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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The king of Navarre's park.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Live register'd upon our brazen tombs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>And then grace us in the disgrace of death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>The endeavor of this present breath may buy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>And make us heirs of all eternity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>That war against your own affections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>And the huge army of the world's desires,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>Our court shall be a little Academe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Still and contemplative in living art.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>Have sworn for three years' term to live with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>That are recorded in this schedule here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>That his own hand may strike his honour down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>That violates the smallest branch herein:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>My loving lord, Dumain is mortified:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>The grosser manner of these world's delights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>With all these living in philosophy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>I can but say their protestation over;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>That is, to live and study here three years.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>But there are other strict observances;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>As, not to see a woman in that term,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Which I hope well is not enrolled there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>And one day in a week to touch no food</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>And but one meal on every day beside,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>The which I hope is not enrolled there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>And then, to sleep but three hours in the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>And not be seen to wink of all the day--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>When I was wont to think no harm all night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>And make a dark night too of half the day--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Which I hope well is not enrolled there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>I only swore to study with your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>And stay here in your court for three years' space.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>What is the end of study? let me know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Why, that to know, which else we should not know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Come on, then; I will swear to study so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>To know the thing I am forbid to know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>As thus,--to study where I well may dine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>When I to feast expressly am forbid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>Or study where to meet some mistress fine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>When mistresses from common sense are hid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Study to break it and not break my troth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>If study's gain be thus and this be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>Study knows that which yet it doth not know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>These be the stops that hinder study quite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>And train our intellects to vain delight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>As, painfully to pore upon a book</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>To seek the light of truth; while truth the while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Study me how to please the eye indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>By fixing it upon a fairer eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>And give him light that it was blinded by.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>Study is like the heaven's glorious sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Small have continual plodders ever won</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Save base authority from others' books</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>That give a name to every fixed star</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>Have no more profit of their shining nights</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Than those that walk and wot not what they are.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Too much to know is to know nought but fame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>And every godfather can give a name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>How well he's read, to reason against reading!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>How follows that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99> Fit in his place and time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>In reason nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101> Something then in rhyme.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>That bites the first-born infants of the spring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Before the birds have any cause to sing?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>Why should I joy in any abortive birth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>At Christmas I no more desire a rose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>But like of each thing that in season grows.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>So you, to study now it is too late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>And though I have for barbarism spoke more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Than for that angel knowledge you can say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>And bide the penance of each three years' day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>Give me the paper; let me read the same;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>[Reads] 'Item, That no woman shall come within a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Four days ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Let's see the penalty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>Marry, that did I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Sweet lord, and why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>To fright them hence with that dread penalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>A dangerous law against gentility!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>'Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>within the term of three years, he shall endure such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>This article, my liege, yourself must break;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>For well you know here comes in embassy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>A maid of grace and complete majesty--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>About surrender up of Aquitaine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Therefore this article is made in vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>So study evermore is overshot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>While it doth study to have what it would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>It doth forget to do the thing it should,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>We must of force dispense with this decree;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>She must lie here on mere necessity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Necessity will make us all forsworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>Three thousand times within this three years' space;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>For every man with his affects is born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>Not by might master'd but by special grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>If I break faith, this word shall speak for me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>So to the laws at large I write my name:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Subscribes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>And he that breaks them in the least degree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Stands in attainder of eternal shame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Suggestions are to other as to me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>But I believe, although I seem so loath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>I am the last that will last keep his oath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>But is there no quick recreation granted?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>With a refined traveller of Spain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>A man in all the world's new fashion planted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>One whom the music of his own vain tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>A man of complements, whom right and wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>This child of fancy, that Armado hight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>For interim to our studies shall relate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>In high-born words the worth of many a knight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>But, I protest, I love to hear him lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>And I will use him for my minstrelsy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Armado is a most illustrious wight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>And so to study, three years is but short.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Which is the duke's own person?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>This, fellow: what wouldst?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>in flesh and blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>This is he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>abroad: this letter will tell you more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>A letter from the magnificent Armado.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>To hear? or forbear laughing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; or to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>forbear both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>climb in the merriness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>In what manner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>In manner and form following, sir; all those three:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>her upon the form, and taken following her into the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>park; which, put together, is in manner and form</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>in some form.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>For the following, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>the right!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>Will you hear this letter with attention?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>As we would hear an oracle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>[Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>and body's fostering patron.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Not a word of Costard yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>[Reads] 'So it is,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>telling true, but so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>Peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>Be to me and every man that dares not fight!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>No words!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>[Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>walk. The time when. About the sixth hour; when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>to that nourishment which is called supper: so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>for the time when. Now for the ground which; which,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>I mean, I walked upon: it is y-cleped thy park. Then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>and by east from the west corner of thy curious-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>Me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>[Reads] 'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>Me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>[Reads] 'that shallow vassal,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>Still me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>[Reads] 'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>O, me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>[Reads] 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>established proclaimed edict and continent canon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>which with,--O, with--but with this I passion to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>wherewith,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>With a wench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>[Reads] 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>have sent to thee, to receive the meed of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>estimation.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>[Reads] 'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>called which I apprehended with the aforesaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>swain,--I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>and heart-burning heat of duty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>This is not so well as I looked for, but the best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>that ever I heard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>you to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>Sir, I confess the wench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>Did you hear the proclamation?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.275>I do confess much of the hearing it but little of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.276>the marking of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.277>It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.278>with a wench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.279>I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.280>Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.281>This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a virgin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.282>It is so varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.283>If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.284>This maid will not serve your turn, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.285>This maid will serve my turn, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.286>Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.287>a week with bran and water.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.288>I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.289>And Don Armado shall be your keeper.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.290>My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.291>And go we, lords, to put in practise that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.292>Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.293>I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.294>These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.295>Sirrah, come on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.296>I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.297>taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.298>girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.299>prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.300>till then, sit thee down, sorrow!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.301>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>grows melancholy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>No, no; O Lord, sir, no.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>tender juvenal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Why tough senior? why tough senior?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>appertaining to thy young days, which we may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>nominate tender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>old time, which we may name tough.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>DON ADRIANO DE</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Pretty and apt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>I apt, and my saying pretty?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>Thou pretty, because little.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>And therefore apt, because quick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Speak you this in my praise, master?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>In thy condign praise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>I will praise an eel with the same praise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>What, that an eel is ingenious?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>That an eel is quick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>I am answered, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>I love not to be crossed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>[Aside] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>I have promised to study three years with the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>You may do it in an hour, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Impossible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>How many is one thrice told?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>I confess both: they are both the varnish of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>complete man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>deuce-ace amounts to.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>It doth amount to one more than two.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Which the base vulgar do call three.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>True.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>study three years in two words, the dancing horse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>will tell you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>A most fine figure!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>To prove you a cipher.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>of affection would deliver me from the reprobate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>have been in love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>Hercules, master.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>repute and carriage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>like a porter: and he was in love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>love, my dear Moth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>A woman, master.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>Of what complexion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>Tell me precisely of what complexion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>Of the sea-water green, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>Is that one of the four complexions?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Green indeed is the colour of lovers; but to have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>for it. He surely affected her for her wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>It was so, sir; for she had a green wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>My love is most immaculate white and red.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>such colours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>Define, define, well-educated infant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>pathetical!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118> If she be made of white and red,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>Her faults will ne'er be known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>For blushing cheeks by faults are bred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>And fears by pale white shown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>Then if she fear, or be to blame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>By this you shall not know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>For still her cheeks possess the same</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>Which native she doth owe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>white and red.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>The world was very guilty of such a ballad some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>found; or, if it were, it would neither serve for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>the writing nor the tune.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>example my digression by some mighty precedent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>[Aside] To be whipped; and yet a better love than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>my master.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>I say, sing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>Forbear till this company be past.