All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook
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enter bertram the countess of rosillon helena and lafue all in black in delivering my son from me i bury a second husband and i in going mother weep o'er my father's death anew but i must attend his majesty's command to whom i am now in ward ever more in subjection

you shall find of the king a husband madam you sir a father he that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather than lack it where there is such abundance mrs hushabye what hope is there of his majesty's amendment

he hath abandoned his physicians madam under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time this young gentlewoman had a father oh that had how sad a passage tis whose skill was almost as great as his honesty

had it stretched so far would have made nature immortal and death should have play for lack of work would for the king's sake he were living i think it would be the death of the king's disease how corly do the man you speak of madam he was famous sir in his profession

and it was his great right to be so. GERARD DENARBONNE. He was excellent indeed, madam. The king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly. He was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality. GERARD What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?

O fistula, my lord! I heard not of it before. I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Naubon? His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that her education promises. Her disposition she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer.

for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities their commendations go with pity they are virtues and traitors too in her they are the better for their simpleness she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness your commendations madam get from her tears tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in

the remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek no more of this helena go to no more lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than have it helena i do affect a sorrow indeed but i have it too

moderate lamentation is the right of the dead excessive grief the enemy to the living if the living be enemy to the grief the excess makes it soon mortal burke madam i desire your holy wishes burke how understand we that madame be thou blest bertram and succeed thy father in manners as in shape

thy blood and virtue contend for empire in thee and thy goodness share with thy birthright love all trust a few do wrong to none be able for thine enemy rather in power than use and keep thy friend under thy own life's key be check'd for silence but never tax'd for speech

what heaven more will that thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down fall on thy head farewell my lord tis an unseason'd courtier could my lord advise him he cannot want the best that shall attend his love heaven bless him farewell bertram

to helena the best wishes that can be forged in your thoughts be servants to you be comfortable to my mother your mistress and make much of her helena farewell pretty lady you must hold the credit of your father exeunt bertram and lafue oh were that all i think naught on my father and these great tears grace his remembrance more than those i shed for him what was he like i have forgot him

my imagination carries no favourant but bertram's i am undone there is no living none if bertram be away twere all one that i should love a bright particular star and think to wed it he is so above me in his bright radiance and collateral light must i be comforted not in his sphere the ambition in my love thus plagues itself

the hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love twas pretty though plague to see him every hour to sit and draw his archd brows his hawking eye his curls in our hearts table heart too capable of every line and trick of his sweet favour but now he's gone and my idolatrous fancy must sanctify his reliquies who comes here enter

aside one that goes with him i love him for his sake and yet i know him a notorious liar think him a great way fool solely a coward yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him that they take place when virtue's steely bones look bleak i the cold wind withal full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly

save you fair queen. and you monarch? no. and no? are you meditating on virginity? aye. you have some stain of soldier in you. let me ask you a question. man is enemy to virginity. how may we barricado it against him? keep him out. but he assails. and our virginity though valiant in the defense yet is weak.

Unfold to us some warlike resistance. There is none. Man, sitting down before you, will undermine you and blow you up. Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up. Is there no military policy how virgins might blow up men? Virginity being blown down, man will quickly be blown up.

marry and blowing him down again with the breach yourselves made you lose your city it is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity loss of virginity is rational increase and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost that you were made of is metal to make virgins

virginity by being once lost may be ten times found by being ever kept it is ever lost tis too cold a companion away with it i will stand for to little though therefore i die a virgin there's little can be said in't tis against the rule of nature to speak on the part of virginity is to accuse your mothers which is most infallible disobedience

He that hangs himself is a virgin. Virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit as a desperate offenderess against nature. Virginity breeds mites much like a cheese, consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.

besides virginity is peevish proud idle made of self-love which is the most inhibited sin in the canon keep it not you cannot choose but lose by it out with it within ten year it will make itself ten which is a goodly increase and the principle itself not much the worse away with it

How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? Let me see. Marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it likes. Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying. The longer kept, the less worth.

