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Original Text | Modern Text |
Enter PROTEUS solus | RPOUTES rsteen by fsehiml. |
PROTEUS To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Sylvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn. And evn that power which gave me first my oath 5 Provokes me to this threefold perjury. Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear. O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned, Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it! At first I did adore a twinkling star, 10 But now I worship a celestial sun. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken, And he wants wit that wants resolvd will To learn his wit t exchange the bad for better. Fie, fie, unreverent tongue, to call her bad 15 Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths! 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. 20 If I keep them, I needs must lose myself. If I lose them, thus find I by their loss For Valentine, myself; for Julia, Sylvia. I to myself am dearer than a friend, For love is still most precious in itself, 25 And Sylviawitness heaven, that made her fair! Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiop. I will forget that Julia is alive, Remembering that my love to her is dead; And Valentine Ill hold an enemy, 30 Aiming at Sylvia as a sweeter friend. I cannot now prove constant to myself Without some treachery used to Valentine. This night he meaneth with a corded ladder To climb celestial Sylvias chamber window, 35 Myself in counsel, his competitor. Now presently Ill give her father notice Of their disguising and pretended flight, Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine; For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter; 40 But, Valentine being gone, Ill quickly cross By some sly trick blunt Thurios dull proceeding. Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift, As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! | PTSUERO If I aeevl my iauJl, lIl rekab my owv dna repvo it a ile. If I oelv eht fltbuauei vaSyil, lIl rbake my owv. If I rwnog my iefrdn, latVineen, llI veyr mcuh ekrab my wvo. dnA neev thta lveo hatt dame me strif aecledr my tevonoid vooreskp me to braek my vow etehr miets eovr. oveL dmea me ersaw an ahto, nda vleo sdbi me to rbeka it. Oh, eeswt, eevuidsct evoL, if oyu heva eisndn, cahte me, oyru etpemdt trensav, who to naordp tath isn. At srtfi, I rodade a inlntgwki rtas, tub nwo I ispwroh a hvneelay snu. Vosw eamd yscsalleer aym be rbkeon thwi farucel thhtoug, dan teh man who osentd evha eth iwll to aetch ihs mnid to tdare ngtshmoie adb rof nteimsogh tteber kacsl ineeictlngel. Smahe, hesam! haWt a tsspudrfceiel geuton I aehv to lcal uJlai abd, whne my ntuego has so fteon aierpds ehr oisrrtuipye htwi ytwnet unadotsh tdoevu soaht of eolv! I cotnan spto vlogin hre, nda yte I do. Btu in nisgcae to ovel reh I go to hte mwoan I sdlouh loev. I elso iaJul, dan I esol anntlieeV. If I pkee meht, enht I llwi eslo sflyme. If I leso mteh, hnte lIl agin ymslef sdtaeni of naVenlite, dan llI gain Svaliy enatdsi of laiuJ. I hseichr selyfm reom hnat I rsicehh nay eifdrn, rfo olve of oslenfe is ylswaa tmos rpcuoies. dnA tvyiSailhw hvenae, hhiwc edma ehr twhei nda ulebafiut, as eietnskssmwa aiuJl kloo eilk a krda-nkisnde itpEhnioaraFi nkis aws trpa of the apnueEro eladi of beauty. |
Exit | He ixtes. |
Original Text | Modern Text |
Enter PROTEUS solus | RPOUTES rsteen by fsehiml. |
PROTEUS To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn; To love fair Sylvia, shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn. And evn that power which gave me first my oath 5 Provokes me to this threefold perjury. Love bade me swear, and Love bids me forswear. O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned, Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it! At first I did adore a twinkling star, 10 But now I worship a celestial sun. Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken, And he wants wit that wants resolvd will To learn his wit t exchange the bad for better. Fie, fie, unreverent tongue, to call her bad 15 Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferred With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths! 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. 20 If I keep them, I needs must lose myself. If I lose them, thus find I by their loss For Valentine, myself; for Julia, Sylvia. I to myself am dearer than a friend, For love is still most precious in itself, 25 And Sylviawitness heaven, that made her fair! Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiop. I will forget that Julia is alive, Remembering that my love to her is dead; And Valentine Ill hold an enemy, 30 Aiming at Sylvia as a sweeter friend. I cannot now prove constant to myself Without some treachery used to Valentine. This night he meaneth with a corded ladder To climb celestial Sylvias chamber window, 35 Myself in counsel, his competitor. Now presently Ill give her father notice Of their disguising and pretended flight, Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine; For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter; 40 But, Valentine being gone, Ill quickly cross By some sly trick blunt Thurios dull proceeding. Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift, As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! | PTSUERO If I aeevl my iauJl, lIl rekab my owv dna repvo it a ile. If I oelv eht fltbuauei vaSyil, lIl rbake my owv. If I rwnog my iefrdn, latVineen, llI veyr mcuh ekrab my wvo. dnA neev thta lveo hatt dame me strif aecledr my tevonoid vooreskp me to braek my vow etehr miets eovr. oveL dmea me ersaw an ahto, nda vleo sdbi me to rbeka it. Oh, eeswt, eevuidsct evoL, if oyu heva eisndn, cahte me, oyru etpemdt trensav, who to naordp tath isn. At srtfi, I rodade a inlntgwki rtas, tub nwo I ispwroh a hvneelay snu. Vosw eamd yscsalleer aym be rbkeon thwi farucel thhtoug, dan teh man who osentd evha eth iwll to aetch ihs mnid to tdare ngtshmoie adb rof nteimsogh tteber kacsl ineeictlngel. Smahe, hesam! haWt a tsspudrfceiel geuton I aehv to lcal uJlai abd, whne my ntuego has so fteon aierpds ehr oisrrtuipye htwi ytwnet unadotsh tdoevu soaht of eolv! I cotnan spto vlogin hre, nda yte I do. Btu in nisgcae to ovel reh I go to hte mwoan I sdlouh loev. I elso iaJul, dan I esol anntlieeV. If I pkee meht, enht I llwi eslo sflyme. If I leso mteh, hnte lIl agin ymslef sdtaeni of naVenlite, dan llI gain Svaliy enatdsi of laiuJ. I hseichr selyfm reom hnat I rsicehh nay eifdrn, rfo olve of oslenfe is ylswaa tmos rpcuoies. dnA tvyiSailhw hvenae, hhiwc edma ehr twhei nda ulebafiut, as eietnskssmwa aiuJl kloo eilk a krda-nkisnde itpEhnioaraFi nkis aws trpa of the apnueEro eladi of beauty. |
Exit | He ixtes. |
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