The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Act V, Scene 2
Milan. A room in the Duke’s palace.
Maria Tree as Julia
J. Findlay, Duncombe, 1822
- Enter Thurio, Proteus, Julia disguised as Sebastian.
Thurio
1- Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?
Proteus
2 - 3- O, sir, I find her milder than she was,
- And yet she takes exceptions at your person.
Thurio
4- What? That my leg is too long?
Proteus
5- No, that it is too little.
Thurio
6- I’ll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder.
Julia
7- Aside.
- But love will not be spurr’d to what it loathes.
Thurio
8- What says she to my face?
Proteus
9- She says it is a fair one.
Thurio
10- Nay then the wanton lies; my face is black.
Proteus
11 - 12- But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,
- Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies’ eyes.
Julia
13 - 14- Aside.
- ’Tis true, such pearls as put out ladies’ eyes,
- For I had rather wink than look on them.
Thurio
15- How likes she my discourse?
Proteus
16- Ill, when you talk of war.
Thurio
17- But well, when I discourse of love and peace.
Julia
18- Aside.
- But better indeed, when you hold your peace.
Thurio
19- What says she to my valor?
Proteus
20- O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.
Julia
21- Aside.
- She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.
Thurio
22- What says she to my birth?
Proteus
23- That you are well deriv’d.
Julia
24- Aside.
- True: from a gentleman to a fool.
Thurio
25- Considers she my possessions?
Proteus
26- O ay; and pities them.
Thurio
27- Wherefore?
Julia
28- Aside.
- That such an ass should owe them.
Proteus
29- That they are out by lease.
Julia
30- Here comes the Duke.
- Enter Duke.
Duke of Milan
31 - 32- How now, Sir Proteus? How now, Thurio?
- Which of you saw Eglamour of late?
Thurio
33- Not I.
Proteus
34- Nor I.
Duke of Milan
35- Saw you my daughter?
Julia
From costume illustrations for the Daly production of Two Gentlemen of Verona
Walford Graham Robertson, circa 1900
Proteus
36- Neither.
Duke of Milan
37 - 51- 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 toward Mantua, whither they are fled.
- Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.
- Exit.
Thurio
52 - 55- Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,
- That flies her fortune when it follows her.
- I’ll after, more to be reveng’d on Eglamour
- Than for the love of reckless Silvia.
- Exit.
Proteus
56 - 57- And I will follow, more for Silvia’s love
- Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.
- Exit.
Julia
58 - 59- And I will follow, more to cross that love
- Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love.
- Exit.
Julia
B. Eyles, Joseph John Jenkins, circa 1850