Page 1899 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

VALENT INE

Well, you’ll still be too forward.

SPEED

And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

VALENT INE

Go to, sir. Tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?

SPEED

She that your worship loves?

VALENT INE

Why, how know you that I am in love? [15]

SPEED

Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to
wreathe your arms, like a malcontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin-
redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, like a
schoolboy that had lost his ABC; to weep, like a young [20] wench that had
buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes diet; to watch, like one
that fears robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were
wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk
like one of the lions; when you fasted, it [25] was presently after dinner;
when you looked sadly, it was for want of money. And now you are
metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look on you, I can hardly
think you my master.

VALENT INE

Are all these things perceived in me? [30]

SPEED

They are all perceived without ye.

VALENT INE

Without me? They cannot.

SPEED

Without you? Nay, that’s certain, for without you were so simple, none else
would. But you are so without these follies, that these follies are within