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ASCII text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.
SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.
XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1999.
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Dramatis Personae
KING OF FRANCE
DUKE OF FLORENCE
BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon.
LAFEU, an old lord.
PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram.
Steward
Clown
servants to the Countess of Rousillon.
A Page.
COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram.
HELENA, a gentlewoman protected by the Countess.
An old Widow of Florence.
DIANA, daughter to the Widow.
VIOLENTA
MARIANA
neighbours and friends to the Widow.
Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &c., French and Florentine.
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">SCENE Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles.</div>
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
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">ACT I</span>
</div>
<div>
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">SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
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">Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA,
and LAFEU, all in black</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In delivering my son from me, I bury a second
husband.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's
death</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">anew: but I must attend his majesty's command,
to</div>
<div style="
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">whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You shall find of the king a husband, madam;
you,</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">sir, a father: he that so generally is at all
times</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">good must of necessity hold his virtue to you;
whose</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">worthiness would stir it up where it wanted
rather</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">than lack it where there is such abundance.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under
whose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">finds no other advantage in the process but only
the</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">losing of hope by time.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched
so</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">far, would have made nature immortal, and death</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">should have play for lack of work. Would, for
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">king's sake, he were living! I think it would be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the death of the king's disease.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How called you the man you speak of, madam?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it
was</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly:
he</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">was skilful enough to have lived still, if
knowledge</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">could be set up against mortality.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is it, my good lord, the king languishes
of?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A fistula, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">I heard not of it before.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">I would it were not notorious. Was this
gentlewoman</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">her education promises; her dispositions she</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for
where</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities,
there</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">commendations go with pity; they are virtues and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">traitors too; in her they are the better for
their</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her
goodness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her
praise</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in. The remembrance of her father never
approaches</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes
all</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">livelihood from her cheek. No more of this,
Helena;</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you
affect</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">a sorrow than have it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">excessive grief the enemy to the living.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">makes it soon mortal.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, I desire your holy wishes.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How understand we that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a
few,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for
silence,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more
will,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Advise him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He cannot want the best</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That shall attend his love.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.</div>
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To HELENA The best wishes that can be forged in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to my mother, your mistress, and make much of
her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your father.</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, were that all! I think not on my father;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And these great tears grace his remembrance more</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than those I shed for him. What was he like?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have forgot him: my imagination</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am undone: there is no living, none,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That I should love a bright particular star</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And think to wed it, he is so above me:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In his bright radiance and collateral light</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The hind that would be mated by the lion</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To see him every hour; to sit and draw</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In our heart's table; heart too capable</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
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">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
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">Aside</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And yet I know him a notorious liar,</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That they take place, when virtue's steely bones</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we
see</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Save you, fair queen!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And you, monarch!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And no.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are you meditating on virginity?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let
me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity;
how</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">may we barricado it against him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Keep him out.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But he assails; and our virginity, though
valiant,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">warlike resistance.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There is none: man, sitting down before you,
will</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">undermine you and blow you up.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bless our poor virginity from underminers and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">blowers up! Is there no military policy, how</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">virgins might blow up men?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier
be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the breach yourselves made, you lose your city.
It</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is
rational</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">increase and there was never virgin got till</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">virginity was first lost. That you were made of
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once
lost</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with
't!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die
a virgin.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rule of nature. To speak on the part of
virginity,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is to accuse your mothers; which is most
infallible</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">virginity murders itself and should be buried in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">highways out of all sanctified limit, as a
desperate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">offendress against nature. Virginity breeds
mites,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">paring, and so dies with feeding his own
stomach.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">principal itself not much the worse: away with
't!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own
liking?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er
it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with
't</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap
out</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">now. Your date is better in your pie and your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your old virginity, is like one of our French</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily;
marry,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything
with it?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not my virginity yet</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There shall your master have a thousand loves,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A mother and a mistress and a friend,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A phoenix, captain and an enemy,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His humble ambition, proud humility,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know not what he shall. God send him well!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The court's a learning place, and he is one--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What one, i' faith?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That I wish well. 'Tis pity--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's pity?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That wishing well had not a body in't,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Might with effects of them follow our friends,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And show what we alone must think, which never</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Return us thanks.</div>
<div style="
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">Enter Page</div>
<div style="
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">Page</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.</div>
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<div style="
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">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee,
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">will think of thee at court.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable
star.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Under Mars, I.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I especially think, under Mars.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why under Mars?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The wars have so kept you under that you must
needs</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be born under Mars.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When he was predominant.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When he was retrograde, I think, rather.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why think you so?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You go so much backward when you fight.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That's for advantage.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So is running away, when fear proposes the
safety;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">but the composition that your valour and fear
makes</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the
wear well.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">counsel and understand what advice shall thrust
upon</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness,
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou
hast</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">none, remember thy friends; get thee a good
husband,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.</div>
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What power is it which mounts my love so high,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The mightiest space in fortune nature brings</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To join like likes and kiss like native things.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Impossible be strange attempts to those</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What hath been cannot be: who ever strove</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So show her merit, that did miss her love?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The king's disease--my project may deceive me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.</div>
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">Exit</div>
</div>
<div>
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">SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace.</div>
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">Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France,
with letters, and divers Attendants</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Have fought with equal fortune and continue</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A braving war.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So 'tis reported, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With caution that the Florentine will move us</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Prejudicates the business and would seem</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To have us make denial.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His love and wisdom,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Approved so to your majesty, may plead</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For amplest credence.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He hath arm'd our answer,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And Florence is denied before he comes:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The Tuscan service, freely have they leave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To stand on either part.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It well may serve</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A nursery to our gentry, who are sick</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For breathing and exploit.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's he comes here?</div>
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">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Young Bertram.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral
parts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My thanks and duty are your majesty's.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would I had that corporal soundness now,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As when thy father and myself in friendship</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">First tried our soldiership! He did look far</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Into the service of the time and was</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But on us both did haggish age steal on</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And wore us out of act. It much repairs me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To talk of your good father. In his youth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He had the wit which I can well observe</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To-day in our young lords; but they may jest</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till their own scorn return to them unnoted</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ere they can hide their levity in honour;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His equal had awaked them, and his honour,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Clock to itself, knew the true minute when</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Exception bid him speak, and at this time</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He used as creatures of another place</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Making them proud of his humility,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Might be a copy to these younger times;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But goers backward.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His good remembrance, sir,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So in approof lives not his epitaph</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As in your royal speech.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Would I were with him! He would always say--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This his good melancholy oft began,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All but new things disdain; whose judgments are</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mere fathers of their garments; whose
constancies</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I after him do after him wish too,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I quickly were dissolved from my hive,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To give some labourers room.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are loved, sir:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They that least lend it you shall lack you
first.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since the physician at your father's died?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He was much famed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Some six months since, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If he were living, I would try him yet.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With several applications; nature and sickness</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My son's no dearer.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thank your majesty.</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt. Flourish</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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">SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
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">Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will now hear; what say you of this
gentlewoman?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, the care I have had to even your content,
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">wish might be found in the calendar of my past</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and
make</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">foul the clearness of our deservings, when of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ourselves we publish them.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the complaints I have heard of you I do not all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I
know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you lack not folly to commit them, and have
ability</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">enough to make such knaveries yours.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor
fellow.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor,
though</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your ladyship's good will to go to the world,
Isbel</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the woman and I will do as we may.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wilt thou needs be a beggar?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do beg your good will in this case.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In what case?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">heritage: and I think I shall never have the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">blessing of God till I have issue o' my body;
for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">they say barnes are blessings.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil
drives.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is this all your worship's reason?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as
they</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">are.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May the world know them?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that I may repent.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">friends for my wife's sake.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Such friends are thine enemies, knave.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary
of.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He that ears my land spares my team and gives me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's
my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">drudge: he that comforts my wife is the
cherisher</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my
flesh</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves
my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that
kisses</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">my wife is my friend. If men could be contented
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be what they are, there were no fear in
marriage;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">religion, their heads are both one; they may
jowl</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">horns together, like any deer i' the herd.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious
knave?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the
next</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">way:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For I the ballad will repeat,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which men full true shall find;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your marriage comes by destiny,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your cuckoo sings by kind.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you: of her I am to speak.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with
her;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Helen, I mean.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why the Grecians sacked Troy?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fond done, done fond,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was this King Priam's joy?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With that she sighed as she stood,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With that she sighed as she stood,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And gave this sentence then;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Among nine bad if one be good,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Among nine bad if one be good,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's yet one good in ten.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song,
sirrah.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">One good woman in ten, madam; which is a
purifying</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">o' the song: would God would serve the world so
all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the year! we'ld find no fault with the
tithe-woman,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An
we</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">might have a good woman born but one every
blazing</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the
lottery</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">one.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command
you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That man should be at woman's command, and yet
no</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">humility over the black gown of a big heart. I
am</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come
hither.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, now.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman
entirely.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me;
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">she herself, without other advantage, may
