LABOUR'S LOST.

LOVE'S in the daughter of the king of France, eixas business, craving quick despatch, prianes personal conference with his grace. guity so much; while we attend, amble-visag'd suitors, his high will. Bay. Proud of employment, willingly I go. [Exit. Prin. All pride is willing pride, and yours

There the votaries, my loving lords,
te vow fellows with this virtuous duke?
1 Lord. Longaville is one.

Prin

Know you the man? Mr. I know him, madam; at a marriage |

feast,

ord Perigort and the beauteous heir Falconbridge solemnized, Mendy saw I this Longaville:

vereign parts he is esteem'd ;
ed in the arts, glorious in arms:
tag becomes him ill, that he would well,
ay of his fair virtue's gloss,
re's gloss will stain with any soil,)

twit match'd with too blunt a will;
ige bath power to cut, whose will
all wills

Sad some spare that come within his
[is't so
power.
Some merry mocking lord, belike;
r. They say so most, that most his hu-
[they grow.
mours know.
Prim. Sach short-liv'd wits do wither as
[plish'd youth,
are the rest?
Cara. The young Dumain, a well-accom-
aat virtue love for virtue lov'd: [ill;
jer to do most harm, least knowing
etch wit to make an ill shape good,

to win grace though he had no wit.
at the duke Alençon's once;
a too little of that good I saw,
port, to his great worthiness.
Lather of these students at that time
we with him: if I have heard a truth,
ey call him; but a merrier man

Emit of becoming mirth,
at an hoar's talk withal:
begets occasion for his wit;

bject that the one doth catch,
arns to a mirth-moving jest;
has fair tongue (conceit's expositor,)
mch apt and gracious words,
an play truant at his tales,
gr bearings are quite ravished;
and voluble is his discourse.
God bless my ladies! are they all in
yone her own hath garnished [love;
bedecking ornaments of praise?
Bert comes Boyet.

Re-enter BOYET.

(Like one that comes here to besiege his court,)
Than seek a dispensation for his oath,
[The ladies mask.
To let you enter his unpeopled house.
Here comes Navarre.
Enter KING, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN,
BIRON, and Attendants.
King. Fair princess, welcome to the court
of Navarre.

Prin. Fair, I give you back again; and,
welcome I have not yet: the roof of this
court is too high to be yours; and welcome
to the wild fields too base to be mine.

an oath.

King. You shall be welcome, madam, to
[me thither.
my court.
Prin. I will be welcome then; conduct
King. Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn
[forsworn.
Prin. Our Lady help my lord! he'll be
King. Not for the world, fair madam, by
[nothing else.
my will.
Prin. Why, will shall break it; will, and
King. Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
Prin. Were my lord so, his ignorance were
[norance.
Where now his knowledge must prove ig.
I hear, your grace hath sworn-out house-
keeping:

wise.

'Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
And sin to break it:

But pardon me, I am too sudden-bold;
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
[Gives a paper.
And suddenly resolve me in my suit.

King. Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.
Prin. You will the sooner, that I were
away;

For you'll prove perjur'd, if you make me stay.
Biron. Did not I dance with you in Brabant

once?

[once? Ros. Did not I dance with you in Brabant Biron. I know you did.

Ros.

How needless was it then

You must not be so quick.

To ask the question?
Biron.
Ros. 'Tis 'long of you that spur me with
['twill tire.
such questions.
Biron. Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast,
Ros. Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
Biron. What time o' day?

Ros. The hour that fools should ask.
Biron. Now fair befal your mask!
Ros. Fair fall the face it covers!
Biron. And send you many lovers!
Ros. Amen, so you be none.
[mate
Biron. Nay, then will I be gone.
King. Madam, your father here doth inti-
The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
Being but the one half of an entire sum,
Disbursed by my father in his wars.
But say, that he, or we, (as neither have,)
Receiv'd that sum; yet there remains unpaid
A hundred thousand more; in surety of the
One part of Aquitain is bound to us, [which,
Although not valued to the money's worth.
If then the king your father will restore
+ Whereas.
↑ Prepared,

Now, what admittance, lord?
Navarre had notice of your fair

is competitors in oath,
1 address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
Marry, thus much I have learnt,
a to lodge you in the field,

• Confederates.

By the heart's still rhetoric, disclosed Ros. 'Pray you, do my commendations; I Deceive me not now, Navarre is infect would be glad to see it.

