The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The 30-Minute Shakespeare. William Shakespeare

VALENTINE

      Will you make haste?

       PROTEUS

      I will.

      Exit VALENTINE stage right.

      (to audience) Even as one heat another heat expels,

      Or as one nail by strength drives out another,

      So the remembrance of my former love

      Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

      Is it mine eye, or Valentine’s praise,

      Her true perfection, or my false transgression,

      That makes me, reasonless, to reason thus?

      She’s fair; and so is Julia, that I love,—

      That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d;

      Which, like a waxen image ’gainst a fire,

      Bears no impression of the thing it was.

      If I can check my erring love, I will;

      If not, to compass her I’ll use my skill.

      Exit PROTEUS stage right.

      STAGEHANDS remove throne.

      

SCENE 4. (ACT III, SCENE I)

      Milan. An ante-room in the Duke’s palace.

      Enter NARRATOR from stage rear, coming downstage center.

       NARRATOR

      Proteus betrays Valentine’s elopement plans to

      Silvia’s father, the Duke of Milan, who banishes

      Valentine. Proteus pretends to grieve with Valentine

      and conveys him on his way to exile.

      Exit NARRATOR stage left.

      Enter DUKE OF MILAN and PROTEUS from stage rear. DUKE OF MILAN sits in chair stage left