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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Act II, Scene 6

The same. The DUKE'S palace.
 
[Enter PROTEUS]
 
PROTEUS
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      To leave | my Jul|ia; shall | I be | forsworn?
           ,           ,   2     ,        ,        ,
      To love | fair* Silv|ia; shall | I be | forsworn?
           ,           ,     ,              ,         ,
      To wrong | my friend,| I shall | be much | forsworn.
            ,           x             ,         ,          ,
      And eene | that power | which gave | me first | my oath
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      Provokes | me to this | threefold per|jury.
        T    T   .   T           ,      T   .  T   T
      Love bade me swear,| and Love | bids me forswear;
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      O sweet-|sugges|ting Love,| if thou | hast sinned,
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      Teach me |(thy tempt|ed sub|ject) to ex|cuse it.
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      At first | I did | adore | a twink|ling star,
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      But now | I worsh|ip a | celest|ial sun:
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      Unheed|ful vows | may* heed|fully be | broken,
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      And he | wants^wit,| that wants | resolv|ed will,
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      To learn | his wit,| to exchange | the bad | for better;
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      Fie*, fie,| unreve|rend tongue,| to call | her bad,
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      Whose sove|reignty | so oft | thou hast | preferred,
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      With twen|ty thous|and soul-|confirm|ing oaths,
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      I can|not leave | to love;| and yet | I do:
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      But there | I leave | to love,| where^I | should love.
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      Julia | I lose,| and Val|entine | I lose,
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      If I | keep them,| I needs | must lose | myself;
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      If I | lose them,| thus find | I by | their loss,
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      For Val|entine,| myself:| for Jul|ia, Sil||via.
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      I | to myself | am dear|er than | a friend,
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      For love | is still | most pre|cious in | itself,
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      And Silv|ia (wit|ness Heaven | that made | her fair)
             ,  2   ,         ,      ,    ,
      Shows^Jul|ia but | a swarth|y Eth|iope.
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      I will | forget | that Jul|ia is | alive,
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      Remem|bering that | my love | to her | is dead.
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      And Val|entine | I'll hold | an en|emy,
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      Aiming | at Silv|ia as | a sweet|er friend.
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      I can|not now | prove const|ant to | myself,
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      Without | some treach|ery used | to Val|entine.
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      This night | he mean|eth with | a cord|ed ladder
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      To climb | celest|ial Silv|ia's chamb|er wind||ow,   ??
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      Myself | in couns|el his | compet|itor.
           ,       ,          ,         ,       ,      2->
      Now pres|ently | I'll give | her fath|er not||ice
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      Of their | disguis|ing and | pretend|ed flight:
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      Who^(all | enraged)| will ban|ish Val|entine:
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      For Thur|io | he in|tends shall | wed his | daughter, (hex with after)
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      But Val|entine | being gone,| I'll quick|ly cross
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      By some sly trick,| blunt Thur/io's | dull pro|ceeding. (hex with prev)
        T    T   .   T          ,        ,         ,
      Love lend me wings,| to make | my pur|pose swift
           ,           ,        ,         ,           ,
      As thou | hast lent | me wit,| to plot | this drift.
 
[Exit]

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