off with it while tis vendible answer the time of request virginity like an old courtier wears her cap out of fashion richly suited but unsuitable just like the brooch and the toothpick which wear not now your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek

and your virginity your old virginity is like one of our french wither'd pears it looks ill it eats dryly mary tis a wither'd pear it was formerly better mary yet tis a wither'd pear will you anything with it margaret not my virginity yet

there shall your master have a thousand loves a mother and a mistress and a friend a phoenix captain and an enemy a guide a goddess and a sovereign a counsellor a traitress and a dear his humble ambition proud humility his jarring concord and his discord dulcet his faith his sweet disaster with a world of pretty fond adoptious christendoms that blinking cupid gossips

now shall he i know not what he shall god send him well the court's a learning place and he is one what one in faith that i wish well tis pity what's pity that wishing well had not a body in't which might be felt

that we the poorer born whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes might with effects of them follow our friends and show what we alone must think which never return us thanks enter page m parralless my lord calls for you exit

Ah, little Helen, farewell. If I can remember thee, I will think of thee at court. M. Parollus, you were born under a charitable star. Under Mars, aye. I especially think under Mars. Why under Mars? The wars have so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars. When he was predominant. When he was retrograde, I think, rather.

why think you so? you go so much backward when you fight. that's for advantage. so is running away when fear proposes the safety. but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. I am so full of business I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier.

in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee else thou diest in thy unthankfulness and thine ignorance makes thee away farewell now when thou hast leisure say thy prayers when thou hast none remember thy friends get thee a good husband and use him as he uses thee

so farewell exit our remedies oft in ourselves do lie which we ascribe to heaven the fated sky gives us free scope only doth backward pull our slow designs when we ourselves are dull what power is it which mounts my love so high that makes me see and cannot feed mine eye

the mightiest space in fortune nature brings to join like likes and kiss like native things impossible be strange attempts to those that weigh their pains and sense and do suppose what hath been cannot be whoever strove so shew her merit that did miss her love the king's disease my project may deceive me but my intents are fix'd and will not leave me

scene two paris the king's palace flourish of cornets enter the king of france with letters and diverse attendants

the florentines and senoys are by the ears have fought with equal fortune and continue a braving war so tis reported sir nay tis most credible we here received it to certainty vouched from our cousin austria with caution that the florentine will move us for speedy aid wherein our dearest friend prejudicates the business and would seem to have us make denial

his love and wisdom approved so to your majesty may plead for amplest credence he hath arm'd our answer and florence is denied before he comes yet for our gentlemen that mean to see the tuscan service freely have they leave to stand on either part it well may serve a nursery to our gentry who are sick for breathing an exploit

what's he comes here enter bertram lafue and parolles it is the count roussillon my good lord young bertram youth thou barest thy father's face frank nature rather curious than in haste hath well composed thee thy father's moral parts mayst thou inherit too welcome to paris my thanks and duty are your majesty's

ay would i had that corporal soundness now as when thy father and myself in friendship first tried our soldiership he did look far into the service of the time and was disciple to the bravest he lasted long but on us both did hagish age steal on and war us out of act

it much repairs me to talk of your good father in his youth he had the wit which i can well observe to-day in our young lords but they may jest till their own scorn return to them unnoted ere they can hide their levity in honour so like a courtier contempt nor bitterness were in his pride or sharpness if they were his equal had awaked them and his honour

clock to itself knew the true minute when exception bid him speak and at this time his tongue obeyed his hand who were below him he used as creatures of another place and bowed his eminent top to their low ranks making them proud of his humility in their poor praise he humbled

such a man might be a copy to these younger times which followed well would demonstrate them now but goes backward his good remembrance sir lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb so in a proof lives not his epitaph as in your royal speech would i were with him

he would always say methinks i hear him now his plausible words he scattered not in ears but grafted them to grow there and to bear let me not live this his good melancholy oft began on the catastrophe and heel of pastime when it was out

let me not live quoth he after my flame lacks oil to be the snuff of younger spirits whose apprehensive senses all but new things disdain whose judgments are mere fathers of their garments whose constances expire before their fashions

this he wish'd i after him do after him wish too since i nor wax nor honey can bring home i quickly were dissolv'd from my hive to give some neighbourers room you are loved sir they that least lend it you shall lack you first i fill a place i note our longest count since the physician at your father's died he was much famed some six months since my lord

if he were living i would try him yet lend me an arm the rest have worn me out with several applications nature and sickness debate it at their leisure welcome count my sons now dearer thank your majesty flourish scene three rossillon the count's palace enter countess steward and clown i will now hear what say you of this gentlewoman

madam the care i have had to even your content i wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours for then we wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings when of ourselves we publish them what does this knave here get you gone sirrah the complaints i have heard of you i do not all believe tis my slowness that i do not

for i know you lack not folly to commit them and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours bel is not unknown to you madam i am a poor fellow well sir bel no madam tis not so well that i am poor though many of the rich are damned but if i may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world is belle the woman and i will do as we may

Will't thou needs be a beggar? I do beg your good will in this case. What case? In Isbel's case, and mine own. Service is no heritage, and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue of my body, for they say bairns are blessings. Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. My poor body, madam, requires it.

I am driven on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil drives. Is this all your worship's reason? Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, such as they are. May the world know them. I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are, and indeed I do marry, that I may repent.

thy marriage sooner than thy wickedness i am out of friends madam and i hope to have friends for my wife's sake such friends are thine enemies knave your shallow madam in great friends for the knaves come to do that for me which i am a-weary of he that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave too in the crop

If I be his cuckold, he's my drudge. He that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood. He that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood. He that loves my flesh and blood is my friend. Ergo, he that kisses my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to be what they are,

there were no fear in marriage for young charbon the puritan and old poissome the papist how some'ere their hearts are severed in religion their heads are both one they may jowl horns together like any deer in the herd

Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave? A prophet I, madam, and I speak the truth the next way, for I the ballad will repeat, which men full true shall find. Your marriage comes by destiny, your cuckoo sings by kind.

get you gone sir i'll talk with you more anon sir r otho may't please you madam that he bid helen come to you of her i am to speak helen sirrah tell my gentlewoman i would speak with her helen i mean was this fair face the cause quoth she why the grecians sacked troy fond done done fond was this king priam's joy

with that she sighed as she stood and gave this sentence then among nine bad if one be good

among thine bad if one be good there's yet one good in ten what one good in ten you corrot the song sirrah one good woman in ten madam which is a purifying o the song would god would serve the world so all the year we'll find no fault with the tithe woman if i were the parson

one in ten quotha and we might have a good woman born but one every blazing star or at an earthquake to amend the lottery well a man may draw his heart out ere a pluck one you'll be gone sir knave and do as i command you that man should be at woman's command and yet no hurt done

though honesty be no puritan yet it will do no hurt it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart i am going forsooth the business is for helen to come hither exit well now

i know madam that you love your gentlewoman entirely faith i do her father bequeathed her to me and she herself without other advantage may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds there is more owing her than is paid and more shall be paid her than she'll demand madam i was very late more near her than i think she wished me

alone she was and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears she thought i dare vow for her they touched not any stranger sense her matter was she loved your son fortune she said was no goddess that had put such difference betwixt their two estates love no god that would not extend his might only where qualities were level

dian no queen of virgins that would suffer her poor knight surprised without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward this she delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er i heard virgin exclaim in which i held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal sithence in the loss that may happen it concerns you something to know it you have discharged this honestly keep it to yourself

many likelihoods informed me of this before which hung so tottering in the balance that i could neither believe nor miss doubt pray you leave me stall this in your bosom and i thank you for your honest care i will speak with you further anon exit stuart enter helena even so it was with me when i was young

if ever we are nature's these are ours this thorn doth to our rose of youth rightly belong our blood to us this to our blood is born it is the show and seal of nature's truth where love's strong passion is impressed in youth by our remembrances of days foregone such were our faults or then we thought them none her eye is

i observe her now helen what is your pleasure madam mrs hushabye you know helen i am a mother to you helen mine honourable mistress mrs hushabye nay a mother why not a mother when i said a mother methought you saw a serpent what's in mother that you start at it i say i am your mother and put you in the catalogue of those that were in womb at mine

tis often seen adoption strives with nature and choice breeds the natives writ to us from foreign seeds you ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan yet i express to you a mother's care god's mercy maiden does it curd thy blood to say i am thy mother

what's the matter that this distemper'd messenger of wet the many-colour'd iris rounds thine eye why that you are my daughter that i am not i say i am your mother pardon madam the count rosilian cannot be my brother i am from humble he from honour'd name no note upon my parents his all noble

my master my dear lord he is and i his servant live and will his vassal die he must not be my brother nor i your mother you are my mother madam would you were so that my lord your son were not my brother indeed my mother or were you both our mothers i care no more for than i do for heaven so i were not his sister

Can't no other but I your daughter, He must be my brother. Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law. God shield, you mean it not. Daughter and mother so strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? My fear hath catched your fondness. Now I see the mystery of your loneliness, And find your salt tears hedge.

