_Cost._ This was no damsel neither, sir; she was a virgin. _King._ It is so varied too; for it was proclaimed virgin. 275 _Cost._ If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid. _King._ This maid will not serve your turn, sir. _Cost._ This maid will serve my turn, sir. _King._ Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall 280 fast a week with bran and water. _Cost._ I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge. _King._ And Don Armado shall be your keeper. My Lord Biron, see him deliver’d o’er: 285 And go we, lords, to put in practice that Which each to other hath so strongly sworn. [_Exeunt King, Longaville, and Dumain._ _Biron._ I’ll lay my head to any good man’s hat, These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. Sirrah, come on. 290 _Cost._ I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true girl; and, therefore, welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! 295 [_Exeunt._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, I, 1. SCENE I. The king...park] See note (III). Biron] F2 F3 F4. Berowne Qq F1 and passim. 3: _And...death_] Put in the margin as spurious by Pope. 13: _Academe_] Q2 F2. _Achademe_ Q1 F1. _Academy_ F3 F4. 18: _schedule_] _sedule_ Q1. _scedule_ Q2 Ff. 23: _oaths_] _oath_ Steevens. See note (IV). _keep it too_] _keepe it to_ Qq F1 _keep them to_ F2. _keep them too_ F3 F4. 27: _bankrupt quite_] _bancrout quite_ Q1. _bankerout_ Ff. _banquerout_ Q2. _quite_ restored by Pope, and again rejected by Theobald. 29: _these_] _this_ Collier MS. 31: _pomp_] _pome_ Q1. 62: _feast...forbid_] Theobald. _fast...forbid_ Qq Ff. _fast...fore-bid_ Theobald conj. 65: _hard a keeping_] _hard-a-keeping_ Hanmer. 67: _thus_] Qq Ff. _this_ Pope. 72: _Why,_] Pope. _Why?_ Qq Ff. _but_] Q1. _and_ Ff Q2. 77: _of light_] Qq F1. om. F2 F3 F4. 83: _it was_] _was it_ Steevens. 87: _base_] _bare_ S. Walker conj. _others’_] _other_ Rowe (ed. 1). 92: _nought but fame;_] _nought: but feign;_ Warburton. _nought but shame;_ Id. conj. 103: _any_] Qq Ff. _an_ Pope. 106: _in_] _on_ Capell. _new-fangled_] _new-spangled_ Grey conj. _shows_] F3 F4. _showes_ Qq F1 F2. _earth_ Theobald. _mirth_ S. Walker conj. Malone supposes a line to be lost after line 103. 108: _So you, to study_] _Go you to study_, Anon. conj. _But you’ll to study,_ Lettsom conj. _to study_] _by study_ Collier MS. 109: _Climb o’er the house to unlock the little gate_] Q1 _That were to climb o’er the house to unlock the gate_ Ff Q2. _Climb o’er the house-top to unlock the gate_ Collier MS. _That were to climb the house o’er to unlock the gate_ Grant White.