...touch a pen to write Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility. From...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. Then fools you were these women to forswear; Or, keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. Let us...

...Shakespeare's women ultimately wind up doing. Though Navarre and his courtiers agree early on that women's eyes "sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are...academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world" (IV. iii. 348-50), the men ultimately learn that women must teach them in a far less inspirational...

...women's eyes thw doctrtne 1 dertve: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the hooks, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world: — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, IV, III The Hindu god Varima, akin to the Greek Oaranw Uranus...

...touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish SOLDIERS, ATTENDANTS, Then fools you were these women to forswear, Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. For wisdom's...

...opposition to "woman" or gained through them. As Berowne will offer later in the play, "women's eyes" are "the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world" (IV. iii. 348-349). Men write and study books and men "write" and study women - it is as if Shakespeare...

...have found out Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...world, Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (4.3.295-351) Yet Berowne has begun the scene with a very negative description of his own experience...

...see women. He then collapses those clauses into one; seeing women, it turns out, is a form of study: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive. They sparkle...academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. (4.3.324-7) The sonnets which the four men addressed to their loves provide the grounds for Berowne's...

...touch a pen to write until his ink were tempered with love's sighs.... Oh, then his lines would ravish savage ears, and plant in tyrants mild humility. From women's eyes, this doctrine I derive ... they are the books, the arts, the academes that show, contain, and nourish all the world. And when Love...

...shape, And I must perish in his burning arms. (Paean being Apollo, the sun-god.) In LLL Berowne says: 'From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire . . .' (4.3.347-8). In these passages, as in A Shrew, the terms sparkle, fire and eyes are found with...

...live as if to live and love were one. Not to produce a matriarchal society, but a partnership society. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle...Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academe That show, contain, and nourish all the world: Else, none at all in aught proves excellent.3...