Shakespeare's comedy of the Two gentlemen of Verona, with notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter |
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allusion banished beadsman bestow comedy Comedy of Errors dost thou doth Duke Enter PROTEUS Enter VALENTINE entertain EXAMINATION-QUESTIONS Exeunt Exit eyes fair false father faults fear folly fool forsworn gentle GENTLEMEN OF VERONA give gone grace hath hear heart Heaven hence honour Host II.-The Item Julia Julius Cæsar kiss ladyship Laun Launce letter look lord lose thy lover Lucetta madam Silvia maid Mantua Marry mean Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream Milan mind mistress month's mind mutton night Othello PANTHINO perjury pity play pray thee price 18 Richard II ring SCENE III.-The servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's sheep Sir Eglamour sir Proteus sir Thurio Sir Valentine speak Speed stays tears tell thou art thou hast thy master Titus Andronicus unto weep word worthy writ youth
Popular passages
Page 46 - His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart ; His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Page 45 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Page 20 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 86 - How use doth breed a habit in a man ! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns...
Page 70 - ... Who is Silvia ? what is she, That all our swains commend her ? Holy, fair, and wise is she, The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired' be. Is she kind as she is fair ? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness; And, being helped, inhabits there.
Page 33 - Yet hath sir Proteus, for that's his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days ; His years but young, but his experience old ; His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe ; And, in a word, (for far behind his worth Come all the praises that I now bestow,) He is complete in feature, and in mind, With all good grace to grace a gentleman.
Page 37 - Not for the world : why, man, she is mine own ; And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.