PROTEUS. O, ay, and pities them. THURIO. Wherefore? JULIA. [_Aside_.] That such an ass should owe them. PROTEUS. That they are out by lease. JULIA. Here comes the Duke. Enter Duke. DUKE. How now, Sir Proteus! How now, Thurio! Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late? THURIO. Not I. PROTEUS. Nor I. DUKE. Saw you my daughter? PROTEUS. Neither. DUKE. Why then, she’s fled unto that peasant Valentine, And Eglamour is in her company. ’Tis true, for Friar Lawrence met them both As he in penance wandered through the forest; Him he knew well, and guessed that it was she, But, being masked, 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. Why, this it is to be a peevish girl That flies her fortune when it follows her. I’ll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour Than for the love of reckless Silvia. [_Exit._] PROTEUS. And I will follow, more for Silvia’s love Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her. [_Exit._] JULIA. And I will follow, more to cross that love Than hate for Silvia, that is gone for love. [_Exit._] SCENE III. Frontiers of Mantua. The forest Enter Silvia and Outlaws. FIRST OUTLAW. Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to our captain. SILVIA. A thousand more mischances than this one Have learned me how to brook this patiently. SECOND OUTLAW. Come, bring her away. FIRST OUTLAW. Where is the gentleman that was with her? SECOND OUTLAW. Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us. But Moyses and Valerius follow him. Go thou with her to the west end of the wood; There is our captain. We’ll follow him that’s fled. The thicket is beset; he cannot ’scape. [_Exeunt Second and Third Outlaws._] FIRST OUTLAW. Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave. Fear not; he bears an honourable mind And will not use a woman lawlessly. SILVIA. O Valentine, this I endure for thee! [_Exeunt._] SCENE IV. Another part of the forest Enter Valentine. VALENTINE. How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns. Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, And to the nightingale’s complaining notes Tune my distresses and record my woes. O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion so long tenantless, Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall And leave no memory of what it was. Repair me with thy presence, Silvia; Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain. [_Shouts within._]