee. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's on some shallow story of deep : [1] => How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's a deep story of a deeper : [1] => For he was more than over shoes in . ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis true; for you are over boots in , [1] => And yet you never swum the Hellespont. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => No, I will not, for it boots thee not. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => What? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To be in , where scorn is bought with groans; [1] => Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth [2] => With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: [3] => If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; [4] => If lost, why then a grievous labour won; [5] => However, but a folly bought with wit, [6] => Or else a wit by folly vanquished. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => So, by your circumstance, you call me fool. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => 'Tis you cavil at: I am not . ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => is your master, for he masters you: [1] => And he that is so yoked by a fool, [2] => Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud [1] => The eating canker dwells, so eating [2] => Inhabits in the finest wits of all. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And writers say, as the most forward bud [1] => Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, [2] => Even so by the young and tender wit [3] => Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, [4] => Losing his verdure even in the prime [5] => And all the fair effects of future hopes. [6] => But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee, [7] => That art a votary to fond desire? [8] => Once more adieu! my father at the road [9] => Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => And thither will I bring thee, Valentine. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave. [1] => To Milan let me hear from thee by letters [2] => Of thy success in , and what news else [3] => Betideth here in absence of thy friend; [4] => And likewise will visit thee with mine. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => As much to you at home! and so, farewell. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He after honour hunts, I after : [1] => He leaves his friends to dignify them more, [2] => I leave myself, my friends and all, for . [3] => Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, [4] => Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, [5] => War with good counsel, set the world at nought; [6] => Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already, [1] => And I have play'd the sheep in losing him. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, [1] => An if the shepherd be a while away. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then, [1] => and I a sheep? ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I do. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => A silly answer and fitting well a sheep. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => This proves me still a sheep. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => True; and thy master a shepherd. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the [1] => shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks [2] => not me: therefore I am no sheep. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the [1] => shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for [2] => wages followest thy master; thy master for wages [3] => follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.' ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, [1] => a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a [2] => lost mutton, nothing for my labour. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for [1] => carrying your letter. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => You mistake; I mean the pound,--a pinfold. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over, [1] => 'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to [2] => your r. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => But what said she? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => First nodding ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask [1] => me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.' ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => And that set together is noddy. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now you have taken the pains to set it together, [1] => take it for your pains. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Why sir, how do you bear with me? ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing [1] => but the word 'noddy' for my pains. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Open your purse, that the money and the matter may [1] => be both at once delivered. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no, [1] => not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter: [2] => and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I [3] => fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your [4] => mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as [5] => hard as steel. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => What said she? nothing? ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To [1] => testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned [2] => me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your [3] => letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, [1] => Which cannot perish having thee aboard, [2] => Being destined to a drier death on shore. [3] => I must go send some better messenger: [4] => I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, [5] => Receiving them from such a worthless post. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit SPEED ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. Garden of JULIA's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter JULlA and LUCETTA [1] => Exit [2] => Re-enter LUCETTA [3] => Exit [4] => Re-enter LUCETTA [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But say, Lucetta, now we are alone, [1] => Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in ? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of all the fair resort of gentlemen [1] => That every day with parle encounter me, [2] => In thy opinion which is worthiest ? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind [1] => According to my shallow simple skill. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine; [1] => But, were I you, he never should be mine. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => How now! what means this passion at his name? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon, dear madam: 'tis a passing shame [1] => That I, unworthy body as I am, [2] => Should censure thus on ly gentlemen. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Then thus: of many good I think him best. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Your reason? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have no other, but a woman's reason; [1] => I think him so because I think him so. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => And wouldst thou have me cast my on him? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Ay, if you thought your not cast away. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Yet he, of all the rest, I think, best s ye. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => His little speaking shows his but small. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => They do not that do not show their . ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => O, they least that let men know their . ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => I would I knew his mind. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Peruse this paper, madam. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => 'To Julia.' Say, from whom? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => That the contents will show. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Say, say, who gave it thee? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus. [1] => He would have given it you; but I, being in the way, [2] => Did in your name receive it: pardon the [3] => fault I pray. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker! [1] => Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines? [2] => To whisper and conspire against my youth? [3] => Now, trust me, 'tis an office of great worth [4] => And you an officer fit for the place. [5] => Or else return no more into my sight. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => To plead for deserves more fee than hate. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Will ye be gone? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => That you may ruminate. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter: [1] => It were a shame to call her back again [2] => And pray her to a fault for which I chid her. [3] => What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid, [4] => And would not force the letter to my view! [5] => Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that [6] => Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.' [7] => Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish [8] => That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse [9] => And presently all humbled kiss the rod! [10] => How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence, [11] => When willingly I would have had her here! [12] => How angerly I taught my brow to frown, [13] => When inward joy enforced my heart to smile! [14] => My penance is to call Lucetta back [15] => And ask remission for my folly past. [16] => What ho! Lucetta! ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => What would your ladyship? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Is't near dinner-time? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would it were, [1] => That you might kill your stomach on your meat [2] => And not upon your maid. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => What is't that you took up so gingerly? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Nothing. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Why didst thou stoop, then? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => To take a paper up that I let fall. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => And is that paper nothing? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Nothing concerning me. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Then let it lie for those that it concerns. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, it will not lie where it concerns [1] => Unless it have a false interpeter. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Some of yours hath writ to you in rhyme. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I might sing it, madam, to a tune. [1] => Give me a note: your ladyship can set. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As little by such toys as may be possible. [1] => Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' .' ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => It is too heavy for so light a tune. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Heavy! belike it hath some burden then? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => And why not you? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => I cannot reach so high. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Let's see your song. How now, minion! ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out: [1] => And yet methinks I do not like this tune. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => You do not? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => No, madam; it is too sharp. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => You, minion, are too saucy. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, now you are too flat [1] => And mar the concord with too harsh a descant: [2] => There wanteth but a mean to fill your song. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This babble shall not henceforth trouble me. [1] => Here is a coil with protestation! [2] => Go get you gone, and let the papers lie: [3] => You would be fingering them, to anger me. ) [STAGEDIR] => Tears the letter ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She makes it strange; but she would be best pleased [1] => To be so anger'd with another letter. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same! [1] => O hateful hands, to tear such loving words! [2] => Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey [3] => And kill the bees that yield it with your stings! [4] => I'll kiss each several paper for amends. [5] => Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia! [6] => As in revenge of thy ingratitude, [7] => I throw thy name against the bruising stones, [8] => Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain. [9] => And here is writ '-wounded Proteus.' [10] => Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed [11] => Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd; [12] => And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss. [13] => But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down. [14] => Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away [15] => Till I have found each letter in the letter, [16] => Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear [17] => Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock [18] => And throw it thence into the raging sea! [19] => Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ, [20] => 'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus, [21] => To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away. [22] => And yet I will not, sith so prettily [23] => He couples it to his complaining names. [24] => Thus will I fold them one on another: [25] => Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, [1] => Dinner is ready, and your father stays. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Well, let us go. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => If you respect them, best to take them up. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I was taken up for laying them down: [1] => Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => I see you have a month's mind to them. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see; [1] => I see things too, although you judge I wink. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Come, come; will't please you go? ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. ANTONIO's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO [1] => Enter PROTEUS [2] => Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO [3] => Re-enter PANTHINO [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that [1] => Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => 'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Why, what of him? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He wonder'd that your lordship [1] => Would suffer him to spend his youth at home, [2] => While other men, of slender reputation, [3] => Put forth their sons to seek preferment out: [4] => Some to the wars, to try their fortune there; [5] => Some to discover islands far away; [6] => Some to the studious universities. [7] => For any or for all these exercises, [8] => He said that Proteus your son was meet, [9] => And did request me to importune you [10] => To let him spend his time no more at home, [11] => Which would be great impeachment to his age, [12] => In having known no travel in his youth. