Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost) -- Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun / That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks:

[henh...@gmail.com]

William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”

[Act I, scene i]:
Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun
That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks:
Small have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books


----------- Well... i get the last 2 lines.

What do the first 2 lines mean exactly ?

[CDB]

If you stare at the the sun you will go blind; if you study something
too closely, you will end by missing the point. The speaker is
reluctant to endure the monastic rigors of the proposed course.

Elizabethan humour.

[henh...@gmail.com]

thank you....

there's something hypocritical about how Plodders (studious Teens)
are supposed to be so UNcool (today or 400 years ago).

--- how these studious Teens are encouraged to pretend to be
"unprepared" for Tests when they are more prepared and ready
than they want to appear.

[Arindam Banerjee]

On Saturday, 24 September 2022 at 07:24:24 UTC+12, henh...@gmail.com wrote:
> William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”
>
> [Act I, scene i]:
> Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun

To be studious is to be as glorious as the Sun, so no doubts about authenticity...

> That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks:

Such a studious person naturally eludes those who are sarcastic who leave him alone.

> Small have continual plodders ever won

Thick dull heads with no creativity have nothing much to contribute

> Save base authority from others' books

But they do become career academics.