Speeches (Lines) for Second Outlaw in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

First Outlaw. Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.

Second Outlaw. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.

First Outlaw. That's not so, sir: we are your enemies.

Second Outlaw. Peace! we'll hear him.

Valentine. Then know that I have little wealth to lose:
A man I am cross'd with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
You take the sum and substance that I have.

Second Outlaw. Whither travel you?

Valentine. I was.

Second Outlaw. For what offence?

Valentine. I was, and held me glad of such a doom.

Second Outlaw. Have you the tongues?

Valentine. Peace, villain!

Second Outlaw. Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?

Third Outlaw. Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth
Thrust from the company of awful men:
Myself was from Verona banished
For practising to steal away a lady,
An heir, and near allied unto the duke.

Second Outlaw. And I from Mantua, for a gentleman,
Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart.

First Outlaw. And I for such like petty crimes as these,
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults,
That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives;
And partly, seeing you are beautified
With goodly shape and by your own report
A linguist and a man of such perfection
As we do in our quality much want--

Second Outlaw. Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:
Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity
And live, as we do, in this wilderness?

First Outlaw. But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.

Second Outlaw. Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd.

Silvia. A thousand more mischances than this one
Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.

Second Outlaw. Come, bring her away.