Two Gentlemen of Verona
Written: 1590-91 Text: First Folio 1623 (Comedy), no quarto editions
Source: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75). Decameron10th day, the story of “Titus and Gisippus”; Elyot, Thomas (c.1490-1546). The Boke named the Governour (1531); Montemayor, Jorge de (c.1521-61). Diana Enamorada (1542, English translation in 1582. publication in 1598) the story of “Felix and Felismena”; The History of Felix and Philiomena (the record of the performance in 1585); Brooke, Arthur (?-1563). The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (English translation in 1562); Lyly, John (c.1554-1606). Euphues (1578)
Characters: Proteus, Valentine, Julia, Duke of Milan, Silvia, Speed, Luceta, Launce
Setting: Verona
Time: Undetermined
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Quotes from Two Gentlemen of Verona
Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus
Read the QuoteValentine
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 honored love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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Servant, you are sad
Read the QuoteSylvia, to Valentine
Servant, you are sad.
Valentine
Indeed, madam, I seem so.
Thurio
Seem you that you are not?
Valentine
Haply I do.
Thurio
So do counterfeits.
Valentine
So do you.
A fine volley of words,
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A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
Read the QuoteJulia
A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary
To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;
Much less shall she that hath Love’s wings to fly,
And when the flight is made to one so dear,
Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
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Lucetta, as thou lov’st me
Read the QuoteJulia
Lucetta, as thou lov’st me, let me have
What thou think’st meet and is most mannerly.
But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me
For undertaking so unstaid a journey?
I fear me it will make me scandalized.
Lucetta
If you think so, then stay at home and go not.
Julia
Nay,
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Time is the nurse and breeder of all good
Read the QuoteTime is the nurse and breeder of all good.
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Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car
Read the QuoteWilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car,
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
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There is a lady in Verona here
Read the QuoteDuke
There is a lady in Verona here
Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy,
And nought esteems my agèd eloquence.
Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor—
For long agone I have forgot to court;
Besides, the fashion of the time is changed—
How and which way I may bestow myself
To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.
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Now, my young guest, methinks you’re allycholly
Read the QuoteHost
Now, my young guest, methinks you’re allycholly.
I pray you, why is it?
Julia, as Sebastian
Marry, mine host, because I
cannot be merry.
Host
Come, we’ll have you merry. I’ll bring you where
you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you
asked for.
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