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Love's Labour's Lost, III. i  Cost. When would you have it done, sir?

Ber. O, this afternoon.

Cost. Well, I will do it, sir. Fare you well.

Ber. O, thou knowest not what it is.

Cost. I shall know, sir, when I have done it.

Ber. Why, villain, thou must know first.

Cost. I will come to your worship to-morrow

morning.

Ber. It must be done this afternoon. Hark,

slave, it is but this:

The princess comes to hunt here in the park,

And in her train there is a gentle lady:

When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,

And Rosaline they call her: ask for her

And to her white hand see thou do commend

This seal'd-up counsel. [Gives him a shilling.] There's thy guerdon: go.

Cost. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than

remuneration; a 'leven-pence farthing better.

Most sweet gardon! I will do it, sir, in print.

Gardon! remuneration!

Ber. O! And I,—

Forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;

A very beadle to a humorous sigh;

A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,

A domineering pedant o'er the boy,

Than whom no mortal so magnificent!

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;

Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms,

 178 counsel: private communication

guerdon: reward

181 in print: precisely

185 beadle sigh; cf. n.

188 magnificent: pompous, overbearing

189 wimpled: veiled

purblind: totally blind

190 Cf. n.

