All 4 Uses of
ravish
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight, For interim to our studies shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.†
Scene 1.1ravish = rape, overwhelm or plunder
- His eye begets occasion for his wit, For every object that the one doth catch 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.†
Scene 2.1ravished = raped, overwhelmed or plundered
- if in black my lady's brows be deck'd, It mourns that painting and usurping hair Should ravish doters with a false aspect; And therefore is she born to make black fair.†
Scene 4.3 *ravish = rape, overwhelm or plunder
- then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
to rape, overwhelm or plunder