Gentles, do not reprehend;

If you pardon, we will mend.

And as I am honest Puck,

If we have unearned luck

Now to 'scape the ferpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long:

Else the Puck a liar call:

So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends;
And Robin shall restore amends.

[Exeunt omnes.

THE TWO

GENTLEMEN

OF

VERONA.

L4

THE

TWO GENTLEMEN

OF

(1)VERONA.

ACTI.

SCENE, an open Place in Verona.

Enter Valentine and Protheus.

VALENTINE.

EASE to perfuade, my loving Protheus;
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits;
Wer't not, affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,
I rather would intreat thy company,

To see the wonders of the world abroad;
Than (living dully sluggardiz'd at home)
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
But fince thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein;
Ev'n as I would, when I to love begin.

(1) Mr. Pope has observ'd, that the Stile of this Comedy is less figurative, and more natural and unaffected, than the greater Part of our Author's Plays, tho' suppos'd to be one of the First he wrote. I must observe, too, that as I take it to be One of his very worst, it happens to be freeft from accidental Corruptions of the Editors: which is the Reason, that my Notes are fewer on This; than on any One of his other Pieces.

Pro.