now to all sense tis gross you love my son invention is ashamed against the proclamation of thy passion to say thou dost not therefore tell me true but tell me then tis so for look thy cheeks confess it the one to the other

and thine eyes see it so grossly shown in thy behaviors that in their kind they speak it only sin and hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue that truth should be suspected speak is't so if it be so you have wound a goodly clue if it be not forsweart howe'er i charge thee as heaven shall work in me for thine avail

tell me truly good madam pardon me do you love my son your pardon noble mistress love you my son do not you love him madam go not about my love hath into bond whereof the world takes note come come disclose the state of your affection for your passions have to the full

then i confess here on my knees before high heaven and you that before you and next unto high heaven i love your son my friends were poor but honest so's my love be not offended for it hurts not him that he is loved of me i follow him not by any token of presumptuous suit nor would i have him till i do deserve him yet never know how that desert should be

I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and untenable sieve I still pour in the waters of my love, And lack not to lose still. Thus, Indian-like and religious in mine error, I adore the son that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, let not your hate Encounter with my love for loving where you do.

but if your self whose aged honour sights a virtuous youth did ever in so true a flame of liking wish chastely and love dearly that your dian was both her self and love o then give pity to her whose state is such that cannot chuse but lend and give where she is sure to lose that seeks not to find that her search implies but riddle like lives sweetly where she dies

had you not lately an intent speak truly to go to paris madame i had wherefore tell truth i will tell truth by grace itself i swear you know my father left me some prescriptions of rare and proved effects such as his reading and manifest experience had collected for general sovereignty

and that he willed me in heedfullest reservation to prestow them as notes whose faculties inclusive were more than they were in note amongst the rest there is a remedy approved set down to cure the desperate languishings whereof the king is rendered lost this was your motive for paris was it speak my lord your son made me to think of this

else paris and the medicine and the king had from the conversation of my thoughts haply been absent then but think you helen if you should tender your supposed aid he would receive it

he and his physicians are of a mind he that they cannot help him they that they cannot help how shall they credit a poor unlearned virgin when the schools imbowld of their doctrine have left off the danger to itself there something in't more than my father's skill which was the greatest of his profession that his good receipt shall for my legacy be sanctified by the luckiest stars in heaven

and would your honour but give me leave to try success i'll venture the well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure by such a day and hour dost thou believe i madam knowingly why helen thou shalt have my leave and love means and attendance and my loving greetings to those of mine in court i'll stay at home and pray god's blessing into thy attempt

Be gone to-morrow, and be sure of this, what I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.

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ACT II. OF ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

Flourish of Cornets. Enter the King, attended with diverse young lords, taking leave for the Florentine war, Bertram and Parolles. Farewell, young lords. These warlike principles do not throw from you, and you, my lords, farewell. Share the advice betwixt you. If both gain, all the gift doth stretch itself as tis received, and is enough for both.

tis our hope sir after well-entered soldiers to return and find your grace in health no no it cannot be and yet my heart will not confess he owes the malady that doth my life besiege farewell young lords whether i live or die be you the sons of worthy frenchmen

let higher italy those baited that inherit but the fall of the last monarchy see that you come not to woo honour but to wed it when the bravest questant shrinks find what you seek that fame may cry you loud

I say farewell. Health at your bidding. Serve your majesty. Those girls of Italy take heed of them. They say our French lack language to deny if they demand. Beware of being captives before you serve. Our hearts receive your warnings. Farewell. Come hither to me. Exit attended. O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us.

'Tis not his fault, the spark. Oh, 'tis brave wars. Most admirable! I have seen those wars.

i am commanded here and kept a coil with too young and the next year and tis too early and thy mind stand to it boys steal away bravely i shall stay here the four horse to a smock creaking my shoes on the plain masonry till honour be bought up and no sword worn but one to dance with by heaven i'll steal away there's honour in the theft

commit it count i am your accessory and so farewell captain i grow to you and our parting is a tortured body captain farewell sweet m parollas noble heroes my sword and yours are akin

good sparks and lustres a word good mettles you shall find in the regiment of the spinae one captain spurio with his cicatrice and emblem of war here on his sinister cheek it was this very sword entrench'd it say to him i live and observe his reports for me we shall noble captain marse dote on you for his novices

what will ye do borkman stay the king to bertram use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu be more expressive to them for they wear themselves in the cap of the time there do muster true gait eat speak and move under the influence of the most receivd star

and though the devil lead the measure such are to be followed after them and take a more dilated farewell and i will do so worthy fellows and like to prove most sinewy swordmen exeunt bertram and parolles enter le fume kneeling pardon my lord for me and for my tidings i'll fee thee to stand up

then here's a man stands that has brought his pardon i would you had kneel'd my lord to ask me mercy and that at my bidding you could so stand up ay would i had so i had broke thy pate and asked thee mercy for't good faith a cross

