Loves Labours Lost
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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source: loveslabourslost.Z
subject: biron
subject: princess
subject: ferdinand
subject: armado
subject: sworn
subject: term
subject: live
subject: fellow
subject: scholars
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: loves
subject: labours
subject: lost
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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full text: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST DRAMATIS PERSONAE FERDINAND king of Navarre. BIRON | | LONGAVILLE | lords attending on the King. | DUMAIN | BOYET | | lords attending on the Princess of France. MERCADE | DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO a fantastical Spaniard. SIR NATHANIEL a curate. HOLOFERNES a schoolmaster. DULL a constable. COSTARD a clown. MOTH page to Armado. A Forester. The PRINCESS of France: (PRINCESS:) ROSALINE | | MARIA | ladies attending on the Princess. | KATHARINE | JAQUENETTA a country wench. Lords, Attendants, &c. (First Lord:) SCENE Navarre. LOVE'S LABOURS LOST ACT I SCENE I The king of Navarre's park. [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN] FERDINAND Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, The endeavor of this present breath may buy That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are, That war against your own affections And the huge army of the world's desires,-- Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Our court shall be a little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art. You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville, Have sworn for three years' term to live with me My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes That are recorded in this schedule here: Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names, That his own hand may strike his honour down That violates the smallest branch herein: If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do, Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too. LONGAVILLE I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. DUMAIN My loving lord, Dumain is mortified: The grosser manner of these world's delights He throws upon the gross world's baser s…