title: The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles [The Navarre Bible: Reader's Edition]
author: Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: Spanish
zlib_text:  
   
   
  Loves Labours Lost 
   
  A Play By 
   
  William Shakespeare 
   
  
  ACT I 
  SCENE I. The king of Navarre's park. 
  Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN  
  FERDINAND  
  Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
  Live register'd upon our brazen tombs 
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death; 
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, 
  The endeavor of this present breath may buy 
  That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge 
  And make us heirs of all eternity. 
  Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are, 
  That war against your own affections 
  And the huge army of the world's desires,-- 
  Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: 
  Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; 
  Our court shall be a little Academe, 
  Still and contemplative in living art. 
  You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville, 
  Have sworn for three years' term to live with me 
  My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes 
  That are recorded in this schedule here: 
  Your oaths are pass'd; and