Works containing his plays and poems 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: rapier. The firft and fecond caufe will not ferve my turn; the paftado he refpects not, the duello he regards not: his difgrace is to be called boy ; but his glo... more »ry is, to fubdue men. Adieu, valour! ruft, rapier ! be ftill, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he foveth. Aflift me fome extemporal god of rhime, for, I am fure, I mall turn fonneteer. Devife wit; write pen ; for I am for whole volumes in folio. [Exit. Act: iI. SCENE I. Another part of the fame. A Pavilion and Tents at a diftance. Enter the Princefs of France, Rosaline, Maria, Katharine, Botet, Lords, and other Attendants. Bor. Now, madam, fummon up your deareft fpirits: Confider who the king your father fends ; To whom he fends; and what's his embafiy : Yourfelf, held precious in the world's efteem ; To parley with the fole inheritor Of all perfections that a man may owe, Matchlefs Navarre ; the plea of no lefs weight Than Aquitain ; a dowry for a queen. Be now as prodigal of all dear grace, As nature was in making graces dear, When me did flarve the general world befide, And prodigally gave them all to you. Prin. Good lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted ftourifh of your praife ; Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, Not utter'd by bafe fale of chapmen's tongues : I am lefs proud to hear you tell my worth, Than you much willing to be counted wife In fpending your wit in the praife of mine. But now to tafk the tafker,—Good Boyet, You are not ignorant, all-telling fame Doth noife abroad, Navarre hath made a vow, Till painful ftudy mall out-wear three years, No woman may approach his filent court: Therefore to us feemeth it a needful courfe, Before we enter his forbidden gates, To know his pleafure ; and in that behalf, Bold of your worthine...« less