Third Reading

King

O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,

    The hue of dungeons, and the school of night,

And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.  (Shakespeare, 233-4, Act IV, Sc. 3, Vrs. 250-2)

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Berowne

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,

Lives not alone immured in the brain,

But, with the motion of all elements,

Courses as swift as thought in every power,

And gives to every power a double power,

Above their functions and their offices.

It adds a precious seeing to the eye:

A lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind.

A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,

When the suspicious head of theft is stopped. (Shakespeare, 233-4, Act IV, Sc. 3, Vrs. 301-313)

Works Cited:
Shakespeare, William. "Love's Labor's Lost." The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Orgell and A.R. Braunmuller. New York: Penguin Group, 2002. Print.