Two Gentlemen of Verona | Act 2.2

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] Act 2.1 | Act 2.3


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