ACT II
SCENE II Verona. JULIA'S house.


 [Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]

PROTEUS Have patience, gentle Julia.

JULIA I must, where is no remedy.

PROTEUS 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.

 [Giving a ring]

PROTEUS Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this.

JULIA 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!

 [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.

 [Enter PANTHINO]

PANTHINO Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for.

PROTEUS Go; I come, I come.
 Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.

 [Exeunt]




 THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA


ACT II