Act II, Scene ii:
2. Verona. A room in JULIA'S house.

[Enter PROTEUS and JULIA.]

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.

[Gives him a ring.]

PROTEUS:

Why, then, we'll make exchange. Here, take you this.

[Gives her another.]

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!

[Exit JULIA.]

What, gone without a word?

Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

[Enter PANTHINO.]

PANTHINO:

Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for.

PROTEUS:

Go; I come, I come.

Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.

[Exeunt.]