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a week.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>For this damsel, I must keep her at the park: she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>is allowed for the day-woman. Fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>I do betray myself with blushing. Maid!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>Man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>I will visit thee at the lodge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157>That's hereby.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>I know where it is situate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>Lord, how wise you are!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>I will tell thee wonders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>With that face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>I love thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>So I heard you say.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>And so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>Fair weather after you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>Come, Jaquenetta, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>be pardoned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>full stomach.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>Thou shalt be heavily punished.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>are but lightly rewarded.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>Take away this villain; shut him up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>Come, you transgressing slave; away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>that I have seen, some shall see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>What shall some see?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>God I have as little patience as another man; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>therefore I can be quiet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>I do affect the very ground, which is base, where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>how can that be true love which is falsely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>The first and second cause will not serve my turn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>the passado he respects not, the duello he regards</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Consider who the king your father sends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>To parley with the sole inheritor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Of all perfections that a man may owe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>Be now as prodigal of all dear grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>As Nature was in making graces dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>When she did starve the general world beside</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>And prodigally gave them all to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>I am less proud to hear you tell my worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Than you much willing to be counted wise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>In spending your wit in the praise of mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>You are not ignorant, all-telling fame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Till painful study shall outwear three years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>No woman may approach his silent court:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>Before we enter his forbidden gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>Bold of your worthiness, we single you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>As our best-moving fair solicitor.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>On serious business, craving quick dispatch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>Importunes personal conference with his grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>Haste, signify so much; while we attend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Proud of employment, willingly I go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>All pride is willing pride, and yours is so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BOYET</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>Who are the votaries, my loving lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Lord Longaville is one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Know you the man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>It should none spare that come within his power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>They say so most that most his humours know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>Who are the rest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Of all that virtue love for virtue loved:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>And shape to win grace though he had no wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>And much too little of that good I saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Is my report to his great worthiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>Another of these students at that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>Biron they call him; but a merrier man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>Within the limit of becoming mirth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>I never spent an hour's talk withal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>His eye begets occasion for his wit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>For every object that the one doth catch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Delivers in such apt and gracious words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>That aged ears play truant at his tales</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>And younger hearings are quite ravished;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>So sweet and voluble is his discourse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>God bless my ladies! are they all in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>That every one her own hath garnished</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>With such bedecking ornaments of praise?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>Here comes Boyet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BOYET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>Now, what admittance, lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Navarre had notice of your fair approach;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>And he and his competitors in oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>He rather means to lodge you in the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Like one that comes here to besiege his court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Than seek a dispensation for his oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>To let you enter his unpeopled house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>Here comes Navarre.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BIRON, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>yours; and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Why, will shall break it; will and nothing else.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>And sin to break it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>And suddenly resolve me in my suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>You will the sooner, that I were away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>I know you did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>How needless was it then to ask the question!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>You must not be so quick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>Not till it leave the rider in the mire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>What time o' day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>The hour that fools should ask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>Now fair befall your mask!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>Fair fall the face it covers!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>And send you many lovers!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>Amen, so you be none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>Nay, then will I be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>Madam, your father here doth intimate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Being but the one half of an entire sum</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>Disbursed by my father in his wars.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>But say that he or we, as neither have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>Although not valued to the money's worth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>If then the king your father will restore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>But that one half which is unsatisfied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>We will give up our right in Aquitaine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>And hold fair friendship with his majesty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>But that, it seems, he little purposeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>For here he doth demand to have repaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>A hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>To have his title live in Aquitaine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>Which we much rather had depart withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>And have the money by our father lent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Dear Princess, were not his requests so far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>From reason's yielding, your fair self should make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>And go well satisfied to France again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>You do the king my father too much wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>And wrong the reputation of your name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>In so unseeming to confess receipt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>I do protest I never heard of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>And if you prove it, I'll repay it back</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>Or yield up Aquitaine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>We arrest your word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Boyet, you can produce acquittances</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>For such a sum from special officers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Of Charles his father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Satisfy me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>So please your grace, the packet is not come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Where that and other specialties are bound:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>It shall suffice me: at which interview</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>All liberal reason I will yield unto.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>Meantime receive such welcome at my hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>As honour without breach of honour may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>Make tender of to thy true worthiness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>But here without you shall be so received</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Though so denied fair harbour in my house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>To-morrow shall we visit you again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>I would you heard it groan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>Is the fool sick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Sick at the heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>Alack, let it blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>Would that do it good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>My physic says 'ay.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>Will you prick't with your eye?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>No point, with my knife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Now, God save thy life!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>And yours from long living!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>I cannot stay thanksgiving.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Retiring</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>Pray you, sir, whose daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Her mother's, I have heard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>God's blessing on your beard!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>Good sir, be not offended.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>She is an heir of Falconbridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>Nay, my choler is ended.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>She is a most sweet lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Not unlike, sir, that may be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit LONGAVILLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>What's her name in the cap?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>Rosaline, by good hap.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>Is she wedded or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>To her will, sir, or so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>You are welcome, sir: adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BIRON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Not a word with him but a jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>And every jest but a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>It was well done of you to take him at his word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>Two hot sheeps, marry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>And wherefore not ships?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>So you grant pasture for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Offering to kiss her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>Not so, gentle beast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>My lips are no common, though several they be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>Belonging to whom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230> To my fortunes and me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>This civil war of wits were much better used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>On Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abused.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>If my observation, which very seldom lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>With what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>With that which we lovers entitle affected.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>Your reason?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>Why, all his behaviors did make their retire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>All senses to that sense did make their repair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>To feel only looking on fairest of fair:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>His face's own margent did quote such amazes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>But to speak that in words which his eye hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>disclosed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>I only have made a mouth of his eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>Do you hear, my mad wenches?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>What then, do you see?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>Ay, our way to be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>You are too hard for me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Concolinel.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>How meanest thou? brawling in French?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>swallowed love with singing love, sometime through</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>your pocket like a man after the old painting; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>These are complements, these are humours; these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>these; and make them men of note--do you note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>me?--that most are affected to these.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>How hast thou purchased this experience?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>By my penny of observation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>But O,--but O,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>'The hobby-horse is forgot.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>Almost I had.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>Negligent student! learn her by heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>By heart and in heart, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>What wilt thou prove?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>the instant: by heart you love her, because your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>because your heart is in love with her; and out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>heart you love her, being out of heart that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>cannot enjoy her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>I am all these three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>And three times as much more, and yet nothing at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>for an ass.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Ha, ha! what sayest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>The way is but short: away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>As swift as lead, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>The meaning, pretty ingenious?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>I say lead is slow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>You are too swift, sir, to say so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Sweet smoke of rhetoric!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>I shoot thee at the swain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>Thump then and I flee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>My herald is return'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>thought my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my stars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>the word l'envoy for a salve?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>I will example it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Were still at odds, being but three.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>There's the moral. Now the l'envoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>I will add the l'envoy. Say the moral again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105> The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Were still at odds, being but three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107> Until the goose came out of door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>And stay'd the odds by adding four.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>my l'envoy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Were still at odds, being but three.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114> Until the goose came out of door,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Staying the odds by adding four.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>A good l'envoy, ending in the goose: would you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>desire more?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>Let me see; a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>Then call'd you for the l'envoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>True, and I for a plantain: thus came your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>argument in;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>And he ended the market.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>I will tell you sensibly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>I Costard, running out, that was safely within,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>We will talk no more of this matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>Till there be more matter in the shin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>some goose, in this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>restrained, captivated, bound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>True, true; and now you will be my purgation and let me loose.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>bear this significant</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving a letter</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>to the country maid Jaquenetta:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MOTH</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>inkle?'--'One penny.'--'No, I'll give you a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>never buy and sell out of this word.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BIRON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>buy for a remuneration?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>What is a remuneration?