{"id":1879,"date":"2013-03-20T20:56:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1879"},"modified":"2013-03-21T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T15:07:07","slug":"the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-act-ii-scene-iv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1879","title":{"rendered":"The Two Gentlemen of Verona  Act II, Scene iv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Two Gentlemen of Verona.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 2, Scene 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proteus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(This text is featured in our <a title=\"Jeffrey C. Hawkins\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=2004\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Jeffrey Hawkins<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Click here to see a <a title=\"Scansion: The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act II, Scene iv\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1871\" target=\"_blank\">fully scanned version<\/a> of the speech or here to see the <a title=\"The Two Gentlemen of Verona  Act II, Scene iv \u2013 First Folio\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2050\" target=\"_blank\">First Folio version<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>188\u00a0 Even as one heat another heat expels,<br \/>\n189\u00a0 Or as one nail by strength drives out another,<br \/>\n190\u00a0 So the remembrance of my former love<br \/>\n191\u00a0 Is by a newer object quite forgotten.<br \/>\n192\u00a0 Is it mine, or Valentine\u2019s praise,<br \/>\n193\u00a0 Her true perfection, or my false transgression,<br \/>\n194\u00a0 That makes me reasonless to reason thus?<br \/>\n195\u00a0 She is fair; and so is Julia, that I love.\u2014<br \/>\n196\u00a0 That I did love, for now my love is thaw\u2019d;<br \/>\n197\u00a0 Which, like a waxen image \u2019gainst a fire,<br \/>\n198\u00a0 Bears no impression of the thing it was.<br \/>\n199\u00a0 Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,<br \/>\n200\u00a0 And that I love him not as I was wont.<br \/>\n201\u00a0 O, but I love his lady too too much!<br \/>\n202\u00a0 And that\u2019s the reason I love him so little.<br \/>\n203\u00a0 How shall I dote on her with more advice,<br \/>\n204\u00a0 That thus without advice begin to love her!<br \/>\n205\u00a0 \u2019Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,<br \/>\n206\u00a0 And that hath dazzled my reason\u2019s light;<br \/>\n207\u00a0 But when I look on her perfections,<br \/>\n208\u00a0 There is no reason but I shall be blind.<br \/>\n209\u00a0 If I can check my erring love, I will;<br \/>\n210\u00a0 If not, to compass her I\u2019ll use my skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Two Gentlemen of Verona.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 2, Scene 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Proteus (This text is featured in our interview with Jeffrey Hawkins) (Click here to see a fully scanned version of the speech or here to see the First Folio version) 188\u00a0 Even as one heat another heat expels, 189\u00a0 Or as one nail by strength drives<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1879' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1879","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-uj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1879\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}