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.

Giving a ring PROTEUS Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this. 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.