SCENE, Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua. 1 DRAMATIS PERSONE.] THE NAMES OF ALL THE ACTORS. Ff, at the end of the play. 2 OF MILAN] added by Pope. 3 PROTEUS] Steevens. PROTHEUS Ff. See note (1). 4 ANTONIO] Capell. ANTHONIO Ff. 5 PANTHINO] Capell. PANTHION Ff. See note (1). 6 Servants, Musicians] Theobald. 7 SCENE...] Pope and Hanmer. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. ACT I. SCENE I. Verona. An open place. Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS. Val. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus : Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein, Pro. Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu ! 5 10 Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel: When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, 15 Verona. An open place] an open Place in Verona. Theobald. Verona. Pope. Enter...] Rowe. Valentine: Protheus, and Speed. F1. Valentine, Protheus, and Speed. F2F3F4 8 with] in Capell. Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, 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, Pro. Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots. Pro. What? Val. To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; Pro. So, by your circumstance, you call me fool. Val. Love is your master, for he masters you: Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. Pro. Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud 19 my] F1 thy F2F3F4 success?] success. Warburton. 21-28 Put in the margin as spurious by Pope. 25 for] but Singer, ed. 2 (Collier MS.). and Hudson (Staunton conj.). 31 335 40 26 swum] Clark and Glover. swom Ff. swam Steevens (1793). 28 thee] om. S. Walker conj. See note (II). 30 fading] om. Hanmer. Val. And writers say, as the most forward bud But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee, Pro. And thither will I bring thee, Valentine. To Milan let me hear from thee by letters 45 50 55 60 Pro. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Val. As much to you at home! and so, farewell. [Exit. Pro. He after honour hunts, I after love : He leaves his friends to dignify them more; I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love. Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought; Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought. Enter SPEED. 65 Speed. Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master? 70 48 blasting] blasted Collier MS. 49 Losing] Loosing F1. 57 To...hear] To Milan! let me hear Malone conj. To] F. At F2F3F4 65 leave] Pope. love Ff. all, for] Dyce. all for Ff. 66 metamorphosed] metamorphis'd F1. matamorphos'd F 67 Made] Make Hudson (Johnson conj.). lose] loose F, (and passim). 69 Enter Speed.] Rowe. om. Ff. Enter Speed, bluntly. Capell. 70 SCENE II. Pope. 70-144 Put in the margin by Pope. Pro. But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan. Speed. Twenty to one, then, he is shipp'd already, And I have play'd the sheep in losing him. Pro. Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be awhile away. 75 Speed. You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then, and I a sheep? Pro. I do. Speed. Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep. Pro. A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep. Pro. True; and thy master a shepherd. 80 Speed. Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. Pro. 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, and my master seeks not me therefore I am no sheep. 86 Pro. The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for wages follows not thee therefore thou art a sheep. 90 Speed. Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.' Pro. But, dost thou hear? gavest 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. 96 Pro. Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons. Speed. If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her. 73 losing] loosing F1. 76 a] FF,F. om. F1. 99 74 very] om. Pope (ed. 2). 87 follow] follows Pope. 75 An if] Pope. And if Ff. |