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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

[Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE]
and DUMAIN]

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

186

[Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD]

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

309

[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

423

[Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA]

5

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

483

[Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA,]
KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants]

6

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Princess of France

497

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:
I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
Than you much willing to be counted wise
In spending your wit in the praise of mine.
But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,
You are not ignorant, all-telling fame
Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,
Till painful study shall outwear three years,
No woman may approach his silent court:
Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,
Before we enter his forbidden gates,
To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,
Bold of your worthiness, we single you
As our best-moving fair solicitor.
Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,
On serious business, craving quick dispatch,
Importunes personal conference with his grace:
Haste, signify so much; while we attend,
Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.

7

Love's Labour's Lost
[II, 1]

Boyet

569

Navarre had notice of your fair approach;
And he and his competitors in oath
Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:
He rather means to lodge you in the field,
Like one that comes here to besiege his court,
Than seek a dispensation for his oath,
To let you enter his unpeopled house.
Here comes Navarre.
[Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BIRON, and]
Attendants]

8

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

764

[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]

9

Love's Labour's Lost
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

906

[Enter BIRON]

10

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

970

[Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester,]
BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE]

11

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1014

[Enter COSTARD]

12

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1141

[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]

13

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1229

[Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]

14

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

1318

[Enter BIRON, with a paper]

15

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

1340

[Enter FERDINAND, with a paper]

16

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

1367

[Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper]

17

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

Biron

1402

All hid, all hid; an old infant play.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.
More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!
[Enter DUMAIN, with a paper]
Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!

18

Love's Labour's Lost
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

1522

[Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]

19

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

1733

[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]

20

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

1766

[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD]