VALENTINE Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows. SPEED [aside] O God give ye good even! Here’s a million of manners. SILVIA Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand. SPEED [aside] He should give her interest, and she gives it him. VALENTINE As you enjoined me, I have writ your letter Unto the secret, nameless friend of […]
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I wrote a poem for Silvia! ARRRGGH here she is here she is (2.1.70-80) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE In conclusion, I stand affected to her. SPEED I would you were set, so your affection would cease. VALENTINE Last night, she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. SPEED And have you? VALENTINE I have. SPEED Are they not lamely writ? VALENTINE No, boy, but as well as I can do […]
Continue ReadingLove is blind! (and you’re blundering around with your eyes shut) (2.1.55-69) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE I have loved her ever since I saw her, and still I see her beautiful. SPEED If you love her, you cannot see her. VALENTINE Why? SPEED Because Love is blind. O that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have when you chid at Sir Proteus for […]
Continue ReadingValentine: Silvia’s PERFECT; SPEED: except for this weird bloke hanging around her (2.1.46-54) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE 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. VALENTINE How painted? And how out of count? SPEED Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no man counts of her beauty. VALENTINE How esteem’st thou me? I […]
Continue ReadingBut do you KNOW Silvia like I know Silvia? (2.1.35-45) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia? SPEED She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper? VALENTINE Hast thou observed that? Even she I mean. SPEED Why sir, I know her not. VALENTINE Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet know’st her not? SPEED Is she […]
Continue ReadingPeople can tell you’re in love just by looking at you, yes (2.1.28-34) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE Are all these things perceived in me? SPEED They are all perceived without ye. VALENTINE Without me? They cannot. SPEED Without you? Nay, that’s certain, for without you were so simple, none else would. But you are so without these follies that these follies are within you, and shine through you like the water in an […]
Continue ReadingHow do I know you’re in love? do you want a LIST? (2.1.17-27) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SPEED Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent; to relish a love song like a robin redbreast; to walk alone like one that had the pestilence; to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his ABC; to weep like a young wench that had buried her […]
Continue ReadingValentine: do YOU know Silvia? Speed: er yes (2.1.7-16) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SPEED Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia! VALENTINE How now, sirrah? SPEED She is not within hearing, sir. VALENTINE Why, sir, who bade you call her? SPEED Your worship, sir, or else I mistook. VALENTINE Well, you’ll still be too forward. SPEED And yet I was last chidden for being too slow. VALENTINE Go to, sir. Tell […]
Continue ReadingValentine and Speed in MILAN and – what’s this? a glove? (2.1.1-6) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Enter Valentine and Speed SPEED [offering Valentine a glove] Sir, your glove. VALENTINE Not mine—my gloves are on. SPEED Why then, this may be yours, for this is but one. VALENTINE Ha, let me see. Ay, give it me, it’s mine– Sweet ornament, that decks a thing divine! Ah, Silvia, Silvia! (2.1.1-6) MILAN. And it’s […]
Continue ReadingProteus: WOE IS ME (1.3.78-91) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS Thus have I shunned the fire for fear of burning And drenched me in the sea where I am drowned. I feared to show my father Julia’s letter Lest he should take exceptions to my love, And with the vantage of mine own excuse Hath he excepted most against my love. O, how this […]
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