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Reference: B6v - Comedies, p. 24

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The two Gentlemen of Uerona. bolder to chide you, for yours.

Val.

In conclusion, I stand affected to her.

Speed.

I would you were set, so your affection would

cease.

Val. Last night she enioyn'd me,

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To write some lines to one she loues. Speed.

And haue you?

Ual.

I haue.

Speed.

Are they not lamely writt?

Val. No (Boy) but as well as I can do them:

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Peace, here she comes. Speed. Oh excellent motion; Oh exceeding Puppet: Now will he interpret to her. Val.

Madam & Mistres, a thousand good‑morrows.

Speed.

Oh, 'giue ye‑good‑ev'n: heer's a million of

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manners.

Sil.

Sir Valentine, and seruant, to you two thousand.

Speed.

He should giue her interest: & she giues it him.

Val. As you inioynd me; I haue writ your Letter Vnto the secret, nameles friend of yours:

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Which I was much vnwilling to proceed in, But for my duty to your Ladiship. Sil.

I thanke you (gentle Seruant) 'tis very Clerkly‑

(done.

Val. Now trust me (Madam) it came hardly‑off:

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For being ignorant to whom it goes, I writ at randome, very doubtfully. Sil.

Perchance you think too much of so much pains?

Val.

No (Madam) so it steed you, I will write

(Please you command) a thousand times as much:

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And yet⸺ Sil. A pretty period: well: I ghesse the sequell; And yet I will not name it: and yet I care not. And yet, take this againe: and yet I thanke you: Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more. Speed.

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And yet you will: and yet, another yet.

Val. What meanes your Ladiship? Doe you not like it? Sil. Yes, yes; the lines are very queintly writ, But (since vnwillingly) take them againe.

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Nay, take them. Val.

Madam, they are for you.

Sil. I, I: you writ them Sir, at my request, But I will none of them: they are for you: I would haue had them writ more mouingly: Val.

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Please you, Ile write your Ladiship another.

Sil. And when it's writ: for my sake read it ouer, And if it please you, so: if not: why, so: Val.

If it please me, (Madam?) what then?

Sil. Why if it please you, take it for your labour;

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And so good‑morrow Seruant. Exit. Sil. Speed. Oh Iest vnseene: inscrutible: inuisible, As a nose on a mans face, or a Weathercocke on a steeple: My master sues to her: and she hath taught her Sutor, He being her Pupill, to become her Tutor.

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Oh excellent deuise, was there euer heard a better? That my master being scribe, To himselfe should write the Letter? Val. How now Sir? What are you reasoning with your selfe? Speed.

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Nay: I was riming: 'tis you y t that haue the reason.

Val.

To doe what?

Speed.

To be a spokes‑man from Madam Siluia.

Val.

To whom?

Speed.

To your selfe: why, she woes you by a figure.

Val.

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What figure?

Speed.

By a Letter, I should say.

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Val.

Why she hath not writ to me?

Speed. What need she, When shee hath made you write to your selfe?

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Why, doe you not perceiue the iest? Val.

No, beleeue me.

Speed. No beleeuing you indeed sir: But did you perceiue her earnest? Ual.

She gaue me none, except an angry word.

Speed.

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Why she hath giuen you a Letter.

Val.

That's the Letter I writ to her friend.

Speed.

And y t letter hath she deliuer'd, & there an end.

Val.

I would it were no worse.

Speed. Ile warrant you, 'tis as well:

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For often haue you writ to her: and she in modesty, Or else for want of idle time, could not againe reply, Or fearing else some messēger messenger , y t might her mind discouer Her self hath taught her Loue himself, to write vnto her (louer. All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.

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Why muse you sir? 'tis dinner time. Ual.

I haue dyn'd.

Speed.

I, but hearken sir: though the Cameleon Loue

can feed on the ayre, I am one that am nourish'd by my

victuals; and would faine haue meate: oh bee not like

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your Mistresse, be moued, be moued.

Exeunt.

Scœna Secunda. [Act 2, Scene 2] Enter Protheus, Iulia, Panthion. Pro.

Haue patience, gentle Iulia:

Iul.

I must where is no remedy.

Pro.

When possibly I can, I will returne.

Iul. If you turne not: you will return the sooner:

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Keepe this remembrance for thy Iulia's sake. Pro. Why then wee'll make exchange; Here, take you this. Iul.

And seale the bargaine with a holy kisse.

Pro. Here is my hand, for my true constancie:

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And when that howre oerslips me in the day, Wherein I sigh not ( Iulia) for thy sake, The next ensuing howre, some foule mischance Torment me for my Loues forgetfulnesse: My father staies my coming; answere not:

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The tide is now; nay, not thy tide of teares, That tide will stay me longer then I should, Iulia, farewell: what, gon without a word? I, so true loue should doe: it cannot speake, For truth hath better deeds, then words to grace it. Panth.

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Sir Protheus: you are staid for.

Pro. Goe: I come, I come:

Alas, this parting strikes poore Louers dumbe.

Exeunt.

Scœna Tertia. [Act 2, Scene 3] Enter Launce, Panthion. Launce.

Nay, 'twill bee this howre ere I haue done

weeping: all the kinde of the Launces, haue this very

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fault: I haue receiu'd my proportion, like the prodigious sonne,

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Scœna Secunda. [Act 2, Scene 2] Enter Protheus, Iulia, Panthion. Pro.

Haue patience, gentle Iulia:

Iul.

I must where is no remedy.

Pro.

When possibly I can, I will returne.

Iul. If you turne not: you will return the sooner:

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Keepe this remembrance for thy Iulia's sake. Pro. Why then wee'll make exchange; Here, take you this. Iul.

And seale the bargaine with a holy kisse.

Pro. Here is my hand, for my true constancie:

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And when that howre oerslips me in the day, Wherein I sigh not ( Iulia) for thy sake, The next ensuing howre, some foule mischance Torment me for my Loues forgetfulnesse: My father staies my coming; answere not:

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The tide is now; nay, not thy tide of teares, That tide will stay me longer then I should, Iulia, farewell: what, gon without a word? I, so true loue should doe: it cannot speake, For truth hath better deeds, then words to grace it. Panth.

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Sir Protheus: you are staid for.

Pro. Goe: I come, I come:

Alas, this parting strikes poore Louers dumbe.

Exeunt.

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Reference: B6v - Comedies, p. 24