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor need'st thou much importune me to that [1] => Whereon this month I have been hammering. [2] => I have consider'd well his loss of time [3] => And how he cannot be a perfect man, [4] => Not being tried and tutor'd in the world: [5] => Experience is by industry achieved [6] => And perfected by the swift course of time. [7] => Then tell me, whither were I best to send him? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think your lordship is not ignorant [1] => How his companion, youthful Valentine, [2] => Attends the emperor in his royal court. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => I know it well. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither: [1] => There shall he practise tilts and tournaments, [2] => Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen. [3] => And be in eye of every exercise [4] => Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised: [1] => And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it, [2] => The execution of it shall make known. [3] => Even with the speediest expedition [4] => I will dispatch him to the emperor's court. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso, [1] => With other gentlemen of good esteem, [2] => Are journeying to salute the emperor [3] => And to commend their service to his will. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good company; with them shall Proteus go: [1] => And, in good time! now will we break with him. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet ! sweet lines! sweet life! [1] => Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; [2] => Here is her oath for , her honour's pawn. [3] => O, that our fathers would applaud our s, [4] => To seal our happiness with their consents! [5] => O heavenly Julia! ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => How now! what letter are you reading there? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => May't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two [1] => Of commendations sent from Valentine, [2] => Deliver'd by a friend that came from him. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Lend me the letter; let me see what news. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is no news, my lord, but that he writes [1] => How happily he lives, how well bed [2] => And daily graced by the emperor; [3] => Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => And how stand you affected to his wish? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As one relying on your lordship's will [1] => And not depending on his friendly wish. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My will is something sorted with his wish. [1] => Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; [2] => For what I will, I will, and there an end. [3] => I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time [4] => With Valentinus in the emperor's court: [5] => What maintenance he from his friends receives, [6] => Like exhibition thou shalt have from me. [7] => To-morrow be in readiness to go: [8] => Excuse it not, for I am peremptory. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I cannot be so soon provided: [1] => Please you, deliberate a day or two. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee: [1] => No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go. [2] => Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd [3] => To hasten on his expedition. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning, [1] => And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd. [2] => I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter, [3] => Lest he should take exceptions to my ; [4] => And with the vantage of mine own excuse [5] => Hath he excepted most against my . [6] => O, how this spring of resembleth [7] => The uncertain glory of an April day, [8] => Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, [9] => And by and by a cloud takes all away! ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir Proteus, your father calls for you: [1] => He is in haste; therefore, I pray you to go. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto, [1] => And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.' ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter VALENTINE and SPEED [1] => Enter SILVIA [2] => Exit [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Sir, your g. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Not mine; my gs are on. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine: [1] => Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine! [2] => Ah, Silvia, Silvia! ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia! ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How now, sirrah? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => She is not within hearing, sir. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, sir, who bade you call her? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Your worship, sir; or else I mistook. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Well, you'll still be too forward. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => She that your worship s? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, how know you that I am in ? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, by these special marks: first, you have [1] => learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms, [2] => like a malecontent; to relish a -song, like a [3] => robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had [4] => the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had [5] => lost his A B C; to weep, like a young wench that had [6] => buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes [7] => diet; to watch like one that fears robbing; to [8] => speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were [9] => wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you [10] => walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you [11] => fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you [12] => looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you [13] => are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look [14] => on you, I can hardly think you my master. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Are all these things perceived in me? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => They are all perceived without ye. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Without me? they cannot. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you [1] => were so simple, none else would: but you are so [2] => without these follies, that these follies are within [3] => you and shine through you like the water in an [4] => urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a [5] => physician to comment on your malady. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, sir, I know her not. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet [1] => knowest her not? ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Is she not hard-favoured, sir? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Sir, I know that well enough. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What dost thou know? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's because the one is painted and the other out [1] => of all count. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How painted? and how out of count? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no [1] => man counts of her beauty. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => You never saw her since she was deformed. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How long hath she been deformed? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Ever since you d her. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have d her ever since I saw her; and still I [1] => see her beautiful. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => If you her, you cannot see her. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why? ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because is blind. O, that you had mine eyes; [1] => or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to [2] => have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going [3] => ungartered! ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What should I see then? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your own present folly and her passing deformity: [1] => for he, being in , could not see to garter his [2] => hose, and you, being in , cannot see to put on your hose. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Belike, boy, then, you are in ; for last [1] => morning you could not see to wipe my shoes. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => True, sir; I was in with my bed: I thank you, [1] => you swinged me for my , which makes me the [2] => bolder to chide you for yours. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => In conclusion, I stand affected to her. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => I would you were set, so your affection would cease. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to [1] => one she s. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => And have you? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I have. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Are they not lamely writ? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace! [1] => here she comes. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Now will he interpret to her. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter [1] => Unto the secret nameless friend of yours; [2] => Which I was much unwilling to proceed in [3] => But for my duty to your ladyship. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => I thank you gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off; [1] => For being ignorant to whom it goes [2] => I writ at random, very doubtfully. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Perchance you think too much of so much pains? ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, madam; so it stead you, I will write [1] => Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet-- ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel; [1] => And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not; [2] => And yet take this again; and yet I thank you, [3] => Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What means your ladyship? do you not like it? ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ; [1] => But since unwillingly, take them again. [2] => Nay, take them. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Madam, they are for you. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request; [1] => But I will none of them; they are for you; [2] => I would have had them writ more movingly. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Please you, I'll write your ladyship another. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And when it's writ, for my sake read it over, [1] => And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => If it please me, madam, what then? ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, if it please you, take it for your labour: [1] => And so, good morrow, servant. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, [1] => As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! [2] => My master sues to her, and she hath [3] => taught her suitor, [4] => He being her pupil, to become her tutor. [5] => O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, [6] => That my master, being scribe, to himself should write [7] => the letter? ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself? ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => To do what? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => To whom? ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What figure? ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => By a letter, I should say. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, she hath not writ to me? ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What need she, when she hath made you write to [1] => yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest? ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => No, believe me. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive [1] => her earnest? ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => She gave me none, except an angry word. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, she hath given you a letter. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => That's the letter I writ to her friend. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end. ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I would it were no worse. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll warrant you, 'tis as well: [1] => For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty, [2] => Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; [3] => Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover, [4] => Herself hath taught her himself to write unto her r. [5] => All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. [6] => Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I have dined. ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon can [1] => feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my [2] => victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like [3] => your mistress; be moved, be moved. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Verona. JULIA'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PROTEUS and JULIA [1] => Giving a ring [2] => Enter PANTHINO [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Have patience, gentle Julia. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => I must, where is no remedy. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => When possibly I can, I will return. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you turn not, you will return the sooner. [1] => Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => And seal the bargain with a holy kiss. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is my hand for my true constancy; [1] => And when that hour o'erslips me in the day [2] => Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, [3] => The next ensuing hour some foul mischance [4] => Torment me for my 's forgetfulness! [5] => My father stays my coming; answer not; [6] => The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears; [7] => That tide will stay me longer than I should. [8] => Julia, farewell! [9] => What, gone without a word? [10] => Ay, so true should do: it cannot speak; [11] => For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit JULIA ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go; I come, I come. [1] => Alas! this parting strikes poor rs dumb. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog [1] => Enter PANTHINO [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; [1] => all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I [2] => have received my proportion, like the prodigious [3] => son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's [4] => court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured [5] => dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father [6] => wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat [7] => wringing her hands, and all our house in a great [8] => perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed [9] => one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and [10] => has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have [11] => wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam, [12] => having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my [13] => parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This [14] => shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father: [15] => no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that [16] => cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it [17] => hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in [18] => it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance [19] => on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my [20] => sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and [21] => as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I [22] => am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the [23] => dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so, [24] => so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing: [25] => now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping: [26] => now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now [27] => come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now [28] => like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there [29] => 'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now [30] => come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now [31] => the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a [32] => word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped [1] => and thou art to post after with oars. What's the [2] => matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll [3] => lose the tide, if you tarry any longer. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the [1] => unkindest tied that ever any man tied. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => What's the unkindest tide? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in [1] => losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing [2] => thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy [3] => master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy [4] => service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth? ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Where should I lose my tongue? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => In thy tale. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => In thy tail! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and [1] => the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river [2] => were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the [3] => wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Sir, call me what thou darest. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PANTHINO [LINE] => Wilt thou go? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Well, I will go. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Milan. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED [1] => Exit [2] => Enter DUKE [3] => Exit [4] => Exit THURIO [5] => Enter PROTEUS [6] => Re-enter THURIO [7] => Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO [8] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Servant! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Mistress? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Ay, boy, it's for . ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Not of you. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Of my mistress, then. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Twere good you knocked him. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Servant, you are sad. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Indeed, madam, I seem so. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Seem you that you are not? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Haply I do. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => So do counterfeits. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => So do you. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What seem I that I am not? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Wise. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What instance of the contrary? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Your folly. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => And how quote you my folly? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I quote it in your jerkin. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => My jerkin is a doublet. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Well, then, I'll double your folly. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => How? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live [1] => in your air. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => You have said, sir. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Ay, sir, and done too, for this time. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => 'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Who is that, servant? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire. Sir [1] => Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, [2] => and spends what he borrows kindly in your company. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall [1] => make your wit bankrupt. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, [1] => and, I think, no other treasure to give your [2] => followers, for it appears by their bare liveries, [3] => that they live by your bare words. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset. [1] => Sir Valentine, your father's in good health: [2] => What say you to a letter from your friends [3] => Of much good news? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I will be thankful. [1] => To any happy messenger from thence. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman [1] => To be of worth and worthy estimation [2] => And not without desert so well reputed. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Hath he not a son? ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my good lord; a son that well deserves [1] => The honour and regard of such a father. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => You know him well? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know him as myself; for from our infancy [1] => We have conversed and spent our hours together: [2] => And though myself have been an idle truant, [3] => Omitting the sweet benefit of time [4] => To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, [5] => Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name, [6] => Made use and fair advantage of his days; [7] => His years but young, but his experience old; [8] => His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; [9] => And, in a word, for far behind his worth [10] => Comes all the praises that I now bestow, [11] => He is complete in feature and in mind [12] => With all good grace to grace a gentleman. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good, [1] => He is as worthy for an empress' [2] => As meet to be an emperor's counsellor. [3] => Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me, [4] => With commendation from great potentates; [5] => And here he means to spend his time awhile: [6] => I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome him then according to his worth. [1] => Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio; [2] => For Valentine, I need not cite him to it: [3] => I will send him hither to you presently. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the gentleman I told your ladyship [1] => Had come along with me, but that his mistress [2] => Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Belike that now she hath enfranchised them [1] => Upon some other pawn for fealty. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind [1] => How could he see his way to seek out you? ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, lady, hath twenty pair of eyes. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => They say that hath not an eye at all. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To see such rs, Thurio, as yourself: [1] => Upon a homely object can wink. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you, [1] => Confirm his welcome with some special favour. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, [1] => If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him [1] => To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Too low a mistress for so high a servant. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant [1] => To have a look of such a worthy mistress. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Leave off discourse of disability: [1] => Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => My duty will I boast of; nothing else. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And duty never yet did want his meed: [1] => Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I'll die on him that says so but yourself. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => That you are welcome? ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => That you are worthless. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Madam, my lord your father would speak with you. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio, [1] => Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome: [2] => I'll leave you to confer of home affairs; [3] => When you have done, we look to hear from you. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => We'll both attend upon your ladyship. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came? ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Your friends are well and have them much commended. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => And how do yours? ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I left them all in health. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => How does your lady? and how thrives your ? ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My tales of were wont to weary you; [1] => I know you joy not in a discourse. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now: [1] => I have done penance for contemning , [2] => Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me [3] => With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, [4] => With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs; [5] => For in revenge of my contempt of , [6] => hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes [7] => And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. [8] => O gentle Proteus, 's a mighty lord, [9] => And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, [10] => There is no woe to his correction, [11] => Nor to his service no such joy on earth. [12] => Now no discourse, except it be of ; [13] => Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep, [14] => Upon the very naked name of . ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Enough; I read your fortune in your eye. [1] => Was this the idol that you worship so? ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint? ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => No; but she is an earthly paragon. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Call her divine. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I will not flatter her. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => O, flatter me; for delights in praises. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, [1] => And I must minister the like to you. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, [1] => Yet let her be a principality, [2] => Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Except my mistress. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet, except not any; [1] => Except thou wilt except against my . ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Have I not reason to prefer mine own? ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I will help thee to prefer her too: [1] => She shall be dignified with this high honour-- [2] => To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth [3] => Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss [4] => And, of so great a favour growing proud, [5] => Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower [6] => And make rough winter everlastingly. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this? ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing [1] => To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing; [2] => She is alone. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Then let her alone. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own, [1] => And I as rich in having such a jewel [2] => As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, [3] => The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. [4] => Forgive me that I do not dream on thee, [5] => Because thou see'st me dote upon my . [6] => My foolish rival, that her father likes [7] => Only for his possessions are so huge, [8] => Is gone with her along, and I must after, [9] => For , thou know'st, is full of jealousy. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => But she s you? ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our, [1] => marriage-hour, [2] => With all the cunning manner of our flight, [3] => Determined of; how I must climb her window, [4] => The ladder made of cords, and all the means [5] => Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness. [6] => Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber, [7] => In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go on before; I shall inquire you forth: [1] => I must unto the road, to disembark [2] => Some necessaries that I needs must use, [3] => And then I'll presently attend you. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Will you make haste? ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will. [1] => Even as one heat another heat expels, [2] => Or as one nail by strength drives out another, [3] => So the remembrance of my former [4] => Is by a newer object quite forgotten. [5] => Is it mine, or Valentine's praise, [6] => Her true perfection, or my false transgression, [7] => That makes me reasonless to reason thus? [8] => She is fair; and so is Julia that I -- [9] => That I did , for now my is thaw'd; [10] => Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire, [11] => Bears no impression of the thing it was. [12] => Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold, [13] => And that I him not as I was wont. [14] => O, but I his lady too too much, [15] => And that's the reason I him so little. [16] => How shall I dote on her with more advice, [17] => That thus without advice begin to her! [18] => 'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld, [19] => And that hath dazzled my reason's light; [20] => But when I look on her perfections, [21] => There is no reason but I shall be blind. [22] => If I can cheque my erring , I will; [23] => If not, to compass her I'll use my skill. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit VALENTINE ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. The same. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not [1] => welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never [2] => undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a [3] => place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess [4] => say 'Welcome!' ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you [1] => presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou [2] => shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how [3] => did thy master part with Madam Julia? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very [1] => fairly in jest. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => But shall she marry him? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => No. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => How then? shall he marry her? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => No, neither. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => What, are they broken? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => No, they are both as whole as a fish. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, then, how stands the matter with them? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it [1] => stands well with her. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => What an ass art thou! I understand thee not. