Love's Labour's Lost

Love and Obligations--The King of Navarre Ferdinand and three of his friends the lords Berowne Dumaine and Longaville take an oath to foreswear the company of women for three years. Their intent is to devote their time to study and fasting. Fate however has other plans for them.This wimpled whining purblind wayward boy This senior-junior giant-dwarf Dan Cupid;Regent of love rhymes lord of folded arms The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans Liege of all loiterers and malecontents.

By William Shakespeare