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>I thank your worship: God be wi' you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>Stay, slave; I must employ thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>When would you have it done, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>This afternoon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>Well, I will do it, sir: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>Thou knowest not what it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>I shall know, sir, when I have done it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>Why, villain, thou must know first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>I will come to your worship to-morrow morning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>It must be done this afternoon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>Hark, slave, it is but this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>The princess comes to hunt here in the park,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>And in her train there is a gentle lady;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>And Rosaline they call her: ask for her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>And to her white hand see thou do commend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving him a shilling</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>A very beadle to a humorous sigh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>A domineering pedant o'er the boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>Than whom no mortal so magnificent!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>Sole imperator and great general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>Of trotting 'paritors:--O my little heart:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>And I to be a corporal of his field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>A woman, that is like a German clock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>And never going aright, being a watch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>But being watch'd that it may still go right!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>And, among three, to love the worst of all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.220>That Cupid will impose for my neglect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.221>Of his almighty dreadful little might.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.222>Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.223>Some men must love my lady and some Joan.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.224>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester, BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Against the steep uprising of the hill?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>I know not; but I think it was not he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>On Saturday we will return to France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>That we must stand and play the murderer in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>What, what? first praise me and again say no?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>Yes, madam, fair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17> Nay, never paint me now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Fair payment for foul words is more than due.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Forester</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>O heresy in fair, fit for these days!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>And shooting well is then accounted ill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>Not wounding, pity would not let me do't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>If wounding, then it was to show my skill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>And out of question so it is sometimes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>We bend to that the working of the heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>As I for praise alone now seek to spill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>Only for praise sake, when they strive to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Lords o'er their lords?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Only for praise: and praise we may afford</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>To any lady that subdues a lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Here comes a member of the commonwealth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COSTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Which is the greatest lady, the highest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>The thickest and the tallest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>The thickest and the tallest! it is so; truth is truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>What's your will, sir? what's your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady Rosaline.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>O, thy letter, thy letter! he's a good friend of mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Break up this capon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>I am bound to serve.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>It is writ to Jaquenetta.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>We will read it, I swear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Zenelophon; and he it was that might rightly say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>Veni, vidi, vici; which to annothanize in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>vulgar,--O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw two;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>overcame, three. Who came? the king: why did he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>come? to see: why did he see? to overcome: to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>whom came he? to the beggar: what saw he? the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>beggar: who overcame he? the beggar. The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>conclusion is victory: on whose side? the king's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>The captive is enriched: on whose side? the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>side? the king's: no, on both in one, or one in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>both. I am the king; for so stands the comparison:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>thou the beggar; for so witnesseth thy lowliness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>thy love? I could: shall I entreat thy love? I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? robes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>for tittles? titles; for thyself? me. Thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Submissive fall his princely feet before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>And he from forage will incline to play:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Food for his rage, repasture for his den.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>I am much deceived but I remember the style.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>To the prince and his bookmates.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>Thou fellow, a word:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>Who gave thee this letter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>I told you; my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>To whom shouldst thou give it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>From my lord to my lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>From which lord to which lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ROSALINE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PRINCESS and train</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>Shall I teach you to know?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>Ay, my continent of beauty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Why, she that bears the bow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>Finely put off!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>Finely put on!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Well, then, I am the shooter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>And who is your deer?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>Finely put on, indeed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>at the brow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>touching the hit it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>wench, as touching the hit it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134> Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>Thou canst not hit it, my good man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136> An I cannot, cannot, cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>An I cannot, another can.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BOYET and MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>vulgar wit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>were, so fit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>will swear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>Sola, sola!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Shout within</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Exit COSTARD, running</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>of a good conscience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>the soil, the land, the earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>explication; facere, as it were, replication, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>insert again my haud credo for a deer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>the duller parts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>And such barren plants are set before us, that we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>thankful should be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>do fructify in us more than he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>weeks old as yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>What is Dictynna?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>And raught not to five weeks when he came to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>five-score.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>The allusion holds in the exchange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>'Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>in the exchange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>on the death of the deer? And, to humour the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>please you to abrogate scurrility.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>pleasing pricket;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>sore with shooting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>from thicket;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>one sorel.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>A rare talent!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>[Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>him with a talent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>thankful for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>you, and their daughters profit very greatly under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>God give you good morrow, master Parson.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>pierced, which is the one?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>Good master Parson, be so good as read me this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>Venetia, Venetia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>Chi non ti vede non ti pretia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>Ay, sir, and very learned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>osiers bow'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>Where all those pleasures live that art would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>comprehend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.127>accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.128>only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.129>facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.130>Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.131>but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.132>fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.133>so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.134>the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.135>was this directed to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.136>Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.137>queen's lords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.138>I will overglance the superscript: 'To the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.139>snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.140>Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.141>the letter, for the nomination of the party writing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.142>to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.143>desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.144>Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.145>he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.146>queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.147>progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.148>sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.149>king: it may concern much. Stay not thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.150>compliment; I forgive thy duty; adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.151>Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.152>Have with thee, my girl.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.153>Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.154>religiously; and, as a certain father saith,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.155>Sir tell me not of the father; I do fear colourable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.156>colours. But to return to the verses: did they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.157>please you, Sir Nathaniel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.158>Marvellous well for the pen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.159>I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.160>of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.161>you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.162>privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.163>child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.164>will prove those verses to be very unlearned,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.165>neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.166>beseech your society.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.167>And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.168>the happiness of life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.169>And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DULL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.170>Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.171>say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.172>their game, and we will to our recreation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.173>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BIRON, with a paper</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>with a paper: God give him grace to groan!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stands aside</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter FERDINAND, with a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>Ay me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>[Aside] Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>left pap. In faith, secrets!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>Through the transparent bosom of the deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>As doth thy face through tears of mine give light;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>Do but behold the tears that swell in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>And they thy glory through my grief will show:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Steps aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>Ay me, I am forsworn!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>One drunkard loves another of the name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>Am I the first that have been perjured so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>The shape of Love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>O sweet Maria, empress of my love!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>Disfigure not his slop.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>This same shall go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>Persuade my heart to this false perjury?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>A woman I forswore; but I will prove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>If broken then, it is no fault of mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>If by me broke, what fool is not so wise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>To lose an oath to win a paradise?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Steps aside</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>All hid, all hid; an old infant play.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUMAIN, with a paper</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>O most divine Kate!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>O most profane coxcomb!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>An amber-colour'd raven was well noted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>As upright as the cedar.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>Stoop, I say;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>Her shoulder is with child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>As fair as day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>O that I had my wish!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>And I had mine!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>And I mine too, good Lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>I would forget her; but a fever she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>Reigns in my blood and will remember'd be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>A fever in your blood! why, then incision</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>On a day--alack the day!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>Love, whose month is ever May,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Spied a blossom passing fair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>Playing in the wanton air:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>Through the velvet leaves the wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>All unseen, can passage find;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>That the lover, sick to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>Wish himself the heaven's breath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>Air, would I might triumph so!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>But, alack, my hand is sworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>Do not call it sin in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>That I am forsworn for thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>Thou for whom Jove would swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>Juno but an Ethiope were;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>And deny himself for Jove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>Turning mortal for thy love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>This will I send, and something else more plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>That shall express my true love's fasting pain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>For none offend where all alike do dote.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131>[Advancing] Dumain, thy love is far from charity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.133>To be o'erheard and taken napping so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.134>[Advancing] Come, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.135>You chide at him, offending twice as much;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.136>You do not love Maria; Longaville</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.137>Did never sonnet for her sake compile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.138>Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.139>His loving bosom to keep down his heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.140>I have been closely shrouded in this bush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.141>And mark'd you both and for you both did blush:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.142>I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.143>Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.144>Ay me! says one; O Jove! the other cries;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.145>One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LONGAVILLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.146>You would for paradise break faith, and troth;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DUMAIN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.147>And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.148>What will Biron say when that he shall hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.149>Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.150>How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.151>How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.152>For all the wealth that ever I did see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.153>I would not have him know so much by me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.154>Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Advancing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.155>Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.156>Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.157>These worms for loving, that art most in love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.158>Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.159>There is no certain princess that appears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.160>You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.161>Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.162>But are you not ashamed? nay, are you not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.163>All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.164>You found his mote; the king your mote did see;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.165>But I a beam do find in each of three.