ANTHONIO, Father to PROTHEUS. THURIO, a foolish Rival to VALENTINE. OUT-LAWS with VALENTINE. SPEED, a clownish Servant to VALENTINE. PANTHION, Servant to ANTHONIO. JULIA, beloved of PROTHEUS. LUCETTA, Waiting-woman to JULIA. The SCENE Sometimes in Verona, Sometimes in Milan, and towards the latter end on the frontiers of Mantua. THE THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. C EASE to perfuade, my loving Protheus ; To fee the wonders of the world abroad, Pro. Wilt thou be gone? sweet Valentine, adieu! Wish me partaker in thy happiness, When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, * It may very well be doubted whether Shakespear had any other hand in this play than the enlivening it with some speeches and lines thrown in here and there, which are easily distinguish'd, as being of a different stamp from the rest. VOL. I. T Com Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers; Val. And on a love-book pray for my fuccess? Coy looks, with heart-fore fighs; one moment's mirth, If haply won, perhaps, an hapless gain; Pro. So, by your circumftance, you call me fool. And he that is so yoked by a fool, Pro. Yet writers say, As in the sweetest bud Val. And writers say, As the most forward bud Once more, adieu! my father at the road Expects my coming, there to fee me shipp'd. At Milan let me hear from thee by letters Pro. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan ! [Exit. SCENE II. Enter Speed. Speed. Sir Protheus, save you! faw you, fir, my master ? Pro. But now he parted hence t'embark for Milan.. Speed. Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already. And I have play'd the sheep in lofing him. Pro. Indeed, a fheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be a while away. Speed. You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, and I a sheep? Pro. I do. Speed. Why then my horns are his horns, whether I wake or Пеер. Pro. A filly answer, and fitting well a sheep. Speed. This proves me still a sheep. Pro. True; and thy mafter a shepherd. Speed. Nay, that I can deny by a circumftance. Pro. It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another. T2 Speed. |