Both Uses of
forsake
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity: For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.†
Scene 3.2forsake = abandon or give up on
- Belike she thinks, that Proteus hath forsook her.†
Scene 4.4 *forsook = abandoned or gave up on
Definition:
to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place