{"id":6540,"date":"2019-10-31T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6540"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:00:47","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6540","title":{"rendered":"Love’s Labor’s Lost: Act III, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love’s Labor’s Lost.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Berowne<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Bradford Cover<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Click here to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to open up a First Folio version<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. And I forsooth in love! I that have been love\u2019s whip,<\/li>\n
  2. A very beadle to a humorous sigh,<\/li>\n
  3. A critic, nay, a nightwatch constable,<\/li>\n
  4. A domineering pedant o\u2019er the boy,<\/li>\n
  5. Than whom no mortal so magnificent.<\/li>\n
  6. This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,<\/li>\n
  7. This Signior Junior, giant dwarf, Dan Cupid,<\/li>\n
  8. Regent of love rhymes, lord of folded arms,<\/li>\n
  9. Th\u2019 anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,<\/li>\n
  10. Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,<\/li>\n
  11. Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,<\/li>\n
  12. Sole imperator and great general<\/li>\n
  13. Of trotting paritors\u2014O my little heart!<\/li>\n
  14. And I to be a corporal of his field<\/li>\n
  15. And wear his colors like a tumbler\u2019s hoop!<\/li>\n
  16. What? I love, I sue, I seek a wife?<\/li>\n
  17. A woman, that is like a German clock,<\/li>\n
  18. Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,<\/li>\n
  19. And never going aright, being a watch,<\/li>\n
  20. But being watched that it may still go right.<\/li>\n
  21. Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all.<\/li>\n
  22. And, among three, to love the worst of all,<\/li>\n
  23. A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,<\/li>\n
  24. With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes.<\/li>\n
  25. Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed<\/li>\n
  26. Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard.<\/li>\n
  27. And I to sigh for her, to watch for her,<\/li>\n
  28. To pray for her! Go to. It is a plague<\/li>\n
  29. That Cupid will impose for my neglect<\/li>\n
  30. Of his almighty dreadful little might.<\/li>\n
  31. Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, groan.<\/li>\n
  32. Some men must love my lady, and some Joan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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