quickly back again, and become Valentines friend, and gives full repentance to Valentine who forgives him almost instantaneously. Valentine is now also willing to give up Silvia to Proteus "All that was mine in Silvia, I give thee" (5.4.88) If not for Julia's actions next we don't know if Proteus would have taken Valentine up on his offer, but instead all is put right but the discovery of Julia under the pages clothing. The play concludes with Valentine challenging Thurio for Silvia and Thurio backing down, and this is where the Duke accepts Valentine as a gentleman able to marry Silvia, although at this time the duke being surrounded by Valentines outlaws did not have a lot of options. The two women in the end of the play are shown to be almost puppet like, and controlled by the will of the men around, and do not have a say in the outcome at all. The debate of love over friendship is placed back in a balance when Valentine says that they will all marry on the same day and live in the same place "Our day of marriage shall be yours, one feast, one house, one mutual happiness."The play shows Proteus to be a false friend, a sly trickster, a liar, a coward, a slanderer and a ruffian, and this is the same person whom Valentine had described as having spent his youth in putting on an "angel like perfection" but in turn love drives this perfection out, and a devilish attitude in. Only the gentleman Valentine can put things back into order, which he does at the end, and love and friendship live together hand in hand....