lawfully</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">make title to as much love as she finds: there
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">more owing her than is paid; and more shall be
paid</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">her than she'll demand.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, I was very late more near her than I
think</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">she wished me: alone she was, and did
communicate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to herself her own words to her own ears; she</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not
any</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your
son:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">such difference betwixt their two estates; Love
no</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">god, that would not extend his might, only where</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins,
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">would suffer her poor knight surprised, without</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This she delivered in the most bitter touch of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sithence, in the loss that may happen, it
concerns</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you something to know it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You have discharged this honestly; keep it to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">before, which hung so tottering in the balance
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank
you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for your honest care: I will speak with you further
anon.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit Steward</div>
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">Enter HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Even so it was with me when I was young:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this
thorn</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is the show and seal of nature's truth,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where love's strong passion is impress'd in
youth:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By our remembrances of days foregone,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Such were our faults, or then we thought them
none.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is your pleasure, madam?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You know, Helen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am a mother to you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mine honourable mistress.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, a mother:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And put you in the catalogue of those</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A native slip to us from foreign seeds:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet I express to you a mother's care:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That this distemper'd messenger of wet,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why? that you are my daughter?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That I am not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I say, I am your mother.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pardon, madam;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am from humble, he from honour'd name;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No note upon my parents, his all noble:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My master, my dear lord he is; and I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His servant live, and will his vassal die:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He must not be my brother.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nor I your mother?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are my mother, madam; would you were,--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So that my lord your son were not my brother,--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I care no more for than I do for heaven,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So I were not his sister. Can't no other,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The mystery of your loneliness, and find</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis
gross</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You love my son; invention is ashamed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Against the proclamation of thy passion,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That in their kind they speak it: only sin</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge
thee,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tell me truly.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good madam, pardon me!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do you love my son?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your pardon, noble mistress!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Love you my son?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do not you love him, madam?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whereof the world takes note: come, come,
disclose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The state of your affection; for your passions</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Have to the full appeach'd.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then, I confess,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That before you, and next unto high heaven,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I love your son.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be not offended; for it hurts not him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That he is loved of me: I follow him not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By any token of presumptuous suit;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet never know how that desert should be.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know I love in vain, strive against hope;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet in this captious and intenible sieve</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I still pour in the waters of my love</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Religious in mine error, I adore</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let not your hate encounter with my love</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For loving where you do: but if yourself,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Did ever in so true a flame of liking</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To her, whose state is such that cannot choose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But lend and give where she is sure to lose;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That seeks not to find that her search implies,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To go to Paris?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, I had.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wherefore? tell true.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You know my father left me some prescriptions</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And manifest experience had collected</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As notes whose faculties inclusive were</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">More than they were in note: amongst the rest,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There is a remedy, approved, set down,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To cure the desperate languishings whereof</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The king is render'd lost.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This was your motive</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For Paris, was it? speak.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord your son made me to think of this;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Else Paris and the medicine and the king</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Had from the conversation of my thoughts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Haply been absent then.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But think you, Helen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you should tender your supposed aid,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He would receive it? he and his physicians</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They, that they cannot help: how shall they
credit</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The danger to itself?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's something in't,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">More than my father's skill, which was the
greatest</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of his profession, that his good receipt</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall for my legacy be sanctified</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your
honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By such a day and hour.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Dost thou believe't?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, madam, knowingly.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Means and attendants and my loving greetings</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
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border-width: 1px;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div style="
text-align: right;
">
<span style="
width: 25%;
padding: 1px;
padding-right: 1em;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ff9900;
">ACT II</span>
</div>
<div>
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">SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace.</div>
<div style="
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">Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended
with divers young Lords taking leave for the
Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do not throw from you: and you, my lords,
farewell:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And is enough for both.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis our hope, sir,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">After well enter'd soldiers, to return</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And find your grace in health.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will not confess he owes the malady</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young
lords;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whether I live or die, be you the sons</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Those bated that inherit but the fall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of the last monarchy,--see that you come</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The bravest questant shrinks, find what you
seek,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They say, our French lack language to deny,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If they demand: beware of being captives,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Before you serve.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Both</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our hearts receive your warnings.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Farewell. Come hither to me.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit, attended</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis not his fault, the spark.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, 'tis brave wars!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Most admirable: I have seen those wars.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am commanded here, and kept a coil with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too
early.'</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till honour be bought up and no sword worn</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal
away.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's honour in the theft.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Commit it, count.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am your accessary; and so, farewell.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured
body.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Farewell, captain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sweet Monsieur Parolles!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you
shall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war,
here</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">reports for me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We shall, noble captain.</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt Lords</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye
do?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Stay: the king.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
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border-color: #ff9900;
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">Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To BERTRAM Use a more spacious ceremony to the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">noble lords; you have restrained yourself within
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">move under the influence of the most received
star;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and though the devil lead the measure, such are
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be followed: after them, and take a more dilated
farewell.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I will do so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy
sword-men.</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
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">Enter LAFEU</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Kneeling Pardon, my lord, for me and for my
tidings.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll fee thee to stand up.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then here's a man stands, that has brought his
pardon.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me
mercy,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And that at my bidding you could so stand up.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And ask'd thee mercy for't.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will you be cured of your infirmity?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a
medicine</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That's able to breathe life into a stone,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With spritely fire and motion; whose simple
touch,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And write to her a love-line.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What 'her' is this?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you will see her: now, by my faith and
honour,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If seriously I may convey my thoughts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In this my light deliverance, I have spoke</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With one that, in her sex, her years,
profession,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For that is her demand, and know her business?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That done, laugh well at me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, good Lafeu,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bring in the admiration; that we with thee</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May spend our wonder too, or take off thine</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By wondering how thou took'st it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, I'll fit you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And not be all day neither.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.</div>
<div style="
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">Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, come your ways.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This haste hath wings indeed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, come your ways:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is his majesty; say your mind to him:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A traitor you do look like; but such traitors</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That dare leave two together; fare you well.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, fair one, does your business follow us?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, my good lord.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gerard de Narbon was my father;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In what he did profess, well found.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I knew him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The rather will I spare my praises towards him:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And of his old experience the oily darling,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He bade me store up, as a triple eye,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And hearing your high majesty is touch'd</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With that malignant cause wherein the honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I come to tender it and my appliance</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With all bound humbleness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We thank you, maiden;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But may not be so credulous of cure,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When our most learned doctors leave us and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The congregated college have concluded</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That labouring art can never ransom nature</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From her inaidible estate; I say we must not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To prostitute our past-cure malady</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To empirics, or to dissever so</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our great self and our credit, to esteem</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A senseless help when help past sense we deem.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My duty then shall pay me for my pains:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will no more enforce mine office on you.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A modest one, to bear me back a again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I
give</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As one near death to those that wish him live:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I knowing all my peril, thou no art.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What I can do can do no hurt to try,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He that of greatest works is finisher</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Oft does them by the weakest minister:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When judges have been babes; great floods have
flown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From simple sources, and great seas have dried</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When miracles have by the greatest been denied.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Oft expectation fails and most oft there</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where most it promises, and oft it hits</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is not so with Him that all things knows</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But most it is presumption in us when</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The help of heaven we count the act of men.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am not an impostor that proclaim</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Myself against the level of mine aim;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But know I think and think I know most sure</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My art is not past power nor you past cure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are thou so confident? within what space</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hopest thou my cure?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The great'st grace lending grace</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ere twice in murk and occidental damp</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Health shall live free and sickness freely die.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon thy certainty and confidence</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What darest thou venture?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tax of impudence,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With vilest torture let my life be ended.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His powerful sound within an organ weak:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And what impossibility would slay</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In common sense, sense saves another way.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That happiness and prime can happy call:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou this to hazard needs must intimate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That ministers thine own death if I die.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I break time, or flinch in property</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But, if I help, what do you promise me?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Make thy demand.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But will you make it even?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What husband in thy power I will command:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Exempted be from me the arrogance</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To choose from forth the royal blood of France,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My low and humble name to propagate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With any branch or image of thy state;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here is my hand; the premises observed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy will by my performance shall be served:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So make the choice of thy own time, for I,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">More should I question thee, and more I must,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though more to know could not be more to trust,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Flourish. Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter COUNTESS and Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your breeding.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught:
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">know my business is but to the court.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To the court! why, what place make you special,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">when you put off that with such contempt? But to the
court!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners,
he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">may easily put it off at court: he that cannot
make</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say
nothing,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">court; but for me, I have an answer will serve
all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">men.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">questions.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is like a barber's chair that fits all
buttocks,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">buttock, or any buttock.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will your answer serve fit to all questions?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an
attorney,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as
Tib's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for
Shrove</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding
queen</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for
all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">questions?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From below your duke to beneath your constable,
it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">will fit any question.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It must be an answer of most monstrous size that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">must fit all demands.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the
learned</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">should speak truth of it: here it is, and all
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it
shall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">do you no harm to learn.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool
in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer.
