...her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing; She is alone. PROTEUS Then let her alone. VALENTINE Not for the world! Why, man, she is mine own; And...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 170 Forgive me, that I do not dream on thee, Because thou seest me dote upon my love. My foolish rival,...

...all the creatures on the earth" (II.iv.151-53). He makes her the subject of extravagant comparisons: Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. [II.iv. 168-71] He dutifully plans an unsuccessful elopement via rope ladder, stoically suffers banishment...

...me, Yet would my love to thee be still as much." Venus and Moms (433-442) Jn praise of the f$eloved she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (2.4) His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, His love sincere, his...

...NINTH "Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee." — Deut. v. 12. "She is mine own; And I as rich in having such a jewel...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold." — SHAKESPEARE, Two Gentlemen of Verona. AND now happy days had come to the little Elsie. Her father...

...insignificant or worthless in comparison to her 165 She is alone. PROTEUS Then let her alone. VALENTINE Not for the world. Why, man, she is mine own, And...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 170 Forgive me tliat I do not dream on thee, Because thou seest me dote upon my love. My foolish rival,...

...tempestuous seas. But happy love may transform the ocean and its rocks themselves to riches: t. . . . Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having...were pearl, The water nectar and the rocks pure gold. (n. iv. 168) Notice the peculiar brilliance of our sea-imagery. The sea is associated with gold, pearls,...

...social prestige her love bestows upon him — inadvertently alerting a rival male to her great value: Why, man, she is mine own And I as rich in having...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. (2.4.164-67) Gentlemen of Verona and the Courtesy Book Tradition,' pp. 115-32. On letters, see Kiefer,...

...you're through with lessons." "Heaven help us both, then," he whispered with a smile, and kissed her. Why, man, she is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if al! their sand were pearl. The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. —Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act...

...to Milan (followed by Julia disguised as a boy), Valentine introduces him to Silvia, who makes him "as rich in having such a jewel as twenty seas, if...were pearl, the water nectar and the rocks pure gold" (2.4.169). Unfortunately Proteus sees her perfection all too well and determines to woo her for himself,...

...is seriously expressed, the expression is likely to be formal, literary, self-consciously eloquent: And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas,...pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. (ii. iv. 165-7) 8 There may be a comic echo of this in Launce's 'To be slow in words is a woman's only...