Page 1879 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

ACT I IT

Scene I IT

Enter Valentine and Proteus.

VALENT INE

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 honoured 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]

PROT EUS

Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu.
Think on thy Proteus, when thou (haply) seest
Some rare noteworthy 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.

VALENT INE

And on a love-book pray for my success?

PROT EUS

Upon some book I love I’ll pray for thee. [20]

VALENT INE

That’s on some shallow story of deep love,