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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Global Grey Edition)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Global Grey Edition)
TWO GENTLEMEN OF
VERONA
BY
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
©GlobalGrey 2018
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CONTENTS
Characters of the Play
ACT 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
ACT 2
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Scene 5
Scene 6
Scene 7
ACT 3
Scene 1
Scene 2
ACT 4
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
ACT 5
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
1
ACT 1
3
SCENE 1
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
4
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
What?
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
Exit
PROTEUS
Enter SPEED
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
7
PROTEUS
I do.
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the
shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks
not me: therefore I am no sheep.
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask
me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.'
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
10
PROTEUS
SPEED
Open your purse, that the money and the matter may
be both at once delivered.
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
SPEED
PROTEUS
Exit SPEED
Exit
12
SCENE 2
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
Your reason?
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
14
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
Will ye be gone?
LUCETTA
Exit
JULIA
Re-enter LUCETTA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
I would it were,
That you might kill your stomach on your meat
And not upon your maid.
JULIA
LUCETTA
Nothing.
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
18
LUCETTA
JULIA
You do not?
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
19
Exit
JULIA
Re-enter LUCETTA
LUCETTA
20
Madam,
Dinner is ready, and your father stays.
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
Exeunt
21
SCENE 3
ANTONIO
PANTHINO
ANTONIO
PANTHINO
ANTONIO
PANTHINO
ANTONIO
I know it well.
PANTHINO
ANTONIO
PANTHINO
ANTONIO
23
Enter PROTEUS
PROTEUS
ANTONIO
PROTEUS
ANTONIO
PROTEUS
ANTONIO
PROTEUS
ANTONIO
PROTEUS
ANTONIO
PROTEUS
Re-enter PANTHINO
25
PANTHINO
PROTEUS
Exeunt
26
ACT 2
27
SCENE 1
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
30
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
31
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
Why?
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
I have.
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
Enter SILVIA
VALENTINE
SPEED
SILVIA
SPEED
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
SPEED
34
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
Exit
SPEED
35
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
To do what?
SPEED
VALENTINE
To whom?
SPEED
VALENTINE
What figure?
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
VALENTINE
I have dined.
SPEED
Exeunt
38
SCENE 2
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
Giving a ring
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
Exit JULIA
Enter PANTHINO
PANTHINO
PROTEUS
Exeunt
40
SCENE 3
LAUNCE
Enter PANTHINO
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
In thy tale.
PANTHINO
In thy tail!
LAUNCE
Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and
the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river
were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the
wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
PANTHINO
LAUNCE
Exeunt
43
SCENE 4
SILVIA
Servant!
VALENTINE
Mistress?
SPEED
VALENTINE
SPEED
Not of you.
VALENTINE
Of my mistress, then.
SPEED
Exit
SILVIA
VALENTINE
THURIO
44
VALENTINE
Haply I do.
THURIO
So do counterfeits.
VALENTINE
So do you.
THURIO
VALENTINE
Wise.
THURIO
VALENTINE
Your folly.
THURIO
VALENTINE
THURIO
My jerkin is a doublet.
VALENTINE
THURIO
How?
SILVIA
VALENTINE
THURIO
VALENTINE
THURIO
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
46
THURIO
VALENTINE
SILVIA
Enter DUKE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
48
DUKE
Exit
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
THURIO
VALENTINE
SILVIA
Exit THURIO
Enter PROTEUS
VALENTINE
SILVIA
VALENTINE
SILVIA
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
SILVIA
50
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
Re-enter THURIO
THURIO
SILVIA
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
52
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
Except my mistress.
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
I will.
Exit VALENTINE
Exit
56
SCENE 5
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
No.
SPEED
LAUNCE
No, neither.
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
58
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
Than how?
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
59
LAUNCE
SPEED
Why?
LAUNCE
SPEED
At thy service.
Exeunt
60
SCENE 6
Enter PROTEUS
PROTEUS
Exit
62
SCENE 7
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
64
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
LUCETTA
JULIA
Exeunt
67
ACT 3
68
SCENE 1
DUKE
Exit THURIO
PROTEUS
DUKE
69
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
Exit
Enter VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
73
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
74
VALENTINE
DUKE
Reads
Exit
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
Soho, soho!
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
Valentine?
VALENTINE
No.
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
Neither.
PROTEUS
What then?
VALENTINE
Nothing.
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
77
Nothing.
PROTEUS
Villain, forbear.
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
Is Silvia dead?
PROTEUS
No, Valentine.
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
No, Valentine.
VALENTINE
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
LAUNCE
team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who
'tis I love; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I
will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet
'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis
a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for
wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel;
which is much in a bare Christian.
Enter SPEED
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
81
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
83
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults
than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'
LAUNCE
Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not
mine, twice or thrice in that last article.
Rehearse that once more.
SPEED
LAUNCE
More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. The
cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it
is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit
is more than the wit, for the greater hides the
less. What's next?
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
86
What then?
LAUNCE
SPEED
For me?
