The Two Gentlemen of Verona 4

⁵SpeedWhy, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.

⁹SpeedShe is not within hearing, sir.

¹³SpeedAnd yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

¹⁷SpeedMarry, 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.

²¹SpeedWithout 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.

²⁵SpeedWhy, sir, I know her not.

²⁹SpeedSir, I know that well enough.

³³SpeedThat’s because the one is painted and the other out of all count.

³⁷SpeedYou never saw her since she was deformed.