[Transcriber's Note: This text of _Two Gentlemen of Verona_ is from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The Preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts. General Notes are in their original location at the end of the play. Text-critical notes are grouped at the end of each Scene. All line numbers are from the original text; line breaks in dialogue--including prose passages--are unchanged. Brackets are also unchanged; to avoid ambiguity, footnotes and linenotes are given without added brackets. In the notes, numerals printed as subscripts are shown inline as F1, F2, Q1.... Texts cited in the Notes are listed at the end of the e-text.] THE WORKS of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Edited by WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge; and JOHN GLOVER, M.A. Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge. _VOLUME I._ Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[1]. DUKE OF MILAN[2], Father to Silvia. VALENTINE, } PROTEUS[3], } the two Gentlemen. ANTONIO[4], Father to Proteus. THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine. EGLAMOUR, Agent for Silvia in her escape. HOST, where Julia lodges. OUTLAWS, with Valentine. SPEED, a clownish Servant to Valentine. LAUNCE, the like to Proteus. PANTHINO[5], Servant to Antonio. JULIA, beloved of Proteus. SILVIA, beloved of Valentine. LUCETTA, waiting-woman to Julia. Servants, Musicians[6]. SCENE, _Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua[7]_. Footnotes: 1: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.] THE NAMES OF ALL THE ACTORS F1, at the end of the play. 2: OF MILAN] added by Pope. 3: PROTEUS] Steevens. PROTHEUS Ff. See note (I). 4: ANTONIO] Capell. ANTHONIO Ff. 5: PANTHINO] Capell. PANTHION Ff. See note (I). 6: _Servants, Musicians_] Theobald. 7: SCENE ...] Pope and Hanmer. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. ACT I. SCENE I. _Verona. An open place._ _Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS._ _Val._ Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company 5 To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would, when I to love begin. 10 _Pro._ Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu! Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel: Wish me partaker in thy happiness, When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, 15 If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.