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Proteus is being forced to join his friend Valentine in Milan. He doesn’t want to go, especially because he doesn’t want to leave his love, Julia. As they passionately say goodbye, they offer each other rings as a sign of their love and fidelity, and Proteus hopes to return soon.
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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.
She gives him a ring.
PROTEUS: giving her a ring: 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.
Julia exits.
What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
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