Silvia Rescued by Valentine by Francis Wheatley (1792)
” .. for Valentine had given up the freedom of which he used so much to boast, and was become as passionate a lover as Proteus .. “Ay, Proteus .. but that life is altered now. I have done penance for condemning love. For in revenge of my contempt of love, love has chased sleep from my enthralled eyes. O gentle Proteus, Love is a mighty lord, and hath so humbled me, that I confess there is no woe like his correction, nor no such joy on earth as in his service. I now like no discourse except it be of love. Now I can break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep, upon the very name of love.”"
- Valentine to Proteus, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
