The Two Gentlemen of Verona: ACT II
Introduction ACT I ACT II SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE's palace. SCENE II. Verona. JULIA'S house. SCENE III. The same. A street. SCENE IV. Milan. The DUKE's palace. SCENE V. The same. A street. SCENE VI. The same. The DUKE'S palace. SCENE VII. Verona. JULIA'S house. ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE III. The same. A street. Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog LAUNCE       Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping;       all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I       have received my proportion, like the prodigious       son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's 5     court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured       dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father       wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat       wringing her hands, and all our house in a great       perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed 10    one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and       has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have       wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam,       having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my       parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This 15    shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:       no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that       cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it       hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in       it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance 20    on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my       sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and       as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I       am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the       dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so, 25    so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing:       now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:       now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now       come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now       like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there 30    'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now       come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now       the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a       word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears. Enter PANTHINO PANTHINO       Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped 35    and thou art to post after with oars. What's the       matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll       lose the tide, if you tarry any longer. LAUNCE       It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the       unkindest tied that ever any man tied. PANTHINO 40    What's the unkindest tide? LAUNCE       Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog. PANTHINO       Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in       losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing       thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy 45    master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy       service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth? LAUNCE       For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue. PANTHINO       Where should I lose my tongue? LAUNCE       In thy tale. PANTHINO 50    In thy tail! LAUNCE       Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and       the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river       were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the       wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. PANTHINO 55    Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee. LAUNCE       Sir, call me what thou darest. PANTHINO       Wilt thou go? LAUNCE       Well, I will go. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene