JULIA Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me. LUCETTA Yet he, of all the rest, I think best loves ye. JULIA His little speaking shows his love but small. LUCETTA Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all. JULIA They do not love, that do not show their love. LUCETTA O, they […]
Continue ReadingYes alright Proteus is HOT (hmmm) but, make sure he’s worth it (1.2.20-26) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
JULIA Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest? LUCETTA Then thus: of many good, I think him best. JULIA Your reason? LUCETTA I have no other but a woman’s reason: I think him so because I think him so. JULIA And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him? LUCETTA Ay, […]
Continue ReadingJulia: so what do you think of, um, Proteus? (1.2.9-19) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
JULIA What think’st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour? LUCETTA As of a knight well spoken, neat, and fine– But were I you, he never should be mine. JULIA What think’st thou of the rich Mercatio? LUCETTA Well of his wealth – but of himself, so-so. JULIA What think’st thou of the gentle Proteus? LUCETTA […]
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15 January 2024 Enter Julia and Lucetta JULIA But say, Lucetta, now we are alone– Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love? LUCETTA Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully. JULIA Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love? […]
Continue ReadingEnd of the scene! (finally!) And, thoughts on SPEED (1.1.126-136) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS What said she? Nothing? SPEED No, not so much as ‘Take this for thy pains’. To testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your letters yourself. And so, sir, I’ll commend you to my master. [Exit] PROTEUS Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from […]
Continue ReadingSpeed: your girlfriend’s a tough customer; also, grow a pair? (1.1.116-125) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS Come, come, open the matter in brief. What said she? SPEED Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once delivered. PROTEUS [giving money] Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she? SPEED Truly, sir, I think you’ll hardly win her. PROTEUS Why? Couldst thou perceive so much from […]
Continue ReadingSpeed vs Proteus: worse than sheep jokes? probably (1.1.101-115) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS But what said she? SPEED [nodding] Ay. PROTEUS Nod, ‘ay’? Why, that’s ‘noddy’. SPEED You mistook, sir. I say she did nod, and you ask me if she did nod, and I say, ‘Ay’. PROTEUS And that set together is ‘noddy’. SPEED Now you have taken the pains to set it together, take it for your pains. […]
Continue ReadingSHEEP JOKES, a possible nadir? (but also, cool foldy things) (1.1.91-100) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
PROTEUS But dost thou hear? Gav’st thou my letter to Julia? SPEED Ay, sir. I (a lost mutton) gave your letter to her (a laced mutton),and she (a laced mutton) gave me (a lost mutton) nothing for my labour. PROTEUS Here’s too small a pasture for such store of muttons. SPEED If the ground be […]
Continue ReadingMORE SHEEP JOKES with Speed and Proteus (1.1.80-90) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
10 January 2024 SPEED This proves me still a sheep. PROTEUS True, and thy master a shepherd. SPEED Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. PROTEUS It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another. SPEED The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd. But I seek my master, […]
Continue ReadingEnter Speed the servant with SHEEP JOKES (1.1.70-79) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare
[Enter Speed] SPEED Sir Proteus, ’save you. Saw you my master? PROTEUS But now he parted hence to embark for Milan. SPEED Twenty to one, then, he is shipped already, And I have played the sheep in losing him. PROTEUS Indeed a sheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be a while away. […]
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