Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Musical - Longaville's Sonnet lyrics
[Love’s Labour’s Lost: The Musical - Longaville's Sonnet lyrics]
LONGAVILLE
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment
A woman I forswore but I will prove
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love
Thy grace being gain'd cures
All disgrace in me
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun
Which on my earth dost shine aLL
Exhalest now this vapour-vow!
LONGAVILLE in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Oh, would that King, Berowne
And Dumaine were lovers, too!
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye
'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment
A woman I forswore but I will prove
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love
Thy grace being gain'd cures
All disgrace in me
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun
Which on my earth dost shine aLL
Exhalest now this vapour-vow!
LONGAVILLE in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To lose an oath to win a paradise?
Oh, would that King, Berowne
And Dumaine were lovers, too!
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