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Close Reading of shakespeare (continued)
expels: forces out
transgression: breaking a law or rule
reason: logical thinking
zeal: devotion or loyalty to something or someone
wont: used to; accustomed to
ACTIvITy 3
Independent Practice
The text passage that follows is from another romantic comedy by Shakespeare. In this scene, a young man named Proteus joins his friend Valentine in the city of Milan. There he meets Silvia, the young woman that has won Valentine’s love.
First Reading: First Impressions
Read the following passage silently. Your focus for this first reading should be on understanding the meaning of the passage. Note that underlined words may be unfamiliar to you. As you read, practice diffusing by replacing these words with the synonyms or definitions found in the margin. Words that are important and that you may know are bolded. Try to figure out meanings of other unfamiliar words through context clues before you look them up.
of Two Gentlemen From Verona
by William Shakespeare Proteus:
Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
5 Is it mine, or Valentine’s praise,
Her true perfection, or my false transgression, That makes me reasonless to reason thus?
She is fair; and so is Julia that I love —
That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d;
10 Which, like a waxen image, ‘gainst a fire, Bears no impression of the thing it was. Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold, And that I love him not as I was wont. O, but I love his lady too too much,
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