Pan. Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee. Launce. Sir, call me what thou darest. Pan. Wilt thou go? Launce. Well, I will [Exeunt. SCENE IV Milan. The Duke's palac Enter Silvia, Valentine, Thurio, and Speed. Sil. Servant! Val. Mistress? Speed. Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you. Val. Aye, boy, it's for love. Speed. Not of you. Val. Of my mistress, then. Speed. 'Twere good you knocked him. Sil. Servant, you are sad. Val. Indeed, madam, I seem so. Thu. Seem you that you are not? Val. Haply I do. Thu. So do counterfeits. Val. So do you. Thu. What seem I that I am not? Val. Wise. Thu. What instance of the contrary? Thu. And how quote you my folly? [Exit. 10 18. To "quote" is to mark, to observe. It was formerly pronounced and sometimes written coate, from the French; hence the quibble here upon the words quote and coat.-H. N. H. Val. I quote it in your jerkin. Thu. My jerkin is a doublet. Val. Well, then, I'll double your folly. Sil. What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change Val. Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon. Thu. That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live in your air. Val. You have said, sir. Thu. Aye, sir, and done too, for this time. begin. Sil. A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and Val. 'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver. Val. Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the Val. I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to 20 30 40 20. This is much the same as saying, in the wardrobe dialect of our day, My coat is a vest. The jerkin, or jacket, was generally worn over the doublet; but sometimes the latter was worn alone, and so confounded with the former. Sometimes both had sleeves, sometimes neither, and in the latter case sleeves were separate articles of dress.-H. N. H. Duke. Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset. Val. My lord, I will be thankful To any happy messenger from thence. Duke. Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman? Val. Aye, my good lord, I know the gentleman To be of worth, and worthy estimation, And not without desert so well reputed. Duke. Hath he not a son? Val. Aye, my good lord; a son that well deserves "The honor and regard of such a father. Duke. You know him well? 61 Val. I know him as myself; for from our infancy We have conversed and spent our hours together: And though myself have been an idle truant, To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, He is complete in feature and in mind Val. Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he. [Exit. Val. This is the gentleman I told your ladyship Had come along with me, but that his mistress Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks. 90 Sil. Belike that now she hath enfranchised them; Upon some other pawn for fealty. Val. Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still. Sil. Nay, then, he should be blind; and, being blind, How could he see his way to seek out you? Val. Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes. Thu. They say that Love hath not an eye at all. Val. To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself: Upon a homely object Love can wink. Sil. Have done, have done; here comes the gentle man. Enter Proteus. 100 Val. Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you, Confirm his welcome with some special favor. Sil. His worth is warrant for his welcome hither, If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from. Val. Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship. Sil. Too low a mistress for so high a servant. Pro. Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant To have a look of such a worthy mistress. Val. Leave off discourse of disability: 110 Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant. Pro. I'll die on him that says so but yourself. Pro. That you are worthless. Enter Servant. Ser. Madam, my lord your father would speak with you. Sil. I wait upon his pleasure. [Exit Ser.] Come, Sir Thurio, Go with me. Once more, new servant, wel come: I'll leave you to confer of home affairs; 120 When you have done, we look to hear from you. 117. The Folios give this line to "Thurio"; if the reading be right, he must have quitted the stage during the scene, probably immediately before the entrance of Proteus, after line 100.-I. G. |