All 22 Uses
forswear
in
Love's Labour's Lost
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- Necessity will make us all forsworn Three thousand times within this three years' space; For every man with his affects is born, Not by might master'd, but by special grace.†
Scene 1.1
- If I break faith, this word shall speak for me: I am forsworn 'on mere necessity.'†
Scene 1.1
- I shall be forsworn,—which is a great argument of falsehood,—if I love.†
Scene 1.2
- he'll be forsworn.†
Scene 2.1
- If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?†
Scene 4.2
- never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd; Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed.†
Scene 4.2
- I am forsworn.†
Scene 4.3
- I forswore not thee:
Scene 4.3 *forswore = renounced (disavowed or decided to stop doing something)
- 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.†
Scene 4.3
- Do not call it sin in me, That I am forsworn for thee; Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear Juno but an Ethiope were; And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love.†
Scene 4.3
- As true we are as flesh and blood can be: The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face; Young blood doth not obey an old decree: We cannot cross the cause why we were born, Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.†
Scene 4.3
- Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn.†
Scene 4.3
- And where that you you have vow'd to study, lords, In that each of you have forsworn his book, Can you still dream, and pore, and thereon look?†
Scene 4.3
- Now, for not looking on a woman's face, You have in that forsworn the use of eyes, And study too, the causer of your vow; For where is author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?†
Scene 4.3
- we have made a vow to study, lords, And in that vow we have forsworn our books: For when would you, my liege, or you, or you, In leaden contemplation have found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?†
Scene 4.3
- Then fools you were these women to forswear, Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.†
Scene 4.3
- It is religion to be thus forsworn; For charity itself fulfils the law; And who can sever love from charity?†
Scene 4.3
- Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn; And justice always whirls in equal measure: Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn; If so, our copper buys no better treasure.†
Scene 4.3
- Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them; and I here protest, By this white glove,—how white the hand, God knows!†
Scene 5.2
- forbear; Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.†
Scene 5.2
- Now, to our perjury to add more terror, We are again forsworn, in will and error.†
Scene 5.2
- Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.†
Scene 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(forswear as in: forswear my country of birth) to decide to stop doing something; or to renounce or disavow something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (especially in the UK), forswear can also mean to commit perjury.