My fellow Schollers, and to keepe those statutes Your oathes are past, and now subscribe your names: If you are arm'd to doe, as sworne to do, Dumane. My loving Lord, Dumane is mortified, Berowne. I can but say their protestation over, As not to see a woman in that terme, And one day in a weeke to touch no foode: 31. bankerout: bankrupt (bancrout) quite-1Q. 30 40 50 Ferd. Your oath is past, to passe away from these. Berow. Let me say no my Liedge, and if you please, I onely swore to study with your grace, And stay heere in your Court for three yeeres space. Longa. You swore to that Berowne, and to the rest. Berow. By yea and nay sir, than I swore in jest. What is the end of study, let me know? Fer. Why that to know which else wee should not know. 61 Ber. Things hid & bard (you meane) from common sense. Ferd. I, that is studies god-like recompence. Or studie where to meet some Mistresse fine, Studie knowes that which yet it doth not know, Ferd. These be the stops that hinder studie quite, And traine our intellects to vaine delight. 70 Ber. Why? all delights are vaine, and that most vaine To seeke the light of truth, while truth the while 80 54. and if: an if-THEOBALD. 67. fast: feast-THEOBALD. 62. bard: barr'd-RowE. 77. and: but-12. Your light growes darke by losing of your eyes. Who dazling so, that eye shall be his heed, 91 Fer. How well hee's read, to reason against reading. Dum. Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding. Lon. Hee weedes the corne, and still lets grow the weeding. 102 Ber. The Spring is neare when greene geesse are a breeding. Dum. How followes that? Ber. Fit in his place and time. Ber. Something then in rime. Ferd. Berowne is like an envious sneaping1 Frost, That bites the first borne infants of the Spring. 1snipping Ber. Wel, say I am, why should proud Summer boast, Before the Birds have any cause to sing? Why should I joy in any abortive birth? At Christmas I no more desire a Rose, Then wish a Snow in Mayes new fangled showes: 115. showes: mirth-GLOBE. II2 But like of each thing that in season growes. 121 That were to clymbe ore the house to unlocke the gate. Fer. How well this yeelding rescues thee from shame. Ber. [Reads] Item. That no woman shall come within a mile of my Court. Hath this bin proclaimed? Lon. Foure dayes agoe. Ber. Let's see the penaltie. [Reads] On paine of loosing her tongue. Who devis'd this penaltie? Lon. Marry that did I. Ber. Sweete Lord, and why? 130 Lon. To fright them hence with that dread penaltie, [Biron] A dangerous law against gentilitie.1 1urbanity [Reads] Item, If any man be seene to talke with a woman with- in the tearme of three yeares, hee shall indure such | publique shame as the rest of the Court shall possibly devise. 142 Ber. This Article my Liedge your felfe must breake, For well you know here comes in Embassie The French Kings daughter, with your selfe to speake: A Maide of grace and compleate majestie, 118. That were to: out. the gate: the little gate-1Q. 119. fit: sit-12. 141. sball: can-IQ. 123. sworne: swore-1Q.2-4F. 143. felfe: self-1Q. About surrender up of Aquitaine: To her decrepit, sicke, and bed-rid Father. Why, this was quite forgot. Ber. So Studie evermore is overshot, 150 Fer. We must of force dispence with this Decree, She must lye1 here on meere necessitie. Ber. Necessity will make us all forsworne 1 lodge 160 Three thousand times within this three yeeres space: For every man with his affects is borne, Not by might mastred, but by speciall grace. If I breake faith, this word shall breake for me, I am forsworne on meere necessitie. So to the Lawes at large I write my name, [Subscribes] I am the last that will last keepe his oth. 2 temptations 170 Fer. I that there is, our Court you know is hanted With a refined travailer of Spaine, A man in all the worlds new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his braine: One, who the musicke of his owne vaine tongue, Doth ravish like inchanting harmonie: 151-2. 1 1.-12. 169. others: other-1Q. 164. breake for: speak for-1Q. 177, who: whom-2-4F. |