Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 1 Scene 3 William Shakespeare

                         SCENE III. The same. ANTONIO's house.

     Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO

ANTONIO
      Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that
      Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?

PANTHINO
      'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.

ANTONIO
      Why, what of him?

PANTHINO
      He wonder'd that your lordship
      Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,
      While other men, of slender reputation,
      Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:
      Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;
      Some to discover islands far away;
      Some to the studious universities.
      For any or for all these exercises,
      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.