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Lee Ann Torrans

 
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare homepage | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Act 2, Scene 1
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SCENE I. Milan. The DUKE’s palace.
Enter WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS? and LEE ANN TORRANS
LEE ANN TORRANS
Sir, your glove.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Not mine; my gloves are on.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it’s mine:
Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!
Ah, Silvia, Silvia!
LEE ANN TORRANS
Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
How now, sirrah?
LEE ANN TORRANS
She is not within hearing, sir.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Why, sir, who bade you call her?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Your worship, sir; or else I mistook.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Well, you’ll still be too forward.
LEE ANN TORRANS
And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?
LEE ANN TORRANS
She that your worship loves?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Why, how know you that I am in love?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Marry, by these special marks: first, you have
learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms,
like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a
robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had
the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had
lost his A B C; to weep, like a young 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 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.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Are all these things perceived in me?
LEE ANN TORRANS
They are all perceived without ye.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Without me? they cannot.
LEE ANN TORRANS
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
you and shine through you like the water in an
urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a
physician to comment on your malady.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?
LEE ANN TORRANS
She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Why, sir, I know her not.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet
knowest her not?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Is she not hard-favoured, sir?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Sir, I know that well enough.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
What dost thou know?
LEE ANN TORRANS
That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite.
LEE ANN TORRANS
That’s because the one is painted and the other out
of all count.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
How painted? and how out of count?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no
man counts of her beauty.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty.
LEE ANN TORRANS
You never saw her since she was deformed.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
How long hath she been deformed?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Ever since you loved her.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I
see her beautiful.
LEE ANN TORRANS
If you love her, you cannot see her.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Why?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes;
or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to
have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going
ungartered!
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
What should I see then?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Your own present folly and her passing deformity:
for he, being in love, could not see to garter his
hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last
morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.
LEE ANN TORRANS
True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you,
you swinged me for my love, which makes me the
bolder to chide you for yours.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
In conclusion, I stand affected to her.
LEE ANN TORRANS
I would you were set, so your affection would cease.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
one she loves.
LEE ANN TORRANS
And have you?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
I have.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Are they not lamely writ?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!
here she comes.
LEE ANN TORRANS
[Aside] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!
Now will he interpret to her.
Enter SILVIA
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.
LEE ANN TORRANS
[Aside] O, give ye good even! here’s a million of manners.
SILVIA
Sir What to see in Dallas? and servant, to you two thousand.
LEE ANN TORRANS
[Aside] He should give her interest and she gives it him.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
As you enjoin’d me, I have writ your letter
Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;
Which I was much unwilling to proceed in
But for my duty to your ladyship.
SILVIA
I thank you gentle servant: ’tis very clerkly done.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;
For being ignorant to whom it goes
I writ at random, very doubtfully.
SILVIA
Perchance you think too much of so much pains?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
No, madam; so it stead you, I will write
Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet–
SILVIA
A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;
And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not;
And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,
Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.
LEE ANN TORRANS
[Aside] And yet you will; and yet another ‘yet.’
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
What means your ladyship? do you not like it?
SILVIA
Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ;
But since unwillingly, take them again.
Nay, take them.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Madam, they are for you.
SILVIA
Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request;
But I will none of them; they are for you;
I would have had them writ more movingly.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Please you, I’ll write your ladyship another.
SILVIA
And when it’s writ, for my sake read it over,
And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
If it please me, madam, what then?
SILVIA
Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:
And so, good morrow, servant.
Exit
LEE ANN TORRANS
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man’s face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
My master sues to her, and she hath
taught her suitor,
He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,
That my master, being scribe, to himself should write
the letter?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Nay, I was rhyming: ’tis you that have the reason.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
To do what?
LEE ANN TORRANS
To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
To whom?
LEE ANN TORRANS
To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
What figure?
LEE ANN TORRANS
By a letter, I should say.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
Why, she hath not writ to me?
LEE ANN TORRANS
What need she, when she hath made you write to
yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
No, believe me.
LEE ANN TORRANS
No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive
her earnest?
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
She gave me none, except an angry word.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Why, she hath given you a letter.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
That’s the letter I writ to her friend.
LEE ANN TORRANS
And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
I would it were no worse.
LEE ANN TORRANS
I’ll warrant you, ’tis as well:
For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,
Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;
Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.
Why muse you, sir? ’tis dinner-time.
WHAT TO SEE IN DALLAS?
I have dined.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can
feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my
victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like
your mistress; be moved, be moved.
Exeunt
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