To the cont of his eye, peeping thoro
His heart, like an agate, with your pri
pressed,

Prond with his form, in his eye pride expa
His tongue, all impatient to speak and
Did stumble with haste in his eye-sight
All senses to that sense did make their
To feel only looking on fairest of fair;
Methought, all his senses were lockd
As jewels in crystal for some prince to

+ Ay, yes.
† A French particle of negation.
A quibble, several signified unenclosed lands.

CENE I. Another part of the same.
Enter ARMADO and MOTH.
Wartle, child; make passionate my
s of bearing.
Cincolinel-

[Singing.
eet air!-Go, tenderness of years;
ay, give enlargement to the swain,
unately bither; I must employ
etter to my love.
Master, will you win your love with

How mean'st thou? brawling in

No, my complete master; but to ane at the tongue's end, canary 1 to r feet, humour it with turning up hus; sigh a note, and sing a note; trich the throat, as if you swal se with singing love; sometime sose, as if you snuffed up love by Tie; with your hat penthouse-like, up of your eyes; with your arms yar thin belly-doublet, l'ke a rab***, or your hands in your pocket, as after the old painting; and keep a in one tone, but a snip and away: pements, these are humours;

, nie wenches that would be be**at these ; and make them men of a note, men?) that most are af

how hast thou purchased this expe

By my penny of observation. lat 0,-but 0,

he hobby-horse is forgot.
est thon zay love, hobby-horse?
Ne, master; the hobby-horse is but

your love, perhaps, a hackney.
forgot your love?

A Negagent student! learn her by heart.
By beart, and in heart, boy.

And eat of heart, master: all those wprove !

A kind of dance.

Arm. What wilt thou prove?

Moth. 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.

Arm. I am all these three.

Moth. And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all.

Arm. Fetch hither the swain; he must carry me a letter.

Moth. A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador for an ass!

Arm. Ha, ha! what sayest thou?
Moth. Marry, sir, you must send the ass
upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited:
But I go.

Arm. The way is but short; away.
Moth. As swift as lead, sir.

Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious?
Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
Moth. Minimé, honest master; or rather,
master, no.

Arm. 1 say, lead is slow.

Moth. You are too swift, sir, to say so:
Is that lead slow which is fir'd from a gun?
Arm. Sweet smoke of rhetoric!
He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's
I shoot thee at the swain.
[he:-

Moth. Thump then, and I flee. [Exit.
Arm. A most acute juvenal; voluble and
free of grace!
[thy face:
By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in
Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
My herald is return'd.

Re-enter MOTH and COSTARD. Moth. A wonder, master; here's a Costard broken in a shin.

Arm. Some enigma, some riddle: come,

thy l'envoy¶ ;-begin.

Cost. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain; no l'envoy, no l'envoy, no salve, sir, but a plantain!

Canary was the name of a sprightly dance. An old French term for concluding verses, which served either to convey the moral, or to address the poem to some person.

ck, ready.

A head.

Arm. By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling: O, pardon me, my stars! Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and the word, l'envoy, for a salve?

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

Arm. No, page: it is an epilogue or dis-
course, to make plain
Some obscure precedence that hath tofore
I will example it:
[been sain.
The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were still at odds, being but three.
There's the moral: Now the l'envoy.
Moth. I will add the l'envoy: Say the
moral again.

Arm. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were still at odds, being but three:
Moth. Until the goose came out of door,

And stay'd the odds by adding four.
Now will I begin your moral, and do you
follow with my l'envoy.

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three: Arm. Until the goose came out of door, Staying the odds by adding four.

Moth. A good l'envoy, ending in the goose; Would you desire more?

Cost. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat:[be fat.Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose To sell a bargain well, is as cunning as fast

and loose:

Let me see a fat l'envoy ; ay, that's a fat goose.
Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did
this argument begin? [in a shin.
Moth. By saying that a Costard was broken
Then call'd you for the l'envoy.

Cost. True, and I for a plantain; Thus
came your argument in;
Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you
And he ended the market.
[bought;
Arm. But tell me; how was there a Costard
broken in a shin?

Moth. I will tell you sensibly. Cost. Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth; I will speak that l'envoy:

of mine honour, is, rewarding my dependi Moth, follow.

Moth. Like the sequel, I.-Signior Cos

adieu.

Cost. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! incony Jew!

[Exit M Now will I look to his remuneration. R neration! O, that's the Latin word for farthings: three farthings-remunerati What's the price of this inkle? a pent No, I'll give you a remuneration : w carries it.-Remuneration !-why, it fairer name than French crown. I will buy and sell out of this word. Enter BIRON. Biron. O, my good knave Costard! es ingly well met.

