{"product_id":"loves-labors-lost-isbn-9780140714777","title":"Love's Labor's Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e  “Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marlon James, author of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eMarjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April, 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA. R.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBraunmuller \u003c\/b\u003eis Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has written critical volumes on George Peele and George Chapman and has edited plays in both the Oxford (\u003ci\u003eKing John\u003c\/i\u003e) and Cambridge (\u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e) series of Shakespeare editions. He is also general editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStephen Orgel \u003c\/b\u003eis the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. His books include \u003ci\u003eImagining Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Authentic Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eImpersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Illusion of Power\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eLove's Labor's Lost\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ¥    I.1 Enter Ferdinand King of Navarre, Berowne, Longaville, and      Dumaine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Live registered upon our brazen tombs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And then grace us in the disgrace of death,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And make us heirs of all eternity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore, brave conquerors-for so you are\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That war against your own affections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And the huge army of the world's desires-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our court shall be a little academe,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Still and contemplative in living art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You three-Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have sworn for three years' term to live with me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My fellow scholars, and to keep those statutes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That are recorded in this schedule here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your oaths are passed; and now subscribe your names,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That his own hand may strike his honor down\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That violates the smallest branch herein.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you are armed to do as sworn to do,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am resolved. 'Tis but a three years' fast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The mind shall banquet though the body pine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dumaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My loving lord, Dumaine is mortified.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The grosser manner of these world's delights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With all these living in philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I can but say their protestation over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That is, to live and study here three years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But there are other strict observances:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As not to see a woman in that term,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which I hope well is not enrolld there;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And one day in a week to touch no food,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And but one meal on every day beside,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The which I hope is not enrolld there;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And then to sleep but three hours in the night,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And not be seen to wink of all the day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (When I was wont to think no harm all night\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And make a dark night too of half the day),\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which I hope well is not enrolld there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your oath is passed to pass away from these.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Let me say no, my liege, an if you please.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I only swore to study with your grace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And stay here in your court for three years' space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You swore to that, Berowne, and to the rest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is the end of study, let me know?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why, that to know which else we should not know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Things hid and barred, you mean, from common sense?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Come on then, I will swear to study so,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To know the thing I am forbid to know,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As thus-to study where I well may dine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  When I to feast expressly am forbid;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or study where to meet some mistress fine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  When mistresses from common sense are hid;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Or having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Study to break it and not break my troth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If study's gain be thus, and this be so,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Study knows that which yet it doth not know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These be the stops that hinder study quite,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And train our intellects to vain delight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As, painfully to pore upon a book,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  To seek the light of truth, while truth the while\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Light seeking light doth light of light beguile;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Study me how to please the eye indeed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  By fixing it upon a fairer eye,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And give him light that it was blinded by.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Small have continual plodders ever won,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Save base authority from others' books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  That give a name to every fixd star,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Have no more profit of their shining nights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Than those that walk and wot not what they are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Too much to know is to know nought but fame;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And every godfather can give a name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How well he's read to reason against reading!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dumaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The spring is near, when green geese are a-breeding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dumaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How follows that?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne     Fit in his place and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dumaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In reason nothing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne     Something then in rhyme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That bites the first-born infants of the spring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before the birds have any cause to sing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why should I joy in any abortive birth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At Christmas I no more desire a rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Than wish a snow in May's newfangled shows,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But like of each thing that in season grows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So you, to study now it is too late,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Well, sit you out. Go home, Berowne. Adieu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No, my good lord, I have sworn to stay with you;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And though I have for barbarism spoke more\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Than for that angel knowledge you can say,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yet confident I'll keep what I have sworn,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  And bide the penance of each three years' day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Give me the paper, let me read the same,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king [Handing over the paper]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne [Reads.] \"Item: that no woman shall come within a mile of      my court-\" Hath this been proclaimed?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville Four days ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne Let's see the penalty. \"-on pain of losing her tongue.\"      Who devised this penalty?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marry, that did I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne     Sweet lord, and why?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To fright them hence with that dread penalty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A dangerous law against gentility!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e [Reads.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Item: if any man be seen to talk with a woman within the term of      three years, he shall endure such public shame as the rest of the      court can possible devise.