DUKE But hark thee: I will go to her alone. How shall I best convey the ladder thither? VALENTINE It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it Under a cloak that is of any length. DUKE A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn? VALENTINE Ay, my good lord. DUKE […]
Continue ReadingValentine: what YOU need, is a ROPE LADDER! (like my one) (3.1.117-126) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords, To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks, Would serve to scale another Hero’s tower, So bold Leander would adventure it. DUKE Now as thou art a gentleman of blood, Advise me where I may have such a ladder. VALENTINE When would you use it? […]
Continue ReadingDuke: they keep her locked up! Valentine: climb in at her window! (3.1.106-116) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
DUKE But she I mean is promised by her friends Unto a youthful gentleman of worth, And kept severely from resort of men, That no man hath access by day to her. VALENTINE Why then I would resort to her by night. DUKE Ay, but the doors be locked and keys kept safe That no […]
Continue ReadingValentine, being depressingly familiar in his toxicity (3.1.96-105) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE If she do frown, ’tis not in hate of you, But rather to beget more love in you. If she do chide, ’tis not to have you gone, Forwhy the fools are mad if left alone. Take no repulse, whatever she doth say: For ‘Get you gone!’ she doth not mean ‘Away’. Flatter, and […]
Continue ReadingValentine: well have you tried sending her shiny things? (3.1.89-95) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE Win her with gifts if she respect not words. Dumb jewels often in their silent kind More than quick words do move a woman’s mind. DUKE But she did scorn a present that I sent her. VALENTINE A woman sometime scorns what best contents her. Send her another. Never give her o’er, For scorn […]
Continue ReadingDuke to Valentine: teach me how to talk to modern girls? (3.1.80-88) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE What would your grace have me to do in this? DUKE There is a lady of Verona here Whom I affect, but she is nice and coy, And naught esteems my aged eloquence. Now, therefore, would I have thee to my tutor – For long agone I have forgot to court; Besides, the fashion […]
Continue ReadingDuke: my daughter won’t obey me; what I need is a WIFE (3.1.68-79) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
DUKE No, i’faith. She is peevish, sullen, froward, Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty, Neither regarding that she is my child Nor fearing me as if I were her father. And may I say to thee, this pride of hers Upon advice hath drawn my love from her, And where I thought the remnant of mine […]
Continue ReadingDuke: Valentine–friend–I need your advice… (3.1.58-67) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
DUKE Nay then, no matter. Stay with me awhile. I am to break with thee of some affairs That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret. ’Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought To match my friend, Sir Thurio, to my daughter? VALENTINE I know it well, my lord, and sure the […]
Continue ReadingValentine: sorry can’t stop in a bit of a hurry, don’t mind me, your grace (3.151-57) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter Valentine] DUKE Sir Valentine, whither away so fast? VALENTINE Please it your grace, there is a messenger That stays to bear my letters to my friends, And I am going to deliver them. DUKE Be they of much import? VALENTINE The tenor of them doth but signify My health and happy being at your […]
Continue ReadingProteus: don’t out me as the one who squealed, OK? (3.1.44-50) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS But, good my lord, do it so cunningly That my discovery be not aimed at; For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretence. DUKE Upon mine honour, he shall never know That I had any light from thee of this. PROTEUS Adieu, my lord. Sir Valentine […]
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