That same Biron I’ll torture ere I go.

How will I make him fawn, and beg, and seek;

And wait the season, and observe the times,

And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes;

And shape his service wholly to my behests;

And make him proud to make me proud that jests!

So portent-like would I o’ersway his state

That he should be my fool, and I his fate.

Love’s Labor Lost.

CHAPTER I.