{"id":6544,"date":"2019-10-31T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6544"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:01:41","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6544","title":{"rendered":"Love’s Labor’s Lost; Act III, Scene i: First Folio"},"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

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939\u00a0 O, and I for<\/span>s<\/span>ooth in loue,<\/span><\/div>\n
940\u00a0 I that haue beene loues whip<\/span>?<\/i><\/div>\n
941\u00a0 A verie Beadle to a humerous <\/span>s<\/span>i<\/span><\/span>gh: A Criticke,<\/span><\/div>\n
942\u00a0 Nay, a night-watch Con<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>able.<\/span><\/div>\n
943\u00a0 A domineering pedant ore the Boy,<\/span><\/div>\n
944\u00a0 Then whom no mortall <\/span>s<\/span>o magni<\/span>fi<\/span>cent,<\/span><\/div>\n
945\u00a0 This wimpled, whyning, purblinde waiward Boy,<\/span><\/div>\n
946\u00a0 This s<\/span>i<\/span>gnior\u00a0Iunios<\/i>\u00a0gyant drawfe, don\u00a0Cupid<\/i>,<\/div>\n
947\u00a0 Regent of Loue-rimes, Lord of folded armes,<\/div>\n
948\u00a0 Th’annointed s<\/span>oueraigne of\u00a0s<\/span>i<\/span>ghes and groanes:<\/div>\n
949\u00a0 Liedge of all loyterers and malecontents:<\/span><\/div>\n
950\u00a0 Dread Prince of Placcats, King of Codpeeces.<\/span><\/div>\n
951\u00a0 Sole Emperator and great generall<\/span><\/div>\n
952\u00a0 Of trotting Parrators (O my little heart.)<\/div>\n
953\u00a0 And I to be a Corporall of his fi<\/span>eld,<\/div>\n
954\u00a0 And weare his colours like a Tumblers hoope.<\/div>\n
955\u00a0 What? I loue, I s<\/span>ue, I\u00a0s<\/span>eeke a wife,<\/div>\n
956\u00a0 A woman that is like a Germane Cloake,<\/div>\n
957\u00a0 Still a repairing: euer out of frame,<\/div>\n
958\u00a0 And neuer going a right, being a Watch:<\/span><\/div>\n
959\u00a0 But being watcht, that it may <\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ill goe right.<\/span><\/div>\n
960\u00a0 Nay, to be periurde, which is wors<\/span>t<\/span>\u00a0of all:<\/div>\n
961\u00a0 And among three, to loue the wors<\/span>t<\/span>\u00a0of all,<\/div>\n
962\u00a0 A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow.<\/div>\n
963\u00a0 With two pitch bals <\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ucke in her face for eyes.<\/span><\/div>\n
964\u00a0 I, and by heauen, one that will doe the deede,<\/span><\/div>\n
965\u00a0 Though\u00a0<\/span>Argus<\/i>\u00a0were her Eunuch and her garde.<\/span><\/div>\n
966\u00a0 And I to <\/span>s<\/span>i<\/span><\/span>gh for her, to watch for her,<\/span><\/div>\n
967\u00a0 To pray for her, go to: it is a plague<\/span><\/div>\n
968\u00a0 That <\/span>Cupid<\/i>\u00a0will impo<\/span>s<\/span>e for my negle<\/span>ct<\/span>,<\/span><\/div>\n
969\u00a0 Of his almighty dreadfull little might.<\/span><\/div>\n
970\u00a0 Well, I will loue, write,\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>i<\/span><\/span>gh, pray,\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>h<\/span><\/span>ue, grone,<\/span><\/div>\n
971\u00a0 Some men mu<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>\u00a0loue my Lady, and\u00a0<\/span>s<\/span>ome Ione.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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