Love's Labor's Lost | Dumaine

Dumaine is one of the king's lords, along with Berowne and Longaville, and falls in love with Katherine. His oath to the king in the opening scene is elaborately and recklessly self-sacrificial; whereas Longaville speaks of the mind's nourishment while the body pines, Dumaine says he is ''mortified''— that is, his flesh is in a sense killed, and the pleasures of the world are dead to him—''To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die" (I.i.28-31). Katherine describes Dumaine, before they meet, as good-looking, young and a bit reckless with words because he is naive to the consequences...

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