[136] To her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father:

Therefore this article is made in vain,

[138] Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.

King. What say you, lords? why, this was quite forgot.

140 Biron. So study evermore is overshot:

While it doth study to have what it would,

It doth forget to do the thing it should;

And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,

’Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.

145 King. We must of force dispense with this decree;