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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1] |
Biron |
684 |
I cannot stay thanksgiving.
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2 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1] |
Moth |
800 |
A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon
the instant: by heart you love her, because your
heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,
because your heart is in love with her; and out of
heart you love her, being out of heart that you
cannot enjoy her.
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3 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1] |
Princess of France |
988 |
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.
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4 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1] |
Boyet |
1111 |
An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
An I cannot, another can.
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5 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3] |
Longaville |
1381 |
This same shall go.
[Reads]
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,
Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?
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Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3] |
Biron |
1558 |
Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!
As true we are as flesh and blood can be:
The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;
Young blood doth not obey an old decree:
We cannot cross the cause why we were born;
Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.
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7 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Rosaline |
2122 |
Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;
Twice to your visor, and half once to you.
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8 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Biron |
2306 |
I cannot give you less.
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9 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Costard |
2421 |
Not so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope it is not so.
You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know
what we know:
I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,—
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10 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Biron |
2475 |
The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool
and the boy:—
Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
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11 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Biron |
2583 |
This cannot be Hector.
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12 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Biron |
2798 |
To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be; it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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