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">pray you, sir, are you a courtier?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">more, a hundred of them.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves
you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely
meat.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir! spare not me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is
very</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sequent to your whipping: you would answer very
well</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve
ever.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I play the noble housewife with the time</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To entertain't so merrily with a fool.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And urge her to a present answer back:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is not much.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not much commendation to them.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not much employment for you: you understand me?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Haste you again.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt severally</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They say miracles are past; and we have our</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">philosophical persons, to make modern and
familiar,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">into seeming knowledge, when we should submit</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ourselves to an unknown fear.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that
hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">shot out in our latter times.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And so 'tis.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To be relinquish'd of the artists,--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So I say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Both of Galen and Paracelsus.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So I say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Right; so I say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That gave him out incurable,--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, there 'tis; so say I too.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not to be helped,--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Uncertain life, and sure death.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Just, you say well; so would I have said.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing,
you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">shall read it in--what do you call there?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly
actor.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That's it; I would have said the very same.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I speak in respect--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be
the--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Very hand of heaven.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, so I say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In a most weak--</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">pausing</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and debile minister, great power, great</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">further use to be made than alone the recovery
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the king, as to be--</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">pausing</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">generally thankful.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the
king.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and
PAROLLES retire</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why,
he's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">able to lead her a coranto.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Fore God, I think so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go, call before me all the lords in court.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd
sense</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The confirmation of my promised gift,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which but attends thy naming.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter three or four Lords</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful
parcel</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O'er whom both sovereign power and father's
voice</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have to use: thy frank election make;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou hast power to choose, and they none to
forsake.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My mouth no more were broken than these boys',</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And writ as little beard.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Peruse them well:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not one of those but had a noble father.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gentlemen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Heaven hath through me restored the king to
health.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">All</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We understand it, and thank heaven for you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That I protest I simply am a maid.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Please it your majesty, I have done already:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be
refused,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll ne'er come there again.'</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Make choice; and, see,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And to imperial Love, that god most high,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And grant it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I had rather be in this choice than throw
ames-ace</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for my life.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Before I speak, too threateningly replies:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Love make your fortunes twenty times above</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her that so wishes and her humble love!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No better, if you please.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My wish receive,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Turk, to make eunuchs of.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be not afraid that I your hand should take;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have
her:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sure, they are bastards to the English; the
French</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ne'er got 'em.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are too young, too happy, and too good,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To make yourself a son out of my blood.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Fourth Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fair one, I think not so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father
drunk</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of fourteen; I have known thee already.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To BERTRAM I dare not say I take you; but I
give</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Me and my service, ever whilst I live,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Into your guiding power. This is the man.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy
wife.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your
highness,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In such a business give me leave to use</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The help of mine own eyes.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Know'st thou not, Bertram,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What she has done for me?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, my good lord;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But never hope to know why I should marry her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly
bed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But follows it, my lord, to bring me down</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must answer for your raising? I know her well:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She had her breeding at my father's charge.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Rather corrupt me ever!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the
which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all
together,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In differences so mighty. If she be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of virtue for the name: but do not so:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The place is dignified by the doer's deed:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is a dropsied honour. Good alone</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is good without a name. Vileness is so:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The property by what it is should go,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In these to nature she's immediate heir,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which challenges itself as honour's born</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And is not like the sire: honours thrive,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When rather from our acts we them derive</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If thou canst like this creature as a maid,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I can create the rest: virtue and she</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to
choose.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let the rest go.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That dost in vile misprision shackle up</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My love and her desert; that canst not dream,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We, poising us in her defective scale,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not
know,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is in us to plant thine honour where</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Obey our will, which travails in thy good:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Believe not thy disdain, but presently</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do thine own fortunes that obedient right</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Or I will throw thee from my care for ever</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Into the staggers and the careless lapse</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My fancy to your eyes: when I consider</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What great creation and what dole of honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which
late</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is as 'twere born so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Take her by the hand,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A counterpoise, if not to thy estate</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A balance more replete.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I take her hand.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good fortune and the favour of the king</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall more attend upon the coming space,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Advancing Do you hear, monsieur? a word with
you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your pleasure, sir?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your lord and master did well to make his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">recantation.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Recantation! My lord! my master!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay; is it not a language I speak?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A most harsh one, and not to be understood
without</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">bloody succeeding. My master!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To any count, to all counts, to what is man.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To what is count's man: count's master is of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">another style.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too
old.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">title age cannot bring thee.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What I dare too well do, I dare not do.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a
pretty</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of
thy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me
from</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I
care</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up;
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that thou't scarce worth.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon
thee,--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest
thou</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on
thee</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare
thee</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">well: thy casement I need not open, for I look</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">through thee. Give me thy hand.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of
it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have not, my lord, deserved it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">bate thee a scruple.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, I shall be wiser.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull
at</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st
bound</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to
hold</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">my acquaintance with thee, or rather my
knowledge,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that I may say in the default, he is a man I
know.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my
poor</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee, in what motion age will give me leave.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace
off</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I
must</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be patient; there is no fettering of authority.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him
with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">any convenience, an he were double and double a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him
again.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Re-enter LAFEU</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's
news</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for you: you have a new mistress.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lord: whom I serve above is my master.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who? God?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best
set</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld
beat</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">every man should beat thee: I think thou wast</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and honourable personages than the commission of
your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave
you.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">let it be concealed awhile.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Re-enter BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's the matter, sweet-heart?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will not bed her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What, what, sweet-heart?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O my Parolles, they have married me!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's letters from my mother: what the import
is,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know not yet.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the
wars!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He wears his honour in a box unseen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Spending his manly marrow in her arms,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which should sustain the bound and high curvet</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Therefore, to the war!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And wherefore I am fled; write to the king</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That which I durst not speak; his present gift</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To the dark house and the detested wife.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll send her straight away: to-morrow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis
hard:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A young man married is a man that's marr'd:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA and Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My mother greets me kindly; is she well?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She is not well; but yet she has her health:
she's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks
be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">world; but yet she is not well.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If she be very well, what does she ail, that
she's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">not very well?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two
things.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What two things?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send
her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">quickly! the other that she's in earth, from
whence</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">God send her quickly!</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bless you, my fortunate lady!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine
own</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">good fortunes.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep
them</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old
lady?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would she did as you say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, I say nothing.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to
have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">nothing, is to be a great part of your title;
which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is within a very little of nothing.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Away! thou'rt a knave.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this
had</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">been truth, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">taught to find me? The search, sir, was
profitable;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and much fool may you find in you, even to the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, my lord will go away to-night;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A very serious business calls on him.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The great prerogative and rite of love,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which, as your due, time claims, he does
acknowledge;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with
sweets,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which they distil now in the curbed time,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And pleasure drown the brim.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's his will else?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you will take your instant leave o' the
king</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And make this haste as your own good proceeding,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Strengthen'd with what apology you think</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May make it probable need.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What more commands he?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That, having this obtain'd, you presently</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Attend his further pleasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In every thing I wait upon his will.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall report it so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I pray you.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come, sirrah.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I hope your lordship thinks not him a
