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Speeches (Lines) for Boyet
in "Love's Labour's Lost"

Total: 80

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# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

II,1,485

Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:
Consider who the king your father sends,...

2

II,1,519

Proud of employment, willingly I go.

3

II,1,569

Navarre had notice of your fair approach;
And he and his competitors in oath...

4

II,1,655

So please your grace, the packet is not come
Where that and other specialties are bound:...

5

II,1,687

The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name.

6

II,1,691

A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.

7

II,1,693

She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.

8

II,1,695

Her mother's, I have heard.

9

II,1,697

Good sir, be not offended.
She is an heir of Falconbridge.

10

II,1,701

Not unlike, sir, that may be.

11

II,1,704

Rosaline, by good hap.

12

II,1,706

To her will, sir, or so.

13

II,1,708

Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.

14

II,1,712

And every jest but a word.

15

II,1,714

I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.

16

II,1,716

And wherefore not ships?
No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.

17

II,1,719

So you grant pasture for me.

18

II,1,723

Belonging to whom?

19

II,1,728

If my observation, which very seldom lies,
By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,...

20

II,1,732

With that which we lovers entitle affected.

21

II,1,734

Why, all his behaviors did make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:...

22

II,1,751

But to speak that in words which his eye hath
disclosed....

23

II,1,758

Do you hear, my mad wenches?

24

II,1,760

What then, do you see?

25

II,1,762

You are too hard for me.

26

IV,1,974

I know not; but I think it was not he.

27

IV,1,1008

Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty
Only for praise sake, when they strive to be...

28

IV,1,1013

Here comes a member of the commonwealth.

29

IV,1,1028

I am bound to serve.
This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;...

30

IV,1,1034

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible;
true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that...

31

IV,1,1071

I am much deceived but I remember the style.

32

IV,1,1073

This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court;
A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport...

33

IV,1,1088

Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?

34

IV,1,1090

Ay, my continent of beauty.

35

IV,1,1093

My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry,
Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry....

36

IV,1,1097

And who is your deer?

37

IV,1,1102

But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?

38

IV,1,1106

So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a
woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little...

39

IV,1,1111

An I cannot, cannot, cannot,
An I cannot, another can.

40

IV,1,1116

A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!
Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.

41

IV,1,1120

An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.

42

IV,1,1124

I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.

43

V,2,1963

O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?

44

V,2,1965

Prepare, madam, prepare!
Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are...

45

V,2,1973

Under the cool shade of a sycamore
I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour;...

46

V,2,2004

They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus.
Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess....

47

V,2,2033

Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,
And quite divorce his memory from his part.

48

V,2,2042

The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come.
[The Ladies mask]...

49

V,2,2048

Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.

50

V,2,2054

True; out indeed.

51

V,2,2060

They will not answer to that epithet;
You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'

52

V,2,2069

What would you with the princess?

53

V,2,2072

Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.

54

V,2,2074

She says, you have it, and you may be gone.

55

V,2,2077

They say, that they have measured many a mile
To tread a measure with you on this grass.

56

V,2,2082

If to come hither you have measured miles,
And many miles, the princess bids you tell...

57

V,2,2086

She hears herself.

58

V,2,2166

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen
As is the razor's edge invisible,...

59

V,2,2178

Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out.

60

V,2,2199

Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:
Immediately they will again be here...

61

V,2,2204

They will, they will, God knows,
And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:...

62

V,2,2209

Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud;
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,...

63

V,2,2222

Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.

64

V,2,2228

Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty
Command me any service to her thither?

65

V,2,2231

I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.

66

V,2,2410

Full merrily
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.

67

V,2,2482

You lie, you are not he.

68

V,2,2484

With libbard's head on knee.

69

V,2,2506

Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.

70

V,2,2511

Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander.

71

V,2,2546

To make Judas hang himself.

72

V,2,2552

A cittern-head.

73

V,2,2556

The pommel of Caesar's falchion.

74

V,2,2566

Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?

75

V,2,2571

A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.

76

V,2,2578

But is this Hector?

77

V,2,2582

No; he is best endued in the small.

78

V,2,2609

[Aside to DUMAIN] Loves her by the foot,—

79

V,2,2624

Renowned Pompey!

80

V,2,2650

True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but...

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