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Love's Labour's Lost
(Shakespeare). Ferdinand, King of Navarre, with the
three lords, Biron', Longaville, and Dumain, make a vow to spend three
years in study, during which time they bind themselves to look upon no
woman. Scarce is the vow made when the Princess of France, with
Rosaline, Maria, and Catherine are announced, bringing a petition from
the King of France. The four gentlemen fall in love with the four
ladies, and send them verses; they also visit them masked as
Muscovites. The ladies treat the whole matter as a jest, and when the
gentlemen declare their intentions to be honourable impose upon them a
delay of twelve
months, to be spent in works of charity. If at the expiration of that
time they still wish to marry, the ladies promise to lend a favourable
ear to their respective suits.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Love's Labour's Lost from Infoplease:
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