Speeches (Lines) for Maria
in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Total: 22

1

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Princess of France. Know you the man?

Maria. I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,
Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir
Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized
In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:
A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;
Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:
Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,
If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,
Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
It should none spare that come within his power.

2

II,1,539

Princess of France. Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?

Maria. They say so most that most his humours know.

3

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(stage directions). [Exit BIRON]

Maria. That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:
Not a word with him but a jest.

4

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Boyet. I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.

Maria. Two hot sheeps, marry.

5

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Boyet. And wherefore not ships?
No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.

Maria. You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?

6

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(stage directions). [Offering to kiss her]

Maria. Not so, gentle beast:
My lips are no common, though several they be.

7

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Boyet. Belonging to whom?

Maria. To my fortunes and me.

8

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Rosaline. Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.

Maria. He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.

9

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Boyet. Do you hear, my mad wenches?

Maria. No.

10

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Rosaline. If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.
Finely put on, indeed!

Maria. You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes
at the brow.

11

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Costard. By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!

Maria. A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.

12

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Boyet. A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!
Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.

Maria. Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.

13

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Costard. Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.

Maria. Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.

14

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Katharine. Yes, madam, and moreover
Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,
A huge translation of hypocrisy,
Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.

Maria. This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:
The letter is too long by half a mile.

15

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Princess of France. I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart
The chain were longer and the letter short?

Maria. Ay, or I would these hands might never part.

16

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Rosaline. The blood of youth burns not with such excess
As gravity's revolt to wantonness.

Maria. Folly in fools bears not so strong a note
As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;
Since all the power thereof it doth apply
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.

17

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Dumain. Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?

Maria. Name it.

18

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Dumain. Fair lady,—

Maria. Say you so? Fair lord,—
Take that for your fair lady.

19

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Princess of France. Biron did swear himself out of all suit.

Maria. Dumain was at my service, and his sword:
No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute.

20

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Katharine. And Longaville was for my service born.

Maria. Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.

21

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Longaville. What says Maria?

Maria. At the twelvemonth's end
I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.

22

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Longaville. I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.

Maria. The liker you; few taller are so young.