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My [1] => staff understands me. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => What thou sayest? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean, [1] => and my staff understands me. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => It stands under thee, indeed. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => But tell me true, will't be a match? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no, [1] => it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => The conclusion is then that it will. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest [1] => thou, that my master is become a notable r? ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => I never knew him otherwise. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Than how? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => I tell thee, my master is become a hot r. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself [1] => in . If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse; [2] => if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the [3] => name of a Christian. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to [1] => go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go? ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => At thy service. ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. The same. The DUKE'S palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PROTEUS [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; [1] => To fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn; [2] => To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn; [3] => And even that power which gave me first my oath [4] => Provokes me to this threefold perjury; [5] => bade me swear and bids me forswear. [6] => O sweet-suggesting , if thou hast sinned, [7] => Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it! [8] => At first I did adore a twinkling star, [9] => But now I worship a celestial sun. [10] => Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken, [11] => And he wants wit that wants resolved will [12] => To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better. [13] => Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad, [14] => Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd [15] => With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths. [16] => I cannot leave to , and yet I do; [17] => But there I leave to where I should . [18] => Julia I lose and Valentine I lose: [19] => If I keep them, I needs must lose myself; [20] => If I lose them, thus find I by their loss [21] => For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia. [22] => I to myself am dearer than a friend, [23] => For is still most precious in itself; [24] => And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her fair!-- [25] => Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope. [26] => I will forget that Julia is alive, [27] => Remembering that my to her is dead; [28] => And Valentine I'll hold an enemy, [29] => Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend. [30] => I cannot now prove constant to myself, [31] => Without some treachery used to Valentine. [32] => This night he meaneth with a corded ladder [33] => To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window, [34] => Myself in counsel, his competitor. [35] => Now presently I'll give her father notice [36] => Of their disguising and pretended flight; [37] => Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine; [38] => For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter; [39] => But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross [40] => By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding. [41] => , lend me wings to make my purpose swift, [42] => As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! ) ) ) [6] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VII. Verona. JULIA'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter JULIA and LUCETTA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me; [1] => And even in kind I do conjure thee, [2] => Who art the table wherein all my thoughts [3] => Are visibly character'd and engraved, [4] => To lesson me and tell me some good mean [5] => How, with my honour, I may undertake [6] => A journey to my loving Proteus. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Alas, the way is wearisome and long! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary [1] => To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps; [2] => Much less shall she that hath 's wings to fly, [3] => And when the flight is made to one so dear, [4] => Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Better forbear till Proteus make return. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food? [1] => Pity the dearth that I have pined in, [2] => By longing for that food so long a time. [3] => Didst thou but know the inly touch of , [4] => Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow [5] => As seek to quench the fire of with words. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do not seek to quench your 's hot fire, [1] => But qualify the fire's extreme rage, [2] => Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns. [1] => The current that with gentle murmur glides, [2] => Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; [3] => But when his fair course is not hindered, [4] => He makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones, [5] => Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge [6] => He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, [7] => And so by many winding nooks he strays [8] => With willing sport to the wild ocean. [9] => Then let me go and hinder not my course [10] => I'll be as patient as a gentle stream [11] => And make a pastime of each weary step, [12] => Till the last step have brought me to my ; [13] => And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil [14] => A blessed soul doth in Elysium. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => But in what habit will you go along? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not like a woman; for I would prevent [1] => The loose encounters of lascivious men: [2] => Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds [3] => As may beseem some well-reputed page. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings [1] => With twenty odd-conceited true- knots. [2] => To be fantastic may become a youth [3] => Of greater time than I shall show to be. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => What fashion, madam shall I make your breeches? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That fits as well as 'Tell me, good my lord, [1] => What compass will you wear your farthingale?' [2] => Why even what fashion thou best likest, Lucetta. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Out, out, Lucetta! that would be ill-favour'd. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin, [1] => Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lucetta, as thou st me, let me have [1] => What thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly. [2] => But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me [3] => For undertaking so unstaid a journey? [4] => I fear me, it will make me scandalized. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => If you think so, then stay at home and go not. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Nay, that I will not. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then never dream on infamy, but go. [1] => If Proteus like your journey when you come, [2] => No matter who's displeased when you are gone: [3] => I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear: [1] => A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears [2] => And instances of infinite of [3] => Warrant me welcome to my Proteus. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => All these are servants to deceitful men. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Base men, that use them to so base effect! [1] => But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth [2] => His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, [3] => His sincere, his thoughts immaculate, [4] => His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, [5] => His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCETTA [LINE] => Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him! ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, as thou st me, do him not that wrong [1] => To bear a hard opinion of his truth: [2] => Only deserve my by loving him; [3] => And presently go with me to my chamber, [4] => To take a note of what I stand in need of, [5] => To furnish me upon my longing journey. [6] => All that is mine I leave at thy dispose, [7] => My goods, my lands, my reputation; [8] => Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence. [9] => Come, answer not, but to it presently! [10] => I am impatient of my tarriance. ) ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE, THURIO, and PROTEUS [1] => Exit [2] => Enter VALENTINE [3] => Exit [4] => Enter PROTEUS and LAUNCE [5] => Exeunt VALENTINE and PROTEUS [6] => Enter SPEED [7] => Exit [8] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile; [1] => We have some secrets to confer about. [2] => Now, tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit THURIO ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My gracious lord, that which I would discover [1] => The law of friendship bids me to conceal; [2] => But when I call to mind your gracious favours [3] => Done to me, undeserving as I am, [4] => My duty pricks me on to utter that [5] => Which else no worldly good should draw from me. [6] => Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine, my friend, [7] => This night intends to steal away your daughter: [8] => Myself am one made privy to the plot. [9] => I know you have determined to bestow her [10] => On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates; [11] => And should she thus be stol'n away from you, [12] => It would be much vexation to your age. [13] => Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose [14] => To cross my friend in his intended drift [15] => Than, by concealing it, heap on your head [16] => A pack of sorrows which would press you down, [17] => Being unprevented, to your timeless grave. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care; [1] => Which to requite, command me while I live. [2] => This of theirs myself have often seen, [3] => Haply when they have judged me fast asleep, [4] => And oftentimes have purposed to forbid [5] => Sir Valentine her company and my court: [6] => But fearing lest my jealous aim might err [7] => And so unworthily disgrace the man, [8] => A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd, [9] => I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find [10] => That which thyself hast now disclosed to me. [11] => And, that thou mayst perceive my fear of this, [12] => Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested, [13] => I nightly lodge her in an upper tower, [14] => The key whereof myself have ever kept; [15] => And thence she cannot be convey'd away. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean [1] => How he her chamber-window will ascend [2] => And with a corded ladder fetch her down; [3] => For which the youthful r now is gone [4] => And this way comes he with it presently; [5] => Where, if it please you, you may intercept him. [6] => But, good my Lord, do it so cunningly [7] => That my discovery be not aimed at; [8] => For of you, not hate unto my friend, [9] => Hath made me publisher of this pretence. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Upon mine honour, he shall never know [1] => That I had any light from thee of this. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Adieu, my Lord; Sir Valentine is coming. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Sir Valentine, whither away so fast? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Please it your grace, there is a messenger [1] => That stays to bear my letters to my friends, [2] => And I am going to deliver them. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Be they of much import? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The tenor of them doth but signify [1] => My health and happy being at your court. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile; [1] => I am to break with thee of some affairs [2] => That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret. [3] => 'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought [4] => To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know it well, my Lord; and, sure, the match [1] => Were rich and honourable; besides, the gentleman [2] => Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities [3] => Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter: [4] => Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, trust me; she is peevish, sullen, froward, [1] => Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty, [2] => Neither regarding that she is my child [3] => Nor fearing me as if I were her father; [4] => And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, [5] => Upon advice, hath drawn my from her; [6] => And, where I thought the remnant of mine age [7] => Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty, [8] => I now am full resolved to take a wife [9] => And turn her out to who will take her in: [10] => Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower; [11] => For me and my possessions she esteems not. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What would your Grace have me to do in this? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is a lady in Verona here [1] => Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy [2] => And nought esteems my aged eloquence: [3] => Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor-- [4] => For long agone I have forgot to court; [5] => Besides, the fashion of the time is changed-- [6] => How and which way I may bestow myself [7] => To be regarded in her sun-bright eye. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Win her with gifts, if she respect not words: [1] => Dumb jewels often in their silent kind [2] => More than quick words do move a woman's mind. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => But she did scorn a present that I sent her. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her. [1] => Send her another; never give her o'er; [2] => For scorn at first makes after- the more. [3] => If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you, [4] => But rather to beget more in you: [5] => If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone; [6] => For why, the fools are mad, if left alone. [7] => Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; [8] => For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!' [9] => Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; [10] => Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. [11] => That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, [12] => If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But she I mean is promised by her friends [1] => Unto a youthful gentleman of worth, [2] => And kept severely from resort of men, [3] => That no man hath access by day to her. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, then, I would resort to her by night. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe, [1] => That no man hath recourse to her by night. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => What lets but one may enter at her window? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, [1] => And built so shelving that one cannot climb it [2] => Without apparent hazard of his life. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords, [1] => To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks, [2] => Would serve to scale another Hero's tower, [3] => So bold Leander would adventure it. