...labours of Hercules was to obtain the note to Appendix All). 9. golden apples from a tree growing in a They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show,...excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear, 330 Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love, Or...

...Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never dared poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish...forswear; Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves, Or else we lose ourselves to find our oaths. (Love's...

...As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair: And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Make HIS FATHER. A FATHER THAT HAS KILL'D HIS SON. /Ui...sister to the French Queen. SOLDIERS, ATTENDANTS, bake, a word that all men love, Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men, Or for men's sake, the...

...Berowne is no less soaring in his praise of the new feminine ideal that justifies renouncing the oath: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (IV.iii. 354-358) In an earlier version of the same speech (which Bevington prints in his Textual Notes)...

...have found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (4.3.295-351) Yet Berowne has begun the scene with a very negative description of his own experience...

...see women. He then collapses those clauses into one; seeing women, it turns out, is a form of study: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. (4.3.324-7) The sonnets which the four men addressed to their loves provide the grounds for Berowne's...

...original idea, and you're not dead. You're going to be kind of a saint to us. To me, you already are." "From women's eyes this doctrine I derive — they...academes, that show, contain, and nourish all the world." "Yeah. That's good. That's very good." "No." She shook her head. "I will not be Prometheus to you....

...Bacchus gross in taste; For valor, is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet and musical, As bright...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world ; FJlse, none at all in aught proves excellent ; Then fools you were these women to forswear ; Or,...

...were temper'd with Loves's sighs; / O! then his lines would ravish savage ears, / And plant in ryrants mild humility. / From women's eyes this doctrine I...these women to forswear, / Or, keeping what is sworn, yon will prove fools. / For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love, / Or for love's sake, a word that...

...Shakespearian student compare them with the thesis maintained by Biron in Love's Labour Lost (IV, iii) : ' From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world.' Biron' s speech being a humourously sophistical maintenance of a thesis in scholastic form — not...