Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] · William Shakespeare
SCENE II. _The same. The DUKE'S palace._
_Enter DUKE and THURIO._ _Duke._ Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you, Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight. _Thu._ Since his exile she hath despised me most. Forsworn my company, and rail'd at me, That I am desperate of obtaining her. 5 _Duke._ This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. A little time will melt her frozen thoughts, And worthless Valentine shall be forgot. 10 _Enter PROTEUS._ How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman, According to our proclamation, gone? _Pro._ Gone, my good lord. _Duke._ My daughter takes his going grievously. _Pro._ A little time, my lord, will kill that grief. 15 _Duke._ So I believe; but Thurio thinks not so. Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee-- For thou hast shown some sign of good desert-- Makes me the better to confer with thee. _Pro._ Longer than I prove loyal to your Grace 20 Let me not live to look upon your Grace. _Duke._ Thou know'st how willingly I would effect The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter. _Pro._ I do, my lord. _Duke._ And also, I think, thou art not ignorant 25 How she opposes her against my will. _Pro._ She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.
_Duke._ And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind, Because we know, on Valentine's report, You are already Love's firm votary, And cannot soon revolt and change your mind. Upon this warrant shall you have access 60 Where you with Silvia may confer at large; For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy, And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you; Where you may temper her by your persuasion To hate young Valentine and love my friend. 65 _Pro._ As much as I can do, I will effect: But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows. 70 _Duke._ Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. _Pro._ Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears 75 Moist it again; and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity: For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews; Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 80 Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet concert; to their instruments Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence 85 Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance. This, or else nothing, will inherit her.
_Duke._ This discipline shows thou hast been in love. _Thu._ And thy advice this night I'll put in practice. Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver, 90 Let us into the city presently To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music. I have a sonnet that will serve the turn To give the onset to thy good advice. _Duke._ About it, gentlemen! 95 _Pro._ We'll wait upon your Grace till after supper, And afterward determine our proceedings. _Duke._ Even now about it! I will pardon you. [_Exeunt._ Notes: III, 2. SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope. 14: _grievously._] _grievously?_ F1. (in some copies only, according to Malone). _heavily?_ F2 F3. _heavily._ F4. 18: _some_] _sure_ Collier MS. 19: _better_] _bolder_ Capell conj. 20: _loyal_] F1 F3 F4. _royall_ F2. 21: _your_] F1 F3 F4. _you_ F2. _Grace_] _face_ Anon. conj. 25: _I think_] F1. _I doe think_ F2 F3 F4. 28: _persevers_] F1 F2. _perseveres_ F3 F4. 37: _esteemeth_] F1. _esteemes_ F2. _esteems_ F3 F4. 49: _weed_] Ff. _wean_ Rowe. 55: _worth_] _word_ Capell conj. 64: _Where_] _When_ Collier MS. 71, 72: _Ay, Much_] Capell. _I, much_ Ff. _Much_ Pope. 76: _line_] _lines_ S. Verges conj. 77: _such_] _strict_ Collier MS. _love's_ S. Verges conj. Malone suggests that a line has been lost to this purport: _'As her obdurate heart may penetrate.'_ 81: _to_] F1. _and_ F2 F3 F4. 84: _concert_] Hanmer. _consort_ Ff. 86: _sweet-complaining_] Capell. _sweet complaining_ Ff. 94: _advice_] F2 F3 F4. _advise_ F1.
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