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 V. The same. A street. Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally SPEED       Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan! LAUNCE       Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not       welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never       undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a 5     place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess       say 'Welcome!' SPEED       Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you       presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou       shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how 10    did thy master part with Madam Julia? LAUNCE       Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very       fairly in jest. SPEED       But shall she marry him? LAUNCE       No. SPEED 15    How then? shall he marry her? LAUNCE       No, neither. SPEED       What, are they broken? LAUNCE       No, they are both as whole as a fish. SPEED       Why, then, how stands the matter with them? LAUNCE 20    Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it       stands well with her. SPEED       What an ass art thou! I understand thee not. LAUNCE       What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My       staff understands me. SPEED 25    What thou sayest? LAUNCE       Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean,       and my staff understands me. SPEED       It stands under thee, indeed. LAUNCE       Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one. SPEED 30    But tell me true, will't be a match? LAUNCE       Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,       it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will. SPEED       The conclusion is then that it will. LAUNCE       Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable. SPEED 35    'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest       thou, that my master is become a notable lover? LAUNCE       I never knew him otherwise. SPEED       Than how? LAUNCE       A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be. SPEED 40    Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me. LAUNCE       Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master. SPEED       I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover. LAUNCE       Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself       in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse; 45    if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the       name of a Christian. SPEED       Why? LAUNCE       Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to       go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go? SPEED 50    At thy service. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene