Faculty of English

PROTEUS       Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well, And will employ thee in some service presently. JULIA  In what you please. I’ll do what I can. PROTEUS I hope thou wilt. [To Lance] How now, you whoreson peasant, Where have you been these two days loitering? LANCE            Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you […]

LANCE I, having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs. ‘Friend,’ quoth I. ‘You mean to whip the dog?’ ‘Ay, marry, do I,’ quoth he. ‘You do him the more wrong,’ quoth I. ‘’Twas I did the thing you wot of.’ He makes me no more […]

LANCE                        I would have, as one should say, one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did, I think verily he had been hanged for’t! Sure as I live, […]

Enter Lance, [with his dog] LANCE            When a man’s servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard. One that I brought up of a puppy, one that I saved from drowning when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. I have taught him, even as one would say […]

EGLAMOUR                Madam, I pity much your grievances, Which, since I know they virtuously are placed, I give consent to go along with you, Recking as little what betideth me As much I wish all good befortune you. When will you go? SILVIA This evening coming. EGLAMOUR Where shall I meet you? SILVIA At Friar Patrick’s […]

SILVIA Urge not my father’s anger, Eglamour, But think upon my grief – a lady’s grief – And on the justice of my flying hence To keep me from a most unholy match, Which God and fortune still rewards with plagues. I do desire thee, even from a heart As full of sorrows as the […]

SILVIA Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say No grief did ever come so near thy heart As when thy lady and thy true love died, Upon whose grave thou vowed’st pure chastity. Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine, To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode; And for the ways are dangerous […]

SILVIA O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman – Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not – Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished. Thou art not ignorant what dear good will I bear unto the banished Valentine, Nor how my father would enforce me marry Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.   (4.3.11-17)   […]

Enter Eglamour EGLAMOUR    This is the hour that Madam Silvia Entreated me to call, and know her mind. There’s some great matter she’d employ me in. Madam, Madam! [Enter Silvia, above] SILVIA Who calls? EGLAMOUR Your servant, and your friend. One that attends your ladyship’s command. SILVIA Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow. EGLAMOUR […]

SILVIA             I am very loath to be your idol, sir. But, since your falsehood shall become you well To worship shadows and adore false shapes, Send to me in the morning, and I’ll send it. And so, good rest.      [Exit.] PROTEUS       As wretches have o’ernight That wait for execution in the morn.          [Exit.] JULIA  Host, will you go? […]