

Each, after he confesses, hides and eavesdrops on the next to enter. Act 4, scene 3 One after the other, the King and his lords enter and confess they are in love.Costard and Jaquenetta enter with the letter from Berowne to Rosaline and are told to deliver it to the king. Act 4, scene 2 The Pedant Holofernes, the Curate Nathaniel, and Constable Dull discuss the deer shot by the Princess.Act 4, scene 1 While hunting, the Princess, her ladies, and Boyet are visited by Costard, who, by mistake, delivers to them Armado’s letter to Jaquenetta (rather than Berowne’s letter to Rosaline).Berowne, alone, admits that he is in love. He gives Costard a letter to take to Rosaline. Act 3, scene 1 Armado frees Costard and gives him a love letter to take to Jaquenetta.Navarre’s lords each show an interest in one of the Princess’s ladies. The King greets them but refuses to admit them into his court, forcing them to stay in tents in the fields. Act 2, scene 1 The Princess of France and her ladies arrive at Navarre.He is given responsibility for the imprisoned Costard. Act 1, scene 2 Armado confides first to his page Mote and then to Jaquenetta herself that he is in love with Jaquenetta.Constable Dull arrives with a letter from Don Armado accusing a servant, Costard, of already having broken the King’s order about not consorting with women. One of the lords, Berowne, reminds the King that the Princess of France is coming and that they will thus have to break their oaths immediately. Act 1, scene 1 The King of Navarre and his lords vow to retire from the world (especially from women) and study for three years.When word comes that the princess’s father is dead, the ladies reject the men’s proposals as rash and impose a year’s delay before any further wooing. Costard, an illiterate local, mixes up two letters he is to deliver, one from Armado to Jacquenetta and the other from Berowne, one of the king’s companions, to Rosaline, one of the French ladies.The men confess they are in love, and devise a pageant for the ladies, who set a trap for them by exchanging identifying markers.

Even so, each young man falls in love with one of the ladies.Meanwhile, Don Armado, a Spanish soldier, falls for a servant girl, Jacquenetta. When the Princess of France arrives on a state visit, the king insists she and her ladies camp outside the court. The men, one of them the king of Navarre, pledge to study for three years, avoiding all contact with women. Entire Play In Love’s Labor’s Lost, the comedy centers on four young men who fall in love against their wills.
