"What is the end of study?" is the question that Berowne puts to the king of Navarre in the opening scene of Love's Labour's Lost. Not only is it challenging to answer, and not only can it lead to many more questions of an epistemological nature, but it can also be interpreted in two diverging ways due to the fact that two senses of the word "end" suit it equally well. In the first, the word can signify a terminal point - and the question becomes something along the lines of, When have we studied enough? And in the second, it would refer to a purpose - and we get something like, What is the point of study? Of course, my opinion is simple: The answers to both of these questions are provided by the model of Shakespeare's career. Has knowledge ever been put to better use?