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This article, my liege, yourself must break;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  For well you know here comes in embassy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The French king's daughter with yourself to speak,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A maid of grace and complete majesty,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About surrender up of Aquitaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  To her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Therefore this article is made in vain,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Or vainly comes th' admird princess hither.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What say you, lords? why, this was quite forgot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So study evermore is overshot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While it doth study to have what it would,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It doth forget to do the thing it should,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Tis won as towns with fire-so won, so lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We must of force dispense with this decree;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She must lie here on mere necessity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Necessity will make us all forsworn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Three thousand times within this three years' space:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For every man with his affects is born,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Not by might mastered, but by special grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If I break faith, this word shall speak for me:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am forsworn \"on mere necessity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So to the laws at large I write my name;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e [Signs.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And he that breaks them in the least degree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stands in attainder of eternal shame.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suggestions are to other as to me;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But I believe, although I seem so loath,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am the last that will last keep his oath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But is there no quick recreation granted?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ay, that there is. Our court you know is haunted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  With a refind traveler of Spain,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A man in all the world's new fashion planted,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One who the music of his own vain tongue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A man of complements, whom right and wrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Have chose as umpire of their mutiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This child of fancy, that Armado hight,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  For interim to our studies shall relate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In highborn words the worth of many a knight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  From tawny Spain, lost in the world's debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But, I protest, I love to hear him lie,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And I will use him for my minstrelsy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Armado is a most illustrious wight,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Costard the swain and he shall be our sport,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And so to study three years is but short.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enter [Dull,] a Constable with a letter, with Costard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dull Which is the duke's own person?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne This, fellow. What wouldst?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dull I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his grace's      farborough; but I would see his own person in flesh and blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne This is he.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dull Se–or Arm-Arm-commends you. There's villainy abroad. This      letter will tell you more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king A letter from the magnificent Armado.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville A high hope for a low heaven. God grant us patience!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne To hear, or forbear hearing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e longaville To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately, or to      forbear both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to climb      in the merriness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The      manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne In what manner?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard In manner and form following, sir; all those three: I was      seen with her in the manor house, sitting with her upon the form,      and taken following her into the park; which, put together, is \"in      manner and form following.\" Now, sir, for the manner: it is the      manner of a man to speak to a woman. For the form: in some form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne For the following, sir?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard As it shall follow in my correction, and God defend the      right!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Will you hear this letter with attention?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne As we would hear an oracle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king [Reads.] \"Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent, and sole      dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's God, and body's fostering      patron-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Not a word of Costard yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"So it is-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard It may be so; but if he say it is so, he is, in telling      true, but so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Peace!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Be to me and every man that dares not fight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king No words!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"So it is, besieged with sable-colored melancholy, I did      commend the black-oppressing humor to the most wholesome physic of      thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to      walk. The time when? About the sixth hour, when beasts most graze,      birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment        which is called supper: so much for the time when. Now for the      ground which-which, I mean, I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park.      Then for the place where-       where, I mean, I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous      event that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-colored ink,      which here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest. But to      the place where; it standeth north-northeast and by east from the      west corner of thy curious-knotted garden. There did I see that      low-spirited swain, that base minnow of thy mirth-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"that unlettered small-knowing soul-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"that shallow vassal-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Still me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"which, as I remember, hight Costard-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard O me!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed      edict and continent canon, with, with, O with-but with this I      passion to say wherewith-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard With a wench.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"with a child of our grandmother Eve, a female, or, for thy      more sweet understanding, a woman. Him I (as my ever-esteemed duty      pricks me on) have sent to thee, to receive the meed of      punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony Dull, a man of      good repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e dull Me, an't shall please you, I am Anthony Dull.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king \"For Jaquenetta (so is the weaker vessel called), which I      apprehended with the aforesaid swain, I keep her as a vessel of      thy law's fury; and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring      her to trial. Thine in all compliments of devoted and      heart-burning heat of duty,        Don Adriano de Armado.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e berowne This is not so well as I looked for, but the best that      ever I heard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you to      this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard Sir, I confess the wench.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Did you hear the proclamation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard I do confess much of the hearing it, but little of the      marking of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken with a      wench.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard I was taken with none, sir, I was taken with a damsel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Well, it was proclaimed \"damsel.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard This was no damsel neither, sir, she was a virgin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king It is so varied too, for it was proclaimed \"virgin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard If it were, I deny her virginity. I was taken with a maid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king This maid will not serve your turn, sir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard This maid will serve my turn, sir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast a week      with bran and water.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e costard I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e king\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And Don Armado shall be your keeper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My Lord Berowne, see him delivered o'er,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And go we, lords, to put in practice that","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301827399909,"sku":"NP9780140714777","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140714777.jpg?v=1767731924","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/loves-labors-lost-isbn-9780140714777","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}