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Love's Labour's Lost, I. ii

I was taken with Jaquenctta, and Jaquenetta is
a true girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of
prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; 312
and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! Exeunt.

Scene Two

[The Same]

Enter Armado and Moth his Page.


Arm. Boy, what sign is it when a man of
great spirit grows melancholy?

Boy. A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.

Arm. Why, sadness is one and the self-same 4
thing, dear imp.

Boy. No, no; O Lord, sir, no.

Arm. How canst thou part sadness and me-
lancholy, my tender juvenal? 8

Boy. By a familiar demonstration of the
working, my tough senior.

Arm. Why tough senior? why tough senior?

Boy. Why tender juvenal? why tender juve- 12
nal?

Arm. I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a con-
gruent epitheton appertaining to thy young
days, which we may nominate tender. 16

Boy. And I, tough senior, as an appertinent
title to your old time, which we may name tough.

Arm. Pretty, and apt.

Boy. How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my 20
saying apt? or I apt, and my saying pretty?

Arm. Thou pretty, because little.


5 imp: child
14 congruent epitheton: suitable epithet
16 nominate: call
17 appertinent: appropriate