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Scene II.
Verona. JULIA’S house.

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.

[Giving a ring.]

PROTEUS. Why, then, we’ll make exchange. Here, take you this.

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.]

PROTEUS. What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

PANTHINO. Sir Proteus, you are stay’d for.

PROTEUS. Go; I come, I come.
Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.

[Exeunt.]

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