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Slow Shakespeare

Author: Hester Lees-Jeffries

Proteus: I love SILVIA now! Not Julia! (2.4.184-194) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

PROTEUS       Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. Is it mine eyne, or Valentine his praise, Her true perfection, or my false transgression, That makes me reasonless, to reason thus? She is […]

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Valentine: come with me now! Proteus: just give me a minute, things to do (2.4.176-183) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE    Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber, In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel. PROTEUS       Go on before. I shall inquire you forth. I must unto the road, to disembark Some necessaries that I needs must use, And then I’ll presently attend you. VALENTINE Will you make haste? PROTEUS I will. […]

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We’re going to elope! We’ve got a ROPE LADDER! (2.4.164-175) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE    Forgive me that I do not dream on thee Because thou seest me dote upon my love. My foolish rival, that her father likes Only for his possessions are so huge, Is gone with her along, and I must after; For love, thou know’st, is full of jealousy. PROTEUS       But she loves you? VALENTINE […]

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This isn’t empty boasting: Silvia’s everything and she’s MINE (2.4.156-163) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

PROTEUS       Why, Valentine, what braggartism is this? VALENTINE    Pardon me, Proteus. All I can is nothing To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing. She is alone. PROTEUS Then let her alone. VALENTINE Not for the world. Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, […]

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Valentine: if your girlfriend’s lucky, she can be Silvia’s lady in waiting!! (2.4.143-155) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE    Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, Yet let her be a principality, Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth. PROTEUS       Except my mistress. VALENTINE Sweet, except not any, Except thou wilt except against my love. PROTEUS Have I not reason to prefer mine own? VALENTINE And I will help thee […]

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Valentine: she’s a goddess! Proteus: steady on, keep it real (2.4.135-142) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

PROTEUS       Enough. I read your fortune in your eye. Was this the idol that you worship so? VALENTINE    Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint? PROTEUS No. But she is an earthly paragon. VALENTINE Call her divine. PROTEUS I will not flatter her. VALENTINE O flatter me, for love delights in praises. PROTEUS […]

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Valentine: I’m in love too! it’s everything! it hurts! (2.4.125-134) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE   For in revenge of my contempt of love Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes, And made them watchers of mine own heart’s sorrow. O gentle Proteus, love’s a mighty lord, And hath so humbled me as I confess There is no woe to his correction, Nor to his service no such joy […]

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Valentine: how’s things with Julia? Proteus: like you care; Valentine: but I DO (2.4.117-124) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE    How does your lady? And how thrives your love? PROTEUS       My tales of love were wont to weary you. I know you joy not in a love-discourse. VALENTINE Ay, Proteus, but that life is altered now. I have done penance for contemning love, Whose high imperious thoughts have punished me With bitter fasts, with […]

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Valentine: how’s everyone back home? Proteus: yeah fine (2.4.108-116) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

SERVANT        Madam, my lord your father would speak with you. SILVIA             I wait upon his pleasure. [Exit Servant] Come, Sir Thurio, Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome. I’ll leave you to confer of home affairs. When you have done, we look to hear from you. PROTEUS       We’ll both attend upon your ladyship. […]

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Can Proteus be your suitor too, Silvia? please? (2.4.92-107) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

VALENTINE    Welcome, dear Proteus. Mistress, I beseech you Confirm his welcome with some special favour. SILVIA His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, If this be he you oft have wished to hear from. VALENTINE Mistress, it is. Sweet lady, entertain him To be my fellow servant to your ladyship. SILVIA Too low a […]

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