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The same. The DUKE's palace.
[Enter DUKE and THURIO]
DUKE
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Sir Thur|io, fear | not, but that | she will |
love you
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Now Val|entine | is ban|ished from | her sight.
THURIO
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Since his | exile she | hath despised | me
most,
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Forsworn | my comp|any,| and railed | at me,
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That I | am des|perate of | obtain|ing her.
DUKE
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This weak | impress | of love,| is as a | figure
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Trenched in | ice, which with | an hou|r's heat
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Dissolves | to wat|er, and | doth lose | his
form.
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A lit|tle time | will melt | her froz|en
thoughts,
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And worth|less Val|entine | shall be | forgot.
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How* now | Sir Prot|eus, is | your count|ryman
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(accord|ing to | our proc|lama|tion) gone?
[Enter PROTEUS]
PROTEUS
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Gone, my | good* lord. \\
DUKE
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My daught|er takes | his go|ing griev|ously?
PROTEUS
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A lit|tle time |(my lord)| will kill | that
grief.
DUKE
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So I | believe:| but Thur|io thinks | not so:
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Proteus,| the good | conceit | I hold | of thee,
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(For thou | hast shown | some sign | of good |
desert)
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Makes me | the bet|ter to | confer | with thee.
PROTEUS
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Longer | than I | prove^loy|al to | your grace,
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Let me | not live,| to look | upon | your grace.
DUKE
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Thou knowst | how wil|lingly,| I would | effect
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The match | between | Sir Thur/io, and my |
daughter?
PROTEUS
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I do | my lord. \\
DUKE
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And al|so, I | think, thou art | not ig/norant
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How she | oppos|es her | against | my will?
PROTEUS
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She did | my lord,| when Val|entine | was
here.
DUKE
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Aye, and | perverse|ly, she |
persev|ers so:
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What might | we do | to make | the girl |
forget
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The love | of Val|entine,| and love | Sir
Thur||io?
PROTEUS
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The best | way^is,| to sland|er Val|entine,
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With false|hood*, cow|ardice,| and poor | descent:
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Three* things,| that wom|en high|ly hold | in
hate.
DUKE
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Aye, but | she'll think,| that it | is spoke | in
hate.
PROTEUS
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Aye, if | his en|emy | deliv|er it.
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Therefore it | must with | circum|stance be |
spoken
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By one,| whom she | estee|meth as | his friend.
DUKE
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Then you | must und|ertake | to sland|er him.
PROTEUS
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And that |(my lord)| I shall | be loath | to do:
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'Tis an / ill of|fice for | a gent|leman,
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Espe|cially | against | his ve|ry friend.
DUKE
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Where* your* / good word | cannot | advant|age
him,
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Your sland|er nev|er can | endam|age him;
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Therefore | the of|fice is | indif|ferent,
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Being | entreat|ed to | it by | your friend.
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You have | prevailed |(my lord)| if I | can do it
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By ought | that I | can speak | in his |
dispraise,
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She shall | not long | contin|ue love | to him:
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But say | this weed | her love | from Val|entine,
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It fol|lows not | that she | will love | Sir
Thur||io.
THURIO
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There|fore, as | you unwind | her love | from
him;
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Lest it | should rav|el, and | be good | to none,
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You must | provide | to bot|tom it | on me:
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Which must | be done,| by prais|ing me | as much
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As you,| in worth | dispraise,| Sir Val|entine.
DUKE
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And Prot|eus, we | dare trust you | in this kind,
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Because | we know |(on Val|entine's | report)
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You are | alrea|dy Love's | firm vot/ary,
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And can|not soon | revolt,| and change | your
mind.
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Upon | this war|rant, shall | you have / access,
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Where you,| with Silv|ia, may | confer | at
large.
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For she | is lump|ish, hea|vy, mel|ancho||ly,
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And |(for your friend's | sake) will | be glad |
of you;
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Where you | may temp|er her,| by your
per|suasion,
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To hate young Val|entine,| and love | my friend.
PROTEUS
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As much | as I | can do,| I will | effect:
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But you | Sir Thur|io, are / not sharp | enough:
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You must | lay lime,| to tan|gle her | desires
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By wail|ful son|nets, whose | compos|ed rhymes
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Should be / full-fraught | with serv|iceable
vows.
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Aye,|| much is the | force of | heaven-bred
po|esy.
PROTEUS
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Say that u|pon the | altar | of her | beauty
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You sac|rifice | your tears,| your sighs,| your
heart:
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Write till | your ink | be dry:| and with | your
tears
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Moist it | again:| and frame | some feel|ing line,
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That may | discov|er such | inte|grity:
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For Orph|eus' lute,| was strung | with poets'|
sinews,
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Whose^gold|en touch | could sof|ten steel | and
stones;
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Make* tig|ers tame,| and huge | levi|athans
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Forsake | unsound|ed deeps,| to dance | on sands.
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After | your dire-|lament|ing el|egies,
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Visit by | night your | lady's | chamber-|window
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With some / sweet con|cert; to | their
ins|truments
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Tune a de|ploring | dump: the | night's dead
sil||ence
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Will well | become | such^sweet-|complain|ing
griev||ance:
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This,| or else | nothing,| will inher|it her.
DUKE
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This dis|cipline,| shows thou | hast been | in
love.
THURIO
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And thy ad|vice, this | night, I'll | put in |
practice:
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Therefore,| sweet* Prot|eus, my |
direc|tion-giver,
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Let us | into | the ci|ty pres|ently
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To sort | some gent|lemen, well | skilled in |
music.
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I have | a son|net, that | will serve | the turn
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To give | the on|set to | thy good | advice.
DUKE
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About | it gent|lemen. \\
PROTEUS
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We'll wait | upon | your grace,| till aft|er
supper,
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And aft/erward de|termine | our pro|ceedings.
DUKE
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Even now | about | it, I | will pard|on you.
[Exeunt]