{"id":2050,"date":"2013-03-20T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2050"},"modified":"2013-03-25T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:45:14","slug":"the-two-gentlemen-of-verona-act-ii-scene-iv-first-folio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2050","title":{"rendered":"The Two Gentlemen of Verona  Act II, Scene iv &#8211; First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2051 alignright\" alt=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/images2.jpg?resize=176%2C287\" width=\"176\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<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\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=1879\" target=\"_blank\">non-Folio version<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>188\u00a0 Euen as one heate, another heate expels,<br \/>\n189\u00a0 Or as one naile, by strength driues out another.<br \/>\n190\u00a0 So the remembrance of my former Loue<br \/>\n191\u00a0 Is by a newer obiect quite forgotten,<br \/>\n192\u00a0 It is mine, or <i>Valentines<\/i> praise?<br \/>\n193\u00a0 Her true perfection, or my false transgression?<br \/>\n194\u00a0 That makes me reasonlesse, to reason thus?<br \/>\n195\u00a0 Shee is faire: and so is <i>Iulia<\/i> that I loue,<br \/>\n196\u00a0 (That I did loue, for now my loue is thaw&#8217;d,<br \/>\n197\u00a0 Which like a waxen Image &#8216;gainst a fire<br \/>\n198\u00a0 Beares no impression of the thing it was.)<br \/>\n199\u00a0 Me thinkes my zeale to <i>Valentine<\/i> is cold,<br \/>\n200\u00a0 And that I loue him not as I was wont:<br \/>\n201\u00a0 O, but I loue his Lady too-too much,<br \/>\n202\u00a0 And that&#8217;s the reason I loue him so little.<br \/>\n203\u00a0 How shall I doate on her with more aduice,<br \/>\n204\u00a0 That thus without aduice begin to loue her?<br \/>\n205\u00a0 &#8216;Tis but her picture I haue yet beheld,<br \/>\n206\u00a0 And that hath dazel&#8217;d my reasons light:<br \/>\n207\u00a0 But when I looke on her perfections,<br \/>\n208\u00a0 There is no reason, but I shall be blinde.<br \/>\n209\u00a0 If I can checke my erring loue, I will,<br \/>\n210\u00a0 If not, to compasse her Ile vse 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 non-Folio version) 188\u00a0 Euen as one heate, another heate expels, 189\u00a0 Or as one naile, by strength driues out<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=2050' 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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2050","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-x4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2050","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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2050\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}