Scene 111. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. Is she kind, as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness: To help him of his blindness; Then to Silvia let us sing, Host. How now? are you sadder than you were How do you, man? the music likes you not. Jul. You mistake; the musician likes me not. Jul. He plays false, father. Host. How? out of tune on the strings? And by and by intend to chide myself, Jul. I am betroth'd: And art thou not asham'd Pro. I likewise hear, that Valentine is dead. [Aside. Pro. Madam, if your heart be so obdúrate, Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love, Jul. Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my The picture that is hanging in your chamber; very heart-strings. Host. You have a quick ear. Jul. Ay, I would I were deaf! it makes me have a slow heart. Host. I perceive, you delight not in music. Host. Hark, what fine change is in the music! Jul. I would always have one play but one But, host, doth this sir Proteus, that we talk on, Host. I tell you what Launce, his man, told me, he loved her out of all nick.' Jul. Where is Launce? Host. Gone to seek his dog; which, to-morrow, by his master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady. Jul. Peace! stand aside! the company parts. Pro. At saint Gregory's well. [Exeunt Thurio and Musicians. You'd quickly learn to know him by his voice. Pro. Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant. Pro. That I may compass yours. That hast deceiv'd so many with thy vows? (1) Beyond all reckoning. To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep; And make it but a shadow, as I am. Aside. Sil. I am very loth to be your idol, sir; Pro. As wretches have o'er-night, [Exeunt Proteus; and Silvia, from above. Jul. Host, will you go? Host. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Jul. Not so; but it hath been the longest night SCENE III-The same. [Exeunt. Enter Eglamour. Egl. This is the hour that madam Silvia Entreated me to call, and know her mind; There's some great matter she'd employ me in.-Madam, madam! Sil. Silvia appears above, at her window. Who calls? Your servant, and your friend row. Egl. As many, worthy lady, to yourself. Sil. O Églamour, thou art a gentleman (3) Injunction, command. (4) Pitiful Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity. Which heaven and fortune still reward with I do desire thee, even from a heart As full of sorrows as the sea of sands, To bear me company, and go with me: If not, to hide what I have said to thee, That I may venture to depart alone. Egl. Madam, I pity much your grievances, As much I wish all good befortune you. Sil. This evening coming. At friar Patrick's cell, Egl. Where shall I meet you? Sil. Good-morrow, kind sir Eglamour. [Exeunt. served me, when I took my leave of madam Silvia did not I bia thee still mark me, and do as I do? When didst thou see me heave up my leg, and make water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst thou ever see me do such a trick? Enter Proteus and Julia. Pro. Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well, Pro. And what says she, to my little jewel? Laun. Marry, she says, your dog was a cur; and tells you, currish thanks is good enough foi such a present. Pro. But she received my dog? Laun. No, indeed, she did not: here have 1 brought him back again. Pro. What, didst thou offer her this from me? Laun. Ay, sir; the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the marketplace: and then I offer'd her mine own; who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater. Pro. Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again, 3 Jul. It seems you loved her not, to leave her Pro. token: Jul. Alas! Not so; I think, ne iives. SCENE IV.-The same. Enter Launce, with his dog. When a man's servant shall play the cur with Partly, that I have need of such a youth, him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up For 'tis no trusting to yon foolish lowt: That can with some discretion do my business, of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when But chiefly, for thy face, and thy behaviour; three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went Which (if my augury deceive me not) to it! I have taught him-even as one would say Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth: precisely, Thus I would teach a dog. I was sent Therefore know thou, for this I entertain, thee to deliver him, as a present to mistress Silvia, from Go presently, and take this ring with thee, my master; and I came no sooner into the dining Deliver it to madam Silvia: chamber, but he steps me to her trencher, and She loved me well, delivered it to me. steals her capon's leg. O'tis a foul thing, when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies! I would have, as one should say, one that takes upon She's dead, belike. him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I live, he had suffered for't: you shall judge. He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentlemenlike dogs, under the duke's table: he had not been there (bless the mark) a pissing while; but all the As you do love your lady Silvia: chamber smelt him. Out with the dog, says one; She dreams on him, that has forgot her love; What cur is that? says another; Whip him out, You dote on her, that cares not for your love. says the third; Hang him up, says the duke. I,Tis pity, love should be so contrary; having been acquainted with the smell before, And thinking on it makes me cry, alas! knew it was Crab; and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs: Friend, quoth I, you mean to whip the dog? Ay, marry, do quoth he. You do him the more wrong, quoth I; 'twas I did the thing you wot of. He makes me no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber. How many masters would do this for their servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the stocks for puddings he nath stolen, otherwise he had been executed: have stood on the pillory for geese he hath killed. otherwise he had suffered for: thou think'st not of this now!-Nay I remember the trick you (1) Caring. (2) Restrain. (3) In the end. Fro. Why dost thy cry, alas! This letter;-that's her chamber.