All 18 Uses of
therefore
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me; therefore, I am no sheep.†
Scene 1.1 *therefore = for that reason
- Therefore, thou art a sheep.†
Scene 1.1
- Sir Proteus, your father calls for you; He is in haste; therefore, I pray you, go.†
Scene 1.3
- Now, therefore, would I have thee to my tutor, For long agone I have forgot to court; Besides, the fashion of the time is chang'd, How and which way I may bestow myself To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.†
Scene 3.1
- Why, a horse can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only carry; therefore is she better than a jade.†
Scene 3.1
- That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that indeed know not their fathers, and therefore have no names.†
Scene 3.1
- More hair than wit it may be; I'll prove it: the cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less.†
Scene 3.1
- Ay, if his enemy deliver it; Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.†
Scene 3.2
- Where your good word cannot advantage him, Your slander never can endamage him; Therefore the office is indifferent, Being entreated to it by your friend.†
Scene 3.2
- Therefore, as you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me; Which must be done by praising me as much As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.†
Scene 3.2
- Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver, Let us into the city presently To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music.†
Scene 3.2
- Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.†
Scene 4.1
- Ay, sir; the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman boys in the market-place; and then I offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater.†
Scene 4.4
- Sebastian, I have entertained thee Partly that I have need of such a youth That can with some discretion do my business, For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout; But chiefly for thy face and thy behaviour, Which, if my augury deceive me not, Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth: Therefore, know thou, for this I entertain thee.†
Scene 4.4
- About my stature; for at Pentecost, When all our pageants of delight were play'd, Our youth got me to play the woman's part, And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown, Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments, As if the garment had been made for me: Therefore I know she is about my height.†
Scene 4.4
- Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse, But mount you presently, and meet with me Upon the rising of the mountain-foot That leads toward Mantua, whither they are fled.†
Scene 5.2
- Therefore be gone; solicit me no more.†
Scene 5.4
- Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I; I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not: I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.†
Scene 5.4
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)