THURIO          Why this it is to be a peevish girl,

That flies her fortune when it follows her.

I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour

Than for the love of reckless Silvia.

[Exit]

PROTEUS       And I will follow, more for Silvia’s love

Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.

[Exit]

JULIA  And I will follow, more to cross that love

Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love.

Exit      (5.2.47-54)

It’s a neatly crafted ending to the scene, upping the tempo through its repetitions and swift exit lines; the exit directions are mostly editorial, but it’d be logical for Thurio to exit in one direction and Proteus in another, followed by Julia, and all of them at a run. Thurio has a typically misogynist hissy fit, all wounded ego: why this is it to be a peevish girl, that flies her fortune when it follows her. Ha! Women! They don’t know what they want and they don’t know what’s good for them. He’s interested more in the perceived insult to him from Eglamour, man to man, than in going after Silvia, his alleged love interest: I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour than for the love of reckless Silvia. She’s an idiot, she could have had ME! Proteus is the die-hard deluded romantic/stalker: and I will follow, more for Silvia’s love than hate of Eglamour that goes with her. I don’t care about him at all! It’s all Silvia, Silvia, Silvia! Julia’s the most honest about her motivations, and the most nuanced: and I will follow, more to cross that love than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love. I know, she says, that Silvia is pursuing her own true love; in a way she’s only done what I’ve done—and I don’t hate her, it’s not her fault that Proteus is obsessed with her, that he’s betrayed me for her. But still, I’m going to try to stop him.