The Two Gentlemen Of Verona

1 Enter Eglamour.
2 EGLAMOUR.
3 This is the hour that Madam Silvia
4 Entreated me to call and know her mind;
5 There’s some great matter she’d employ me in.
6 Madam, madam!
7 Enter Silvia above.
8 SILVIA.
9 Who calls?
10 EGLAMOUR.
11 Your servant and your friend;
12 One that attends your ladyship’s command.
13 SILVIA.
14 Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.
15 EGLAMOUR.
16 As many, worthy lady, to yourself.
17 According to your ladyship’s impose,
18 I am thus early come to know what service
19 It is your pleasure to command me in.
20 SILVIA.
21 O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman—
22 Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not—
23 Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplished.
24 Thou art not ignorant what dear good will
25 I bear unto the banished Valentine,
26 Nor how my father would enforce me marry
27 Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhorred.
28 Thyself hast loved, and I have heard thee say
29 No grief did ever come so near thy heart
30 As when thy lady and thy true love died,
31 Upon whose grave thou vowed’st pure chastity.
32 Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,
33 To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;
34 And for the ways are dangerous to pass,
35 I do desire thy worthy company,
36 Upon whose faith and honour I repose.
37 Urge not my father’s anger, Eglamour,
38 But think upon my grief, a lady’s grief,
39 And on the justice of my flying hence
40 To keep me from a most unholy match,
41 Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.
42 I do desire thee, even from a heart
43 As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,
44 To bear me company and go with me;
45 If not, to hide what I have said to thee,
46 That I may venture to depart alone.
47 EGLAMOUR.
48 Madam, I pity much your grievances,
49 Which, since I know they virtuously are placed,
50 I give consent to go along with you,
51 Recking as little what betideth me
52 As much I wish all good befortune you.
53 When will you go?
54 SILVIA.
55 This evening coming.
56 EGLAMOUR.
57 Where shall I meet you?
58 SILVIA.
59 At Friar Patrick’s cell,
60 Where I intend holy confession.
61 EGLAMOUR.
62 I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.
63 SILVIA.
64 Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.
65 [_Exeunt._]