soldier.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You have it from his own deliverance.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And by other warranted testimony.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a
bunting.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knowledge and accordingly valiant.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have then sinned against his experience and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">transgressed against his valour; and my state
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">us friends; I will pursue the amity.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To BERTRAM These things shall be done, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">workman, a very good tailor.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Aside to PAROLLES Is she gone to the king?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She is.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will she away to-night?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As you'll have her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Given order for our horses; and to-night,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When I should take possession of the bride,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">End ere I do begin.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A good traveller is something at the latter end of
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">known truth to pass a thousand nothings with,
should</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you,
captain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is there any unkindness between my lord and you,
monsieur?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know not how I have deserved to run into my
lord's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">displeasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You have made shift to run into 't, boots and
spurs</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and all, like him that leaped into the custard;
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">question for your residence.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe
this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut;
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not
in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tame, and know their natures. Farewell,
monsieur:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have spoken better of you than you have or will
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">deserve at my hand; but we must do good against
evil.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">An idle lord. I swear.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I think so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, do you not know him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, I do know him well, and common speech</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Spoke with the king and have procured his leave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For present parting; only he desires</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Some private speech with you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall obey his will.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which holds not colour with the time, nor does</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The ministration and required office</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">On my particular. Prepared I was not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For such a business; therefore am I found</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That presently you take our way for home;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For my respects are better than they seem</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And my appointments have in them a need</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Greater than shows itself at the first view</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To you that know them not. This to my mother:</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Giving a letter</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I leave you to your wisdom.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, I can nothing say,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But that I am your most obedient servant.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come, come, no more of that.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And ever shall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With true observance seek to eke out that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To equal my great fortune.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let that go:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pray, sir, your pardon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, what would you say?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But, like a timorous thief, most fain would
steal</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What law does vouch mine own.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What would you have?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would not tell you what I would, my lord:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith yes;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
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border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go thou toward home; where I will never come</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Away, and for our flight.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bravely, coragio!</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div style="
text-align: right;
">
<span style="
width: 25%;
padding: 1px;
padding-right: 1em;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ff9900;
">ACT III</span>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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padding-left: 1em;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
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">Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended;
the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So that from point to point now have you heard</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The fundamental reasons of this war,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose great decision hath much blood let forth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And more thirsts after.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Holy seems the quarrel</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon your grace's part; black and fearful</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">On the opposer.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Therefore we marvel much our cousin France</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Would in so just a business shut his bosom</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Against our borrowing prayers.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good my lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The reasons of our state I cannot yield,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But like a common and an outward man,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That the great figure of a council frames</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By self-unable motion: therefore dare not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Say what I think of it, since I have found</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Myself in my incertain grounds to fail</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As often as I guess'd.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be it his pleasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I am sure the younger of our nature,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That surfeit on their ease, will day by day</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come here for physic.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Welcome shall they be;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And all the honours that can fly from us</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall on them settle. You know your places well;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When better fall, for your avails they fell:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To-morrow to the field.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Flourish. Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
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border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Enter COUNTESS and Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It hath happened all as I would have had it,
save</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that he comes not along with her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">melancholy man.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By what observance, I pray you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let me see what he writes, and when he means to
come.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Opening a letter</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court:
our</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">old ling and our Isbels o' the country are
nothing</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">love, as an old man loves money, with no
stomach.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What have we here?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">E'en that you have there.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she
hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">before the report come. If there be breadth
enough</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in the world, I will hold a long distance. My
duty</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to you. Your unfortunate son,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">BERTRAM.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To fly the favours of so good a king;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To pluck his indignation on thy head</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By the misprising of a maid too virtuous</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For the contempt of empire.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Re-enter Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">soldiers and my young lady!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is the matter?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thought he would.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why should he be killed?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he
does:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">men, though it be the getting of children. Here</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">they come will tell you more: for my part, I
only</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hear your son was run away.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
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width: 40%;
left: 50%;
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padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
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">Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Save you, good madam.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do not say so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That the first face of neither, on the start,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray
you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We met him thitherward; for thence we came,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And, after some dispatch in hand at court,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thither we bend again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport.</div>
<div style="
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padding-left: 1em;
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">Reads</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When thou canst get the ring upon my finger
which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">never shall come off, and show me a child
begotten</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of thy body that I am father to, then call me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is a dreadful sentence.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Brought you this letter, gentlemen?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, madam;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And for the contents' sake are sorry for our
pain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I do wash his name out of my blood,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is
he?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, madam.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And to be a soldier?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The duke will lay upon him all the honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That good convenience claims.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Return you thither?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads Till I have no wife I have nothing in
France.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis bitter.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Find you that there?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, madam.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">heart was not consenting to.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nothing in France, until he have no wife!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's nothing here that is too good for him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But only she; and she deserves a lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That twenty such rude boys might tend upon</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A servant only, and a gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which I have sometime known.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Parolles, was it not?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, my good lady, he.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My son corrupts a well-derived nature</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With his inducement.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Indeed, good lady,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The fellow has a deal of that too much,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which holds him much to have.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You're welcome, gentlemen.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will entreat you, when you see my son,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To tell him that his sword can never win</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Written to bear along.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We serve you, madam,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In that and all your worthiest affairs.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not so, but as we change our courtesies.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will you draw near!</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nothing in France, until he has no wife!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That chase thee from thy country and expose</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Those tender limbs of thine to the event</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of the none-sparing war? and is it I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That drive thee from the sportive court, where
thou</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That ride upon the violent speed of fire,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whoever charges on his forward breast,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And, though I kill him not, I am the cause</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His death was so effected: better 'twere</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I met the ravin lion when he roar'd</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That all the miseries which nature owes</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Were mine at once. No, come thou home,
Rousillon,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As oft it loses all: I will be gone;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My being here it is that holds thee hence:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The air of paradise did fan the house</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And angels officed all: I will be gone,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That pitiful rumour may report my flight,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
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">Exit</div>
</div>
<div>
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border-bottom-style: solid;
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background-color: #cc6600;
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">SCENE III. Florence. Before the DUKE's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
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left: 50%;
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">Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM,
PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The general of our horse thou art; and we,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Great in our hope, lay our best love and
credence</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon thy promising fortune.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, it is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To the extreme edge of hazard.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DUKE</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then go thou forth;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As thy auspicious mistress!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This very day,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A lover of thy drum, hater of love.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE IV. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Enter COUNTESS and Steward</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Alas! and would you take the letter of her?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Might you not know she would do as she has done,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By sending me a letter? Read it again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ambitious love hath so in me offended,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With sainted vow my faults to have amended.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Write, write, that from the bloody course of war</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His name with zealous fervor sanctify:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His taken labours bid him me forgive;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He is too good and fair for death and me:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I could have well diverted her intents,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which thus she hath prevented.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Steward</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pardon me, madam:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I had given you this at over-night,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she
writes,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pursuit would be but vain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What angel shall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To this unworthy husband of his wife;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let every word weigh heavy of her worth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Dispatch the most convenient messenger:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When haply he shall hear that she is gone,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He will return; and hope I may that she,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Led hither by pure love: which of them both</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To make distinction: provide this messenger:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me
speak.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE V. Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar
off.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA,
