Every fairy take his gait * ; And each several chamber bless, Through this palace with sweet peace : And the owner of it blest. Trip away; Make no stay; Meet me all by break of day. [Exeunt Oberon, Titania, and Train. Puck. If we shadows have offended, Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, [Exit, Wild and fantastical as this play is, all the parts in their various modes are well written, and give the kind of pleasure which the author designed. Fairies in his time were much in fashion; common tradition had made them familiar, and Spencer's poem had made them great.-JOHNSON. * Way. Boyet, lords, attending on the princess of France. Don Adriano de Armado, a fantastical Spaniard. Sir Nathaniel, a curate. Holofernes, a schoolmaster. Dull, a constable. Costard, a clown. Moth, page to Armado. A forester. Officers and others, attendants on the king and princess. Scene, Navarre. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. ACT I. SCENE I. Navarre. Enter the King, Biron, Longaville, and Dumain. Therefore, brave conquerors!-for so you are, And the huge army of the world's desires,- Your oaths are past, and now subscribe your names; Long. I am resolv'd: 'tis but a three years' fast; The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bank'rout quite the wits. |