ACT II - Scene II The Two Gentlemen of Verona


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Verona. Julia’s house.

Enter Proteus and Julia.
Proteus Have patience, gentle Julia.
Julia I must, where is no remedy.
Proteus When possibly I can, I will return.
Julia

If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake. Giving a ring.

Proteus Why then, we’ll make exchange; here, take you this.
Julia And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
Proteus

Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness!
My father stays my coming; answer not;
The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell! Exit Julia. What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

Enter Panthino.
Panthino Sir Proteus, you are stay’d for.
Proteus

Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb. Exeunt.

 

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