and MARIANA, with other Citizens</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">shall lose all the sight.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They say the French count has done most honourable
service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is reported that he has taken their greatest</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">commander; and that with his own hand he slew
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">duke's brother.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Tucket</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We have lost our labour; they are gone a
contrary</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">MARIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves
with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">French earl: the honour of a maid is her name;
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">no legacy is so rich as honesty.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have told my neighbour how you have been
solicited</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">by a gentleman his companion.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">MARIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">filthy officer he is in those suggestions for
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their
promises,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lust, are not the things they go under: many a
maid</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade
succession,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">but that they are limed with the twigs that
threaten</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">them. I hope I need not to advise you further;
but</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I hope your own grace will keep you where you
are,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">though there were no further danger known but
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">modesty which is so lost.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You shall not need to fear me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I hope so.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie
at</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">my house; thither they send one another: I'll</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you
bound?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To Saint Jaques le Grand.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">At the Saint Francis here beside the port.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is this the way?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, marry, is't.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">A march afar</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hark you! they come this way.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But till the troops come by,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The rather, for I think I know your hostess</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As ample as myself.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is it yourself?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you shall please so, pilgrim.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You came, I think, from France?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I did so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here you shall see a countryman of yours</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That has done worthy service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His name, I pray you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His face I know not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whatsome'er he is,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As 'tis reported, for the king had married him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Against his liking: think you it is so?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There is a gentleman that serves the count</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reports but coarsely of her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's his name?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Monsieur Parolles.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, I believe with him,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In argument of praise, or to the worth</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of the great count himself, she is too mean</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To have her name repeated: all her deserving</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is a reserved honesty, and that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have not heard examined.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Alas, poor lady!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of a detesting lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do
her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A shrewd turn, if she pleased.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How do you mean?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May be the amorous count solicits her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In the unlawful purpose.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He does indeed;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And brokes with all that can in such a suit</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In honestest defence.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">MARIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The gods forbid else!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So, now they come:</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Drum and Colours</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That, Escalus.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which is the Frenchman?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would he loved his wife: if he were honester</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome
gentleman?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I like him well.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same
knave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That leads him to these places: were I his lady,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would Poison that vile rascal.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which is he?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he
melancholy?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lose our drum! well.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">MARIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied
us.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry, hang you!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">MARIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring
you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques
bound,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Already at my house.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I humbly thank you:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Please it this matron and this gentle maid</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will bestow some precepts of this virgin</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Worthy the note.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BOTH</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll take your offer kindly.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE VI. Camp before Florence.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">way.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me
no</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">more in your respect.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">On my life, my lord, a bubble.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do you think I am so far deceived in him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct
knowledge,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">without any malice, but to speak of him as my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the
owner</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of no one good quality worthy your lordship's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">entertainment.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far
in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">great and trusty business in a main danger fail
you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would I knew in what particular action to try
him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">None better than to let him fetch off his drum,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">which you hear him so confidently undertake to
do.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure
he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knows not from the enemy: we will bind and
hoodwink</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">him so, that he shall suppose no other but that
he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries,
when</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">we bring him to our own tents. Be but your
lordship</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">present at his examination: if he do not, for
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">promise of his life and in the highest compulsion
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">intelligence in his power against you, and that
with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">trust my judgment in any thing.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his
drum;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">he says he has a stratagem for't: when your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">melted, if you give him not John Drum's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here he comes.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
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">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Aside to BERTRAM O, for the love of laughter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hinder not the honour of his design: let him
fetch</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">off his drum in any hand.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in
your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">disposition.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There was excellent command,--to charge in with
our</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own
soldiers!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That was not to be blamed in the command of the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">himself could not have prevented, if he had been</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">there to command.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success:
some</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">not to be recovered.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It might have been recovered.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It might; but it is not now.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is to be recovered: but that the merit of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">service is seldom attributed to the true and
exact</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">performer, I would have that drum or another, or</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'hic jacet.'</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if
you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">think your mystery in stratagem can bring this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">instrument of honour again into his native
quarter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I
will</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of
it.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and extend to you what further becomes his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">worthiness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But you must not now slumber in it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll about it this evening: and I will presently</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">certainty, put myself into my mortal
preparation;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and by midnight look to hear further from me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone
about it?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know not what the success will be, my lord;
but</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the attempt I vow.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee.
Farewell.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I love not many words.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently
seems</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to undertake this business, which he knows is not
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be done; damns himself to do and dares better be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">damned than to do't?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain
it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is that he will steal himself into a man's favour
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for a week escape a great deal of discoveries;
but</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">when you find him out, you have him ever after.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">this that so seriously he does address himself
unto?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">None in the world; but return with an invention
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's
respect.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we
case</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sprat you shall find him; which you shall see
this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">very night.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your brother he shall go along with me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now will I lead you to the house, and show you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The lass I spoke of.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But you say she's honest.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tokens and letters which she did re-send;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And this is all I have done. She's a fair
creature:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will you go see her?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With all my heart, my lord.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
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border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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border-color: #ff9900;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE VII. Florence. The Widow's house.</div>
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color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA and Widow</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you misdoubt me that I am not she,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know not how I shall assure you further,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nothing acquainted with these businesses;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And would not put my reputation now</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In any staining act.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nor would I wish you.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">First, give me trust, the count he is my
husband,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Err in bestowing it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I should believe you:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For you have show'd me that which well approves</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You're great in fortune.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Take this purse of gold,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And let me buy your friendly help thus far,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which I will over-pay and pay again</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When I have found it. The count he wooes your
daughter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now his important blood will nought deny</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That downward hath succeeded in his house</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From son to son, some four or five descents</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since the first father wore it: this ring he
holds</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Howe'er repented after.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now I see</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The bottom of your purpose.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You see it lawful, then: it is no more,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In fine, delivers me to fill the time,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Herself most chastely absent: after this,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To what is passed already.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have yielded:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That time and place with this deceit so lawful</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May prove coherent. Every night he comes</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With musics of all sorts and songs composed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To chide him from our eaves; for he persists</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As if his life lay on't.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why then to-night</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And lawful meaning in a lawful act,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But let's about it.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div style="
text-align: right;
">
<span style="
width: 25%;
padding: 1px;
padding-right: 1em;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ff9900;
">ACT IV</span>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other
Soldiers in ambush</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He can come no other way but by this
hedge-corner.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When you sally upon him, speak what terrible</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">language you will: though you understand it not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">understand him, unless some one among us whom we</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">must produce for an interpreter.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good captain, let me be the interpreter.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy
voice?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, sir, I warrant you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us
again?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">E'en such as you speak to me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He must think us some band of strangers i' the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">all neighbouring languages; therefore we must
every</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what
we</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">know straight our purpose: choughs' language,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">interpreter, you must seem very politic. But
couch,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a
sleep,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and then to return and swear the lies he forges.</div>
<div style="
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">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
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">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be</div>
<div style="
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color: #ccccff;
">time enough to go home. What shall I say I have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">done? It must be a very plausive invention that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">carries it: they begin to smoke me; and
disgraces</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">have of late knocked too often at my door. I
find</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">daring the reports of my tongue.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is the first truth that e'er thine own
tongue</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">was guilty of.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What the devil should move me to undertake the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose?
