SCENE II
Verona. JULIA’S house.
[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]
PROTEUS
Have patience, gentle Julia.
Have patience, gentle Julia.
JULIA
I must, where is no remedy.
I must, where is no remedy.
PROTEUS
When possibly I can, I will return.
When possibly I can, I will return.
JULIA
If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake.
If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake.
[Giving a ring]
PROTEUS
Why then, we’ll make exchange; here, take you this.
Why then, we’ll make exchange; here, take you this.
JULIA
And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
PROTEUS
Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness!
My father stays my coming; answer not;
The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell!
Here is my hand for my true constancy;
And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness!
My father stays my coming; answer not;
The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell!
[Exit JULIA]
What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
[Enter PANTHINO]
PANTHINO
Sir Proteus, you are stay’d for.
Sir Proteus, you are stay’d for.
PROTEUS
Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
[Exeunt]
