I figured it out and I looked it up and a new blog-reader (welcome!) thought so too. It means: "The labour of love (genitive) is lost (abbreviation)." Some people believe that LLL is Part One of a pair of plays.T he ending of the "first?" one sounds as if more is to follow, i.e. a sequel to depict the events that occur twelve months later after "a year and a day" when the principals will meet again to see how they did with their promises of reform and study and abstinence. Loves' Labour's Won?

Others argue for Much Ado or Shrew as a possible sequel. I don't agree with either suggestion. Berowne comments that "Jack hath not Jill" at the end of LLLOne, not the usual ending of Shakespeare's plays where he tied up everyone and paired them off, like it or not. The worst pairing was in Measure for Measure when he pushed poor Isabella, a nun if there ever was one, onto the Duke, a manipulative, irresponsible man, if there ever was one.

PAUSE while I exited and looked up M for M to see if I got Isabella's name right. I did. Memory still serves.

This blog didn't get written yesterday because there was another Blue Jays game last night. I'm pretty good at multi-tasking but focus suffers when i's a full count, bases loaded, and two strikes already. David Price struck out 14 Yankees in a row last night.

Wow.