PERSONS REPRESENTED. DUKE, father to Silvia. Appears, Act II. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4. VALENTINE. Appears, Act I. sc. 1. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 4. PROTEUS. Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4. Appears, Act I. sc. 1. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 4; sc. 5. Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 1. LAUNCE, servant to Proteus. Appears, Act II. sc. 3; sc. 5. Act III. sc. 1. Act IV. sc. 4. PANTHINO, servant to Antonio. HOST, with whom Julia lodges. Appears, Act IV. sc. 2. OUTLAWS with Valentine. Appear, Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 3; sc. 4. JULIA, beloved of Proteus. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 7. Act IV sc. 2; sc. 4. Act V. sc. 2; sc. 4. SILVIA, beloved of Valentine. Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 4. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 4. LUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia. Servants, Musicians. SCENE,IN VERONA, IN MILAN, AND ON THE FRONTIERS OF Mantua. 'THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA' was first printed in the folio collection of Shakspere's plays, edited by John Heminge and Henry Condell, and published in 1623, seven years after his death. The text is singularly correct. There are not more than half a dozen passages of any real importance upon which a doubt can be entertained, if printed according to the original. It is, in all probability, a play written very early in Shakspere s life. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA ACT I. SCENE I-An open place in Verona. VAL. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; PRO Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu! When thou dost meet good hap: and in thy danger, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, VAL. And on a love-book pray for my success? How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont. PRO. That's a deep story of a deeper love; For he was more than over shoes in love. VAL. "T is true; for you are over boots in love, And yet you never swom the Hellespont. PRO. Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots. PRO. What? VAL. To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; PRO. So, by your circumstance, you call me fool. Methinks should not be chronicled for wise. PRO. Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. VAL. And writers say, as the most forward bud Even so by love the young and tender wit Once more adieu: my father at the road Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd. PRO. And thither will I bring thee, Valentine. And I likewise will visit thee with mine. PRO. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! VAL. As much to you at home! and so, farewell. Exit VALENTINE. PRO. He after honour hunts, I after love: He leaves his friends to dignify them more; |