What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.