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<TITLE>The Two Gentlemen of Verona</TITLE>

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<P>Text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</P>
<P>SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</P>
<P>XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1998.</P>
<P>This work may be freely copied and distributed worldwide.</P>
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<PERSONAE>
<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE>

<PERSONA>DUKE OF MILAN, Father to Silvia. </PERSONA>

<PGROUP>
<PERSONA>VALENTINE</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>PROTEUS</PERSONA>
<GRPDESCR>the two Gentlemen.</GRPDESCR>
</PGROUP>

<PERSONA>ANTONIO, Father to Proteus.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>EGLAMOUR, Agent for Silvia in her escape.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>HOST, where Julia lodges. </PERSONA>
<PERSONA>OUTLAWS, with Valentine.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>SPEED, a clownish servant to Valentine.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>LAUNCE, the like to Proteus.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>PANTHINO, Servant to Antonio.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>JULIA, beloved of Proteus.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>SILVIA, beloved of Valentine.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>LUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia.</PERSONA>
<PERSONA>Servants, Musicians.</PERSONA>
</PERSONAE>

<SCNDESCR>SCENE  Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua.</SCNDESCR>

<PLAYSUBT>THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA</PLAYSUBT>

<ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE>

<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I.  Verona. An open place.</TITLE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:</LINE>
<LINE>Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.</LINE>
<LINE>Were't not affection chains thy tender days</LINE>
<LINE>To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,</LINE>
<LINE>I rather would entreat thy company</LINE>
<LINE>To see the wonders of the world abroad,</LINE>
<LINE>Than, living dully sluggardized at home,</LINE>
<LINE>Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.</LINE>
<LINE>But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,</LINE>
<LINE>Even as I would when I to love begin.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!</LINE>
<LINE>Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest</LINE>
<LINE>Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:</LINE>
<LINE>Wish me partaker in thy happiness</LINE>
<LINE>When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,</LINE>
<LINE>If ever danger do environ thee,</LINE>
<LINE>Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,</LINE>
<LINE>For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And on a love-book pray for my success?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>That's on some shallow story of deep love:</LINE>
<LINE>How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>That's a deep story of a deeper love:</LINE>
<LINE>For he was more than over shoes in love.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>'Tis true; for you are over boots in love,</LINE>
<LINE>And yet you never swum the Hellespont.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>No, I will not, for it boots thee not.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;</LINE>
<LINE>Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth</LINE>
<LINE>With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:</LINE>
<LINE>If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;</LINE>
<LINE>If lost, why then a grievous labour won;</LINE>
<LINE>However, but a folly bought with wit,</LINE>
<LINE>Or else a wit by folly vanquished.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>'Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Love is your master, for he masters you:</LINE>
<LINE>And he that is so yoked by a fool,</LINE>
<LINE>Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud</LINE>
<LINE>The eating canker dwells, so eating love</LINE>
<LINE>Inhabits in the finest wits of all.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And writers say, as the most forward bud</LINE>
<LINE>Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,</LINE>
<LINE>Even so by love the young and tender wit</LINE>
<LINE>Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,</LINE>
<LINE>Losing his verdure even in the prime</LINE>
<LINE>And all the fair effects of future hopes.</LINE>
<LINE>But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,</LINE>
<LINE>That art a votary to fond desire?</LINE>
<LINE>Once more adieu! my father at the road</LINE>
<LINE>Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.</LINE>
<LINE>To Milan let me hear from thee by letters</LINE>
<LINE>Of thy success in love, and what news else</LINE>
<LINE>Betideth here in absence of thy friend;</LINE>
<LINE>And likewise will visit thee with mine.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>VALENTINE</SPEAKER>
<LINE>As much to you at home! and so, farewell.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>He after honour hunts, I after love:</LINE>
<LINE>He leaves his friends to dignify them more,</LINE>
<LINE>I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.</LINE>
<LINE>Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,</LINE>
<LINE>Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,</LINE>
<LINE>War with good counsel, set the world at nought;</LINE>
<LINE>Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Enter SPEED</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,</LINE>
<LINE>And I have play'd the sheep in losing him.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,</LINE>
<LINE>An if the shepherd be a while away.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then,</LINE>
<LINE>and I a sheep?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>I do.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>A silly answer and fitting well a sheep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>This proves me still a sheep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>True; and thy master a shepherd.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the</LINE>
<LINE>shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks</LINE>
<LINE>not me: therefore I am no sheep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the</LINE>
<LINE>shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for</LINE>
<LINE>wages followest thy master; thy master for wages</LINE>
<LINE>follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.'</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,</LINE>
<LINE>a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a</LINE>
<LINE>lost mutton, nothing for my labour.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for</LINE>
<LINE>carrying your letter.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>You mistake; I mean the pound,--a pinfold.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,</LINE>
<LINE>'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to</LINE>
<LINE>your lover.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But what said she?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE><STAGEDIR>First nodding</STAGEDIR>  Ay.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask</LINE>
<LINE>me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.'</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And that set together is noddy.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Now you have taken the pains to set it together,</LINE>
<LINE>take it for your pains.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Why sir, how do you bear with me?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing</LINE>
<LINE>but the word 'noddy' for my pains.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Open your purse, that the money and the matter may</LINE>
<LINE>be both at once delivered.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no,</LINE>
<LINE>not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:</LINE>
<LINE>and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I</LINE>
<LINE>fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your</LINE>
<LINE>mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as</LINE>
<LINE>hard as steel.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What said she? nothing?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>SPEED</SPEAKER>
<LINE>No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To</LINE>
<LINE>testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned</LINE>
<LINE>me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your</LINE>
<LINE>letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>PROTEUS</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,</LINE>
<LINE>Which cannot perish having thee aboard,</LINE>
<LINE>Being destined to a drier death on shore.</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Exit SPEED</STAGEDIR>
<LINE>I must go send some better messenger:</LINE>
<LINE>I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,</LINE>
<LINE>Receiving them from such a worthless post.</LINE>
</SPEECH>


<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR>
</SCENE>

<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II.  The same. Garden of JULIA's house.</TITLE>
<STAGEDIR>Enter JULlA and LUCETTA</STAGEDIR>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>JULIA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,</LINE>
<LINE>Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>LUCETTA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>JULIA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Of all the fair resort of gentlemen</LINE>
<LINE>That every day with parle encounter me,</LINE>
<LINE>In thy opinion which is worthiest love?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>LUCETTA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind</LINE>
<LINE>According to my shallow simple skill.</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>JULIA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?</LINE>
</SPEECH>

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>LUCETTA</SPEAKER>
<LINE>As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine;</LINE>
<LINE>But, were I you, he never should be mine.</LINE>