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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare

Two best friends from Verona travel to Milan, where romantic entanglements test their loyalty.

"The Two Gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare is a comedy believed to have been. Two best friends from Verona travel to Milan, where romantic entanglements test their loyalty.

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VALENTINE. 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 honoured 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. But since thou lov’st, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would when I to love begin.

PROTEUS. Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu. Think on thy Proteus when thou haply seest Some rare noteworthy object in thy travel. Wish me partaker in thy happiness When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.

VALENTINE. And on a love-book pray for my success?

PROTEUS. Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee.

VALENTINE. That’s on some shallow story of deep love, How young Leander crossed the Hellespont.

PROTEUS. That’s a deep story of a deeper love, For he was more than over shoes in love.

VALENTINE. ’Tis true; for you are over boots in love, And yet you never swam the Hellespont.

PROTEUS. Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots.

VALENTINE. No, I will not, for it boots thee not.

Contents

  1. 01Act I
  2. 02Scene I. Verona. An open place
  3. 03Scene II. The same. The garden of Julia’s house
  4. 04Scene III. The same. A room in Antonio’s house
  5. 05Act II
  6. 06Scene I. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
  7. 07Scene II. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
  8. 08Scene III. The same. A street
  9. 09Scene IV. Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace
  10. 10Scene V. The same. A street
  11. 11Scene VI. The same. The Duke’s palace
  12. 12Scene VII. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
  13. 13Act III
  14. 14Scene I. Milan. An anteroom in the Duke’s palace
  15. 15Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
  16. 16Act IV
  17. 17Scene I. A forest between Milan and Verona
  18. 18Scene II. Milan. The court of the Duke’s palace
  19. 19Song
  20. 20Scene III. The same
  21. 21Scene IV. The same
  22. 22Act V
  23. 23Scene I. Milan. An abbey
  24. 24Scene II. The same. A room in the Duke’s palace
  25. 25Scene III. Frontiers of Mantua. The forest
  26. 26Scene IV. Another part of the forest

About this edition

Author
William Shakespeare
Era
Early modern (c. 1500–1800)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
128 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers