PROTEUS
To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;
To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;
To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;
And even that power which gave me first my oath
Provokes me to this threefold perjury; 5
Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.
O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,
Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!
At first I did adore a twinkling star,
But now I worship a celestial sun. 10
Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,
And he wants wit that wants resolved will
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,
Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast
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With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.
I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;
But there I leave to love where I should love.
Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:
If I keep them, I needs must lose myself; 20
If I lose them, thus find I by their loss
For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.
I to myself am dearer than a friend,
For love is still most precious in itself;
And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her
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Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.
I will forget that Julia is alive,
Remembering that my love to her is dead;
And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,
Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend. 30
I cannot now prove constant to myself,
Without some treachery used to Valentine.
This night he meaneth with a corded ladder
To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,
Myself in counsel, his competitor. 35
Now presently I'll give her father notice
Of their disguising and pretended flight;
Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;
For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;
But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly
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By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.
Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,
As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!
朱生豪 译:
普洛丢斯
舍弃我的朱利娅,我就要违背了盟誓;恋爱美丽的西尔维娅,我也要违背了盟誓;中伤我的朋友,更是违背了盟誓。爱情的力量当初使我信誓旦旦,现在却又诱令我干犯三重寒盟的大罪。动人灵机的爱情啊!如果你自己犯了罪,那么我是你诱惑的对象,也教教我如何为自己辩解吧。我最初爱慕的是一颗闪烁的星星,如今崇拜的是一个中天的太阳;无心中许下的誓愿,可以有意把它毁弃不顾;只有没有智慧的人,才会迟疑于好坏二者间的选择。呸,呸,不敬的唇舌!她是你从前用二万遍以灵魂作证的盟言,甘心供她驱使的,现在怎么好把她加上个坏字!我不能朝三暮四转爱他人,可是我已经变了心了;我应该爱的人,我现在已经不爱了。我失去了朱利娅,失去了凡伦丁;要是我继续对他们忠实,我必须失去我自己。我失去了凡伦丁,换来了我自己;失去了朱利娅,换来了西尔维娅:爱情永远是自私的,我自己当然比一个朋友更为宝贵,朱利娅在天生丽质的西尔维娅相形之下,不过是一个黝黑的丑妇。我要忘记朱利娅尚在人间,记着我对她的爱情已经死去;我要把凡伦丁当作敌人,努力取得西尔维娅更甜蜜的友情。要是我不用些诡计破坏凡伦丁,我就无法贯彻自己的心愿。今晚他要用绳梯爬上西尔维娅卧室的窗口,我是他的同谋者,因此与闻了这个秘密。现在我就去把他们设计逃走的事情通知她的父亲;他在勃然大怒之下,一定会把凡伦丁驱逐出境,因为他本来的意思是要把他的女儿下嫁给修里奥的。凡伦丁一去之后,我就可以用些巧妙的计策,拦截修里奥迟钝的进展。爱神啊,你已经帮助我运筹划策,请你再借给我一副翅膀,让我赶快达到我的目的!

