Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare, John Glover, William George Clark

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This text ofTwo Gentlemen of Veronais from Volume I of the nine- volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The editors’ preface (e-text23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts. General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play, followed by the text-critical notes originally printed at the bottom of each page. All notes are hyperlinked in both directions. In dialogue, a link from a speaker’s name generally means that the note applies to the entire line or group of lines. Line numbers—shown in the right margin and used for all notes—are from the original text. In prose passages the exact line counts will depend on your browser settings, and will probably be different from the displayed numbers. Stage directions were not included in the line numbering. Texts cited in the Notes are listed at theend of the e-text.

T H E W

OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EDITED BY

WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;

AND JOHN GLOVER, M.A. LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

  VOLUME I.  

Cambridge and London: M A C M I 1863.

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 Dramatis Personæ   Act IScene 1Verona. An open place. Scene 2The same. Garden of Julia’s house. Scene 3The same. Antonio’s house. Act IIScene 1Milan. The Duke’s Palace. Scene 2Verona. Julia’s house. Scene 3The same. A street. Scene 4Milan. The Duke’s palace. Scene 5The same. A street. Scene 6The same. The Duke’s palace. Scene 7Verona. Julia’s house. Act IIIScene 1Milan. Ante-room in the Duke’s palace. Scene 2The same. The Duke’s palace. Act IVScene 1The frontiers of Mantua. A forest. Scene 2Milan. Outside the Duke’s palace, under Silvia’s chamber. Scene 3The same.

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Scene 4The same. Act VScene 1Milan. An abbey. Scene 2The same. The Duke’s palace. Scene 3The frontiers of Mantua. The forest. Scene 4Another part of the forest.   Endnotes Critical Apparatus(“Linenotes”) Texts Used(from general preface)

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

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D UKE   OF M ILAN 2 , Father to Silvia. P V TEUS AL RO TIENNE 3 , , towG eht menenelt . A NTONIO 4 , Father to Proteus. T HURIO , a foolish rival to Valentine. E GLAMOUR , Agent for Silvia in her escape. H OST , where Julia lodges. O UTLAWS , with Valentine. S PEED , a clownish Servant to Valentine. L AUNCE , the like to Proteus. P ANTHINO 5 , Servant to Antonio.   J ULIA , beloved of Proteus. S ILVIA , beloved of Valentine. L UCETTA , waiting-woman to Julia.   Servants, Musicians 6 . 7 S CENE  ., Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua

1.D RAMATIS P ERSONÆ .] T HE   NAMES   OF   ALL   THE A CTORS F 1 , at the end of the play. 2.   OF M ILAN ] added by Pope. 3.P ROTEUS ] Steevens. P ROTHEUS Ff. Seenote ( I ). 4.A NTONIO ] Capell. A NTHONIO Ff. 5.P ANTHINO ] Capell. P ANTHION Ff. Seenote ( I ). 6.   Servants, Musicians] Theobald.

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ACT I. S CENE I.Verona. An open place. EnterV ALENTINE andP ROTEUS . 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 To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would, when I to love begin. Pro.Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu! Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel: Wish me partaker in thy happiness, When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine. Val.And on a love-book pray for my success? Pro.Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee. Val.That’s on some shallow story of deep love: 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.you are over boots in love,’Tis true; for And yet you never swum the Hellespont. Pro.Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.

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Val.will not, for it boots thee not.No, I 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; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished. Pro.So, by your circumstance, you call me fool. Val.So, by your circumstance, I fear you’ll prove. Pro.’Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love. Val.Love is your master, for he masters you: And he that is so yoked by a 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 Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn’d to folly; blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes. But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee, That art a votary to fond desire? 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. Val.Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave. To Milan let me hear from thee by letters Of thy success in love, and what news else Betideth here in absence of thy friend; 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. Pro.He after honour hunts, I after love: He leaves his friends to dignify them more; I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love. Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought; Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. EnterS PEED . Speed.Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master? Pro.But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.

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Speed.Twenty to one, then, he is shipp’d already, And I have play’d the sheep in losing him. Pro.Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be awhile 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 sleep. Pro.A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep. Speed.This proves me still a sheep. Pro.True; and thy master a shepherd. Speed.Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. Pro.It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another. Speed.The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me: therefore I am no sheep. Pro.The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for wages follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep. . Speed.Such another proof will make me cry ‘baa ’ Pro.But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia? Speed.mutton, gave your letter to her, a lacedAy, sir: I, a lost mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour. Pro.Here’s too small a pasture for such store of muttons. Speed.If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her. Pro.Nay: in that you are astray, ’twere best pound you. Speed.Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for carrying your letter. Pro.mistake; I mean the pound,—a pinfold.You Speed.From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over, ’Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to your lover. Pro.But what said she? Speed.[First nodding] Ay. Pro.Nod—Ay—why, that’s noddy. Speed.You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask me if she did nod; and I say, ‘Ay.’ Pro.And that set together is noddy. Speed.you have taken the pains to set it together, take itNow for your pains.

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Pro.No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter. Speed.I must be fain to bear with you.Well, I perceive Pro.Why, sir, how do you bear with me? Speed.very orderly; having nothing but theMarry, sir, the letter, word ‘noddy’ for my pains. Pro.me, but you have a quick wit.Beshrew Speed.And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse. Pro.Come, come, open the matter in brief: what said she? Speed.Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once delivered. Pro.Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she? Speed.Truly, sir, I think you’ll hardly win her. Pro.Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her? Speed.Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no, not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter: and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she’ll prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no token but stones; for she’s as hard as steel. Pro.What said she? nothing? Speed.No, not so much as ‘Take this for thy pains.’ To testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your letters yourself: and so, sir, I’ll commend you to my master. Pro.Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck, Which cannot perish having thee aboard, Being destined to a drier death on shore. [Exit Speed. I must go send some better messenger: I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. [Exit.

S CENE II. of GardenThe same.J ULIA ’ S house. EnterJ ULIA andL UCETTA . Jul.But say, Lucetta, now we are alone, Wouldst thou, then, counsel me to fall in love? Luc.Ay, madam; so you stumble not unheedfully. Jul.Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love? Luc.Please you repeat their names, I’ll show my mind According to my shallow simple skill. Jul.What think’st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour? Luc.As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine; But, were I ou, he never should be mine.

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