| ACT V SCENE II | The same. The DUKE's palace. | |
| | Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA | |
| THURIO | Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit? | |
| PROTEUS | O, sir, I find her milder than she was; | |
| | And yet she takes exceptions at your person. | |
| THURIO | What, that my leg is too long? | 5 |
| PROTEUS | No; that it is too little. | |
| THURIO | I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder. | |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| | it loathes. | |
| THURIO | What says she to my face? | |
| PROTEUS | She says it is a fair one. | 10 |
| THURIO | Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black. | |
| PROTEUS | But pearls are fair; and the old saying is, | |
| | Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. | |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| | ladies' eyes; | |
| | For I had rather wink than look on them. | 15 |
| THURIO | How likes she my discourse? | |
| PROTEUS | Ill, when you talk of war. | |
| THURIO | But well, when I discourse of love and peace? | |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| THURIO | What says she to my valour? | |
| PROTEUS | O, sir, she makes no doubt of that. | 20 |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| THURIO | What says she to my birth? | |
| PROTEUS | That you are well derived. | |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| THURIO | Considers she my possessions? | |
| PROTEUS | O, ay; and pities them. | |
| THURIO | Wherefore? | 25 |
| JULIA | Aside | |
| 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. | 30 |
| PROTEUS | Nor I. | |
| DUKE | Saw you my daughter? | |
| PROTEUS | Neither. | |
| DUKE | Why then, | |
| | She's fled unto that peasant Valentine; | 35 |
| | And Eglamour is in her company. | |
| | 'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both, | |
| | As he in penance wander'd through the forest; | |
| | Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she, | |
| | But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it; | 40 |
| | 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 | 45 |
| | Upon the rising of the mountain-foot | |
| | That leads towards 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. | 50 |
| | 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 | 55 |
| | Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love. | |
| | Exit | |
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