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood, [1] => Advise me where I may have such a ladder. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This very night; for is like a child, [1] => That longs for every thing that he can come by. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But, hark thee; I will go to her alone: [1] => How shall I best convey the ladder thither? ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it [1] => Under a cloak that is of any length. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Ay, my good lord. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then let me see thy cloak: [1] => I'll get me one of such another length. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak? [1] => I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me. [2] => What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'! [3] => And here an engine fit for my proceeding. [4] => I'll be so bold to break the seal for once. [5] => 'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly, [6] => And slaves they are to me that send them flying: [7] => O, could their master come and go as lightly, [8] => Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying! [9] => My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them: [10] => While I, their king, that hither them importune, [11] => Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them, [12] => Because myself do want my servants' fortune: [13] => I curse myself, for they are sent by me, [14] => That they should harbour where their lord would be.' [15] => What's here? [16] => 'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.' [17] => 'Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose. [18] => Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,-- [19] => Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car [20] => And with thy daring folly burn the world? [21] => Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee? [22] => Go, base intruder! overweening slave! [23] => Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates, [24] => And think my patience, more than thy desert, [25] => Is privilege for thy departure hence: [26] => Thank me for this more than for all the favours [27] => Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee. [28] => But if thou linger in my territories [29] => Longer than swiftest expedition [30] => Will give thee time to leave our royal court, [31] => By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the [32] => I ever bore my daughter or thyself. [33] => Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse; [34] => But, as thou st thy life, make speed from hence. ) [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And why not death rather than living torment? [1] => To die is to be banish'd from myself; [2] => And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her [3] => Is self from self: a deadly banishment! [4] => What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? [5] => What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? [6] => Unless it be to think that she is by [7] => And feed upon the shadow of perfection [8] => Except I be by Silvia in the night, [9] => There is no music in the nightingale; [10] => Unless I look on Silvia in the day, [11] => There is no day for me to look upon; [12] => She is my essence, and I leave to be, [13] => If I be not by her fair influence [14] => Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive. [15] => I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom: [16] => Tarry I here, I but attend on death: [17] => But, fly I hence, I fly away from life. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Soho, soho! ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => What seest thou? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head [1] => but 'tis a Valentine. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Valentine? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => No. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Who then? his spirit? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Neither. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => What then? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Nothing. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Who wouldst thou strike? ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Nothing. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Villain, forbear. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Why, sir, I'll strike nothing: I pray you,-- ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My ears are stopt and cannot hear good news, [1] => So much of bad already hath possess'd them. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then in dumb silence will I bury mine, [1] => For they are harsh, untuneable and bad. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Is Silvia dead? ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => No, Valentine. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia. [1] => Hath she forsworn me? ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => No, Valentine. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me. [1] => What is your news? ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That thou art banished--O, that's the news!-- [1] => From hence, from Silvia and from me thy friend. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I have fed upon this woe already, [1] => And now excess of it will make me surfeit. [2] => Doth Silvia know that I am banished? ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom-- [1] => Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force-- [2] => A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears: [3] => Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd; [4] => With them, upon her knees, her humble self; [5] => Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them [6] => As if but now they waxed pale for woe: [7] => But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, [8] => Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, [9] => Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire; [10] => But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die. [11] => Besides, her intercession chafed him so, [12] => When she for thy repeal was suppliant, [13] => That to close prison he commanded her, [14] => With many bitter threats of biding there. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st [1] => Have some malignant power upon my life: [2] => If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear, [3] => As ending anthem of my endless dolour. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, [1] => And study help for that which thou lament'st. [2] => Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. [3] => Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy ; [4] => Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life. [5] => Hope is a r's staff; walk hence with that [6] => And manage it against despairing thoughts. [7] => Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence; [8] => Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd [9] => Even in the milk-white bosom of thy . [10] => The time now serves not to expostulate: [11] => Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate; [12] => And, ere I part with thee, confer at large [13] => Of all that may concern thy -affairs. [14] => As thou st Silvia, though not for thyself, [15] => Regard thy danger, and along with me! ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy, [1] => Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine! ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to [1] => think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's [2] => all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now [3] => that knows me to be in ; yet I am in ; but a [4] => team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who [5] => 'tis I ; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I [6] => will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet [7] => 'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis [8] => a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for [9] => wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel; [10] => which is much in a bare Christian. [11] => Here is the cate-log of her condition. [12] => 'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse [13] => can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only [14] => carry; therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item: [15] => She can milk;' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid [16] => with clean hands. ) [STAGEDIR] => Pulling out a paper ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, Signior Launce! what news with your [1] => mastership? ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => With my master's ship? why, it is at sea. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, your old vice still; mistake the word. What [1] => news, then, in your paper? ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => The blackest news that ever thou heardest. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why, man, how black? ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Why, as black as ink. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Let me read them. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Thou liest; I can. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Marry, the son of my grandfather. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O illiterate loiterer! it was the son of thy [1] => grandmother: this proves that thou canst not read. ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Come, fool, come; try me in thy paper. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => There; and St. Nicholas be thy speed! ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Ay, that she can. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She brews good ale.' ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your [1] => heart, you brew good ale.' ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She can sew.' ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => That's as much as to say, Can she so? ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She can knit.' ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when [1] => she can knit him a stock? ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She can wash and scour.' ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A special virtue: for then she need not be washed [1] => and scoured. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She can spin.' ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can [1] => spin for her living. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She hath many nameless virtues.' ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that, [1] => indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Here follow her vices.' ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Close at the heels of her virtues. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect [1] => of her breath.' ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on. ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She hath a sweet mouth.' ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => That makes amends for her sour breath. ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She doth talk in her sleep.' ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk. ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She is slow in words.' ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O villain, that set this down among her vices! To [1] => be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray [2] => thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue. ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She is proud.' ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out with that too; it was Eve's legacy, and cannot [1] => be ta'en from her. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She hath no teeth.' ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => I care not for that neither, because I crusts. ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She is curst.' ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite. ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She will often praise her liquor.' ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If her liquor be good, she shall: if she will not, I [1] => will; for good things should be praised. ) ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She is too liberal.' ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she [1] => is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that [2] => I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and [3] => that cannot I help. Well, proceed. ) ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults [1] => than hairs, and more wealth than faults.' ) ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not [1] => mine, twice or thrice in that last article. [2] => Rehearse that once more. ) ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'-- ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. The [1] => cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it [2] => is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit [3] => is more than the wit, for the greater hides the [4] => less. What's next? ) ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'And more faults than hairs,'-- ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => That's monstrous: O, that that were out! ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => 'And more wealth than faults.' ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well, [1] => I'll have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is [2] => impossible,-- ) ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => What then? ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays [1] => for thee at the North-gate. ) ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => For me? ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a [1] => better man than thee. ) ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => And must I go to him? ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long [1] => that going will scarce serve the turn. ) ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your letters! ) [132] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an [1] => unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into [2] => secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE and THURIO [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will you, [1] => Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Since his exile she hath despised me most, [1] => Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, [2] => That I am desperate of obtaining her. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This weak impress of is as a figure [1] => Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat [2] => Dissolves to water and doth lose his form. [3] => A little time will melt her frozen thoughts [4] => And worthless Valentine shall be forgot. [5] => How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman [6] => According to our proclamation gone? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter PROTEUS ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Gone, my good lord. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => My daughter takes his going grievously. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => A little time, my lord, will kill that grief. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So I believe; but Thurio thinks not so. [1] => Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee-- [2] => For thou hast shown some sign of good desert-- [3] => Makes me the better to confer with thee. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Longer than I prove loyal to your grace [1] => Let me not live to look upon your grace. