In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Lord Berowne falls in love with Rosaline.
Berowne is one of the King of Navarre’s three companions. At the beginning, the men swear to avoid women and devote themselves to study for three years. Berowne is the most skeptical of the oath, but he eventually falls for Rosaline, one of the Princess of France’s ladies.
The romance becomes comic because the men secretly abandon their vow one by one. Berowne writes a letter to Rosaline, but the letter is accidentally switched with Don Armado’s letter to Jaquenetta. Later, the King and the other lords discover one another hiding and revealing their love, exposing their hypocrisy.
Dumaine falls for Katharine, Longaville falls for Maria, and the King falls for the Princess of France. Ferdinand is the King of Navarre, not one of the three lords. The play ends without the expected marriages: after news of the Princess’s father’s death, the women require the men to wait a year and a day to prove that their love is sincere.