Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Val._ Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company 5 To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggar...
_Pro._ My gracious lord, that which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal; 5 But when I call to mind your gracious favours Done to me, undeserving as I am, M...
9. SCENE IV. _Milan. The DUKE'S palace._Val._ I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers, 40 for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by...
25. SCENE IV. _The same._Launce._ When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or four of his b...
33. SCENE IV. Another ... forest.] Capell. The outlaw's cave in theforest. Theobald. 2: _This shadowy desert,_] _These shadowy, desert,_ Collier MS. 8: _so_] _too_ Collier MS. 14: _are my_] _my rude_ Collier MS. 18: [Steps aside. Johnson. 19: _...
32. SCENE IV. _Another part of the forest._Val._ How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns: Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to t...
1. SCENE I. _Verona. An open place._Val._ Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I r...
6. SCENE I. _Milan. The DUKE'S Palace._Speed._ Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms, like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin-redbreast; to wa...
2. SCENE II. _The same. Garden of JULIA'S house._Luc._ Sir Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus. He would have given it you; but I, being in the way, Did in your name receive it: pardon the fault, I pray. 40
21. SCENE II. _Milan. Outside the DUKE'S palace, under SILVIA'S chamber._Pro._ Already have I been false to Valentine, And now I must be as unjust to Thurio. Under the colour of commending him, I have access my own love to prefer: But Silvia is too...
17. SCENE II. _The same. The DUKE'S palace._Duke._ This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. A little time will melt her frozen though...
14. SCENE VII. _Verona. JULIA'S house._Jul._ Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me; And, even in kind love, I do conjure thee, Who art the table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly character'd and engraved, To le...
4. SCENE III. _The same. ANTONIO'S house._Pan._ He wonder'd that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home, 5 While other men, of slender reputation, Put forth their sons to seek preferment out: Some to...
8. SCENE III. _The same. A street._Launce._ Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am goin...
19. SCENE I. _The frontiers of Mantua. A forest._Val._ Then know that I have little wealth to lose: A man I am cross'd with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take...
28. SCENE II. _The same. The DUKE'S palace._Duke._ Why then, She's fled unto that peasant Valentine; 35 And Eglamour is in her company. 'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both, As he in penance wander'd through the f...
10. SCENE V. _The same. A street._Launce._ Forswear not thyself, sweet youth; for I am not welcome. I reckon this always--that a man is never undone till he be hanged; nor never welcome to a place till some cer...
23. SCENE III. _The same._Sil._ O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman,-- Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not,-- Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd: Thou art not ignorant what dear good will I...
12. SCENE VI. _The same. The DUKE'S palace._Pro._ To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn; And even that power, which gave me first m...
26. SCENE IV.] SCENE VI. Pope. Dyce makes no new scene here. See note(VIII). The same.] The same. Silvia's Anti-chamber. Capell. 6: _I was sent_] _I went_ Theobald. 11: _to be a dog indeed_] _to be a dog, to be a dog indeed_ Johnson conj. 20: _th...
7. SCENE II. _Verona. JULIA'S house._Pro._ Here is my hand for my true constancy; And when that hour o'erslips me in the day Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, 10 The next ensuing hour some foul mischance To...
22. SCENE II. Outside ... palace ...] An open place, ... Warburton.Court of the palace. Capell. 1: _have I_] _I've_ Pope. 15: _and_] om. F3 F4. 18: Musicians.] Rowe. Musitian. Ff. at the beginning of the scene. 23: _Who_] F1. Whom F2 F3 F4. 25:...
3. SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope.Garden &c.] Malone. Changes to Julia's chamber. Pope. 1: _now we are_] F1. _now are we_ F2 F3 F4. 5: _parle_] _par'le_ Ff. 15: _reigns_] _feigns_ Anon. conj. 18: _am_] _can_ Col...
20. SCENE I. The frontiers ... forest.] Capell. A forest. Rowe.A forest leading towards Mantua. Warburton. 2: _shrink_] _shrinkd_ F2. 4: _sit_] F1 F2. _sir_ F3 F4. 5: _Sir_] _O sir_ Capell. 6: _do_] om. Pope, who prints lines 5 and 6 as pro...
30. SCENE III. _The frontiers of Mantua. The forest._Third Out._ Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us, But Moses and Valerius follow him. Go thou with her to the west end of the wood; There is our captain: we'll follow him that...
18. SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope.14: _grievously._] _grievously?_ F1. (in some copies only, according to Malone). _heavily?_ F2 F3. _heavily._ F4. 18: _some_] _sure_ Collier MS. 19: _better_] _bolder_ Capell co...
27. SCENE I. _Milan. An abbey._Egl._ The sun begins to gild the western sky; And now it is about the very hour That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me. She will not fail, for lovers break not ho...
5. SCENE III.] SCENE IV. Pope. Antonio's House.] Theobald.1: _Panthino_] F1 F2. _Panthion_ F3 F4. 21: _and_] F1. _nor_ F2 F3 F4. 24: _whither_] F2 F3 F4. _whether_ F1. 44: _And, in good time!_] _And in good time:_ F1. _And in good time...
29. SCENE II. The Duke's palace.] Theobald.7: Jul. [Aside] _But love ..._] Collier (Boswell conj.). Pro. _But love ..._ Ff. 13: Jul. [Aside] _'Tis true ..._] Rowe. Thu. _'Tis true ..._ Ff. 18, 21, 24, 28: [Aside] Capell....
24. SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope. Dyce makes no new scene here. See note(VIII). 4: _Madam, madam!_] _Madam!_ Hanmer. 13: _Valiant, wise_] _Valiant and wise_ Pope. _Wise, valiant_ Anon. conj. A monosyllable lost before _valiant._ S. Walker conj. 17:...
11. SCENE V.] SCENA QUINTA F1. SCENA QUARTA F2 F3 F4. SCENE VIII. Pope.1: _Padua_] Ff. _Milan_ Pope. See note (VII). 4: _be_] _is_ Rowe. 21-28: Put in the margin as spurious by Pope. 36: _that_] F2 F3 F4. _that that_ F1. 44: _in love. If thou wilt,...
13. SCENE VI.] SCENE IX. Pope.Enter PROTEUS.] Enter PROTHEUS solus. Ff. 1, 2: _forsworn; ... forsworn;_] Theobald. _forsworn? ... forsworn?_ Ff. 7: _sweet-suggesting_] _sweet suggestion,_ Pope. _if thou hast...
15. SCENE VII.] SCENE X. Pope.13: _perfection_] F1 F2 F4. _perfections_ F3. 18: _inly_] F1 F2. _inchly_ F3 F4. 22: _extreme_] _extremest_ Pope. 32: _wild_] _wide_ Collier MS. 47: _fantastic_] _fantantastique...
31. SCENE III. The ... Mantua] Capell.