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| Love’s Labour’s Lost “Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen tombs, And the grace us in the disgrace of death” (King, 1.1, 1-3) “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.” (Longueville, 1.1, 25-27) “O, these barren tasks, too hard to keep - Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep.” (Biron, 1.1, 47-48) “These be the stops that hinder study quite, And train our intellects to vain delight.” (King, 1.1, 70-71) “Study me how to please the eye indeed By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by.” (Biron, 1.1, 80-83) “Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books.” (Biron, 1.1, 86-87) “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows, But like of each thing that in season grows.” (Biron, 1.1, 105-107) “For every man with his affects is born, Not by might mastered, but by special grace.” (Biron, 1.1, 149-150) “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues.” (Princess, 2.1, 15-16) “Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill, For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, And shape to win grace, though he had no wit.” (Catherine, 2.1, 58-60) “His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceits expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished,” (Rosaline, 2.1, 69-75) “His heart like an agate with your print impressed, Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed.” (Boyet, 2.1, 235-236) “Nay, never paint me now. Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. Here, good my glass, take this for telling true. Fair payment for foul words is more than due.” (Princess, 4.1, 16-19) “Glory grows guilty of detested crimes When for fame’s sake, for praise, an outward part, We bend to that the working of the heart,” (Princess, 4.1, 31-33) “Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet as at a fain in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.” (Biron, 4.3, 230-233) “O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons and the style of night, And beauty’s crest becomes the heavens well.” (King, 4.3, 250-252) “But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the motion of all elements Courses as swift as thought in every power,” (Biron, 4.3, 301-304) “And when love speak, the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with a love’s sighs. O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle still the right Promethean fire.” (Biron, 4.3, 318-325) “The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is lia- ble, congruent and measurable for the afternoon.” (Holofernes, 5.1, 77-78) “Some thousand verse of a faithful lover. A huge translation of hypocrisy Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.” (Catherine, 5.2, 50-52) “None are so surely caught when they are catched As wit turned fool. Folly in wisdom hatched Hath wisdom’s warrant, and the help of school, And wit’s own grace, to grace a learned fool.” (Princess, 5.2, 69-72) “The blood of youth burns not with such excess As gravity’s revolt to wantonness.” (Rosaline, 5.2, 73-74) “Their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.” (Boyet, 5.2, 260-261) “See where it comes. Behaviour, what were thou Till this madman showed thee, and what art thou now?” (Biron, 5.2, 337-338) “Rebuke me not for that which you provoke. The virtue of your eye must break my oath.” (King, 5.2, 347-348) “I dare not call them fools, but this I think: When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.” (Rosaline, 5.2, 371-372) “With eye’s best seeing, heaven’s fiery eye, By light we lose light.” (Biron, 5.2, 375-376) “That sport best pleases that doth least know how. Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Dies in the zeal of that which it presents,” (Princess, 5.2, 513-515) “A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.” (Queen, 5.2, 719) “since to wail friends lost Is not by much so wholesome-profitable As to rejoice at friends but newly found.” (King, 5.2, 731-733) “Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief,” (Biron, 5.2, 735) “We to ourselves prove false By being false once for ever to be true To those that make us both - fair ladies, you.” (Biron, 5.2, 754-756) “A time, methinks, too short To make a worth-without-end bargain in.” (Queen, 5.2, 770-771) “Hence, hermit, then. My heart is in thy breast.” (King, 5.2, 798) “A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.” (Rosaline, 5.2, 838-840) “Our wooing doth not end like an old play. Jack hath not Jill. These ladies’ courtesy Might well have made our sport a comedy.” (Biron, 5.2, 851-853) |
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