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Definition
to decide to stop doing something; or to renounce or disavow something
or (more rarely): to lie — especially while under oath
or (more rarely): to lie — especially while under oath
- I forswore not thee:4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (17% in)
forswore = renounced (disavowed or decided to stop doing something)
- 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.1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — The King of Navarre's park (50% in)
- If I break faith, this word shall speak for me: I am forsworn 'on mere necessity.'1.1 — Act 1 Scene 1 — The King of Navarre's park (51% in)
- I shall be forsworn,—which is a great argument of falsehood,—if I love.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — The park (89% in)
- Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — The King of Navarre's park. A pavilion.... (37% in)
- If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?4.2 — Act 4 Scene 2 — The same (63% in)
- Ah! 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.4.2 — Act 4 Scene 2 — The same (65% in)
- I am forsworn.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (13% in)
- 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.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (18% in)
- 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.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (30% in)
- 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.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (58% in)
- Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (75% in)
- 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?4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (79% in)
- 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?4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (82% in)
- O! 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?4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (84% in)
- Then fools you were these women to forswear, Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (92% in)
- It is religion to be thus forsworn; For charity itself fulfils the law; And who can sever love from charity?4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (94% in)
- 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.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The same (**% in)
- 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!5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — The same. Before the Princess's pavilion (47% in)
- Peace! peace! forbear; Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — The same. Before the Princess's pavilion (50% in)
- Now, to our perjury to add more terror, We are again forsworn, in will and error.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — The same. Before the Princess's pavilion (53% in)
- Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — The same. Before the Princess's pavilion (91% in)
There are no more uses of "forswear" in Love's Labour's Lost.
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