FIRST OUTLAW
Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to our captain.
Early modern literature
Drama, gender & the body
Modern spelling. Stage directions omitted.
FIRST OUTLAW
Come, come, be patient. We must bring you to our captain.
SILVIA
A thousand more mischances than this one
Have learned me how to brook this patiently.
SECOND OUTLAW
Come, bring her away.
FIRST OUTLAW
Where is the gentleman that was with her?
SECOND OUTLAW
Being nimble-footed, he outrun us.
But Moyses and Valerius follow him.
Go with her to the west end of the wood;
There is our captain. We’ll follow him that’s fled.
The thicket is beset; he cannot ’scape.
FIRST OUTLAW
Come, I must bring you to our captain’s cave.
Fear not; he bears an honourable mind
And will not use a woman lawlessly.
SILVIA
O Valentine, this I endure for !
Open The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the 1623 First Folio. See its words in the cloud.
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