juvenal, my tender

juvenal, my tender
   Used by Don Adriano de Armado, the ‘fantastical Spaniard’ in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, to his page, Moth. Armado at first calls Moth ‘boy’, then ‘dear imp’, then ‘my tender juvenal’, where the last word is a form of ‘juvenile’. Moth normally uses ‘sir’ to his master, but counters ‘my tender juvenal’ with ‘my tough signior’. ‘Why tough signior?’ asks Armado. ‘Why tender juvenal?’ says Moth. Armado replies: ‘I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.’ ‘And I, tough signior,’ replies Moth, ‘as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough.’ ‘My tender juvenal’ is a fairly well-known Shakespearean vocative, and is sometimes quoted by one speaker to another.

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