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">must give myself some hurts, and say I got them
in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and
great</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">instance? Tongue, I must put you into a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these
perils.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is it possible he should know what he is, and be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that he is?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would the cutting of my garments would serve
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We cannot afford you so.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">stratagem.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Twould not do.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hardly serve.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though I swore I leaped from the window of the
citadel.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How deep?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thirty fathom.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Three great oaths would scarce make that be
believed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would
swear</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I recovered it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You shall hear one anon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A drum now of the enemy's,--</div>
<div style="
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Alarum within</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">All</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
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">They seize and blindfold him</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Boskos thromuldo boskos.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know you are the Muskos' regiment:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I shall lose my life for want of language;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to
thy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Oscorbidulchos volivorco.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The general is content to spare thee yet;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Something to save thy life.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O, let me live!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which you will wonder at.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But wilt thou faithfully?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I do not, damn me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Acordo linta.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come on; thou art granted space.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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padding-left: 1em;
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border-top-style: solid;
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">Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum
within</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him
muffled</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till we do hear from them.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Captain, I will.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A' will betray us all unto ourselves:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Inform on that.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So I will, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.</div>
<div style="
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">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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">SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house.</div>
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">Enter BERTRAM and DIANA</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They told me that your name was Fontibell.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, my good lord, Diana.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Titled goddess;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In your fine frame hath love no quality?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If quick fire of youth light not your mind,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are no maiden, but a monument:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When you are dead, you should be such a one</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As you are now, for you are cold and stem;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And now you should be as your mother was</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When your sweet self was got.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She then was honest.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So should you be.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My mother did but duty; such, my lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As you owe to your wife.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No more o' that;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I prithee, do not strive against my vows:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I was compell'd to her; but I love thee</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By love's own sweet constraint, and will for
ever</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do thee all rights of service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, so you serve us</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And mock us with our bareness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How have I sworn!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is not holy, that we swear not by,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell
me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I should swear by God's great attributes,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When I did love you ill? This has no holding,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To swear by him whom I protest to love,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That I will work against him: therefore your
oaths</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">At least in my opinion.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Change it, change it;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But give thyself unto my sick desires,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My love as it begins shall so persever.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I see that men make ropes in such a scarre</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To give it from me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Will you not, my lord?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It is an honour 'longing to our house,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In me to lose.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Mine honour's such a ring:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My chastity's the jewel of our house,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Brings in the champion Honour on my part,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Against your vain assault.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here, take my ring:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I'll be bid by thee.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll order take my mother shall not hear.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now will I charge you in the band of truth,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My reasons are most strong; and you shall know
them</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And on your finger in the night I'll put</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Another ring, that what in time proceeds</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May token to the future our past deeds.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A wife of me, though there my hope be done.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.</div>
<div style="
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width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For which live long to thank both heaven and me!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You may so in the end.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My mother told me just how he would woo,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with
him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry that will, I live and die a maid:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Only in this disguise I think't no sin</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To cozen him that would unjustly win.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
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padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
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background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE III. The Florentine camp.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
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padding-left: 1em;
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">Enter the two French Lords and some two or three
Soldiers</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You have not given him his mother's letter?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have delivered it an hour since: there is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">something in't that stings his nature; for on
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">reading it he changed almost into another man.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He has much worthy blame laid upon him for
shaking</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Especially he hath incurred the everlasting</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with
you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">grave of it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night
he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he
hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">given her his monumental ring, and thinks
himself</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">made in the unchaste composition.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are
ourselves,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">what things are we!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Merely our own traitors. And as in the common
course</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of all treasons, we still see them reveal</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">themselves, till they attain to their abhorred
ends,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">so he that in this action contrives against his
own</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows
himself.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">company to-night?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his
hour.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That approaches apace; I would gladly have him
see</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his company anatomized, that he might take a
measure</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he
had</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">set this counterfeit.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We will not meddle with him till he come; for
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">presence must be the whip of the other.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I hear there is an overture of peace.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What will Count Rousillon do then? will he
travel</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">higher, or return again into France?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I perceive, by this demand, you are not
altogether</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of his council.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great
deal</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of his act.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, his wife some two months since fled from
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint
Jaques</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">le Grand; which holy undertaking with most
austere</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath,
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">now she sings in heaven.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How is this justified?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The stronger part of it by her own letters,
which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">makes her story true, even to the point of her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">death: her death itself, which could not be her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed
by</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the rector of the place.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath the count all this intelligence?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">point, so to the full arming of the verity.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our
losses!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And how mightily some other times we drown our
gain</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">here acquired for him shall at home be
encountered</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">with a shame as ample.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">faults whipped them not; and our crimes would</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">despair, if they were not cherished by our
virtues.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter a Messenger</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How now! where's your master?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Servant</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he
hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">morning for France. The duke hath offered him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">letters of commendations to the king.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They shall be no more than needful there, if
they</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">were more than they can commend.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They cannot be too sweet for the king's
tartness.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here's his lordship now.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">month's length a-piece, by an abstract of
success:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to
my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lady mother I am returning; entertained my
convoy;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and between these main parcels of dispatch
effected</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that I have not ended yet.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If the business be of any difficulty, and this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">morning your departure hence, it requires haste
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your lordship.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">bring forth this counterfeit module, he has
deceived</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">me, like a double-meaning prophesier.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all
night,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">poor gallant knave.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No matter: his heels have deserved it, in
usurping</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have told your lordship already, the stocks
carry</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">him. But to answer you as you would be
understood;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he
supposes</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">this very instant disaster of his setting i' the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nothing of me, has a'?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His confession is taken, and it shall be read to
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">are, you must have the patience to hear it.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
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border-top-style: solid;
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color: #9999cc;
">Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">me: hush, hush!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He calls for the tortures: what will you say</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">without 'em?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will confess what I know without constraint:
if</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Bosko chimurcho.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Boblibindo chicurmurco.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are a merciful general. Our general bids you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And truly, as I hope to live.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads 'First demand of him how many horse the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">duke is strong.' What say you to that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Five or six thousand; but very weak and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the commanders very poor rogues, upon my
reputation</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and credit and as I hope to live.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall I set down your answer so?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way
you will.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is
this!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his
own</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his dagger.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will never trust a man again for keeping his
sword</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">clean. nor believe he can have every thing in
him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">by wearing his apparel neatly.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, that's set down.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak
truth.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He's very near the truth in this.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">delivers it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Poor rogues, I pray you, say.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, that's set down.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rogues are marvellous poor.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads 'Demand of him, of what strength they are</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">a-foot.' What say you to that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus,
so</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo,
Lodowick,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen
thousand</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from
off</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to
pieces.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What shall be done to him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him
my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">condition, and what credit I have with the duke.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, that's set down.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Reads</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain
Dumain</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation
is</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this?
