All 3 Uses of
nimble
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigour of the traveller.†
Scene 4.3 *nimble = quick and agile
- He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; And so she died: had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you, for a light heart lives long.†
Scene 5.2
- A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.†
Scene 5.2
Definition:
quick and agile -- typically physically, but can also reference quick, agile thinking
(someone who is agile does things easily)
(someone who is agile does things easily)