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Enter DUKE and THURIO
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Enter DUKE and THURIO
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DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
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DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
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THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and railed at me,
5 That I am desperate of obtaining her.
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THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and railed at me,
That I am desperate of obtaining her.
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DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenchèd in ice, which with an hour’s heat
Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
10 And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
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DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenchèd in ice, which with an hour’s heat
Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
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Enter PROTEUS
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Enter PROTEUS
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How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,
According to our proclamation, gone?
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How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,
According to our proclamation, gone?
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PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.
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PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.
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DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.
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DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.
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PROTEUS 15 A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
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PROTEUS A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
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DUKE So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee—
For thou hast shown some sign of good desert—
Makes me the better to confer with thee.
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DUKE So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee—
For thou hast shown some sign of good desert—
Makes me the better to confer with thee.
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PROTEUS 20 Longer than I prove loyal to Your Grace
Let me not live to look upon Your Grace.
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PROTEUS Longer than I prove loyal to Your Grace
Let me not live to look upon Your Grace.
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DUKE Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.
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DUKE Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.
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PROTEUS I do, my lord.
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PROTEUS I do, my lord.
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DUKE 25 And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
How she opposes her against my will.
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DUKE And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
How she opposes her against my will.
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PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
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PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
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DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
What might we do to make the girl forget
30 The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
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DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
What might we do to make the girl forget
The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
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PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine
With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women highly hold in hate.
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PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine
With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women highly hold in hate.
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DUKE Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate.
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DUKE Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate.
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PROTEUS 35 Ay, if his enemy deliver it;
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
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PROTEUS Ay, if his enemy deliver it;
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
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DUKE Then you must undertake to slander him.
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DUKE Then you must undertake to slander him.
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PROTEUS And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
40 ’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Especially against his very friend.
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PROTEUS And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Especially against his very friend.
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DUKE Where your good word cannot advantage him,
Your slander never can endamage him;
Therefore the office is indifferent,
45 Being entreated to it by your friend.
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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.
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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 say this weed her love from Valentine,
50 It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
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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 say this weed her love from Valentine,
It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
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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
55 As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
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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.
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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.
60 Upon this warrant shall you have access
Where you with Sylvia may confer at large;
For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you,
Where you may temper her by your persuasion
65 To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
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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 Sylvia may confer at large;
For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you,
Where you may temper her by your persuasion
To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
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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 composèd rhymes
70 Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
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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 composèd rhymes
Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
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DUKE Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
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DUKE Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
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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
75 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 stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
80 Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
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
85 Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
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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 stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
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.
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DUKE This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
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DUKE This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
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THURIO And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
90 Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.
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THURIO And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.
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DUKE About it, gentlemen!
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DUKE About it, gentlemen!
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PROTEUS 95 We’ll wait upon Your Grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.
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PROTEUS We’ll wait upon Your Grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.
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DUKE Even now about it! I will pardon you.
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DUKE Even now about it! I will pardon you.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter DUKE and THURIO
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Enter DUKE and THURIO
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DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
|
DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banished from her sight.
|
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THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and railed at me,
5 That I am desperate of obtaining her.
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THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most,
Forsworn my company and railed at me,
That I am desperate of obtaining her.
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DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenchèd in ice, which with an hour’s heat
Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
10 And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
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DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenchèd in ice, which with an hour’s heat
Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.
A little time will melt her frozen thoughts,
And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.
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Enter PROTEUS
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Enter PROTEUS
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How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,
According to our proclamation, gone?
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How now, Sir Proteus? Is your countryman,
According to our proclamation, gone?
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PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.
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PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.
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DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.
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DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.
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PROTEUS 15 A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
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PROTEUS A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.
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DUKE So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee—
For thou hast shown some sign of good desert—
Makes me the better to confer with thee.
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DUKE So I believe, but Thurio thinks not so.
Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee—
For thou hast shown some sign of good desert—
Makes me the better to confer with thee.
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PROTEUS 20 Longer than I prove loyal to Your Grace
Let me not live to look upon Your Grace.
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PROTEUS Longer than I prove loyal to Your Grace
Let me not live to look upon Your Grace.
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DUKE Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.
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DUKE Thou know’st how willingly I would effect
The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.
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PROTEUS I do, my lord.
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PROTEUS I do, my lord.
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DUKE 25 And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
How she opposes her against my will.
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DUKE And also, I think, thou art not ignorant
How she opposes her against my will.
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PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
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PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
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DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
What might we do to make the girl forget
30 The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
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DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so.
What might we do to make the girl forget
The love of Valentine, and love Sir Thurio?
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PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine
With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women highly hold in hate.
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PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine
With falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women highly hold in hate.
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DUKE Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate.
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DUKE Ay, but she’ll think that it is spoke in hate.
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PROTEUS 35 Ay, if his enemy deliver it;
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
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PROTEUS Ay, if his enemy deliver it;
Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken
By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.
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DUKE Then you must undertake to slander him.
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DUKE Then you must undertake to slander him.
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PROTEUS And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
40 ’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Especially against his very friend.
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PROTEUS And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do.
’Tis an ill office for a gentleman,
Especially against his very friend.
|
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DUKE Where your good word cannot advantage him,
Your slander never can endamage him;
Therefore the office is indifferent,
45 Being entreated to it by your friend.
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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 say this weed her love from Valentine,
50 It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
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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 say this weed her love from Valentine,
It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.
|
|
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
55 As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.
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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.
|
|
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.
60 Upon this warrant shall you have access
Where you with Sylvia may confer at large;
For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you,
Where you may temper her by your persuasion
65 To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
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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 Sylvia may confer at large;
For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,
And, for your friend’s sake, will be glad of you,
Where you may temper her by your persuasion
To hate young Valentine and love my friend.
|
|
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 composèd rhymes
70 Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
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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 composèd rhymes
Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.
|
|
DUKE Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
|
DUKE Ay, much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
|
|
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
75 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 stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
80 Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
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
85 Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.
This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
|
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 stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
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.
|
DUKE This discipline shows thou hast been in love.
|
|
THURIO And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
90 Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.
|
THURIO And thy advice this night I’ll put in practice.
Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,
Let us into the city presently
To sort some gentlemen well skilled in music.
I have a sonnet that will serve the turn
To give the onset to thy good advice.
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DUKE About it, gentlemen!
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DUKE About it, gentlemen!
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PROTEUS 95 We’ll wait upon Your Grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.
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PROTEUS We’ll wait upon Your Grace till after supper,
And afterward determine our proceedings.
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DUKE Even now about it! I will pardon you.
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DUKE Even now about it! I will pardon you.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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