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Love's Labours Lost

By: William Shakespeare

... Love’s Labours Lost by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. Th... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love’s Labours Lost by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love’s Labours Lost by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas sics S... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. LOVE’S LABOURS LOST By William Shakespeare (written about 1590) DRAMATIS PERSONAE FERDINAND: king of Na... ...NGAVILLE: To fright them hence with that dread penalty. BIRON: A dangerous law against gentility! [Reads.] ‘Item, If any man be seen to talk with a ... ...which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain,—I keep her as a vessel of the law’s fury; and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to tri... ...r oaths. It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law, And who can sever love from charity? FERDINAND: Saint Cupid, then! ... ...d do so. BOYET: Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go. And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay? DUMAIN: For the latter end of his name. B... ...ou stay? DUMAIN: For the latter end of his name. BIRON: For the ass to the Jude; give it him:—Jud as, away! HOLOFERNES: This is not generous, not g...

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