Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Total: 76

1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE]
and DUMAIN]

2

I,1,186

Longaville. Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;
And so to study, three years is but short.

(stage directions). [Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD]

3

I,1,299

Ferdinand. And Don Armado shall be your keeper.
My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:
And go we, lords, to put in practise that
Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.

(stage directions). [Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN]

4

I,1,308

Costard. I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was
taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true
girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of
prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and
till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

5

I,2,309

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]

6

I,2,423

Moth. Forbear till this company be past.

(stage directions). [Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA]

7

I,2,442

Dull. Come, Jaquenetta, away!

(stage directions). [Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA]

8

I,2,462

Costard. Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.
It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank
God I have as little patience as another man; and
therefore I can be quiet.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD]

9

I,2,482

Don Adriano de Armado. I do affect the very ground, which is base, where
her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which
is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which
is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And
how can that be true love which is falsely
attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil:
there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was
Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.
Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;
and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.
The first and second cause will not serve my turn;
the passado he respects not, the duello he regards
not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his
glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!
be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea,
he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,
for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;
write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

(stage directions). [Exit]

10

II,1,483

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA,]
KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants]

11

II,1,567

First Lord. Here comes Boyet.

(stage directions). [Re-enter BOYET]

12

II,1,671

Ferdinand. Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!

(stage directions). [Exit]

13

II,1,685

Biron. I cannot stay thanksgiving.

(stage directions). [Retiring]

14

II,1,689

Dumain. A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.

(stage directions). [Exit]

15

II,1,702

Boyet. Not unlike, sir, that may be.

(stage directions). [Exit LONGAVILLE]

16

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Boyet. Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.

(stage directions). [Exit BIRON]

17

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Boyet. So you grant pasture for me.

(stage directions). [Offering to kiss her]

18

II,1,763

Boyet. You are too hard for me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

19

III,1,764

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]

20

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Moth. Concolinel.

(stage directions). [Singing]

21

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Moth. Thump then and I flee.

(stage directions). [Exit]

22

III,1,832

Don Adriano de Armado. A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:
Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
My herald is return'd.

(stage directions). [Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD]

23

III,1,895

Don Adriano de Armado. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,
in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:
bear this significant
[Giving a letter]
to the country maid Jaquenetta:
there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine
honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.

(stage directions). [Exit]

24

III,1,906

Costard. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!
[Exit MOTH]
Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!
O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three
farthings—remuneration.—'What's the price of this
inkle?'—'One penny.'—'No, I'll give you a
remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!
why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will
never buy and sell out of this word.

(stage directions). [Enter BIRON]

25

III,1,932

Biron. It must be done this afternoon.
Hark, slave, it is but this:
The princess comes to hunt here in the park,
And in her train there is a gentle lady;
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her: ask for her;
And to her white hand see thou do commend
This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.

(stage directions). [Giving him a shilling]

26

III,1,936

Costard. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,
a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I
will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!

(stage directions). [Exit]

27

III,1,969

Biron. And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;
A very beadle to a humorous sigh;
A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;
A domineering pedant o'er the boy;
Than whom no mortal so magnificent!
This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy;
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
Sole imperator and great general
Of trotting 'paritors:—O my little heart:—
And I to be a corporal of his field,
And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!
What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!
A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch'd that it may still go right!
Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;
And, among three, to love the worst of all;
A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,
With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;
Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:
And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!
To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague
That Cupid will impose for my neglect
Of his almighty dreadful little might.
Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:
Some men must love my lady and some Joan.

(stage directions). [Exit]

28

IV,1,970

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester,]
BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE]

29

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Boyet. Here comes a member of the commonwealth.

(stage directions). [Enter COSTARD]

30

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Princess of France. We will read it, I swear.
Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.

(stage directions). [Reads]

31

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Princess of France. Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.
[To ROSALINE]
Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PRINCESS and train]

32

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Boyet. An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
An I cannot, another can.

(stage directions). [Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE]

33

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Boyet. I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.

(stage directions). [Exeunt BOYET and MARIA]

34

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Costard. By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!
Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!
O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony
vulgar wit!
When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it
were, so fit.
Armado o' th' one side,—O, a most dainty man!
To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!
To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'
will swear!
And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!
Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!
Sola, sola!

(stage directions). [Shout within]

35

IV,1,1140

(stage directions). [Shout within]

(stage directions). [Exit COSTARD, running]

36

IV,2,1141

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]

37

IV,2,1229

Holofernes. 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.

(stage directions). [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]

38

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Costard. Have with thee, my girl.

(stage directions). [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA]

39

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Holofernes. And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.
[To DULL]
Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not
say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at
their game, and we will to our recreation.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

40

IV,3,1318

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter BIRON, with a paper]

41

IV,3,1339

Biron. The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing
myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in
a pitch,—pitch that defiles: defile! a foul
word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say
the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well
proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as
Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep:
well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if
I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her
eye,—by this light, but for her eye, I would not
love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing
in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By
heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme
and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,
and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my
sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent
it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter
fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care
a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one
with a paper: God give him grace to groan!

(stage directions). [Stands aside]

42

IV,3,1340

(stage directions). [Stands aside]

(stage directions). [Enter FERDINAND, with a paper]

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Biron. Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!

(stage directions). [Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper]

44

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Longaville. By whom shall I send this?—Company! stay.

(stage directions). [Steps aside]

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Biron. I post from love: good lover, let me go.

(stage directions). [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]

46

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Costard. Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.

(stage directions). [BIRON tears the letter]

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Dumain. It is Biron's writing, and here is his name.

(stage directions). [Gathering up the pieces]

48

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Costard. Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.

(stage directions). [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA]

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Biron. Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;
And justice always whirls in equal measure:
Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;
If so, our copper buys no better treasure.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

50

V,1,1733

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]

51

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Sir Nathaniel. A most singular and choice epithet.

(stage directions). [Draws out his table-book]

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Holofernes. Video, et gaudeo.

(stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD]

53

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Don Adriano de Armado. Chirrah!

(stage directions). [To MOTH]

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Holofernes. Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

55

V,2,1880

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA]

56

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Princess of France. Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.

(stage directions). [Enter BOYET]

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Princess of France. 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.

(stage directions). [Trumpets sound within]

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Biron. Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!

(stage directions). [Exit MOTH]

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Ferdinand. I am best pleased with that.

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

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Biron. Therefore meet.

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

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Dumain. Please it you,
As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

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Katharine. Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry.

(stage directions). [They converse apart]

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Boyet. I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Costard. We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take
some care.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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Biron. A right description of our sport, my lord.

(stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO]

66

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Don Adriano de Armado. Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal
sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.

(stage directions). [Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper]

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Don Adriano de Armado. That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,
I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding
fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we
will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.
I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!

(stage directions). [Exit]

68

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Ferdinand. The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.

(stage directions). [Enter COSTARD, for Pompey]

69

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Biron. My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.

(stage directions). [Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander]

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Costard. [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.

(stage directions). [Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas; and MOTH, for Hercules]

71

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Boyet. A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.

(stage directions). [HOLOFERNES retires]

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Princess of France. Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!

(stage directions). [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector]

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Boyet. True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but
a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next
his heart for a favour.

(stage directions). [Enter MERCADE]

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Don Adriano de Armado. For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
seen the day of wrong through the little hole of
discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

(stage directions). [Exeunt Worthies]

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Biron. That's too long for a play.

(stage directions). [Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO]

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Don Adriano de Armado. The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of
Apollo. You that way: we this way.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]