ACT II
SCENE II. Verona. A room in Julia’s house
[Enter Proteus and Julia.]
PROTEUS
Have patience, gentle Julia.
JULIA
I must, where is no remedy.
PROTEUS
When possibly I can, I will return.
JULIA
If you turn not, you will return the sooner.
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia’s sake.
[Gives him a ring.]
PROTEUS
Why, then we’ll make exchange. Here, take you this.
[Gives her a ring.]
JULIA
And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.
PROTEUS
Here is my hand for my true constancy.
And when that hour o’erslips me in the day
Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,
The next ensuing hour some foul mischance
Torment me for my love’s forgetfulness.
My father stays my coming; answer not.
The tide is now—nay, not thy tide of tears,
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell.
[Exit Julia.]
What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
[Enter Pantino.]
PANTINO
Sir Proteus, you are stayed for.
PROTEUS
Go, I come, I come.
Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.
[Exeunt.]