what</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">do you know of it?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I beseech you, let me answer to the particular
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the inter'gatories: demand them singly.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do you know this Captain Dumain?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in
Paris,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">from whence he was whipped for getting the
shrieve's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">say him nay.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I
know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his brains are forfeit to the next tile that
falls.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's
camp?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">lordship anon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What is his reputation with the duke?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The duke knows him for no other but a poor
officer</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn
him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my
pocket.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry, we'll search.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In good sadness, I do not know; either it is
there,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">or it is upon a file with the duke's other
letters</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in my tent.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to
you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do not know if it be it or no.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our interpreter does it well.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Excellently.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads 'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of
gold,'--</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one
Count</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that
very</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to
be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Damnable both-sides rogue!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and
take it;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">After he scores, he never pays the score:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Half won is match well made; match, and well make
it;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For count of this, the count's a fool, I know
it,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">PAROLLES.'</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He shall be whipped through the army with this
rhyme</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in's forehead.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">linguist and the armipotent soldier.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I could endure any thing before but a cat, and
now</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">he's a cat to me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall
be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fain to hang you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">die; but that, my offences being many, I would</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I
may live.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll see what may be done, so you confess
freely;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">have answered to his reputation with the duke and
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his valour: what is his honesty?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister:
for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em
he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir,
with</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">such volubility, that you would think truth were
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he
will</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but
they</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have
but</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">every thing that an honest man should not have;
what</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">an honest man should have, he has nothing.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I begin to love him for this.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For this description of thine honesty? A pox
upon</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">him for me, he's more and more a cat.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What say you to his expertness in war?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the
English</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his soldiership I know not; except, in that
country</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">he had the honour to be the officer at a place
there</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">files: I would do the man what honour I can, but
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">this I am not certain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He hath out-villained villany so far, that the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">rarity redeems him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A pox on him, he's a cat still.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His qualities being at this poor price, I need
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the
fee-simple</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">entail from all remainders, and a perpetual</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">succession for it perpetually.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why does be ask him of me?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's he?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">great as the first in goodness, but greater a
great</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">deal in evil: he excels his brother for a
coward,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">yet his brother is reputed one of the best that
is:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in
coming</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">on he has the cramp.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If your life be saved, will you undertake to
betray</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the Florentine?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count
Rousillon.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll whisper with the general, and know his
pleasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Aside I'll no more drumming; a plague of all</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">beguile the supposition of that lascivious young
boy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">would have suspected an ambush where I was
taken?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">general says, you that have so traitorously</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">discovered the secrets of your army and made
such</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">serve the world for no honest use; therefore you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my
death!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That shall you, and take your leave of all your
friends.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Unblinding him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So, look about you: know you any here?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good morrow, noble captain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">God bless you, Captain Parolles.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">God save you, noble captain.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Second Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord
Lafeu?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am for France.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good captain, will you give me a copy of the
sonnet</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count
Rousillon?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of
you:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">but fare you well.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are undone, captain, all but your scarf;
that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">has a knot on't yet</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who cannot be crushed with a plot?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">First Soldier</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you could find out a country where but women
were</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that had received so much shame, you might begin
an</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for
France</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">too: we shall speak of you there.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit with Soldiers</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As captain shall: simply the thing I am</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall make me live. Who knows himself a
braggart,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let him fear this, for it will come to pass</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that every braggart shall be found an ass.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery
thrive!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">There's place and means for every man alive.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll after them.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd
you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">One of the greatest in the Christian world</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis
needful,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Time was, I did him a desired office,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Dear almost as his life; which gratitude</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His grace is at Marseilles; to which place</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We have convenient convoy. You must know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am supposed dead: the army breaking,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And by the leave of my good lord the king,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll be before our welcome.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gentle madam,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You never had a servant to whose trust</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your business was more welcome.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nor you, mistress,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As it hath fated her to be my motive</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That can such sweet use make of what they hate,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With what it loathes for that which is away.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Under my poor instructions yet must suffer</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Something in my behalf.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let death and honesty</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go with your impositions, I am yours</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon your will to suffer.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet, I pray you:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But with the word the time will bring on summer,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All's well that ends well; still the fine's the
crown;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, no, no, your son was misled with a
snipt-taffeta</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation
in</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive
at</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">this hour, and your son here at home, more
advanced</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I
speak of.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would I had not known him; it was the death of
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">praise for creating. If she had partaken of my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother,
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">could not have owed her a more rooted love.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thousand salads ere we light on such another
herb.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">salad, or rather, the herb of grace.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">They are not herbs, you knave; they are
nose-herbs.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not
much</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">skill in grass.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a
fool?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a
man's.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your distinction?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would cozen the man of his wife and do his
service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So you were a knave at his service, indeed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her
service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and
fool.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">At your service.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">No, no, no.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">great a prince as you are.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who's that? a Frenchman?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his
fisnomy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">is more hotter in France than there.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What prince is that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">darkness; alias, the devil.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not
this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">serve him still.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am
for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">the house with the narrow gate, which I take to
be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">too little for pomp to enter: some that humble</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">themselves may; but the many will be too chill
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">leads to the broad gate and the great fire.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tell thee so before, because I would not fall
out</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">looked to, without any tricks.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law
of nature.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A shrewd knave and an unhappy.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">sport out of him: by his authority he remains
here,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness;
and,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">that my lord your son was upon his return home,
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">moved the king my master to speak in the behalf
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">my daughter; which, in the minority of them
both,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance,
did</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">first propose: his highness hath promised me to
do</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">conceived against your son, there is no fitter</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">matter. How does your ladyship like it?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With very much content, my lord; and I wish it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">happily effected.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as
able</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">intelligence hath seldom failed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">die. I have letters that my son will be here</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to
remain</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">with me till they meet together.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">safely be admitted.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You need but plead your honourable privilege.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thank my God it holds yet.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Re-enter Clown</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">velvet on's face: whether there be a scar
under't</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch
of</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and
a</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">half, but his right cheek is worn bare.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good
livery</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of honour; so belike is that.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But it is your carbonadoed face.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to
talk</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">with the young noble soldier.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the
head</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and nod at every man.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div style="
text-align: right;
">
<span style="
width: 25%;
padding: 1px;
padding-right: 1em;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ff9900;
">ACT V</span>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two
Attendants</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But this exceeding posting day and night</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But since you have made the days and nights as
one,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be bold you do so grow in my requital</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter a Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This man may help me to his majesty's ear,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have been sometimes there.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From the report that goes upon your goodness;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which lay nice manners by, I put you to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The use of your own virtues, for the which</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall continue thankful.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What's your will?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That it will please you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To give this poor petition to the king,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And aid me with that store of power you have</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To come into his presence.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The king's not here.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not here, sir!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not, indeed:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He hence removed last night and with more haste</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than is his use.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lord, how we lose our pains!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All's well that ends well yet,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do beseech you, whither is he gone?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whither I am going.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I do beseech you, sir,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since you are like to see the king before me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Commend the paper to his gracious hand,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which I presume shall render you no blame</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But rather make you thank your pains for it.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will come after you with what good speed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our means will make us means.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This I'll do for you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">HELENA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go, go, provide.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE II. Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you, when I have held familiarity with fresher</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">displeasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if
it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Prithee, allow the wind.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I
spake</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">but by a metaphor.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop
my</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee,
get</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee further.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Clown</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">comes himself.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of
fortune's</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into
the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">carp as you may; for he looks like a poor,
decayed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity
his</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">distress in my similes of comfort and leave him
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">your lordship.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">scratched.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late
to</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knave with fortune, that she should scratch you,
who</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of herself is a good lady and would not have
knaves</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">you: let the justices make you and fortune
friends:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am for other business.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I beseech your honour to hear me one single
word.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You beg a single penny more: come, you shall
ha't;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">save your word.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My name, my good lord, is Parolles.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">give me your hand. How does your drum?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O my good lord, you were the first that found
me!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost
thee.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some
grace,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">for you did bring me out.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at
once</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">both the office of God and the devil? One brings</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">thee in grace and the other brings thee out.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Trumpets sound</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The king's coming; I know by his trumpets.
Sirrah,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">inquire further after me; I had talk of you last</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">night: though you are a fool and a knave, you
shall</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">eat; go to, follow.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I praise God for you.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exeunt</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="
margin-bottom: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
background-color: #cc6600;
color: #000000;
">SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two
French Lords, with Attendants</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was made much poorer by it: but your son,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her estimation home.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">'Tis past, my liege;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I beseech your majesty to make it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">When oil and fire, too strong for reason's
force,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">O'erbears it and burns on.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My honour'd lady,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have forgiven and forgotten all;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Though my revenges were high bent upon him,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And watch'd the time to shoot.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This I must say,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But first I beg my pardon, the young lord</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Offence of mighty note; but to himself</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose beauty did astonish the survey</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took
captive,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to
serve</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Humbly call'd mistress.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Praising what is lost</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him
hither;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The nature of his great offence is dead,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And deeper than oblivion we do bury</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The incensing relics of it: let him approach,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">A stranger, no offender; and inform him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So 'tis our will he should.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I shall, my liege.</div>
<div style="
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">Exit</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All that he is hath reference to your highness.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent
me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That set him high in fame.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
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">Enter BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He looks well on't.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am not a day of season,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In me at once: but to the brightest beams</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The time is fair again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My high-repented blames,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Dear sovereign, pardon to me.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">All is whole;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not one word more of the consumed time.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Let's take the instant by the forward top;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Steals ere we can effect them. You remember</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The daughter of this lord?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Admiringly, my liege, at first</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where the impression of mine eye infixing,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which warp'd the line of every other favour;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Extended or contracted all proportions</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To a most hideous object: thence it came</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That she whom all men praised and whom myself,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The dust that did offend it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Well excused:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That thou didst love her, strikes some scores
away</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">From the great compt: but love that comes too
late,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To the great sender turns a sour offence,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash
faults</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Make trivial price of serious things we have,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not knowing them until we know their grave:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Destroy our friends and after weep their dust</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Our own love waking cries to see what's done,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The main consents are had; and here we'll stay</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To see our widower's second marriage-day.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which better than the first, O dear heaven,
bless!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come on, my son, in whom my house's name</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Must be digested, give a favour from you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That she may quickly come.</div>
<div style="
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">BERTRAM gives a ring</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By my old beard,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The last that e'er I took her at court,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I saw upon her finger.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hers it was not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Necessitied to help, that by this token</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to
reave</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of what should stead her most?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My gracious sovereign,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The ring was never hers.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Son, on my life,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">At her life's rate.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am sure I saw her wear it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I could not answer in that course of honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As she had made the overture, she ceased</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In heavy satisfaction and would never</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Receive the ring again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Plutus himself,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath not in nature's mystery more science</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas
Helen's,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That you are well acquainted with yourself,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough
enforcement</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You got it from her: she call'd the saints to
surety</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That she would never put it from her finger,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where you have never come, or sent it us</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Upon her great disaster.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She never saw it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And makest conjectural fears to come into me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove
so;--</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And she is dead; which nothing, but to close</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">More than to see this ring. Take him away.</div>
<div style="
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text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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">Guards seize BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Shall tax my fears of little vanity,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">We'll sift this matter further.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you shall prove</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where yet she never was.</div>
<div style="
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width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
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border-color: #ff9900;
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border-bottom-style: solid;
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">Exit, guarded</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.</div>
<div style="
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left: 50%;
text-align: right;
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">Enter a Gentleman</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Gentleman</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Gracious sovereign,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Here's a petition from a Florentine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who hath for four or five removes come short</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To tender it herself. I undertook it,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is here attending: her business looks in her</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With an importing visage; and she told me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your highness with herself.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Reads Upon his many protestations to marry me</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he
won</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his
vows</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him.
