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Love's Labour's Lost, I. ii

Arm. I love thee.

Maid. So I heard you say.

Arm. And so farewell.

Maid. Fair weather after you!

Const. Come, Jaquenetta, away!

Exeunt [Dull and Jaquenetta].

Arm. Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou be pardoned.

Clow. Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall

do it on a full stomach.

Arm. Thou shalt be heavily punished.

Clow. I am more bound to you than your

fellows, for they are but lightly rewarded.

Arm. Take away this villain: shut him up.

Boy. Come, you transgressing slave: away!

Clow. Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast,

being loose.

Boy. No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou

shalt to prison.

Clow. Well, if ever I do see the merry days of

desolation that I have seen, some shall see—

Boy. What shall some see?

Clow. Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what

they look upon. It is not for prisoners to be

too silent in their words; and therefore I will

say nothing: I thank God I have as little pa-

tience as another man, and therefore I can be

quiet.

Arm. I do affect the very ground, which is

base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by

her foot, which is basest, doth tread. I shall be

forsworn,—which is a great argument of false-

 164 fast and loose: cheating game of a sharper

167 desolation; cf. n.

175 affect: love

178 argument: proof

