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Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1] |
Ferdinand |
122 |
How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!
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Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1] |
Biron |
132 |
A dangerous law against gentility!
[Reads]
'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 possibly devise.'
This article, my liege, yourself must break;
For well you know here comes in embassy
The French king's daughter with yourself to speak—
A maid of grace and complete majesty—
About surrender up of Aquitaine
To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:
Therefore this article is made in vain,
Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.
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3 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1] |
Biron |
153 |
Necessity will make us all forsworn
Three thousand times within this three years' space;
For every man with his affects is born,
Not by might master'd but by special grace:
If I break faith, this word shall speak for me;
I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'
So to the laws at large I write my name:
[Subscribes]
And he that breaks them in the least degree
Stands in attainder of eternal shame:
Suggestions are to other as to me;
But I believe, although I seem so loath,
I am the last that will last keep his oath.
But is there no quick recreation granted?
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4 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1] |
Boyet |
693 |
She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.
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5 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3] |
Ferdinand |
1370 |
In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!
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Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3] |
Biron |
1544 |
[To COSTARD] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were
born to do me shame.
Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.
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Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Princess of France |
2035 |
Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out
There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,
To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:
So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.
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8 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Ferdinand |
2277 |
O, you have lived in desolation here,
Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
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9 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Ferdinand |
2443 |
Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.
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10 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Costard |
2515 |
[To SIR NATHANIEL] O, sir, you have overthrown
Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of
the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds
his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given
to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,
and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander.
[SIR NATHANIEL retires]
There, an't shall please you; a foolish mild man; an
honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a
marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good
bowler: but, for Alisander,—alas, you see how
'tis,—a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies
a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.
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11 |
Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2] |
Dumain |
2544 |
The more shame for you, Judas.
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