title: Shakespeare in Love: The Love Poetry of William Shakespeare
author: William Shakespeare
description: Balcony Scene, Fr. Romeo And Juliet<br /> Courtship, Fr. As You Like It<br /> Feste's Song (1), Fr. Twelfth Night<br /> Gallop Apace. You Fiery-footed Steeds<br /> If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On<br /> Inconstancy, Fr. Much Ado Abour Nothing<br /> Juliet's Beauty, Fr. Romeo And Juliet<br /> Love Is A Smoke Made With The Fume Of Sighs<br /> Love, Fr. The Two Gentlemen Of Verona<br /> Song, Fr. Measure For Measure<br /> Song, Fr. The Two Gentelem Of Verona<br /> Sonnet: 104<br /> Sonnet: 106<br /> Sonnet: 116<br /> Sonnet: 130<br /> Sonnet: 138<br /> Sonnet: 18<br /> Sonnet: 23<br /> Sonnet: 24<br /> Sonnet: 29<br /> Sonnet: 40<br /> Sonnet: 46<br /> Sonnet: 49<br /> Sonnet: 57<br /> Sonnet: 71<br /> Sonnet: 86<br /> Sonnet: 98<br /> To Die Is To Be Banish'd From Myself<br /> -- <i>Table of Poems from <a href="/exec/obidos/subst/partners/marketing/poemfinder.html/${0}">Poem Finder</a></i>
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  # Love for Love
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Congreve
  
  
  
      
  
  
  LOVE FOR LOVE--A COMEDY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nudus agris, nudus nummis paternis,
  
  
  Insanire parat certa ratione modoque.
  
  
  
  
  
  \- HOR.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
  
  
  CHARLES, EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX,
  
  
  LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD,
  
  
  AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, ETC.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My Lord,--A young poet is liable to the same vanity and indiscretion
  
  
  with a young lover; and the great man who smiles upon one, and the
  
  
  fine woman who looks kindly upon t'other, are both of 'em in danger
  
  
  of having the favour published with the first opportunity.
  
  
  
  
  
  But there may be a different motive, which will a little distinguish
  
  
  the offenders. For though one should have a vanity in ruining
  
  
  another's reputation, yet the other may only have an ambition to
  
  
  advance his own. And I beg leave, my lord, that I may plead the
  
  
  latter, both as the cause an