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.166>O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.167>Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.168>O me, with what strict patience have I sat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.169>To see a king transformed to a gnat!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.170>To see great Hercules whipping a gig,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.171>And profound Solomon to tune a jig,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.172>And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.173>And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.174>Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.175>And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.176>And where my liege's? all about the breast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.177>A caudle, ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.178> Too bitter is thy jest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.179>Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.180>Not you to me, but I betray'd by you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.181>I, that am honest; I, that hold it sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.182>To break the vow I am engaged in;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.183>I am betray'd, by keeping company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.184>With men like men of inconstancy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.185>When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.186>Or groan for love? or spend a minute's time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.187>In pruning me? When shall you hear that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.188>Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.189>A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.190>A leg, a limb?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.191> Soft! whither away so fast?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.192>A true man or a thief that gallops so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.193>I post from love: good lover, let me go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.194>God bless the king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.195>What present hast thou there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.196>Some certain treason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.197>What makes treason here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.198>Nay, it makes nothing, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.199>If it mar nothing neither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.200>The treason and you go in peace away together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.201>I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.202>Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.203>Biron, read it over.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving him the paper</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.204>Where hadst thou it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.205>Of Costard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.206>Where hadst thou it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.207>Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BIRON tears the letter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.208>How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.209>A toy, my liege, a toy: your grace needs not fear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.210>It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.211>It is Biron's writing, and here is his name.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gathering up the pieces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.212>[To COSTARD] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.213>born to do me shame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.214>Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.215>What?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.216>That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.217>He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.218>Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.219>O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.220>Now the number is even.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.221>True, true; we are four.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.222>Will these turtles be gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.223>Hence, sirs; away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.224>Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.225>Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.226>As true we are as flesh and blood can be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.227>The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.228>Young blood doth not obey an old decree:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.229>We cannot cross the cause why we were born;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.230>Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.231>What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.232>Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.233>That, like a rude and savage man of Inde,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.234>At the first opening of the gorgeous east,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.235>Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.236>Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.237>What peremptory eagle-sighted eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.238>Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.239>That is not blinded by her majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.240> What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.241>My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.242>She an attending star, scarce seen a light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.243>My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.244>O, but for my love, day would turn to night!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.245>Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.246>Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.247>Where several worthies make one dignity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.248>Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.249>Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.250>Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.251>To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.252>She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.253>A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.254>Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.255>Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.256>And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.257>O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.258> By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.259>Is ebony like her? O wood divine!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.260>A wife of such wood were felicity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.261>O, who can give an oath? where is a book?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.262>That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.263>If that she learn not of her eye to look:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.264>No face is fair that is not full so black.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.265>O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.266>The hue of dungeons and the suit of night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.267>And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.268> Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.269>O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.270>It mourns that painting and usurping hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.271>Should ravish doters with a false aspect;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.272>And therefore is she born to make black fair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.273>Her favour turns the fashion of the days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.274>For native blood is counted painting now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.275>And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.276>Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.277>To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.278> And since her time are colliers counted bright.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.279>And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.280> Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.281>Your mistresses dare never come in rain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.282>For fear their colours should be wash'd away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.283>'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.284>I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.285>I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.286> No devil will fright thee then so much as she.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.287>I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.288> Look, here's thy love: my foot and her face see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.289>O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.290>Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.291>O, vile! then, as she goes, what upward lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.292>The street should see as she walk'd overhead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.293>But what of this? are we not all in love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.294> Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.295>Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.296>Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.297>Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.298> O, some authority how to proceed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.299>Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.300>Some salve for perjury.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.301>'Tis more than need.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.302>Have at you, then, affection's men at arms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.303>Consider what you first did swear unto,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.304>To fast, to study, and to see no woman;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.305>Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.306>Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.307>And abstinence engenders maladies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.308>And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.309>In that each of you have forsworn his book,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.310>Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.311>For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.312>Have found the ground of study's excellence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.313>Without the beauty of a woman's face?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>From women's eyes this doctrine I derive; They are the ground, the books, the academes From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.314>Why, universal plodding poisons up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.315>The nimble spirits in the arteries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.316>As motion and long-during action tires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.317>The sinewy vigour of the traveller.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.318>Now, for not looking on a woman's face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.319>You have in that forsworn the use of eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.320>And study too, the causer of your vow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.321>For where is any author in the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.322>Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.323>Learning is but an adjunct to ourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.324>And where we are our learning likewise is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.325>Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.326>Do we not likewise see our learning there?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.327>O, we have made a vow to study, lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.328>And in that vow we have forsworn our books.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.329>For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.330>In leaden contemplation have found out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.331>Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.332>Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.333>Other slow arts entirely keep the brain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.334>And therefore, finding barren practisers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.335>Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.336>But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.337>Lives not alone immured in the brain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.338>But, with the motion of all elements,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.339>Courses as swift as thought in every power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.340>And gives to every power a double power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.341>Above their functions and their offices.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.342>It adds a precious seeing to the eye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.343>A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.344>A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.345>When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.346>Love's feeling is more soft and sensible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.347>Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.348>Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.349>For valour, is not Love a Hercules,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.350>Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.351>Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.352>As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.353>And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.354>Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.355>Never durst poet touch a pen to write</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.356>Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.357>O, then his lines would ravish savage ears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.358>And plant in tyrants mild humility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.359>From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.360>They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.361>They are the books, the arts, the academes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.362>That show, contain and nourish all the world:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.363>Else none at all in ought proves excellent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.364>Then fools you were these women to forswear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.365>Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.366>For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.367>Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.368>Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.369>Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.370>Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.371>Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.372>It is religion to be thus forsworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.373>For charity itself fulfills the law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.374>And who can sever love from charity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.375>Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.376>Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.377>Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.378>In conflict that you get the sun of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.379>Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.380>Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.381>And win them too: therefore let us devise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.382>Some entertainment for them in their tents.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.383>First, from the park let us conduct them thither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.384>Then homeward every man attach the hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.385>Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.386>We will with some strange pastime solace them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.387>Such as the shortness of the time can shape;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.388>For revels, dances, masks and merry hours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.389>Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.390>Away, away! no time shall be omitted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.391>That will betime, and may by us be fitted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.392>Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.393>And justice always whirls in equal measure:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.394>Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.395>If so, our copper buys no better treasure.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.396>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Satis quod sufficit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>A most singular and choice epithet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Draws out his table-book</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>than the staple of his argument. I abhor such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>point-devise companions; such rackers of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Laus Deo, bene intelligo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>'twill serve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Videsne quis venit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Video, et gaudeo.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Chirrah!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To MOTH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>Quare chirrah, not sirrah?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Men of peace, well encountered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Most military sir, salutation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>[Aside to COSTARD] They have been at a great feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>of languages, and stolen the scraps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>for thou art not so long by the head as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>swallowed than a flap-dragon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>Peace! the peal begins.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>[To HOLOFERNES] Monsieur, are you not lettered?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>Ba, pueritia, with a horn added.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>Quis, quis, thou consonant?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>the fifth, if I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>I will repeat them,--a, e, i,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>The sheep: the other two concludes it,--o, u.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>home! it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>Offered by a child to an old man; which is wit-old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>What is the figure? what is the figure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Horns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>Thou disputest like an infant: go, whip thy gig.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>your infamy circum circa,--a gig of a cuckold's horn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>have it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>ends, as they say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>O, I smell false Latin; dunghill for unguem.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>charge-house on the top of the mountain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Or mons, the hill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>I do, sans question.