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Verona. A Room in JULIA’S House | |
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Enter PROTEUS and JULIA. | |
| Pro. Have patience, gentle Julia. | |
| Jul. I must, where is no remedy. | |
| Pro. When possibly I can, I will return. | 5 |
| Jul. If you turn not, you will return the sooner. | |
| Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake. [Gives him a ring. | |
| Pro. Why, then, we’ll make exchange: here, take you this. [Gives her another. | |
| Jul. And seal the bargain with a holy kiss. | |
| Pro. Here is my hand for my true constancy; | 10 |
| 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. | 15 |
| 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; | 20 |
| For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. | |
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Enter PANTHINO. | |
| Pant. Sir Proteus, you are stay’d for. | |
| Pro. Go; I come, I come. | |
| Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb. [Exeunt. | 25 |
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