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He said that Proteus, your son, was meet;

And did request me to importune you

To let him spend his time no more at home,

Which would be great impeachment to his age,

In having known no travel in his youth.

Ant.

Nor need’st thou much importune me to that

Whereon this month I have been hammering.

I have consider’d well his loss of time,

And how he cannot be a perfect man,

Not being tried and tutor’d in the world:

Experience is by industry achiev’d,

And perfected by the swift course of time.

Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?

Pan.

I think your lordship is not ignorant

How his companion, youthful Valentine,

Attends the Emperor in his royal court.

Ant.

I know it well.

Pan.

’Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:

There shall he practice tilts and tournaments,

Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen,

And be in eye of every exercise

Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.

Ant.

I like thy counsel; well hast thou advis’d;

And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,