Can Proteus BE any creepier? oh yes; he’d like a PICTURE (4.2.110-118) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

PROTEUS       Madam, if your heart be so obdurate, Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love, The picture that is hanging in your chamber. To that I’ll speak, to that I’ll sigh and weep; For since the substance of your perfect self Is else devoted, I am but a shadow, And to your shadow will I make true love. JULIA  [aside] If ’twere a substance […]

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Proteus: I have a cunning plan; Silvia: who’s there; Proteus: it’s ME (4.2.73-82) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare

PROTEUS       Sir Thurio, fear not you, I will so plead That you shall say my cunning drift excels. THURIO          Where meet we? PROTEUS At Saint Gregory’s well. THURIO Farewell. [Exit Thurio][Enter Silvia, above] PROTEUS Madam, good even to your ladyship. SILVIA             I thank you for your music, gentlemen. Who is that that spoke? PROTEUS […]

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