...discursive charisma is particularly striking. Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse (2. 1. 72-6) It might be noted that the hyperbolic...

...other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's expositor — Delivers in such the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were thi ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! are they all in love,...

...The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished. So sweet and voluble is his discourse. (ni) Later Rosaline derides him for his attitude to...

...Rosaline's description of Biton in Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, II, i, 73-5, whose tongue utters 'such apt and gracious words / That aged ears play truant at his tales, / And younger hearings are quite ravished'. 17 forsooth] truly. 19 pretending no more, doth intend] claiming to be nothing more than...

...other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue — conceit's expositor — Delivers in such d a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Sleep when he wak ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. PRINCESS. God bless my ladies! are they all in love,...

...catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair pen (Conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished. So sweet and voluble is his discourse, That hear him reason in Divinity, And, all-admiring,...