Comparison of William Shakespeare Two Noble Kinsmen 2.5 to William Shakespeare

I have not seen so young a man so noble [continues next]

[continues previous] I have not seen so young a man so noble

Of stern command’ment. Bur what e’er you are

What e’er you are, y’ are mine, and I shall give you

Your right depends not on his life or death. [continues next]

[continues previous] Your right depends not on his life or death.

[continues previous] Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now.

He is a very proper man.

He hath indeed a good outward happiness.

Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man.

Our letters are prepar’d. A proper man.

Indeed he is so; I repent me much

Your death has eyes in’ s head then; I have not seen him so pictur’d. You must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, or to take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or jump the after-inquiry on your own peril; and how you shall speed in your journey’s end, I think you’ll never ... [continues next]

How do you like him? He’s a very fair one.

Thou but rememb’rest me of mine own conception. I have perceiv’d a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blam’d as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretense and purpose of unkindness. I will look further into’t. But where’s my Fool? I have not seen him this two days. [continues next]

[continues previous] Your death has eyes in’ s head then; I have not seen him so pictur’d. You must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, or to take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or jump the after-inquiry on your own peril; and how you shall speed in your journey’s end, I think you’ll never return ...

Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen

So likely an embassador of love.

You have done worthily. I have not seen,

Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews.

[continues previous] Thou but rememb’rest me of mine own conception. I have perceiv’d a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blam’d as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretense and purpose of unkindness. I will look further into’t. But where’s my Fool? I have not seen him this two days.

Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, [continues next]

Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire [continues next]

Out of his keeper’s arms, even so my limbs, [continues next]

[continues previous] And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,

[continues previous] Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire

[continues previous] Out of his keeper’s arms, even so my limbs,

Pray do my service to his Majesty; [continues next]

[continues previous] To make a seemly answer to such persons.

[continues previous] Pray do my service to his Majesty;

Of stern command’ment. Bur what e’er you are

You are a great deal abus’d in too bold a persuasion, and I doubt not you sustain what y’ are worthy of by your attempt.

What e’er you are, you run the best, and wrastle,

If you deserve well, sir, I shall soon see’t.

Y’ are mine, and somewhat better than your rank I’ll use you.

Of such a virtuous greatness that this lady, [continues next]

This blushing virgin, should take manhood to her [continues next]

[continues previous] Of such a virtuous greatness that this lady,

[continues previous] This blushing virgin, should take manhood to her

Deserve our better wishes. But, sir, sir, [continues next]

Hear me, Sir Thomas, y’ are a gentleman [continues next]

[continues previous] Deserve our better wishes. But, sir, sir,

[continues previous] Hear me, Sir Thomas, y’ are a gentleman

What e’er you are, y’ are mine, and I shall give you [continues next]

But somewhat better than the Scot could speak:

[continues previous] What e’er you are, y’ are mine, and I shall give you

In better phrase and matter than thou didst.

Y’ are much deceiv’d. In nothing am I chang’d

For you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry [continues next]

Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus, [continues next]

[continues previous] For you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry

[continues previous] Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus,

And, Montague, come you this afternoon, [continues next]

[continues previous] And, Montague, come you this afternoon,

[continues previous] To know our farther pleasure in this case,

Nor shall not while I have a stump. Sir Thomas, [continues next]

Whither were you a-going? To the Cardinal’s. [continues next]

[continues previous] Nor shall not while I have a stump. Sir Thomas,

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! In this slumb’ry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? [continues next]

You’ll find it otherwise, I assure you; therefore, if you hold your life at any price, betake you to your guard; for your opposite hath in him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath can furnish man withal. [continues next]

[continues previous] A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! In this slumb’ry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say?

I dare assure you, sir, ’tis almost two,

[continues previous] You’ll find it otherwise, I assure you; therefore, if you hold your life at any price, betake you to your guard; for your opposite hath in him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath can furnish man withal.

I dare assure thee that no enemy

Go, lead the way, I long to see my prison.

It shall be so. It shall be so, it shall be so. [continues next]

[continues previous] It shall be so. It shall be so, it shall be so.

[continues previous] You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate

Flight cannot stain the honor you have won,

And from my soul too, else beshrew them both. [continues next]

[continues previous] Speak’st thou from thy heart?

[continues previous] And from my soul too, else beshrew them both.

You’re strangely out: yet if I were a woman,

... the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you; and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your simp’ring, none of you hates them), that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas’d me, complexions that lik’d me, and breaths that I defied not; and I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.