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>affection to congratulate the princess at her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>rude multitude call the afternoon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>liable, congruent and measurable for the afternoon:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>the word is well culled, chose, sweet and apt, I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>assure you, sir, I do assure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>I do assure ye, very good friend: for what is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>head: and among other important and most serious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>that pass: for I must tell thee, it will please his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>with my excrement, with my mustachio; but, sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>travel, that hath seen the world; but let that pass.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>implore secrecy,--that the king would have me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>present the princess, sweet chuck, with some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>curate and your sweet self are good at such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>crave your assistance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>Sir, as concerning some entertainment of time, some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>our assistants, at the king's command, and this most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>the princess; I say none so fit as to present the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>Nine Worthies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>Joshua, yourself; myself and this gallant gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>page, Hercules,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end of his club.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>An excellent device! so, if any of the audience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>For the rest of the Worthies?--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>I will play three myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>Thrice-worthy gentleman!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>Shall I tell you a thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>We attend.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>beseech you, follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>Nor understood none neither, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>Allons! we will employ thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>DULL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>If fairings come thus plentifully in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>A lady wall'd about with diamonds!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Look you what I have from the loving king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>Madame, came nothing else along with that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>That was the way to make his godhead wax,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>For he hath been five thousand years a boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>You'll ne'er be friends with him; a' kill'd your sister.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>And so she died: had she been light, like you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>She might ha' been a grandam ere she died:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>And so may you; for a light heart lives long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>A light condition in a beauty dark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>We need more light to find your meaning out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>So do not you, for you are a light wench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>But Rosaline, you have a favour too:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>Who sent it? and what is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>I would you knew:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>An if my face were but as fair as yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>My favour were as great; be witness this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>The numbers true; and, were the numbering too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>I were the fairest goddess on the ground:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>Any thing like?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>Much in the letters; nothing in the praise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Fair as a text B in a copy-book.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>My red dominical, my golden letter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>O, that your face were not so full of O's!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>Madam, this glove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50> Did he not send you twain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>Yes, madam, and moreover</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>A huge translation of hypocrisy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>The letter is too long by half a mile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>The chain were longer and the letter short?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>Ay, or I would these hands might never part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>O that I knew he were but in by the week!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>How I would make him fawn and beg and seek</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>And wait the season and observe the times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>And shape his service wholly to my hests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>And make him proud to make me proud that jests!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>That he should be my fool and I his fate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>The blood of youth burns not with such excess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>As gravity's revolt to wantonness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Folly in fools bears not so strong a note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Since all the power thereof it doth apply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BOYET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>Thy news Boyet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84> Prepare, madam, prepare!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>Armed in arguments; you'll be surprised:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>Muster your wits; stand in your own defence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>That charge their breath against us? say, scout, say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Under the cool shade of a sycamore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>When, lo! to interrupt my purposed rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>Toward that shade I might behold addrest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>The king and his companions: warily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>I stole into a neighbour thicket by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>And overheard what you shall overhear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>That, by and by, disguised they will be here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>Their herald is a pretty knavish page,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>Action and accent did they teach him there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>And ever and anon they made a doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>Presence majestical would put him out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>'For,' quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou see;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>The boy replied, 'An angel is not evil;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>With that, all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>Making the bold wag by their praises bolder:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>One rubb'd his elbow thus, and fleer'd and swore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>A better speech was never spoke before;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>Another, with his finger and his thumb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>Cried, 'Via! we will do't, come what will come;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>The third he caper'd, and cried, 'All goes well;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>With that, they all did tumble on the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>With such a zealous laughter, so profound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>That in this spleen ridiculous appears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>To cheque their folly, passion's solemn tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>But what, but what, come they to visit us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>And every one his love-feat will advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>Unto his several mistress, which they'll know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>By favours several which they did bestow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>And not a man of them shall have the grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>And then the king will court thee for his dear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>And change your favours too; so shall your loves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>Come on, then; wear the favours most in sight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>But in this changing what is your intent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>The effect of my intent is to cross theirs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>They do it but in mocking merriment;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>And mock for mock is only my intent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>Their several counsels they unbosom shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>Upon the next occasion that we meet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.147>With visages displayed, to talk and greet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.148>But shall we dance, if they desire to't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.149>No, to the death, we will not move a foot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.150>Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.151>But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.152>Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.153>And quite divorce his memory from his part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.154>Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.155>The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.156>There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.157>To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.158>So shall we stay, mocking intended game,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.159>And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.160>The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Ladies mask</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter Blackamoors with music; MOTH; FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in Russian habits, and masked</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.161>All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.162>Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.163>A holy parcel of the fairest dames.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Ladies turn their backs to him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.164>That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.165>[Aside to MOTH] Their eyes, villain, their eyes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.166>That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views!--Out--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.167>True; out indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.168>Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.169>Not to behold--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.170>[Aside to MOTH] Once to behold, rogue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.171>Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.172>--with your sun-beamed eyes--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.173>They will not answer to that epithet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.174>You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.175>They do not mark me, and that brings me out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.176>Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MOTH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.177>What would these strangers? know their minds, Boyet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.178>If they do speak our language, 'tis our will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.179>That some plain man recount their purposes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.180>Know what they would.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.181>What would you with the princess?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.182>Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.183>What would they, say they?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.184>Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.185>Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.186>She says, you have it, and you may be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.187>Say to her, we have measured many miles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.188>To tread a measure with her on this grass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.189>They say, that they have measured many a mile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.190>To tread a measure with you on this grass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.191>It is not so. Ask them how many inches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.192>Is in one mile: if they have measured many,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.193>The measure then of one is easily told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.194>If to come hither you have measured miles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.195>And many miles, the princess bids you tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.196>How many inches doth fill up one mile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.197>Tell her, we measure them by weary steps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.198>She hears herself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.199> How many weary steps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.200>Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.201>Are number'd in the travel of one mile?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.202>We number nothing that we spend for you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.203>Our duty is so rich, so infinite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.204>That we may do it still without accompt.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.205>Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.206>That we, like savages, may worship it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.207>My face is but a moon, and clouded too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.208>Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.209>Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.210>Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.211>O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.212>Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.213>Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.214>Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.215>Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music plays</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.216>Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.217>Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.218>You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.219>Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.220>The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.221>Our ears vouchsafe it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.222>But your legs should do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.223>Since you are strangers and come here by chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.224>We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.225>Why take we hands, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.226>Only to part friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.227>Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.228>More measure of this measure; be not nice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.229>We can afford no more at such a price.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.230>Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.231>Your absence only.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.232> That can never be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.233>Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.234>Twice to your visor, and half once to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.235>If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.236>In private, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.237> I am best pleased with that.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.238>White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.239>Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.240>Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.241>Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.242>There's half-a-dozen sweets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.243>Seventh sweet, adieu:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.244>Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.245>One word in secret.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.246>Let it not be sweet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.247>Thou grievest my gall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.248>Gall! bitter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.249>Therefore meet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.250>Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.251>Name it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.252> Fair lady,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.253>Say you so? Fair lord,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.254>Take that for your fair lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.255>Please it you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.256>As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.257>What, was your vizard made without a tongue?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.258>I know the reason, lady, why you ask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.259>O for your reason! quickly, sir; I long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.260>You have a double tongue within your mask,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.261>And would afford my speechless vizard half.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.262>Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.263>A calf, fair lady!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.264> No, a fair lord calf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.265>Let's part the word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.266>No, I'll not be your half</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.267>Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.268>Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.269>Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.270>Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.271>One word in private with you, ere I die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.272>Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They converse apart</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.273>The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.274>As is the razor's edge invisible,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.275>Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.276>Above the sense of sense; so sensible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.277>Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.278>Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.279>Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.280>By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.281>Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.282>Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FERDINAND, Lords, and Blackamoors</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.283>Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.284>Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.285>Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.286>O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.287>Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.288>Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.289>This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.290>O, they were all in lamentable cases!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.291>The king was weeping-ripe for a good word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.292>Biron did swear himself out of all suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.293>Dumain was at my service, and his sword:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.294>No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.295>Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.296>And trow you what he called me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.297>Qualm, perhaps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.298>Yes, in good faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.299>Go, sickness as thou art!