Speed
.A great punster, the servingman of Valentine, one of the Two Gentlemen of Veroʹna. Launce is the serving-man of Proteus, the other gentleman. (Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.