Proteus then speaks with Julia, disguised as a servant named Sebastian. Proteus learns of this and, in anger, sends Launce to try again. She, of course, refused it and sent Launce away. Separately, Launce relays that he tried to give Silvia the dog Proteus sent to her, but the hangman's boys stole the dog, so he presented his own log (Crab) to her. At Silvia's room, she meets sir Eglamour and asks him to accompany her through the forest on a journey to Verona to seek out Valentine he agrees and they will meet at Friar Patrick's cell the next evening. Reluctantly, she promises to give it to him. In defeat, he asks for a picture of her that he may be with her through it. Proteus tells her they are dead, but she will not be moved. Julia then overhears Proteus yet again give praises of love to Silvia, but she again curses him for being false to Julia and Valentine. Her host tells her he has heard from Launce that Proteus is deeply in love with Silvia. In hiding, Julia appears disguised as a boy and sees her love Proteus singing love verses to Silvia, causing her to become extremely depressed. Thurio appears with musicians to play beneath Silvia's window. This causes Proteus to love Silvia even more. Back in Milan, Proteus reveals that his wooing of Silvia is going poorly, since she constantly scolds him for foreswearing both Valentine and Julia. Upon hearing Valentine is banished from Milan (he says for killing a man), they ask him to join them in crime and become their commander, or die. In the forest between Milan and Verona, several outlaws ambush Valentine and Speed on their way back to Verona. Proteus states that he will try to cheer her up by slandering Valentine and praising Thurio, to which the Duke agrees. At the Duke's palace, he and Thurio explain to Proteus how depressed and sullen Silvia is. Speed meets Launce and they again joke around as Speed reads a love letter describing Launce's new love for a milkmaid. They leave and Launce reveals he's starting to think Proteus is using Valentine to get to Silvia. Proteus wishes him well and promises that he can write letters for Silvia and address them to Proteus, and he'll deliver them. Upon discovering a letter of intent and a rope ladder on Valentine, the Duke banishes him from Milan. He coyly reveals Valentine's plot by pretending himself to be in love with an unattainable woman. Separately, the Duke encounters Valentine on his way to Silvia's room. They immediately start packing.īack in Milan, Proteus informs the Duke of Valentine's plans. Back in Verona, Julia tells Lucetta of her plans to travel to Milan, disguised as a male page. In order to get rid of Valentine, he plans to inform the Duke of Valentine and Silvia's plans to elope that night, hoping to get Valentine banished and create a less obstructed path to Silvia. He decides to forget Julia and to pursue Silvia. Alone, Proteus agonizes over his new love. In a street, Speed meets Launce and his dog and they trade witticisms. Valentine tells Proteus he is in love with her, but Proteus hides his feelings for her, actually questioning the appropriateness of his new emotions in private. All meet him, and Proteus immediately "falls in love" with Silvia, instantly forgetting his promised love to Julia.
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The Duke then announces that Proteus has arrived from Verona. In Milan again, Thurio and Valentine trade witticisms as both woo Silvia, though she obviously loves Valentine, while her father, the Duke of Milan prefers Thurio. Proteus' servant Launce also prepares to leave, as he and his dog are to accompany Proteus. Back in Verona, Proteus and Julia exchange rings and have a tearful goodbye. Discovering that the boy Sebastian is actually Julia, he immediately falls for her again, quite forgetting Silvia.In Milan, we learn Valentine and Silvia are in love, while Speed continues to jest and chide his master over the matter. He is overcome with remorse, though has no objection when Valentine offers to let him have Silvia anyway. Following Silvia to the forest when she runs away, he is so overcome by his desire for her that he attempts to rape her, only being stopped by Valentine’s arrival and intervention. He does not recognize Julia when she is disguised as a boy, and employs her to get the painting Silvia has promised him. Ruled by his passion, he betrays his best friend, lies to the Duke, pretends to be working on Thurio’s behalf, swears that Julia is dead, and perseveres in wooing Silvia even when she makes it clear that she is disgusted by his actions. The fact that this is trampling on his best friend Valentine’s territory causes him only a little angst.
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Utterly in love with Julia, he forgets her immediately and becomes even more utterly in love with Silvia the moment he arrives in Milan and sees her. Proteus is a young gentleman of Verona whose emotions are extremely changeable and lacks self-control.