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou know'st how willingly I would effect [1] => The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I do, my lord. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And also, I think, thou art not ignorant [1] => How she opposes her against my will ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => She did, my lord, when Valentine was here. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and perversely she persevers so. [1] => What might we do to make the girl forget [2] => The of Valentine and Sir Thurio? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The best way is to slander Valentine [1] => With falsehood, cowardice and poor descent, [2] => Three things that women highly hold in hate. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, if his enemy deliver it: [1] => Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken [2] => By one whom she esteemeth as his friend. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Then you must undertake to slander him. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do: [1] => 'Tis an ill office for a gentleman, [2] => Especially against his very friend. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where your good word cannot advantage him, [1] => Your slander never can endamage him; [2] => Therefore the office is indifferent, [3] => Being entreated to it by your friend. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have prevail'd, my lord; if I can do it [1] => By ought that I can speak in his dispraise, [2] => She shall not long continue to him. [3] => But say this weed her from Valentine, [4] => It follows not that she will Sir Thurio. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Therefore, as you unwind her from him, [1] => Lest it should ravel and be good to none, [2] => You must provide to bottom it on me; [3] => Which must be done by praising me as much [4] => As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind, [1] => Because we know, on Valentine's report, [2] => You are already 's firm votary [3] => And cannot soon revolt and change your mind. [4] => Upon this warrant shall you have access [5] => Where you with Silvia may confer at large; [6] => For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy, [7] => And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you; [8] => Where you may temper her by your persuasion [9] => To hate young Valentine and my friend. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As much as I can do, I will effect: [1] => But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; [2] => You must lay lime to tangle her desires [3] => By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes [4] => Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, [1] => Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say that upon the altar of her beauty [1] => You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: [2] => Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears [3] => Moist it again, and frame some feeling line [4] => That may discover such integrity: [5] => For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, [6] => Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, [7] => Make tigers tame and huge leviathans [8] => Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. [9] => After your dire-lamenting elegies, [10] => Visit by night your lady's chamber-window [11] => With some sweet concert; to their instruments [12] => Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence [13] => Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance. [14] => This, or else nothing, will inherit her. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => This discipline shows thou hast been in . ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thy advice this night I'll put in practise. [1] => Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver, [2] => Let us into the city presently [3] => To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music. [4] => I have a sonnet that will serve the turn [5] => To give the onset to thy good advice. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => About it, gentlemen! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll wait upon your grace till after supper, [1] => And afterward determine our proceedings. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Even now about it! I will pardon you. ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. The frontiers of Mantua. A forest. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter certain Outlaws [1] => Enter VALENTINE and SPEED [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: [1] => If not: we'll make you sit and rifle you. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, we are undone; these are the villains [1] => That all the travellers do fear so much. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => My friends,-- ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => That's not so, sir: we are your enemies. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Peace! we'll hear him. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Ay, by my beard, will we, for he's a proper man. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then know that I have little wealth to lose: [1] => A man I am cross'd with adversity; [2] => My riches are these poor habiliments, [3] => Of which if you should here disfurnish me, [4] => You take the sum and substance that I have. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Whither travel you? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => To Verona. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Whence came you? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => From Milan. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Have you long sojourned there? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some sixteen months, and longer might have stay'd, [1] => If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => What, were you banish'd thence? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I was. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => For what offence? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For that which now torments me to rehearse: [1] => I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent; [2] => But yet I slew him manfully in fight, [3] => Without false vantage or base treachery. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so. [1] => But were you banish'd for so small a fault? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I was, and held me glad of such a doom. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Have you the tongues? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My youthful travel therein made me happy, [1] => Or else I often had been miserable. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, [1] => This fellow were a king for our wild faction! ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => We'll have him. Sirs, a word. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SPEED [LINE] => Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Peace, villain! ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Tell us this: have you any thing to take to? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Nothing but my fortune. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen, [1] => Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth [2] => Thrust from the company of awful men: [3] => Myself was from Verona banished [4] => For practising to steal away a lady, [5] => An heir, and near allied unto the duke. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I from Mantua, for a gentleman, [1] => Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I for such like petty crimes as these, [1] => But to the purpose--for we cite our faults, [2] => That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives; [3] => And partly, seeing you are beautified [4] => With goodly shape and by your own report [5] => A linguist and a man of such perfection [6] => As we do in our quality much want-- ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, [1] => Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you: [2] => Are you content to be our general? [3] => To make a virtue of necessity [4] => And live, as we do, in this wilderness? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consort? [1] => Say ay, and be the captain of us all: [2] => We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee, [3] => thee as our commander and our king. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I take your offer and will live with you, [1] => Provided that you do no outrages [2] => On silly women or poor passengers. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, we detest such vile base practises. [1] => Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews, [2] => And show thee all the treasure we have got, [3] => Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Milan. Outside the DUKE's palace, under SILVIA's chamber. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PROTEUS [1] => Enter THURIO and Musicians [2] => Enter, at a distance, Host, and JULIA in boy's clothes [3] => Music plays [4] => Exeunt THURIO and Musicians [5] => Enter SILVIA above [6] => Exeunt PROTEUS and SILVIA severally [7] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Already have I been false to Valentine [1] => And now I must be as unjust to Thurio. [2] => Under the colour of commending him, [3] => I have access my own to prefer: [4] => But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, [5] => To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. [6] => When I protest true loyalty to her, [7] => She twits me with my falsehood to my friend; [8] => When to her beauty I commend my vows, [9] => She bids me think how I have been forsworn [10] => In breaking faith with Julia whom I d: [11] => And notwithstanding all her sudden quips, [12] => The least whereof would quell a r's hope, [13] => Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my , [14] => The more it grows and fawneth on her still. [15] => But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window, [16] => And give some evening music to her ear. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, gentle Thurio: for you know that [1] => Will creep in service where it cannot go. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Ay, but I hope, sir, that you not here. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Sir, but I do; or else I would be hence. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Who? Silvia? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Ay, Silvia; for your sake. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen, [1] => Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly: I [1] => pray you, why is it? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where [1] => you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => But shall I hear him speak? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Ay, that you shall. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => That will be music. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Hark, hark! ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Is he among these? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em. [1] => Who is Silvia? what is she, [2] => That all our swains commend her? [3] => Holy, fair and wise is she; [4] => The heaven such grace did lend her, [5] => That she might admired be. [6] => Is she kind as she is fair? [7] => For beauty lives with kindness. [8] => doth to her eyes repair, [9] => To help him of his blindness, [10] => And, being help'd, inhabits there. [11] => Then to Silvia let us sing, [12] => That Silvia is excelling; [13] => She excels each mortal thing [14] => Upon the dull earth dwelling: [15] => To her let us garlands bring. ) [SUBHEAD] => SONG. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now! are you sadder than you were before? How [1] => do you, man? the music likes you not. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => You mistake; the musician likes me not. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Why, my pretty youth? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => He plays false, father. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => How? out of tune on the strings? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very [1] => heart-strings. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => You have a quick ear. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => I perceive you delight not in music. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Not a whit, when it jars so. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Hark, what fine change is in the music! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Ay, that change is the spite. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => You would have them always play but one thing? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would always have one play but one thing. [1] => But, host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on [2] => Often resort unto this gentlewoman? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he d [1] => her out of all nick. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Where is Launce? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gone to seek his dog; which tomorrow, by his [1] => master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Peace! stand aside: the company parts. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir Thurio, fear not you: I will so plead [1] => That you shall say my cunning drift excels. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Where meet we? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => At Saint Gregory's well. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Farewell. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Madam, good even to your ladyship. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank you for your music, gentlemen. [1] => Who is that that spake? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth, [1] => You would quickly learn to know him by his voice. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Sir Proteus, as I take it. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => What's your will? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => That I may compass yours. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have your wish; my will is even this: [1] => That presently you hie you home to bed. [2] => Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man! [3] => Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless, [4] => To be seduced by thy flattery, [5] => That hast deceived so many with thy vows? [6] => Return, return, and make thy amends. [7] => For me, by this pale queen of night I swear, [8] => I am so far from granting thy request [9] => That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit, [10] => And by and by intend to chide myself [11] => Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I grant, sweet , that I did a lady; [1] => But she is dead. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => For I am sure she is not buried. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend [1] => Survives; to whom, thyself art witness, [2] => I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed [3] => To wrong him with thy importunacy? ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I likewise hear that Valentine is dead. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And so suppose am I; for in his grave [1] => Assure thyself my is buried. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence, [1] => Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, if your heart be so obdurate, [1] => Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my , [2] => The picture that is hanging in your chamber; [3] => To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep: [4] => For since the substance of your perfect self [5] => Is else devoted, I am but a shadow; [6] => And to your shadow will I make true . ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => deceive it, [2] => And make it but a shadow, as I am. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am very loath to be your idol, sir; [1] => But since your falsehood shall become you well [2] => To worship shadows and adore false shapes, [3] => Send to me in the morning and I'll send it: [4] => And so, good rest. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As wretches have o'ernight [1] => That wait for execution in the morn. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Host, will you go? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => By my halidom, I was fast asleep. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Host [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost [1] => day. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so; but it hath been the longest night [1] => That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter EGLAMOUR [1] => Enter SILVIA above [2] => Exeunt severally ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the hour that Madam Silvia [1] => Entreated me to call and know her mind: [2] => There's some great matter she'ld employ me in. [3] => Madam, madam! ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Who calls? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your servant and your friend; [1] => One that attends your ladyship's command. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As many, worthy lady, to yourself: [1] => According to your ladyship's impose, [2] => I am thus early come to know what service [3] => It is your pleasure to command me in. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman-- [1] => Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not-- [2] => Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd: [3] => Thou art not ignorant what dear good will [4] => I bear unto the banish'd Valentine, [5] => Nor how my father would enforce me marry [6] => Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors. [7] => Thyself hast d; and I have heard thee say [8] => No grief did ever come so near thy heart [9] => As when thy lady and thy true died, [10] => Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity. [11] => Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine, [12] => To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode; [13] => And, for the ways are dangerous to pass, [14] => I do desire thy worthy company, [15] => Upon whose faith and honour I repose. [16] => Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour, [17] => But think upon my grief, a lady's grief, [18] => And on the justice of my flying hence, [19] => To keep me from a most unholy match, [20] => Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues. [21] => I do desire thee, even from a heart [22] => As full of sorrows as the sea of sands, [23] => To bear me company and go with me: [24] => If not, to hide what I have said to thee, [25] => That I may venture to depart alone. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, I pity much your grievances; [1] => Which since I know they virtuously are placed, [2] => I give consent to go along with you, [3] => Recking as little what betideth me [4] => As much I wish all good befortune you. [5] => When will you go? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => This evening coming. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Where shall I meet you? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => At Friar Patrick's cell, [1] => Where I intend holy confession. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. The same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog [1] => Enter PROTEUS and JULIA [2] => Exit [3] => Exit SILVIA, with attendants [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, [1] => look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a [2] => puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or [3] => four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. [4] => I have taught him, even as one would say precisely, [5] => 'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver [6] => him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master; [7] => and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he [8] => steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg: [9] => O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself [10] => in all companies! I would have, as one should say, [11] => one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, [12] => as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had [13] => more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, [14] => I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I [15] => live, he had suffered for't; you shall judge. He [16] => thrusts me himself into the company of three or four [17] => gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had [18] => not been there--bless the mark!--a pissing while, but [19] => all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says [20] => one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him [21] => out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke. [22] => I, having been acquainted with the smell before, [23] => knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that [24] => whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip [25] => the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him [26] => the more wrong,' quoth I; ''twas I did the thing you [27] => wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out [28] => of the chamber. How many masters would do this for [29] => his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the [30] => stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had [31] => been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese [32] => he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't. [33] => Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the [34] => trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam [35] => Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I [36] => do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make [37] => water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst [38] => thou ever see me do such a trick? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well [1] => And will employ thee in some service presently. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => In what you please: I'll do what I can. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hope thou wilt. [1] => How now, you whoreson peasant! [2] => Where have you been these two days loitering? ) [STAGEDIR] => To LAUNCE ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => And what says she to my little jewel? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you [1] => currish thanks is good enough for such a present. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => But she received my dog? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him [1] => back again. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => What, didst thou offer her this from me? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAUNCE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir: the other squirrel was stolen from me by [1] => the hangman boys in the market-place: and then I [2] => offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of [3] => yours, and therefore the gift the greater. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go get thee hence, and find my dog again, [1] => Or ne'er return again into my sight. [2] => Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here? [3] => A slave, that still an end turns me to shame! [4] => Sebastian, I have entertained thee, [5] => Partly that I have need of such a youth [6] => That can with some discretion do my business, [7] => For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout, [8] => But chiefly for thy face and thy behavior, [9] => Which, if my augury deceive me not, [10] => Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth: [11] => Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee. [12] => Go presently and take this ring with thee, [13] => Deliver it to Madam Silvia: [14] => She d me well deliver'd it to me. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit LAUNCE ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It seems you d not her, to leave her token. [1] => She is dead, belike? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Not so; I think she lives. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Alas! ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Why dost thou cry 'alas'? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot choose [1] => But pity her. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Wherefore shouldst thou pity her? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because methinks that she d you as well [1] => As you do your lady Silvia: [2] => She dreams of him that has forgot her ; [3] => You dote on her that cares not for your . [4] => 'Tis pity should be so contrary; [5] => And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!' ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, give her that ring and therewithal [1] => This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady [2] => I claim the promise for her heavenly picture. [3] => Your message done, hie home unto my chamber, [4] => Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How many women would do such a message? [1] => Alas, poor Proteus! thou hast entertain'd [2] => A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs. [3] => Alas, poor fool! why do I pity him [4] => That with his very heart despiseth me? [5] => Because he s her, he despiseth me; [6] => Because I him I must pity him. [7] => This ring I gave him when he parted from me, [8] => To bind him to remember my good will; [9] => And now am I, unhappy messenger, [10] => To plead for that which I would not obtain, [11] => To carry that which I would have refused, [12] => To praise his faith which I would have dispraised. [13] => I am my master's true-confirmed ; [14] => But cannot be true servant to my master, [15] => Unless I prove false traitor to myself. [16] => Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly [17] => As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed. [18] => Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean [19] => To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter SILVIA, attended ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => What would you with her, if that I be she? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you be she, I do entreat your patience [1] => To hear me speak the message I am sent on. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => From whom? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => From my master, Sir Proteus, madam. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => O, he sends you for a picture. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Ay, madam. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ursula, bring my picture here. [1] => Go give your master this: tell him from me, [2] => One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget, [3] => Would better fit his chamber than this shadow. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, please you peruse this letter.-- [1] => Pardon me, madam; I have unadvised [2] => Deliver'd you a paper that I should not: [3] => This is the letter to your ladyship. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => I pray thee, let me look on that again. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => It may not be; good madam, pardon me. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There, hold! [1] => I will not look upon your master's lines: [2] => I know they are stuff'd with protestations [3] => And full of new-found oaths; which he will break [4] => As easily as I do tear his paper. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The more shame for him that he sends it me; [1] => For I have heard him say a thousand times [2] => His Julia gave it him at his departure. [3] => Though his false finger have profaned the ring, [4] => Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => She thanks you. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => What say'st thou? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank you, madam, that you tender her. [1] => Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Dost thou know her? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Almost as well as I do know myself: [1] => To think upon her woes I do protest [2] => That I have wept a hundred several times. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => I think she doth; and that's her cause of sorrow. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Is she not passing fair? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She hath been fairer, madam, than she is: [1] => When she did think my master d her well, [2] => She, in my judgment, was as fair as you: [3] => But since she did neglect her looking-glass [4] => And threw her sun-expelling mask away, [5] => The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks [6] => And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face, [7] => That now she is become as black as I. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => How tall was she? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => About my stature; for at Pentecost, [1] => When all our pageants of delight were play'd, [2] => Our youth got me to play the woman's part, [3] => And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown, [4] => Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments, [5] => As if the garment had been made for me: [6] => Therefore I know she is about my height. [7] => And at that time I made her weep agood, [8] => For I did play a lamentable part: [9] => Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning [10] => For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight; [11] => Which I so lively acted with my tears [12] => That my poor mistress, moved therewithal, [13] => Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead [14] => If I in thought felt not her very sorrow! ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is beholding to thee, gentle youth. [1] => Alas, poor lady, desolate and left! [2] => I weep myself to think upon thy words. [3] => Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this [4] => For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou st her. [5] => Farewell. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her. [1] => A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful [2] => I hope my master's suit will be but cold, [3] => Since she respects my mistress' so much. [4] => Alas, how can trifle with itself! [5] => Here is her picture: let me see; I think, [6] => If I had such a tire, this face of mine [7] => Were full as ly as is this of hers: [8] => And yet the painter flatter'd her a little, [9] => Unless I flatter with myself too much. [10] => Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow: [11] => If that be all the difference in his , [12] => I'll get me such a colour'd periwig. [13] => Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine: [14] => Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high. [15] => What should it be that he respects in her [16] => But I can make respective in myself, [17] => If this fond were not a blinded god? [18] => Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up, [19] => For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form, [20] => Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, d and adored! [21] => And, were there sense in his idolatry, [22] => My substance should be statue in thy stead. [23] => I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake, [24] => That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow, [25] => I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes [26] => To make my master out of with thee! ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Milan. An abbey. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter EGLAMOUR [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The sun begins to gild the western sky; [1] => And now it is about the very hour [2] => That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me. [3] => She will not fail, for rs break not hours, [4] => Unless it be to come before their time; [5] => So much they spur their expedition. [6] => See where she comes. [7] => Lady, a happy evening! ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter SILVIA ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Amen, amen! Go on, good Eglamour, [1] => Out at the postern by the abbey-wall: [2] => I fear I am attended by some spies. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EGLAMOUR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off; [1] => If we recover that, we are sure enough. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA [1] => Enter DUKE [2] => Exit [3] => Exit [4] => Exit [5] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, sir, I find her milder than she was; [1] => And yet she takes exceptions at your person. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What, that my leg is too long? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => No; that it is too little. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => it loathes. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What says she to my face? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => She says it is a fair one. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But pearls are fair; and the old saying is, [1] => Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => ladies' eyes; [2] => For I had rather wink than look on them. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => How likes she my discourse? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Ill, when you talk of war. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => But well, when I discourse of and peace? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What says she to my valour? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => O, sir, she makes no doubt of that. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => What says she to my birth? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => That you are well derived. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Considers she my possessions? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => O, ay; and pities them. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Wherefore? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => That they are out by lease. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Here comes the duke. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, Sir Proteus! how now, Thurio! [1] => Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late? ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Not I. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Nor I. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Saw you my daughter? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Neither. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why then, [1] => She's fled unto that peasant Valentine; [2] => And Eglamour is in her company. [3] => 'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both, [4] => As he in penance wander'd through the forest; [5] => Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she, [6] => But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it; [7] => Besides, she did intend confession [8] => At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not; [9] => These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence. [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 towards Mantua, whither they are fled: [14] => Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, this it is to be a peevish girl, [1] => That flies her fortune when it follows her. [2] => I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour [3] => Than for the of reckless Silvia. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I will follow, more for Silvia's [1] => Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I will follow, more to cross that [1] => Than hate for Silvia that is gone for . ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The frontiers of Mantua. The forest. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Outlaws with SILVIA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, [1] => Be patient; we must bring you to our captain. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A thousand more mischances than this one [1] => Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Outlaw [LINE] => Come, bring her away. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Where is the gentleman that was with her? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us, [1] => But Moyses and Valerius follow him. [2] => Go thou with her to the west end of the wood; [3] => There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled; [4] => The thicket is beset; he cannot 'scape. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Outlaw [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave: [1] => Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, [2] => And will not use a woman lawlessly. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => O Valentine, this I endure for thee! ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Another part of the forest. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter VALENTINE [1] => Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA [2] => Swoons [3] => Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How use doth breed a habit in a man! [1] => This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, [2] => I better brook than flourishing peopled towns: [3] => Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, [4] => And to the nightingale's complaining notes [5] => Tune my distresses and record my woes. [6] => O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, [7] => Leave not the mansion so long tenantless, [8] => Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall [9] => And leave no memory of what it was! [10] => Repair me with thy presence, Silvia; [11] => Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain! [12] => What halloing and what stir is this to-day? [13] => These are my mates, that make their wills their law, [14] => Have some unhappy passenger in chase. [15] => They me well; yet I have much to do [16] => To keep them from uncivil outrages. [17] => Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, this service I have done for you, [1] => Though you respect not aught your servant doth, [2] => To hazard life and rescue you from him [3] => That would have forced your honour and your ; [4] => Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look; [5] => A smaller boon than this I cannot beg [6] => And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => , lend me patience to forbear awhile. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => O miserable, unhappy that I am! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came; [1] => But by my coming I have made you happy. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => By thy approach thou makest me most unhappy. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Had I been seized by a hungry lion, [1] => I would have been a breakfast to the beast, [2] => Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. [3] => O, Heaven be judge how I Valentine, [4] => Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! [5] => And full as much, for more there cannot be, [6] => I do detest false perjured Proteus. [7] => Therefore be gone; solicit me no more. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What dangerous action, stood it next to death, [1] => Would I not undergo for one calm look! [2] => O, 'tis the curse in , and still approved, [3] => When women cannot where they're bed! ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When Proteus cannot where he's bed. [1] => Read over Julia's heart, thy first best , [2] => For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith [3] => Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths [4] => Descended into perjury, to me. [5] => Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two; [6] => And that's far worse than none; better have none [7] => Than plural faith which is too much by one: [8] => Thou counterfeit to thy true friend! ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In [1] => Who respects friend? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => All men but Proteus. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words [1] => Can no way change you to a milder form, [2] => I'll woo you like a soldier, at arms' end, [3] => And you 'gainst the nature of ,--force ye. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILVIA [LINE] => O heaven! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => I'll force thee yield to my desire. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch, [1] => Thou friend of an ill fashion! ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Valentine! ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou common friend, that's without faith or , [1] => For such is a friend now; treacherous man! [2] => Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye [3] => Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say [4] => I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me. [5] => Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand [6] => Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus, [7] => I am sorry I must never trust thee more, [8] => But count the world a stranger for thy sake. [9] => The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst, [10] => 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My shame and guilt confounds me. [1] => Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow [2] => Be a sufficient ransom for offence, [3] => I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer [4] => As e'er I did commit. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then I am paid; [1] => And once again I do receive thee honest. [2] => Who by repentance is not satisfied [3] => Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased. [4] => By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased: [5] => And, that my may appear plain and free, [6] => All that was mine in Silvia I give thee. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => O me unhappy! ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Look to the boy. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, boy! why, wag! how now! what's the matter? [1] => Look up; speak. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring [1] => to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Where is that ring, boy? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Here 'tis; this is it. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! let me see: [1] => Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook: [1] => This is the ring you sent to Silvia. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart [1] => I gave this unto Julia. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And Julia herself did give it me; [1] => And Julia herself hath brought it hither. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => How! Julia! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths, [1] => And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart. [2] => How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root! [3] => O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush! [4] => Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me [5] => Such an immodest raiment, if shame live [6] => In a disguise of : [7] => It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, [8] => Women to change their shapes than men their minds. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Than men their minds! 'tis true. [1] => O heaven! were man [2] => But constant, he were perfect. That one error [3] => Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins: [4] => Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. [5] => What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy [6] => More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, a hand from either: [1] => Let me be blest to make this happy close; [2] => 'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROTEUS [LINE] => Bear witness, Heaven, I have my wish for ever. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIA [LINE] => And I mine. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Outlaws [LINE] => A prize, a prize, a prize! ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Forbear, forbear, I say! it is my lord the duke. [1] => Your grace is welcome to a man disgraced, [2] => Banished Valentine. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Sir Valentine! ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Yonder is Silvia; and Silvia's mine. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death; [1] => Come not within the measure of my wrath; [2] => Do not name Silvia thine; if once again, [3] => Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands; [4] => Take but possession of her with a touch: [5] => I dare thee but to breathe upon my . ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THURIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I; [1] => I hold him but a fool that will endanger [2] => His body for a girl that s him not: [3] => I claim her not, and therefore she is thine. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The more degenerate and base art thou, [1] => To make such means for her as thou hast done [2] => And leave her on such slight conditions. [3] => Now, by the honour of my ancestry, [4] => I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine, [5] => And think thee worthy of an empress' : [6] => Know then, I here forget all former griefs, [7] => Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again, [8] => Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit, [9] => To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine, [10] => Thou art a gentleman and well derived; [11] => Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank your grace; the gift hath made me happy. [1] => I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake, [2] => To grant one boom that I shall ask of you. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These banish'd men that I have kept withal [1] => Are men endued with worthy qualities: [2] => Forgive them what they have committed here [3] => And let them be recall'd from their exile: [4] => They are reformed, civil, full of good [5] => And fit for great employment, worthy lord. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast prevail'd; I pardon them and thee: [1] => Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts. [2] => Come, let us go: we will include all jars [3] => With triumphs, mirth and rare solemnity. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And, as we walk along, I dare be bold [1] => With our discourse to make your grace to smile. [2] => What think you of this page, my lord? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => What mean you by that saying? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VALENTINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along, [1] => That you will wonder what hath fortuned. [2] => Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear [3] => The story of your s discovered: [4] => That done, our day of marriage shall be yours; [5] => One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )