SCENE I. Milan. ACT II. ed Madam Silvia! madam Silvía! Bow now, sirrah? te is not within hearing, sir. fal Way, sir, who bade you call her! Tr warship, sir: or else I mistook. Well, you'll still be too forward. And yet I was last chidden for being Gota, sir; tell me, do you know ma- She that your worship loves? Why, how know you that I am in love? Marry, by these special marks: First, e arced, like sir Proteus, to wreath make a male content; to relish a ike a robin-red-breast; to walk The one that had the pestilence; to sigh, -boy that had lost his A. B. C.; to The young wench that had buried her to fast, like one that takes diet; to Jy one that fears robbing; to speak a beggar at Hallowmast. You , when you laugh'd, to crow like a w you walked, to walk like one of , whes you fasted, it was presently mar; when you looked sadly, it was of mosey: and now you are meta with a mistress, that, when I look in bardly think you my master. f all these things perceived in me? They are all perceived without you. fit me 1 They cannot. yet Without you? nay, that's certain, ver you were so simple, none else bat you are so without these follies, ties are within you, and shine You like the water in an urinal; that eve, that sees yon, but is a physician to var malady. ", ted me, dost thou know my lady She, that you gaze on so, as she sits Tilan then observed that? even she I Why, sir, I know her not. ot yet know'st her not. As the not hard favoured, sir! to fair, boy, as well favoured, Sir, I know that well enough. What dost thou know? on Speed. That she is not so fair, as (of you) well favoured. Val. I mean, that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite. Speed. That's because the one is painted, and the other out of all count. Val. How painted? and how out of count? Speed. Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. Val. How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty. Speed. You never saw her since she was deformed. Val. How long hath she been deformed? Val. I have loved her ever since I saw her; and stiff I see her beautiful. Speed. If you love her, you cannot see her. Val. Why? Speed. Because love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes; or your own had the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at sir tsir Proteus for going nngartered! Val. What should I see then? Speed. Your own present folly, and her passing deformity: for he, being in love, conid not see to garter his hose; and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose. Val. Belike, boy, then you are in love; for last morning you could not see to wipe my shoes. Speed. True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours. Val. In conclusion, I stand affected to her. Speed. I would you were set; so, your affection would cease. Val. Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. Speed. And have you? Val. I have. Speed. Are they not lamely writ? Val. No, boy, but as well as I can do them-Peace, here she comes. Enter SILVIA. Speed. O excellent motions! O exceeding puppet! now will he interpret to her. al. Madam and mistress, a thousand goodmorrows. Speed. O, 'give you good even! here's a million of manners. [Aside. Sil. Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand. Speed. He should give her interest; and she gives it him. [letter, Val. As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your Unto the secret nameless friend of yours; Which I was much unwilling to proceed in, But for my duty to your ladyship. Sil. I thank you, gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done. Enter & regimen. † Allhallowmas. : Whipped. A puppet-show, Like a scholar. D 2 modesty, [again re Or else for want of idle time, could Or fearing else some messenger, that m her mind discover, [untoher love Herself hath taught her love himself to u All this I speak in print; for in print I f Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time. I Val. I have dined. Val. Now trust me, madam, it came hardly | For often you have writ to her; and sh For, being ignorant to whom it goes, [off; I writ at random, very doubtfully. Sil. Perchance you think too much of so much pains? [write, Val. No, madam; so it stead you, I will Please you command, a thousand times as And yet,[much: Sil. A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel; yet I will not name it:-and yet I care not ; And And yet take this again;-and yet I thank you; Sil. Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ: Val. Madam, they are for you. Sil. Ay, ay; youwrit them, sir, at my request: another. Sil. And, when it's writ, for my sake read And so good-morrow, servant. [Exit SILVIA. My master sues to her; and she hath taught He being her pupil, to become her tutor. Speed. Nay, I was rhyming; 'tis you that have the reason. Val. To do what? Speed. Ay, but hearken, sir: though th SCENE II. sooner: Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's & [Giving as Pro. Why then we'll make exchange;] take you this. Jul. And seal the bargain with a holy I Pro. Here is my hand for my true consta And when that hour o'er slips me in the Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake, The next ensuing hour some foul mischan Torment me for my love's forgetfulness! My father stays my coming; answer not; The tide is now: nay, not the tide of tear That tide will stay me longer than I shou [Exit Jo Julia, farewell.-What! gone without a wo Enter PANTHINO. Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers duri SCENE III. The same. A Street. Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog. Laun. Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I b done weeping; all the kind of the Laur have this very fault: I have received my t portion, like the prodigious son, and am go with sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured that lives: my mother weeping, my fath wailing, my sister crying, our maid howli our cat wringing her hands, and all our hot in a great perplexity, yet did not this cru hearted cur shed one tear: he is a stone, a ve pebble-stone, and has no more pity in b than a dog: a Jew would have wept to ha seen our parting; why, my grandam havi no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at n parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of i ↑ Kindred. in my farber:-no, this left shoe is aber:-no, no, this left shoe is my moary, that cannot be so neither;-yes, it tase; it hath the worser sole; This with the bole in it, is my mother, and father: A vengeance on't! there 'tis : this staff is my sister; for, look you, au white as a lify, and as small as a has hat is Nan, our maid; I am the so, the dog is himself, and I am the -the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, Yow come I to my father; Father, bang; now should not the shoe speak He weeping; now should I kiss my well, he weeps on:-now come I to O, that she could speak now!) woman;-well, I kiss her;here "tis; here's my mother's breath up *. now come I to my sister; mark she makes: now the dog all this dede not a tear, nor speaks a word; how I lay the dust with my tears. Eater PANTHINO. Pa Lance, away, away, aboard; thy apped, and thon art to post after What's the matter? why weepest Bu' Away, ass; you will lose the tide, ary any longer. kano matter if the ty'a were lost; for it lest ty'd that ever any man ty'd. Pm War's the unkindest tide? Way, he that's ty'd here; Crab, my dog. P. Tw, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood; wing the flood, lose thy voyage; and, in gay gage, lose thy master; and,in losing , thy service; and, in losing thy -Way dost thou stop my mouth? 4. For tear thou should'st lose thy tongue. Pon Where should I lose my tongue! In thy tale. Pm is thy tail! Lose the tide, and the voyage, and - and the service! The tide!-Why, river were dry, I am able to fill it aytars; if the wind were down, I could de boat with my sighs. ome, come away, man; I was sent Sir, call me what thou darest. Leas. Well, I will go. SCENE IV. [Exeunt. Sian, An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Beter VALENTINE, Silvia, Thurio, and SPEED. Master, sir Thurio frowns on you. Ay boy, it's for love. Igred. Not of you. fal Of my mistress then. Twere good, you knocked him. Servant, you are sad t. Talladeed, madam, I seem so. •Crazy, distracted Thu. Seem you that you are not? Thu. So do counterfeits. Thu. What seem I, that I am not? Thu. What instance of the contrary? Thu. And how quotes you my folly? Sil. What, angry, sir Thurio? do you change colour? Val. Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of cameleon. Thu. That hath more mind to feed on your blood, than live in your air. Val. You have said, sir. Thu. Ay, sir, and done too, for this time. Val. I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin. Sil. A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. Val. 'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver. Sil. Who is that, servant? Val. Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire: sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks, and spends what he borrows, kindly in your company. ↑ Serious. Thu. Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. Val. I know it well, sir: you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words. Sil. No more, gentlemen, no more; here comes my father. Enter DUKE. Duke. Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset. Sir Valentine, your father's in good health: What say you to a letter from your friends Of much good news? Val. My lord, I will be thankful To any happy messenger from thence. Duke. Know you Don Antonio, your countryman? Val. Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman To be of worth, and worthy estimation, And not without desert so well reputed. Duke. Hath he not a son? Val. Ay, my good lord; a son, that well deThe honour and regard of such a father. [serves Duke. You know him well? [infancy Val. I knew him as myself; for from our We have convers'd, and spent our hourstogether: And though myself have been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time, To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection; + Perhaps. § Observe. His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; Val. This is the gentleman, I told your Enter PROTEUS. Sil. Have done, have done; here comes the If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from. Sil. Too low a mistress for so high a servant. To have a look of such a worthy mistress. Val. Leave off discourse of disability :Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant. Pro. My duty will I boast of, nothing else. Sil, And duty never yet did want his meed; Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mis tress. Pro. I'll die on him that says so, but yourself. No; that you are worthless. Ser. Madam, my lord your father would Sil. I'll wait upon his pleasure. [Exit Serv. Come, sir Thurio, Go with me:-Once more, new servant, wel come: • Ill betide. | I'll leave you to confer of home-affairs; Pro. My tales of love were wont to you; I know, you joy not in a love-discourse And made them watchers of mine own Was this the idol that you worship so! saint? Pro. No; but she is an earthly parag Pro. And I must minister the like to you. Yet let her be a principality, Val. Val. And I will help thee to prefer her this? (not Val. Pardon me, Protens: all I ca To her, whose worth makes other word She is alone. (noth Pro. Then let her alone. [mine And I as rich in having such a jewel, Val. Not for the world: why, man, sh As twenty seas, if all their sand were pea The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold Forgive me, that I do not dream on thee, + Incite han seest me dote upon my love. tival, that her father likes, for Lis possessions are so huge, you will be along; and I must after, wow, daca know'st, is full of jealousy. Pre But the loves you? Ay, and we are betroth'd; Dore, our marriage hour, at the canning manner of our flight, traus d of: how I must climb her window; mar made of cords; and all the means and 'greed on, for my happiness. tes, go with me to my chamber, dars to aid me with thy counsel. won before; I shall inquire you ca the road, to disembark [forth: rsaries that I needs must use; presently attend you. you make haste ! e beat another heat expels, by strength drives out another, membrance of my former love * object quite forgotten. eye, or Valentinns' praise, perfection, or my false transgression, Mesme, reasonless, to reason thus? and so is Julia, that I love;fatal love, for now my love is thaw'd; ke a waxen image 'gainst a fire, a pression of the thing it was. sy zexi to Valentine is cold; Love him not, as I was wont: we his lady too, too much; Bae reason I love him so little. Toote on her with more advice, wuhout advice begin to love her! ter pacture I have yet beheld, La dazzled my reason's light; A reason but I shall be blind. the mpass her I'll use my skill. [Exit. Laun. What a block art thou, that thou Laun. Ay, and what I do too: look thee, Speed. But tell me true, will't be a match? Laun. Ask my dog: if he say, ay, it will; if he say, no, it will; if he shake his tail, and say nothing, it will. Speed. The conclusion is, then, that it will. Laun, Thou shalt never get such a secret from me, but by a parable. Speed. Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how say'st thou, that thy master is become a notable lover? Laun. I never knew him otherwise. Laun. A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be. Speed. Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me. Laun. Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master. Speed. I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover. Laun. Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself in love. If thou wilt go with me to the ale-house, so; if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the name of a Christian. Speed. At thy service. SCENE VI. [Exeunt. The same. An Apartment in the Palace. Enter PROTEUS. KENE V. The same. A street. tams never undone, till he be hanged; ar are welcome to a place, till some cerbe paid, and the hostess say, welcome. Come on, you mad-cap, I'll to the with you presently; where, for one five peace, thou shalt have five thoucomes. But, sirrah, how did thy de pers with madam Julia? Lan. Karry, after they closed in earnest, pered very fairly in jest. d. But shall she marry him? Lora. No. How then1 Shall he marry her? Lean. No, neither. ped. What, we they broken? Lawa. No, they are both as whole as a fish. But there I leave to love, where I should love. • On further knowledge. + Tempting. |