Merchant of Venice.

Kaiser Sc

!

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

Ferdinand, King of Navarre.
Biron,

Lords, attending on the King.

Jaquenetta, a country Wench.

Officers, and others, attendants on the King and Princess.

SCENE, Navarre.

VOL. IV.

2

ACT I.

SCENEI..

Navarre. A Park, with a Palace in it.

Enter the King, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and
DUMAIN.

King. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs,
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
The endeavour of this present breath may buy
That honour, which shall bate his scyth'es keen

edge,

And make us heirs of all eternity.

Therefore, brave conquerors!

for so you are,

That war against your own affections,
And the huge army of the world's desires, -
Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:
Navarre shall be the wonder of the world:

Our court shall be a little Academe.

Still and contemplative in living art.
You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,
Have sworn for three years' term to live with me,
My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
That are recorded in this schedule here:

Your oaths are past, and now subscribe your