Cost. Pray you, sir, how much car ribbon may a man buy for a remunerati Biron. What is a remuneration ? Cost. Marry, sir, half-penny farthing Biron. O, why then, three-farthings of silk.

Cost. I thank your worship: God be wit Biron. O, stay, slave, I must employ As thou wilt win my favour, good my Do one thing for me that I shall entreat Cost. When would you have it done, Biron. O, this afternoon.

Cost. Well, I will do it, sir: Fare you
Biron. O, thon knowest not what it is
Cost. I shall know, sir, when I have d
Biron. Why, villain, thou must know
Cost. I will come to your worship
row morning.

Biron. It must be done this afte
Hark, slave, it is but this;-
The princess comes to hunt here in the
And in her train there is a gentle lady
When tongues speak sweetly, then they
her name,

And Rosaline they call her ask for her
And to her white hand see thou do con
This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guer
[Gives him a

go.

Cost. Guerdon,-O sweet guerdon! than remuneration; eleven-pence farthi ter: Most sweet guerdon:-I will do in print 1.-Guerdon-remuneration.

Biron. O-And I, forsooth, in love! have been love's whip;

1, Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold, and broke my shin.
Arm. We will talk no more of this matter.
Cost. Till there be more matter in the shin.
Arm. Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
Cost. O, marry me to one Frances:-IA domineering pedant o'erthe boy,
smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.

Arm. By my sweet soul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound. Cost. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose.

Arm. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: Bear this significant to the country maid Jaquenetta: there is renumeration; (Giving him money,] for the best ward

• Delightful. + Reward.

Petticoats.

A very beadle to a humorous sigh;
A critic; nay, a night-watch constable

Thau whom no mortal so magnificent!
This wimpled §, whining, purblind, way
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cu
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded a
The anointed sovereign of sighs and gro
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,
Dread prince of plackets, king of codp
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 he

With the utmost exactness. § Hooded, veiled

The officers of the spiritual courts who serve citations.

steep uprising of the hill?.

I know not; but, I think, it was
[ing mind.
to'er he was, he show'd a mount-
today we shall have our des-

ch:
day we will return to France.-
ester, my friend, where is the bush,
t stand and play the murderer in?
by, upon the edge of yonder

[shoot. where you may make the fairest Ithank my beauty, I am fair that [shoot. Spon thou speak'st, the fairest Pardon me, madam, for I meant.

bat, what? first praise me, and Tau say, no?

pride! Not fair? alack for woe! , madam, fair.

Nay, never paint me now; not, praise cannot mend the (true; my glass, take this for telling [Giving him money. set for foul words is more than

[inherit. ching but fair is that which you See, see, my beanty will be sav'd

fair, fit for these days!
brad, though foul, shall have fair
[kill,
the bow:-Now merry goes to
gwell is then accounted ill.
Fave my credit in the shoot:

When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward

part,

no ill.

As I, for praise alone, now seek to spill
We bend to that the working of the heart:
The poor deer's blood, that my heart means
[sovereignty
Boyet. Po not curst wives hold that self.
Only for praise' sake, when they strive to be
Lords o'er their lords?
[afford
Prin. Only for praise: and praise we may
To any lady that subdues a lord.
Enter CoSTARD.

Prin. Here comes a member of the com-
mon-wealth.

Cost. God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?

Prin. Thon shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.

[est?

Cost. Which is the greatest lady, the high-
Prin. The thickest, and the tallest.
Cost. The thickest, and the tallest! it is
80; truth is truth.

An your waist, mistress, were as slender as
my wit,
[should be fit.
One of these maids' girdles for your waist
Are not you the chief woman? you are the

thickest here.

will?

Prin. What's your will, sir? what's your [to one lady Rosaline. Cost. I have a letter from monsieur Biron, Prin. 0, thy letter, thy letter; he's a good friend of mine: [carve; Stand aside, good bearer.-Boyet, you can Break up this capon t. Boyet. This letter is mistook, it importeth none It is writ to Jaquenetta. [here; We will read it, I swear : Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.

Prin.

I am bound to serve

Boyet. [Reads.] By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible; true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that thou art lovely: More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous; truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar Zenclophon; and he it was that might rightly say, veni, vidi, vici; which to anatomize in the vul↑ Open this letter. † Illustrious.

pity would not let me do 't;
then it was to shew my skill,
ir praise, than purpose, meant to

of question, so it is sometimes;
gudty of detested crimes;

• God give you good even.

R