Brewer's: Speed

A great punster, the servingman of Valentine, one of the Two Gentlemen of Verona. Launce is the serving-man of Proteus, the other gentleman. (Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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