Exit Petruchio [with Katherina].
Hor.
Now go thy ways, thou hast tam’d a curst shrow.
Luc.
’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.
[Exeunt.]
¶
William Shakespeare
THE TWO
GENTLEMEN
OF VERONA
( 1594 )
First Folio, 1623
verona
¶
Act I
Act II
Sc. I Sc. II Sc. III Sc. IV Sc. V Sc. VI Sc. VII
Act III
Sc. I Sc. II
Act IV
Act V
The Names of All the Actors
Duke [of Milan], father to Silvia
Valentine,
Proteus, the two Gentlemen
Antonio, father to Proteus
Thurio, a foolish rival to Valentine
Eglamour, agent for Silvia in her escape
Host, where Julia lodges
Outlaws, with Valentine
Speed, [page] to Valentine
Launce, a clownish servant to Proteus
Panthino, servant to Antonio
Julia, beloved of Proteus
Silvia, beloved of Valentine
Lucetta, waiting-woman to Julia
[Attendants; Musicians]
[Scene: Verona; Milan; and a forest somewhere between Milan and Mantua]
ACT I
Scene I
[Enter] Valentine, Proteus.
Val.
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honor’d love,
I rather would entreat thy company,
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than (living dully sluggardiz’d at home)
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
But since thou lov’st, love still, and thrive therein,
Even as I would, when I to love begin.
Pro.
Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu,
Think on thy Proteus, when thou, happ’ly, seest
Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel.
Wish me partaker in thy happiness
When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger
(If ever danger do environ thee)
Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,
For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.
Val.
And on a love-book pray for my success?
Pro.
Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee.
Val.
That’s on some shallow story of deep love,
How young Leander cross’d the Hellespont.
Pro.
That’s a deep story of a deeper love,
For he was more than over shoes in love.
Val.
’Tis true; for you are over boots in love,
And yet you never swom the Hellespont.
Pro.
Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.
Val.
