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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

PROTEUS       My lord, I cannot be so soon provided. Please you deliberate a day or two. ANTONIO       Look what thou want’st shall be sent after thee. No more of stay. Tomorrow thou must go. Come on, Pantino. You shall be employed To hasten on his expedition. [Exeunt Antonio and Pantino]           (1.3.72-77)   Proteus is holding […]

ANTONIO       My will is something sorted with his wish. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed, For what I will, I will, and there an end. I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time With Valentinus in the Emperor’s court. What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like exhibition thou shalt have from me. […]

ANTONIO       Lend me the letter. Let me see what news. PROTEUS       There is no news, my lord, but that he writes How happily he lives, how well-beloved, And, daily graced by the Emperor, Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune. ANTONIO And how stand you affected to his wish? PROTEUS As one relying on […]