LAUNCE
SPEED
LAUNCE
SPEED
Exit
LAUNCE
Exit
87
SCENE 2
DUKE
Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,
Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight.
THURIO
DUKE
Enter PROTEUS
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
I do, my lord.
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
89
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
PROTEUS
THURIO
DUKE
90
PROTEUS
DUKE
Ay,
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.
PROTEUS
DUKE
THURIO
DUKE
PROTEUS
DUKE
Exeunt
92
ACT 4
93
SCENE 1
First Outlaw
Second Outlaw
Third Outlaw
SPEED
VALENTINE
My friends,--
First Outlaw
Second Outlaw
Third Outlaw
VALENTINE
94
Second Outlaw
VALENTINE
To Verona.
First Outlaw
VALENTINE
From Milan.
Third Outlaw
VALENTINE
First Outlaw
VALENTINE
I was.
Second Outlaw
VALENTINE
95
First Outlaw
VALENTINE
Second Outlaw
VALENTINE
Third Outlaw
First Outlaw
SPEED
VALENTINE
Peace, villain!
Second Outlaw
VALENTINE
Third Outlaw
Second Outlaw
First Outlaw
Second Outlaw
Third Outlaw
First Outlaw
Second Outlaw
VALENTINE
Third Outlaw
Exeunt
98
SCENE 2
Enter PROTEUS
PROTEUS
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
99
PROTEUS
THURIO
Who? Silvia?
PROTEUS
THURIO
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
100
Music plays
Host
Hark, hark!
JULIA
Is he among these?
Host
Host
How now! are you sadder than you were before? How
do you, man? the music likes you not.
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
102
Host
JULIA
Where is Launce?
Host
JULIA
PROTEUS
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
Farewell.
PROTEUS
103
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
SILVIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Host
JULIA
Exeunt
107
SCENE 3
The same.
Enter EGLAMOUR
EGLAMOUR
SILVIA
Who calls?
EGLAMOUR
SILVIA
EGLAMOUR
SILVIA
EGLAMOUR
SILVIA
EGLAMOUR
109
SILVIA
EGLAMOUR
SILVIA
Exeunt severally
110
SCENE 4
The same.
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
To LAUNCE
LAUNCE
Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
112
Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you
currish thanks is good enough for such a present.
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
LAUNCE
PROTEUS
Exit LAUNCE
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
Alas!
PROTEUS
JULIA
I cannot choose
But pity her.
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
Exit
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
From whom?
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
Ay, madam.
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
There, hold!
I will not look upon your master's lines:
I know they are stuff'd with protestations
116
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
117
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
118
JULIA
And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her.
A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful
I hope my master's suit will be but cold,
Since she respects my mistress' love so much.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
Here is her picture: let me see; I think,
If I had such a tire, this face of mine
Were full as lovely as is this of hers:
And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,
Unless I flatter with myself too much.
Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:
If that be all the difference in his love,
I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.
Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:
Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.
What should it be that he respects in her
But I can make respective in myself,
If this fond Love were not a blinded god?
Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,
Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!
And, were there sense in his idolatry,
My substance should be statue in thy stead.
I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,
That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,
119
Exit
120
ACT 5
121
SCENE 1
Milan. An abbey.
Enter EGLAMOUR
EGLAMOUR
Enter SILVIA
SILVIA
EGLAMOUR
Exeunt
122
SCENE 2
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
JULIA
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
PROTEUS
JULIA
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
JULIA
THURIO
PROTEUS
JULIA
THURIO
PROTEUS
124
JULIA
THURIO
PROTEUS
THURIO
Wherefore?
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
Enter DUKE
DUKE
THURIO
Not I.
PROTEUS
Nor I.
DUKE
125
PROTEUS
Neither.
DUKE
Why then,
She's fled unto that peasant Valentine;
And Eglamour is in her company.
'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both,
As he in penance wander'd through the forest;
Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,
But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it;
Besides, she did intend confession
At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not;
These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.
Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,
But mount you presently and meet with me
Upon the rising of the mountain-foot
That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:
Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.
Exit
THURIO
Exit
PROTEUS
Exit
126
JULIA
Exit
127
SCENE 3
First Outlaw
Come, come,
Be patient; we must bring you to our captain.
SILVIA
Second Outlaw
First Outlaw
Third Outlaw
First Outlaw
SILVIA
Exeunt
129
SCENE 4
Enter VALENTINE
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
JULIA
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
PROTEUS
In love
Who respects friend?
SILVIA
PROTEUS
SILVIA
O heaven!
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
132
Valentine!
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
Then I am paid;
And once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied
Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased.
By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased:
And, that my love may appear plain and free,
All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.
JULIA
O me unhappy!
Swoons
133
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
JULIA
PROTEUS
134
How! Julia!
JULIA
PROTEUS
VALENTINE
PROTEUS
JULIA
And I mine.
Outlaws
135
VALENTINE
DUKE
Sir Valentine!
THURIO
VALENTINE
THURIO
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
DUKE
VALENTINE
Exeunt