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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

Longaville

131

To fright them hence with that dread penalty.

2

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?

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Don Adriano de Armado

370

Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name
more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good
repute and carriage.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

Moth

386

As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Boyet

485

Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:
Consider who the king your father sends,
To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:
Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,
To parley with the sole inheritor
Of all perfections that a man may owe,
Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight
Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.
Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
As Nature was in making graces dear
When she did starve the general world beside
And prodigally gave them all to you.

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Boyet

655

So please your grace, the packet is not come
Where that and other specialties are bound:
To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Boyet

734

Why, all his behaviors did make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:
His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;
All senses to that sense did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;
Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,
Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:
His face's own margent did quote such amazes
That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.
I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,
An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.

8

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

773

No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at
the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour
it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and
sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you
swallowed love with singing love, sometime through
the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling
love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of
your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly
doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in
your pocket like a man after the old painting; and
keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.
These are complements, these are humours; these
betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without
these; and make them men of note—do you note
me?—that most are affected to these.

9

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

Moth

843

Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?

10

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

Holofernes

1225

Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall
want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,
I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca
loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.

11

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Biron

1712

Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;
Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,
In conflict that you get the sun of them.

12

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Ferdinand

1717

And win them too: therefore let us devise
Some entertainment for them in their tents.

13

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Biron

1719

First, from the park let us conduct them thither;
Then homeward every man attach the hand
Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon
We will with some strange pastime solace them,
Such as the shortness of the time can shape;
For revels, dances, masks and merry hours
Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.

14

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

Moth

1786

The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or
the fifth, if I.

15

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

Holofernes

1788

I will repeat them,—a, e, i,—

16

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

Sir Nathaniel

1852

Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?

17

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

Dull

1876

I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.

18

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Princess of France

2010

And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd;
For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;
And not a man of them shall have the grace,
Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.
Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,
And then the king will court thee for his dear;
Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,
So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.
And change your favours too; so shall your loves
Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.

19

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Rosaline

2073

Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone.

20

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Rosaline

2079

It is not so. Ask them how many inches
Is in one mile: if they have measured many,
The measure then of one is easily told.