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Shakespeare's Comedy of Love's Labour's Lost (1905)
Shakespeare's Comedy of Love's Labour's Lost - 1905 Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Biron And Costard ACT III Scene I. The Park Enter Armado and Moth Armado. Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing. Moth sings. — Con... more »colinel Armado. Sweet air ! — Go, tenderness of years ; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither. I must employ him in a letter to my love. Moth. Master, will you win your love with a French brawl? Armado. How meanest thou ? brawling in French ? Moth. No, my complete master; but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,humour it with turning up your eye, sigh a note and sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you swallowed love with singing love, sometime through the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling love ; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet like a rabbit on a spit, or your hands in your pocket like a man after the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away. 20 These are complements, these are humours; these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without these, and make them men of note — do you note me ? — that most are affected to these. 24 Armado. How hast thou purchased this experience? Moth. By my penny of observation. Armado. But O, — but O, — Moth. The hobby-horse is forgot. Armado. Callest thou my love hobby-horse ? 30 Moth. No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love ? Armado. Almost I had. Moth. Negligent student! learn her by heart. Armado. By heart and in heart, boy. Moth. And out of heart, master ; all those three I will prove. Armado. What wilt thou prove ? 39 Moth. A man, if I live ; and this, by, in, and with- out, upo...« less