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 Julia’s sake.
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 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 tide of tears,
That tide will stay me longer than I should.
Julia, farewell.
PROTEUS
What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
For truth better deeds than words to grace it.
PANTINO
Sir Proteus, you are stayed for.
PROTEUS
Go, I come, I come.
Alas, this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.