VALENTINE Proteus, I am sorry I must never trust thee more, But count the world a stranger for thy sake. The private wound is deepest. O time most accursed, ’Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst! PROTEUS My shame and guilt confounds me. Forgive me, Valentine. If hearty sorrow Be a sufficient […]
Continue ReadingValentine: unhand her, varlet! also: you’ve BETRAYED ME! (5.4.61-69) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE [revealing himself] Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch, Thou friend of an ill fashion. PROTEUS Valentine! VALENTINE Thou common friend, that’s without faith or love, For such is a friend now. Treacherous man, Thou hast beguiled my hopes. Naught but mine eye Could have persuaded me. Now I dare not say I have one […]
Continue ReadingProteus: enough talking; what I want, what I’m owed–I take (5.4.53-60) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
CW: sexual violence, threat, attempted rape PROTEUS In love, Who respects friend? SILVIA All men but Proteus. PROTEUS Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words Can no way change you to a milder form I’ll woo you like a soldier, at arm’s end, And love you ’gainst the nature of love – […]
Continue ReadingProteus: you have to love me back that’s fair; Silvia: you are a self-deluding moron (5.4.41-53) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS What dangerous action, stood it next to death, Would I not undergo for one calm look! O, ’tis the curse in love, and still approved, When women cannot love where they’re beloved. SILVIA When Proteus cannot love, where he’s beloved! Read over Julia’s heart, thy first, best love, For whose dear sake thou didst […]
Continue ReadingSilvia: leave me ALONE I would rather be eaten by a LION (5.4.28-40) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SILVIA O miserable, unhappy that I am! PROTEUS Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came, But by my coming I have made you happy. SILVIA By thy approach thou mak’st me most unhappy. JULIA [aside] And me, when he approacheth to your presence. SILVIA Had I been seized by a hungry lion I would have been […]
Continue ReadingProteus: give us a smile, love, I just RESCUED you! (5.4.19-27) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter Proteus, Silvia, and Julia, disguised as a boy] PROTEUS Madam, this service I have done for you – Though you respect not aught your servant doth – To hazard life, and rescue you from him That would have forced your honour and your love. Vouchsafe me for my meed but one fair look. A […]
Continue ReadingValentine: *sigh* what have the outlaws done NOW? *sigh* (5.4.11-18) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
VALENTINE Repair me with thy presence, Silvia, Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain. [Sounds within] What hallowing, and what stir is this today? These are my mates, that make their wills their law, Have some unhappy passenger in chase. They love me well, yet I have much to do To keep them from uncivil […]
Continue ReadingForest life is surprisingly OK, says Valentine, great for moping (5.4.1-10) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Enter Valentine VALENTINE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale’s complaining notes Tune my distresses and record my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not […]
Continue ReadingThe outlaws have captured Silvia! and they are taking her to their leader… (5.3.1-15) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter] Silvia [and] Outlaws FIRST OUTLAW Come, come – be patient. We must bring you to our captain. SILVIA A thousand more mischances than this one Have learned me how to brook this patiently. SECOND OUTLAW Come, bring her away. FIRST OUTLAW Where is the gentleman that was with her? THIRD OUTLAW Being nimble-footed, he […]
Continue ReadingThurio: I’m off after Silvia, the stupid cow; Proteus: Me too! Julia: Me too! (5.2.47-54) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
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