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.300>Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.301>But will you hear? the king is my love sworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.302>And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.303>And Longaville was for my service born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.304>Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.305>Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.306>Immediately they will again be here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.307>In their own shapes; for it can never be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.308>They will digest this harsh indignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.309>Will they return?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.310> They will, they will, God knows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.311>And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.312>Therefore change favours; and, when they repair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.313>Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.314>How blow? how blow? speak to be understood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.315>Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.316>Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.317>Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech154><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.318>Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.319>If they return in their own shapes to woo?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech155><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.320>Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.321>Let's, mock them still, as well known as disguised:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.322>Let us complain to them what fools were here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.323>Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.324>And wonder what they were and to what end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.325>Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.326>And their rough carriage so ridiculous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.327>Should be presented at our tent to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech156><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.328>Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech157><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.329>Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PRINCESS, ROSALINE, KATHARINE, and MARIA</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in their proper habits</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech158><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.330>Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech159><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.331>Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.332>Command me any service to her thither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech160><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.333>That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech161><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.334>I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech162><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.335>This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.336>And utters it again when God doth please:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.337>He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.338>At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.339>And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.340>Have not the grace to grace it with such show.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.341>This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.342>Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.343>A' can carve too, and lisp: why, this is he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.344>That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.345>This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.346>That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.347>In honourable terms: nay, he can sing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.348>A mean most meanly; and in ushering</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.349>Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.350>The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.351>This is the flower that smiles on every one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.352>To show his teeth as white as whale's bone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.353>And consciences, that will not die in debt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.354>Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech163><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.355>A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.356>That put Armado's page out of his part!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech164><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.357>See where it comes! Behavior, what wert thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.358>Till this madman show'd thee? and what art thou now?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the PRINCESS, ushered by BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech165><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.359>All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech166><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.360>'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech167><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.361>Construe my speeches better, if you may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech168><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.362>Then wish me better; I will give you leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech169><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.363>We came to visit you, and purpose now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.364>To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech170><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.365>This field shall hold me; and so hold your vow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.366>Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech171><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.367>Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.368>The virtue of your eye must break my oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech172><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.369>You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.370>For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.371>Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.372>As the unsullied lily, I protest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.373>A world of torments though I should endure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.374>I would not yield to be your house's guest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.375>So much I hate a breaking cause to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.376>Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech173><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.377>O, you have lived in desolation here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.378>Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech174><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.379>Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.380>We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.381>A mess of Russians left us but of late.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech175><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.382>How, madam! Russians!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech176><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.383>Ay, in truth, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.384>Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech177><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.385>Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.386>My lady, to the manner of the days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.387>In courtesy gives undeserving praise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.388>We four indeed confronted were with four</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.389>In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.390>And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.391>They did not bless us with one happy word.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.392>I dare not call them fools; but this I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.393>When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech178><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.394>This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.395>Your wit makes wise things foolish: when we greet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.396>With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.397>By light we lose light: your capacity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.398>Is of that nature that to your huge store</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.399>Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech179><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.400>This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech180><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.401>I am a fool, and full of poverty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech181><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.402>But that you take what doth to you belong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.403>It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech182><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.404>O, I am yours, and all that I possess!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech183><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.405>All the fool mine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech184><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.406> I cannot give you less.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech185><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.407>Which of the vizards was it that you wore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech186><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.408>Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech187><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.409>There, then, that vizard; that superfluous case</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.410>That hid the worse and show'd the better face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech188><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.411>We are descried; they'll mock us now downright.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech189><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.412>Let us confess and turn it to a jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech190><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.413>Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech191><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.414>Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.415>Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech192><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.416>Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.417>Can any face of brass hold longer out?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech193><b>Here stand I</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.418>lady, dart thy skill at me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.419>Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.420>Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.421>Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.422>And I will wish thee never more to dance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.423>Nor never more in Russian habit wait.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.424>O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.425>Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.426>Nor never come in vizard to my friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.427>Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.428>Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.429>Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.430>Figures pedantical; these summer-flies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.431>Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.432>I do forswear them; and I here protest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.433>By this white glove;--how white the hand, God knows!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.434>Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.435>In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.436>And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.437>My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech194><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.438>Sans sans, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech195><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.439>Yet I have a trick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.440>Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.441>I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.442>Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.443>They are infected; in their hearts it lies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.444>They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.445>These lords are visited; you are not free,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.446>For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech196><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.447>No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech197><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.448>Our states are forfeit: seek not to undo us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech198><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.449>It is not so; for how can this be true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.450>That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech199><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.451>Peace! for I will not have to do with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech200><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.452>Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech201><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.453>Speak for yourselves; my wit is at an end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech202><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.454>Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.455>Some fair excuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech203><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.456> The fairest is confession.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.457>Were not you here but even now disguised?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech204><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.458>Madam, I was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech205><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.459> And were you well advised?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech206><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.460>I was, fair madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech207><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.461> When you then were here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.462>What did you whisper in your lady's ear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech208><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.463>That more than all the world I did respect her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech209><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.464>When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech210><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.465>Upon mine honour, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech211><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.466>Peace, peace! forbear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.467>Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech212><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.468>Despise me, when I break this oath of mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech213><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.469>I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.470>What did the Russian whisper in your ear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech214><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.471>Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.472>As precious eyesight, and did value me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.473>Above this world; adding thereto moreover</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.474>That he would wed me, or else die my lover.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech215><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.475>God give thee joy of him! the noble lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.476>Most honourably doth unhold his word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech216><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.477>What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.478>I never swore this lady such an oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech217><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.479>By heaven, you did; and to confirm it plain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.480>You gave me this: but take it, sir, again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech218><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.481>My faith and this the princess I did give:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.482>I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech219><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.483>Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.484>And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.485>What, will you have me, or your pearl again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech220><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.486>Neither of either; I remit both twain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.487>I see the trick on't: here was a consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.488>Knowing aforehand of our merriment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.489>To dash it like a Christmas comedy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.490>Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.491>Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.492>That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.493>To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.494>Told our intents before; which once disclosed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.495>The ladies did change favours: and then we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.496>Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.497>Now, to our perjury to add more terror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.498>We are again forsworn, in will and error.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.499>Much upon this it is: and might not you</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To BOYET</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.500>Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.501>Do not you know my lady's foot by the squier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.502>And laugh upon the apple of her eye?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.503>And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.504>Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.505>You put our page out: go, you are allow'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.506>Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.507>You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.508>Wounds like a leaden sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech221><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.509>Full merrily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.510>Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech222><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.511>Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COSTARD</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.512>Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech223><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.513>O Lord, sir, they would know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.514>Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech224><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.515>What, are there but three?