-Tell my lady, I [Exit Proteus Jul. How many women would do such a mes This ring I gave him, when he parted from me, To plead for that, which I would not obtain ; Enter Silvia, attended. Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean Jul. From my master, sir Proteus, madam. Sil, Ursula, bring my picture there. [Picture brought. Gio, give your master this: tell him from me, One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget, Would better fit his chamber, than this shadow. Jul. Madam, please you peruse this letter.Pardon me, madam; I have unadvis'd Delivered you a paper that I should not; This is the letter to your ladyship. Sil. I pray thee, let me look on that again. I will not look upon your master's lines: Jul. Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring. Sil. What say'st thou? Jul. I thank you, madam, that you tender her: As if the garment had been made for me: I Sil. She is beholden to thee, gentle youth!— Alas, poor lady! desolate and left!weep myself, to think upon thy words. Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lov'st her. Farewell. [Exit Silvia. Jul. And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her. A virtuous gentlewoman, mild, and beautiful. I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes, ACT V. Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much. SCENE I.-The_same. Sil. Dost thou know her? Jul. Almost as well as I do know myself: To think upon her woes, I do protest, Sil. Belike, she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her. Eglamour. Egl. The sun begins to gild the western sky; And now, it is about the very hour That Silvia, at Patrick's cell, should meet me. Enter Silvia. See, where she comes: Lady, a happy evening' Sil. Amen, amen! go on, good Eglamour! Out at the postern by the abbey-wall; I fear, I am attended by some spics. Egl. Fear not: the forest is not three league off; If we recover that, we are sure enough. [Exeunt. SCENE II.-The same. An apartment in the Duke's palace. Enter Thurio, Proteus, an Julia. Thu. Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit? (3) Head-dress. (4) Respectable. (5) Safe Pro. O, sir, I find her milder than she was; Thu. I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat Pro. But love will not be spurr'd to what t loaths. Thu. What says she to my face? Pro. She says, it is a fair one. Thu. Nay, then the wanton lies; my face is black. Pro. But pearls are fair; and the old saying is, Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. Jul. 'Tis true; such pearls as put out ladies' eyes; For I had rather wink than look on them. [Aside. Pro. Ill, when you talk of war. Thu. But well, when I discourse of love, and peace? Jul. But better, indeed, when you hold your peace. [Aside. Thu. What says she to my valour? Thu. What says she to my birth? Jul. True; from a gentleman to a fool. Thu. Wherefore? Be patient, we must bring you to our captain. 1 Out. Where is the gentleman that was with 3 Out. Being nimble-footed, he hath out-run us, But Moyses, and Valerius, follow him. Go thou with her to the west end of the wood, 1 Out. Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave: Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another part of the Forest. Val. How use doth breed a habit in a man Jul. That such an ass should owe1 them. [Aside. What halloing, and what stir, is this to-day? And Eglamour is in her company. 'Tis true; for friar Laurence met them both, At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not: (Exit. Pro. And I will follow, more for Silvia's love, SCENE III-Frontiers of Mantua. Out. Come, come: [Exit. The These are my mates, that make their wills their law, Have some unhappy passenger in chace: Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia. Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look; And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give. Pro. Unhappy, were you, madam, ere I came ; happy. Jul. And me, when he approacheth to your Sil. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, Pro. What dangerous action, stood it next t Would I not undergo for one calm look? Scene IV. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. , 'tis the curse in love, and still approv'd,' When women cannot love where they're belov'd. Sil. When Proteus cannot love where he's belov'd. Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love, Pro. How! Julia! Jul. Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths, For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy Be thou asham'd, that I have took upon me faith to a thousand oaths; and all those oaths Descended into perjury, to love me. Who respects friend? Sil. In love, All men but Proteus. Pro. Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words I'll force thee yield to my desire. Valentine! Pro. (For such is a friend now,) treacherous man! eye Could have persuaded me: Now I dare not say I am sorry, I must never trust thee more, Val. Then I am paid; And once again I do receive thee honest. Who by repentance is not satisfied, Such an immodest raiment; if shame live It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, Women to change their shapes, than men their minds. Pro. Than men their minds? 'tis true: 0 But constant, he were perfect: that one error sins: What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy Val. Come, come, a hand from either: ever. Jul. And I have mine. Enter Out-laws, with Duke and Thurio. Come not within the measure of my wrath: Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas'd; Jul. O me, unhappy! Pro. Look to the boy. [Faints. Val. Why, boy! why, wag! how now? what Look up; speak. O good sir, my master charg'd Which, out of my neglect, was never done. Jul. Here 'tis: this is it. Pro. How! let me see: Why this is the ring I gave to Julia. [Gives a ring. Jul. O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook; This is the ring you sent to Silvia. [Shows another ring. Pro. But, how cam'st thou by this ring? at my depart, I gave this unto Julia. Jul. And Julia herself did give it me; (1) Felt, experienced. (2) Direction. (3) An allusion to cleaving the pin in archery. I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake, Duke. I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be, Are men endued with worthy qualities; Dispose of them, as thou know'st their deserts. |