Two Gentlemen of Verona / The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

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Val. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honour’d love,
5 I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
But since thou lovest, love still, and thrive therein,