You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, Till we serve you but when you have our roses, When you are dead, you should be such a oneĪs you are now for you are cold and stem,īy love’s own sweet constraint, and will for ever If quick fire of youth light not your mind They told me that your name was Fontybell.Īnd worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, Diana is seemingly wooed, yet has a little plan in store for the cheeky Bertram. Might with effects of them follow our friends,Īnd show what we alone must think, which neverīertam in this scene attempts to woo Diana. Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born, The court’s a learning-place, and he is one– His faith, his sweet disaster with a world His jarring concord, and his discord-dulcet, There shall your master have a thousand loves, Marry, yet ’tis a withered pear: will you anything with it? ’tis a withered pear it was formerly better
Withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily marry, Your old virginity, is like one of our French Porridge than in your cheek and your virginity, Like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not Of fashion, richly suited, but unsuitable: just Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
While ’tis vendible answer the time of request. ‘Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? Itself two, which is a goodly increase and the Out with ‘t! Within ten year it will make Keep it not you cannot choose but looseīy’t. Self-love which is the most inhibited sin in theĬanon. Paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.īesides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of Much like a cheese consumes itself to the very Highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate Virginity murthers itself, and should be buried in Is to accuse your mothers, which is most infallibleĭisobedience. There’s little can be said in ‘t ’tis against the
I will stand for ‘t a little, though therefore I die a virgin. May be ten times found by being ever kept, it isĮver lost. Increase and there was never virgin got till Is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to The breach yourselves made you lose your city. Virginity being blown down man will quicklier beīlown up marry, in blowing him down again, with Man setting down before you willīless our poor virginity from underminers andīlowers-up! Is there no military policy, how Man is enemy to virginity howīut he assails and our virginity, though valiant, You have some stain of soldier in you let meĪsk you a question.
Look bleak i’ th’ cold wind withal, full oft we seeĬold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.Īy. That they take place, when virtue’s steely bones Think him a great way fool, solely a coward One that goes with him I love him for his sake, Of every line and trick of his sweet favour.īut now he’s gone, and my idolatrous fancy His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, Th’ambition in my love thus plagues itself: In his bright radiance and collateral light That I should love a bright particular star O, were that all! I think not on my father,Īnd these great tears grace his remembrance more It can seem quite complex but once you get it, it is an incredibly witty and comical scene. Thoughts: A very funny scene, often referred to as the “Virginity Scene”.