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Love's Labour's Lost, III. i
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Ros. Ay, our way to be gone.

Boyet. You are too hard for me. 256

Exeunt Omnes.


ACT THIRD

Scene One

[The King of Navarre's Park]

Enter Braggart [Armado] and his Boy [Moth].


Arm. Warble, child; make passionate my
sense of hearing.

Moth. [Singing.] Concolinel,—

Arm. Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; 4
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 8
French brawl?

Arm. How meanest thou? brawling in
French?

Moth. No, my complete master; but to jig off 12
a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your
feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids,
sigh a note and sing a note, sometime through
the throat, [as] if you swallowed love by singing 16
love, sometime through [the] nose, as if you snuffed
up love by smelling love; with your hat pent-
house-like o'er the shop of your eyes; with your
arms crossed on your thin belly-doublet like a 20

3 Concolinel; cf. n.
6 festinately: quickly
9 brawl: dance; cf. n.
13 canary: dance; cf. n.
18 penthouse-like: porch-like