He</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I
follow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">him to his country for justice: grant it me, O</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">DIANA CAPILET.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll
for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">this: I'll none of him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To bring forth this discovery. Seek these
suitors:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Go speedily and bring again the count.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Was foully snatch'd.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Now, justice on the doers!</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And that you fly them as you swear them
lordship,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yet you desire to marry.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter Widow and DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What woman's that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Derived from the ancient Capilet:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My suit, as I do understand, you know,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And therefore know how far I may be pitied.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">Widow</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Both suffer under this complaint we bring,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And both shall cease, without your remedy.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come hither, count; do you know these women?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, I neither can nor will deny</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But that I know them: do they charge me further?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Why do you look so strange upon your wife?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She's none of mine, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If you shall marry,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You give away this hand, and that is mine;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You give away myself, which is known mine;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">For I by vow am so embodied yours,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That she which marries you must marry me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Either both or none.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Your reputation comes too short for my daughter;
you</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">are no husband for her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your
highness</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than for to think that I would sink it here.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to
friend</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your
honour</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Than in my thought it lies.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good my lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ask him upon his oath, if he does think</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He had not my virginity.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What say'st thou to her?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She's impudent, my lord,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And was a common gamester to the camp.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He might have bought me at a common price:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose high respect and rich validity</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Did lack a parallel; yet for all that</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If I be one.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">COUNTESS</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He blushes, and 'tis it:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That ring's a thousand proofs.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Methought you said</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You saw one here in court could witness it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I did, my lord, but loath am to produce</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I saw the man to-day, if man he be.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Find him, and bring him hither.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Exit an Attendant</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What of him?</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">With all the spots o' the world tax'd and
debosh'd;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">That will speak any thing?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She hath that ring of yours.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I think she has: certain it is I liked her,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She knew her distance and did angle for me,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Madding my eagerness with her restraint,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As all impediments in fancy's course</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And I had that which any inferior might</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">At market-price have bought.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I must be patient:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">May justly diet me. I pray you yet;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Send for your ring, I will return it home,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And give me mine again.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have it not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">What ring was yours, I pray you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Sir, much like</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The same upon your finger.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">And this was it I gave him, being abed.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">The story then goes false, you threw it him</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Out of a casement.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I have spoke the truth.</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
border-color: #ff9900;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-style: solid;
font-size: 9pt;
color: #9999cc;
">Enter PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Is this the man you speak of?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, my lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Not fearing the displeasure of your master,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By him and by this woman here what know you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">So please your majesty, my master hath been an</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">which gentlemen have.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this
woman?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How, I pray you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a
woman.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How is that?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He loved her, sir, and loved her not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">equivocal companion is this!</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Do you know he promised me marriage?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Faith, I know more than I'll speak.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between
them,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan
and</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet
I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">was in that credit with them at that time that I</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">knew of their going to bed, and of other
motions,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">as promising her marriage, and things which
would</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will
not</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">speak what I know.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst
say</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">they are married: but thou art too fine in thy</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">evidence; therefore stand aside.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This ring, you say, was yours?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Ay, my good lord.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Who lent it you?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It was not lent me neither.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Where did you find it, then?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I found it not.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">If it were yours by none of all these ways,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">How could you give it him?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I never gave it him.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes
off</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">and on at pleasure.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Take her away; I do not like her now;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">To prison with her: and away with him.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this
ring,</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Thou diest within this hour.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll never tell you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Take her away.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll put in bail, my liege.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I think thee now some common customer.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">KING</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.</div>
<div style="
color: #ff9900;
">DIANA</div>
<div style="
margin-left: 3em;
color: #ccccff;
">Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:</div>
<div style="
position: relative;
width: 40%;
left: 50%;
text-align: right;
margin: 0.5em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-left: 1em;
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">Exit Widow</div>
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">The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,</div>
<div style="
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">And he shall surety me. But for this lord,</div>
<div style="
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">Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,</div>
<div style="
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">Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:</div>
<div style="
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">He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;</div>
<div style="
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">And at that time he got his wife with child:</div>
<div style="
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">Dead though she be, she feels her young one
kick:</div>
<div style="
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">So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:</div>
<div style="
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">And now behold the meaning.</div>
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">Re-enter Widow, with HELENA</div>
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">KING</div>
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">Is there no exorcist</div>
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">Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?</div>
<div style="
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">Is't real that I see?</div>
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">HELENA</div>
<div style="
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">No, my good lord;</div>
<div style="
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">'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,</div>
<div style="
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">The name and not the thing.</div>
<div style="
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">BERTRAM</div>
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">Both, both. O, pardon!</div>
<div style="
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">HELENA</div>
<div style="
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">O my good lord, when I was like this maid,</div>
<div style="
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">I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;</div>
<div style="
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">And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:</div>
<div style="
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">'When from my finger you can get this ring</div>
<div style="
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">And are by me with child,' &c. This is done:</div>
<div style="
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">Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?</div>
<div style="
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">BERTRAM</div>
<div style="
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">If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,</div>
<div style="
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">I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.</div>
<div style="
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">HELENA</div>
<div style="
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">If it appear not plain and prove untrue,</div>
<div style="
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">Deadly divorce step between me and you!</div>
<div style="
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">O my dear mother, do I see you living?</div>
<div style="
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">LAFEU</div>
<div style="
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">Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:</div>
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">To PAROLLES</div>
<div style="
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">Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,</div>
<div style="
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">I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with
thee:</div>
<div style="
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">Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.</div>
<div style="
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">KING</div>
<div style="
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">Let us from point to point this story know,</div>
<div style="
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">To make the even truth in pleasure flow.</div>
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">To DIANA</div>
<div style="
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">If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,</div>
<div style="
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">Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;</div>
<div style="
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">For I can guess that by thy honest aid</div>
<div style="
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">Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.</div>
<div style="
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">Of that and all the progress, more or less,</div>
<div style="
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">Resolvedly more leisure shall express:</div>
<div style="
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">All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,</div>
<div style="
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">The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.</div>
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">Flourish</div>
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EPILOGUE
<div style="
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">KING</div>
<div style="
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">The king's a beggar, now the play is done:</div>
<div style="
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">All is well ended, if this suit be won,</div>
<div style="
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">That you express content; which we will pay,</div>
<div style="
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">With strife to please you, day exceeding day:</div>
<div style="
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">Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;</div>
<div style="
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">Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.</div>
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">Exeunt</div>
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