PROTEUS After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady’s chamber-window With some sweet consort. To their instruments Tune a deploring dump. The night’s dead silence Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. This, or else nothing, will inherit her. DUKE This discipline shows thou hast been in love. (3.2.81-87) Proteus is really into […]
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PROTEUS Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart. Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line, That may discover such integrity. For Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and […]
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PROTEUS As much as I can do, I will effect. But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough. You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows. DUKE Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. (3.2.66-71) Oh, totally, I’ll do what I […]
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DUKE And Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind Because we know, on Valentine’s report, You are already love’s firm votary, And cannot soon revolt, and change your mind. Upon this warrant shall you have access Where you with Silvia may confer at large. For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy, And for your friend’s […]
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THURIO Therefore, as you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none You must provide to bottom it on me; Which must be done by praising me as much As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine. (3.2.51-55) Thurio’s conceit is fabulous but also deeply weird, especially to a […]
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DUKE Where your good word cannot advantage him Your slander never can endamage him. Therefore, the office is indifferent, Being entreated to it by your friend. PROTEUS You have prevailed, my lord. If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise She shall not long continue love to him. But […]
Continue ReadingDuke: YOU tell her bad stuff about Valentine then; Proteus: oh I couldn’t (3.2.31-41) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent, Three things that women highly hold in hate. DUKE Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate. PROTEUS Ay, if his enemy deliver it. Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken By one whom she esteemeth as his friend. […]
Continue ReadingDuke: I need your advice; Proteus: my lord *smirks* (3.1.22-30) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
DUKE Thou know’st how willingly I would effect The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter? PROTEUS I do, my lord. DUKE And also, I think, thou art not ignorant How she opposes her against my will? PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here. DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so. What might […]
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DUKE How now, Sir Proteus, is your countryman, According to our proclamation, gone? PROTEUS Gone, my good lord. DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously? PROTEUS A little time, my lord, will kill that grief. DUKE So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so. Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee (For thou hast […]
Continue ReadingTurio: Silvia hates me! Duke: she’ll thaw soon! (3.2.1-10) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Enter Duke [and] Thurio DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you Now Valentine is banished from her sight. THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most, Forsworn my company, and railed at me, That I am desperate of obtaining her. DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure […]
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