[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;