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech225><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.516>No, sir; but it is vara fine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.517>For every one pursents three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech226><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.518>And three times thrice is nine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech227><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.519>Not so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope it is not so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.520>You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.521>what we know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.522>I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech228><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.523>Is not nine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech229><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.524>Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech230><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.525>By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech231><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.526>O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.527>by reckoning, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech232><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.528>How much is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech233><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.529>O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.530>sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.531>own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.532>in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech234><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.533>Art thou one of the Worthies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech235><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.534>It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.535>Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.536>the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech236><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.537>Go, bid them prepare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech237><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.538>We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.539>some care.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech238><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.540>Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech239><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.541>We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.542>To have one show worse than the king's and his company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech240><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.543>I say they shall not come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech241><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.544>Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.545>That sport best pleases that doth least know how:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.546>Where zeal strives to content, and the contents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.547>Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.548>Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.549>When great things labouring perish in their birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech242><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.550>A right description of our sport, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.551>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech243><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.552>Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.553>sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech244><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.554>Doth this man serve God?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech245><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.555>Why ask you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech246><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.556>He speaks not like a man of God's making.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.557>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech247><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.558>That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.559>I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.560>fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.561>will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.562>I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech248><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.563>Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.564>presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.565>Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.566>Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.567>these four Worthies in their first show thrive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.568>These four will change habits, and present the other five.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech249><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.569>There is five in the first show.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech250><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.570>You are deceived; 'tis not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech251><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.571>The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.572>and the boy:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.573>Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.574>Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech252><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.575>The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter COSTARD, for Pompey</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech253><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.576>I Pompey am,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech254><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.577> You lie, you are not he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech255><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.578>I Pompey am,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech256><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.579> With libbard's head on knee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech257><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.580>Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.581>with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech258><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.582>I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech259><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.583>The Great.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech260><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.584>It is, 'Great,' sir:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.585>Pompey surnamed the Great;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.586>That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.587>my foe to sweat:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.588>And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.589>And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.590>If your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech261><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.591>Great thanks, great Pompey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech262><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.592>'Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.593>made a little fault in 'Great.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech263><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.594>My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech264><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.595>When in the world I lived, I was the world's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.596>commander;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.597>By east, west, north, and south, I spread my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.598>conquering might:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.599>My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech265><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.600>Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech266><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.601>Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech267><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.602>The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech268><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.603>When in the world I lived, I was the world's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.604>commander,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech269><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.605>Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech270><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.606>Pompey the Great,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech271><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.607>Your servant, and Costard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech272><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.608>Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech273><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.609>[To SIR NATHANIEL] O, sir, you have overthrown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.610>Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.611>the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.612>his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.613>to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.614>and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>SIR NATHANIEL retires</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.615>There, an't shall please you; a foolish mild man; an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.616>honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.617>marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.618>bowler: but, for Alisander,--alas, you see how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.619>'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.620>a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas; and MOTH, for Hercules</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech274><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.621> Great Hercules is presented by this imp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.622>Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.623>And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.624>Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.625>Quoniam he seemeth in minority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.626>Ergo I come with this apology.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.627>Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MOTH retires</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.628>Judas I am,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech275><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.629>A Judas!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech276><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.630>Not Iscariot, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.631>Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech277><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.632>Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech278><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.633>A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech279><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.634>Judas I am,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech280><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.635>The more shame for you, Judas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech281><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.636>What mean you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech282><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.637>To make Judas hang himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech283><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.638>Begin, sir; you are my elder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech284><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.639>Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech285><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.640>I will not be put out of countenance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech286><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.641>Because thou hast no face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech287><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.642>What is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech288><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.643>A cittern-head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech289><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.644>The head of a bodkin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech290><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.645>A Death's face in a ring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech291><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.646>The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech292><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.647>The pommel of Caesar's falchion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech293><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.648>The carved-bone face on a flask.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech294><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.649>Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech295><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.650>Ay, and in a brooch of lead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech296><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.651>Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.652>And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech297><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.653>You have put me out of countenance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech298><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.654>False; we have given thee faces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech299><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.655>But you have out-faced them all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech300><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.656>An thou wert a lion, we would do so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech301><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.657>Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.658>And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech302><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.659>For the latter end of his name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech303><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.660>For the ass to the Jude; give it him:--Jud-as, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech304><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.661>This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech305><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.662>A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>HOLOFERNES retires</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech306><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.663>Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech307><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.664>Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech308><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.665>Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech309><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.666>Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech310><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.667>But is this Hector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech311><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.668>I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech312><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.669>His leg is too big for Hector's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech313><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.670>More calf, certain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech314><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.671>No; he is best endued in the small.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech315><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.672>This cannot be Hector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech316><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.673>He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.674>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech317><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.675>The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.676>Gave Hector a gift,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech318><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.677>A gilt nutmeg.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech319><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.678>A lemon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech320><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.679>Stuck with cloves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech321><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.680>No, cloven.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.681>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech322><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.682>Peace!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.683>The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.684>Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.685>A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.686>From morn till night, out of his pavilion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.687>I am that flower,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech323><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.688>That mint.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech324><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.689>That columbine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.690>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech325><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.691>Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech326><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.692>I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech327><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.693>Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.694>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech328><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.695>The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.696>beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.697>he was a man. But I will forward with my device.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To the PRINCESS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.698>Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech329><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.699>Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.700>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech330><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.701>I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech331><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.702>[Aside to DUMAIN] Loves her by the foot,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech332><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.703>[Aside to BOYET] He may not by the yard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.704>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech333><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.705>This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech334><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.706>The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone; she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.707>is two months on her way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.708>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech335><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.709>What meanest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech336><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.710>Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.711>wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.712>her belly already: tis yours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.713>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech337><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.714>Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.715>die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech338><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.716>Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.717>quick by him and hanged for Pompey that is dead by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.718>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech339><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.719>Most rare Pompey!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech340><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.720>Renowned Pompey!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech341><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.721>Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.722>Pompey the Huge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech342><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.723>Hector trembles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech343><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.724>Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.725>on! stir them on!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech344><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.726>Hector will challenge him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech345><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.727>Ay, if a' have no man's blood in's belly than will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.728>sup a flea.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.729>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech346><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.730>By the north pole, I do challenge thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech347><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.731>I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.732>I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.733>let me borrow my arms again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech348><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.734>Room for the incensed Worthies!