LUCETTA I do not seek to quench your love’s hot fire, But qualify the fire’s extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. JULIA The more thou damm’st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides Thou know’st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair […]
Continue ReadingJulia: I HAVE to go to Proteus I’ll DIE without him (2.7.8-20) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
LUCETTA Alas, the way is wearisome and long. JULIA A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps. Much less shall she that hath love’s wings to fly, And when the flight is made to one so dear, Of such divine perfection as Sir Proteus. LUCETTA Better forbear till Proteus make […]
Continue ReadingJulia: help, how do I get to Milan to see Proteus? (2.7.1-7) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Enter Julia and Lucetta JULIA Counsel, Lucetta. Gentle girl, assist me, And e’en in kind love I do conjure thee, Who art the table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly charactered and engraved, To lesson me, and tell me some good mean How with my honour I may undertake A journey to my loving Proteus. […]
Continue ReadingOnce Valentine’s out of the way, I’ll deal with Thurio – sorted! (2.6.33-43) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS This night he meaneth with a corded ladder To climb celestial Silvia’s chamber window, Myself in counsel his competitor. Now presently I’ll give her father notice Of their disguising and pretended flight, Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine; For Thurio he intends shall wed his daughter. But Valentine being gone, I’ll quickly cross, By […]
Continue ReadingJulia? she’s dead to me; Valentine? just someone I used to know (2.6.27-32) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS I will forget that Julia is alive, Remembering that my love to her is dead, And Valentine I’ll hold an enemy, Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend. I cannot now prove constant to myself Without some treachery used to Valentine. (2.6.27-32) Proteus has made his mind up, and he sounds shockingly callous—there […]
Continue ReadingProteus, racing himself to the bottom, because he’s worth it (2.6.17-26) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
CW: racism PROTEUS I cannot leave to love, and yet I do. But there I leave to love where I should love. Julia I lose, and Valentine I lose. If I keep them, I needs must lose myself. If I lose them, thus find I by their loss For Valentine, myself, for Julia, Silvia. I […]
Continue ReadingProteus, auditioning for a role in Bridget Jones’s diary (2.6.9-16) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS At first I did adore a twinkling star, But now I worship a celestial sun. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken, And he wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit t’exchange the bad for better. Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred With […]
Continue ReadingProteus, having a solipsistic, sophistical moan (2.6.1-8) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
Enter Proteus, solus PROTEUS To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn? To love fair Silvia shall I be forsworn? To wrong my friend I shall be much forsworn, And e’en that power which gave me first my oath Provokes me to this threefold perjury. Love bade me swear, and love bids me forswear. O […]
Continue ReadingValentine is apparently now a Hot Lover! (2.5.30-45) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
CW: anti-semitism LANCE Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable. SPEED ’Tis well that I get it so. But Lance, how sayst thou that my master is become a notable lover? LANCE I never knew him otherwise. SPEED Than how? LANCE A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be. […]
Continue ReadingLance: you’d better see what Crab thinks; Crab [ ] (2.5.16-29) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
SPEED Why then, how stands the matter with them? LANCE Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it stands well with her. SPEED What an ass art thou! I understand thee not. LANCE What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My staff understands me. SPEED What thou sayst? LANCE Ay, and what I […]
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