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Julia! No!
Silvia:
For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith
Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths
Descended into perjury, to love me.
Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two;
And that's far worse than none;
(V.4.47-52)
“Sir Valentine,
Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv’d;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv’d her.”
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VALENTINE
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale’s complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes.
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Act V s4 (1-6)
#TwoGents_2025 Day 21, 12/14- Act V s4
VALENTINE. How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes
Tune my distresses and record my woes
VALENTINE
Who by repentance is not satisfied,
Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas'd.
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
And that my love may appear plain and free,
All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.
JULIA
O me unhappy!
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V,4,79-84
Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
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#TwoGents_2025 Day 20, 12/13- Act V s3
FIRST OUTLAW. Come, come, be patient:
to
SYLVIA. O Valentine, this I endure for thee!
RSC edition (now back home!)
[Sylvia is captured by the outlaws, while Sir Eglamour flees.]
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V,3,15
SYLVIA
O Valentine! This I endure for thee.
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
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Julia:
But love will not be spurr'd to what
it loathes.
(V.2.7-8)
“Amen, amen! go on, good Eglamour,
Out at the postern by the abbey-wall;
I fear I am attended by some spies.”
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#TwoGents_2025 Day 19, 12/12- Act V s1 and s2
s1
EGLAMOUR. The sun begins to gild the western sky
to end of s2,
JULIA. Then hate for Sylvia that is gone for love.
PROTEUS
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
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V,2,9-14
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Julia:
Alas, poor Proteus! Thou hast entertain'd
A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.
(IV.4.96-97)
I accidentally read/watched the whole scene yesterday. I was so caught up in it.
“I will not look upon your master’s lines:
I know they are stuff’d with protestations,
And full of new-found oaths; which he will break,
As easily as I do tear his paper.”
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#TwoGents_2025 Day 18, 12/11- Act IV s4 from line 71 "JULIA. How many women would do such a message?" to end of scene,
JULIA.
To make my master out of love with thee.
Folger ed. (away from tome until Sat!)
JULIA (Sebastian)
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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Act IV s4 (l. 175)
SILVIA [calling]
Ursula, bring my picture there.
[The picture is brought.]
Go, give your master this. Tell him from me,
One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,
Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.
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IV,4,113-116
URSULA
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
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Launce & Crab, Julia & Silvia. This was one of the lovliest Shakespeare scenes.
Except for Proteus (not morally complicated, just an a**hole.)
Roger Morlidge as Launce and Mossup as Crab in Royal Shakespeare Company's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Launce:
How many masters would do this for
his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the
stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had
been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese
he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't.
(IV.4.29-33)
“Go, get thee hence, and find my dog again,
Or ne’er return again into my sight.
Away, I say: Stay’st thou to vex me here?”
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#TwoGents_2025 Day 17, 12/10- Act IV s4 to line 70 "PROTEUS. Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. [Exit]" (Folger Ed: to line 94)
s4. Enter Lance with his dog, Crab.
LANCE. When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard--
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
JULIA
Because methinks that she lov'd you as well
As you do love your lady Silvia:
She dreams on him that has forgot her love,
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking on it makes me cry „Alas“.
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IV,4,77-82
Sarah MacRae as Silvia in the 2014 RSC production of Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Silvia:
But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,
And on the justice of my flying hence,
To keep me from a most unholy match,
Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
(IV.3.20-23)
“Thyself hast lov’d; and I have heard thee say,
No grief did ever come so near thy heart
As when thy lady and thy true love died,
Upon whose grave thou vow’dst pure chastity.”
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SILVIA
I do desire thee, even from a heart
As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
To bear me company, and go with me :
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Act IV s3 (32-34)
#TwoGents_2025 Day 16, 12/9- Act IV s3
EGLAMOUR.
This is the hour that Madam Sylvia
Entreated me to call and know her mind
to
SYLVIA.
Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.
SILVIA
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
(Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not)
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
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IV,3,11-15
EGLAMOUR
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
“Then to Sylvia let us sing,
That Sylvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing,
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.”
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