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech349><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.735>I'll do it in my shirt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech350><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.736>Most resolute Pompey!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech351><b>MOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.737>Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.738>not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.739>you? You will lose your reputation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.740>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech352><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.741>Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.742>in my shirt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech353><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.743>You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.744>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech354><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.745>Sweet bloods, I both may and will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech355><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.746>What reason have you for't?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.747>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech356><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.748>The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt; I go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.749>woolward for penance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech357><b>BOYET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.750>True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.751>linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.752>a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.753>his heart for a favour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MERCADE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech358><b>MERCADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.754>God save you, madam!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech359><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.755>Welcome, Mercade;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.756>But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech360><b>MERCADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.757>I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.758>Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech361><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.759>Dead, for my life!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech362><b>MERCADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.760>Even so; my tale is told.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech363><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.761>Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.762>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech364><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.763>For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.764>seen the day of wrong through the little hole of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.765>discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Worthies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech365><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.766>How fares your majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech366><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.767>Boyet, prepare; I will away tonight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech367><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.768>Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech368><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.769>Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.770>For all your fair endeavors; and entreat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.771>Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.772>In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.773>The liberal opposition of our spirits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.774>If over-boldly we have borne ourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.775>In the converse of breath: your gentleness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.776>Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.777>A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.778>Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.779>For my great suit so easily obtain'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech369><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.780>The extreme parts of time extremely forms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.781>All causes to the purpose of his speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.782>And often at his very loose decides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.783>That which long process could not arbitrate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.784>And though the mourning brow of progeny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.785>Forbid the smiling courtesy of love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.786>The holy suit which fain it would convince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.787>Yet, since love's argument was first on foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.788>Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.789>From what it purposed; since, to wail friends lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.790>Is not by much so wholesome-profitable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.791>As to rejoice at friends but newly found.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech370><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.792>I understand you not: my griefs are double.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech371><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.793>Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.794>And by these badges understand the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.795>For your fair sakes have we neglected time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.796>Play'd foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.797>Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.798>Even to the opposed end of our intents:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.799>And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.800>As love is full of unbefitting strains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.801>All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.802>Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.803>Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.804>Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.805>To every varied object in his glance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.806>Which parti-coated presence of loose love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.807>Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.808>Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.809>Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.810>Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.811>Our love being yours, the error that love makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.812>Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.813>By being once false for ever to be true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.814>To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.815>And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.816>Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech372><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.817>We have received your letters full of love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.818>Your favours, the ambassadors of love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.819>And, in our maiden council, rated them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.820>At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.821>As bombast and as lining to the time:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.822>But more devout than this in our respects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.823>Have we not been; and therefore met your loves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.824>In their own fashion, like a merriment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech373><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.825>Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech374><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.826>So did our looks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech375><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.827> We did not quote them so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech376><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.828>Now, at the latest minute of the hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.829>Grant us your loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech377><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.830>A time, methinks, too short</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.831>To make a world-without-end bargain in.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.832>No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.833>Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.834>If for my love, as there is no such cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.835>You will do aught, this shall you do for me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.836>Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.837>To some forlorn and naked hermitage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.838>Remote from all the pleasures of the world;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.839>There stay until the twelve celestial signs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.840>Have brought about the annual reckoning.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.841>If this austere insociable life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.842>Change not your offer made in heat of blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.843>If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.844>Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.845>But that it bear this trial and last love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.846>Then, at the expiration of the year,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.847>Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.848>And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.849>I will be thine; and till that instant shut</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.850>My woeful self up in a mourning house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.851>Raining the tears of lamentation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.852>For the remembrance of my father's death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.853>If this thou do deny, let our hands part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.854>Neither entitled in the other's heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech378><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.855>If this, or more than this, I would deny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.856>To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.857>The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.858>Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech379><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.859>But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech380><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.860>A beard, fair health, and honesty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.861>With three-fold love I wish you all these three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech381><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.862>O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech382><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.863>Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.864>I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.865>Come when the king doth to my lady come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.866>Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech383><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.867>I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech384><b>KATHARINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.868>Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech385><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.869>What says Maria?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech386><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.870> At the twelvemonth's end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.871>I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech387><b>LONGAVILLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.872>I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech388><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.873>The liker you; few taller are so young.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech389><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.874>Studies my lady? mistress, look on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.875>Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.876>What humble suit attends thy answer there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.877>Impose some service on me for thy love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech390><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.878>Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.879>Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.880>Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.881>Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.882>Which you on all estates will execute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.883>That lie within the mercy of your wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.884>To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.885>And therewithal to win me, if you please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.886>Without the which I am not to be won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.887>You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.888>Visit the speechless sick and still converse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.889>With groaning wretches; and your task shall be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.890>With all the fierce endeavor of your wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.891>To enforce the pained impotent to smile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech391><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.892>To move wild laughter in the throat of death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.893>It cannot be; it is impossible:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.894>Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech392><b>ROSALINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.895>Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.896>Whose influence is begot of that loose grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.897>Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.898>A jest's prosperity lies in the ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.899>Of him that hears it, never in the tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.900>Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.901>Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.902>Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.903>And I will have you and that fault withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.904>But if they will not, throw away that spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.905>And I shall find you empty of that fault,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.906>Right joyful of your reformation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech393><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.907>A twelvemonth! well; befall what will befall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.908>I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech394><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.909>[To FERDINAND] Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech395><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.910>No, madam; we will bring you on your way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech396><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.911>Our wooing doth not end like an old play;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.912>Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.913>Might well have made our sport a comedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech397><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.914>Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.915>And then 'twill end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech398><b>BIRON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.916>That's too long for a play.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.917>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech399><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.918>Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech400><b>PRINCESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.919>Was not that Hector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech401><b>DUMAIN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.920>The worthy knight of Troy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.921>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech402><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.922>I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.923>a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.924>plough for her sweet love three years. But, most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.925>esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.926>the two learned men have compiled in praise of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.927>owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.928>end of our show.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech403><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.929>Call them forth quickly; we will do so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.930>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech404><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.931>Holla! approach.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD, and others</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.932>This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.933>the one maintained by the owl, the other by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.934>cuckoo. Ver, begin.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>THE SONG</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.935>SPRING.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.936>When daisies pied and violets blue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.937>And lady-smocks all silver-white</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.938>And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.939>Do paint the meadows with delight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.940>The cuckoo then, on every tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.941>Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.942>Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.943>Unpleasing to a married ear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.944>When shepherds pipe on oaten straws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.945>And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.946>When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.947>And maidens bleach their summer smocks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.948>The cuckoo then, on every tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.949>Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.950>Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.951>Unpleasing to a married ear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.952>WINTER.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.953>When icicles hang by the wall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.954>And Dick the shepherd blows his nail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.955>And Tom bears logs into the hall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.956>And milk comes frozen home in pail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.957>When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.958>Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.959>Tu-who, a merry note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.960>While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.961>When all aloud the wind doth blow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.962>And coughing drowns the parson's saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.963>And birds sit brooding in the snow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.964>And Marian's nose looks red and raw,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.965>When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.966>Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.967>Tu-who, a merry note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.968>While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.969>DON</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech405><b>ADRIANO DE ARMADO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.970>The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.971>Apollo. You that way: we this way.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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