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Then fools you were these women to forswear,

Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.

For wisdom’s sake, a word that all men love,

Or for love’s sake, a word that loves all men,

Or for men’s sake, the [authors] of these women,

Or women’s sake, by whom we men are men,

[Let] us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,

Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.

It is religion to be thus forsworn:

For charity itself fulfills the law,

And who can sever love from charity?

King.

Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!

Ber.

Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;

Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advis’d,

In conflict that you get the sun of them.

Long.

Now to plain-dealing, lay these glozes by:

Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?

King.

And win them too; therefore let us devise

Some entertainment for them in their tents.

Ber.

First, from the park let us conduct them thither;

Then homeward every man attach the hand

Of his fair mistress. In the afternoon