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 […]
Continue ReadingSilvia: I’m engaged to your best friend! Proteus: he’s dead too ok? (4.2.99-109) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SILVIA Say that she be, yet Valentine, thy friend, Survives to whom – thyself art witness – I am betrothed. And art thou not ashamed To wrong him with thy importunacy? PROTEUS I likewise hear that Valentine is dead. SILVIA And so suppose am I, for in his grave, Assure thyself, my love is buried. […]
Continue ReadingSilvia: you HAVE a girlfriend; Proteus: actually she’s dead; Julia: ?!?! (4.2.91-98) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SILVIA For me – by this pale queen of night I swear – I am so far from granting thy request That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit, And by and by intend to chide myself Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. PROTEUS I grant, sweet love, that I did […]
Continue ReadingSilvia, not holding back: leave me alone you despicable little man (4.2.83-90) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SILVIA What’s your will? PROTEUS That I may compass yours. SILVIA You have your wish. My will is even this, That presently you hie you home to bed. Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man. Think’st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless, To be seduced by thy flattery That hast deceived so many with thy […]
Continue ReadingProteus: 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 […]
Continue ReadingJulia: does HE come here often? Host: all the time, he’s totally smitten (4.2.63-72) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
HOST Hark, what fine change is in the music. JULIA Ay, that ‘change’ is the spite. HOST You would have them always play but one thing? JULIA I would always have one play but one thing. But Host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on often resort unto this gentlewoman? HOST. I tell you what Lance […]
Continue ReadingJulia: I do not like this tune! (4.2.52-62) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
HOST How now? Are you sadder than you were before? How do you, man? The music likes you not. JULIA You mistake – the musician likes me not. HOST Why, my pretty youth? JULIA He plays false, father. HOST How, out of tune on the strings? JULIA Not so – but yet so false that he […]
Continue ReadingWHO IS SILVIA?? (4.2.37-51) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Who is Silvia? What is she, That all our swains commend her? Holy, fair, and wise is she. The heaven such grace did lend her That she might admirèd be. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness. Love doth to her eyes repair To help him of his blindness, […]
Continue ReadingFinally: Julia, disguised as a boy!! (4.2.26-36) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter Host and Julia disguised as a boy, who stand apart] HOST Now, my young guest, methinks you’re allycholly. I pray you, why is it? JULIA Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry. HOST Come, we’ll have you merry. I’ll bring you where you shall hear music, and see the gentleman that you asked for. JULIA […]
Continue ReadingThurio: what are you doing here already? Proteus: I love Silvia too! (4.2.18-25) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter Thurio and Musicians] THURIO How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us? PROTEUS Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go. THURIO Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here. PROTEUS Sir, but I do, or else I would be hence. THURIO Who, […]
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