But, my good lord, tis thus. Will you be cured of your infirmity? No. Oh, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will my noble grapes, and if my royal fox could reach them. I have seen a medicine that's able to breathe life into a stone.

quicken a rock, and make you dance canary with sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch is powerful to erase King Pepin, nay, to give great Charlemagne a pennon's hand, and write to her a love-line. What her is this? Why, doctor, she.

My lord, there's one arrived. If you will see her.

Now, by my faith and honour, if seriously I may convey my thoughts in this my light deliverance, I have spoke with one that in her sex, her years, profession, wisdom, and constancy, hath amazed me more than I dare blame my weakness. Will you see her?

for that is her demand, and know her business. That done, laugh well at me. Now, good lover, bring in the admiration that we with thee may spend our wonder too, or take off thine by wondering how thou took'st it. Nay, I'll fit you, and not be all day neither. Exit. Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.

re-enter lafue with helena nay come your ways this haste hath wings indeed nay come your ways this is his majesty say your mind to him a traitor you do look like but such traitors his majesty seldom fears

I am Cressid's uncle, that dare leave two together. Fare you well. Exit. FRIAR LAWRENCE. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? EXIT. Ay, my good lord, Gérard de Narbonne was my father, in what he did profess well found. FRIAR LAWRENCE. I knew him? EXIT. The rather will I spare my praises towards him. Knowing him is enough.

on sped of death many receipts he gave me chiefly one which as the dearest issue of this practice and of his old experience the oily darling he bade me store up as a triple eye safer than mine own two more dear

i have so and hearing your high majesty is touched with that malignant cause wherein the honour of my dear father's gift sounds chief in power i come to tender it and my appliance with all bound humbleness we thank you maiden but may not be so credulous of cure when our most learned doctors leave us and the congregated college have concluded that labouring art can never ransom nature from her inedible estate

i say we must not so stain our judgment or corrupt our hope to prostitute our past cure malady to empirics or to dissever so our great self and our credit to esteem a senseless help when help past sense we deem

my duty then shall pay me for my pains i will no more enforce mine office on you humbly entreating from your royal thoughts a modest one to bear me back again i cannot give thee less to be called grateful thou thought'st to help me and such thanks i give as one near death to those that wish him live but what at full i know thou know'st no part i knowing all my peril thou know art

what i can do can do no hurt to try since you set up your rest gainst remedy he that of greatest works his finisher oft does them by the weakest minister so holy writ in babes hath judgment shown when judges have been babes great floods have flown from simple sources and great seas have dried when miracles have by the greatest been denied

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises, and oft it hits where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

i must not hear thee fare thee well kind maid thy pains not us'd must by thyself be paid proffers not took reap thanks for their reward inspired merit so by breath is barr'd it is not so with him that all things knows as tis with us that square our guess by shows but most it is presumption in us when the help of heav'n we count the act of men

dear sir to my endeavours give consent of heav'n not me make an experiment i am not an impostor that proclaim myself against the level of mine aim but know i think and think i know most sure my art is not past power nor you past cure

are thou so confident within what space hop'st thou my cure the greatest grace lending grace ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring their fiery torture his diurnal ring ere twice in murk in occidental damp moist hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp

or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass hath told the thievish minutes how they pass what is infirm from your sound part shall fly health shall live free and sickness freely die captain upon thy certainty and confidence what darest thou venture

tax of impudence a strumpet's boldness a divulg'd shame traduc'd by odious ballads my maiden's name seer'd otherwise nay worse if worse extended with vilest torture let my life be ended methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak his pow'ful sound within an organ weak

and what impossibility would slay in common sense sense saves another way thy life is dear for all that life can rate worth name of life in thee hath estimate youth beauty wisdom courage all that happiness and prime can happy call thou this to hazard need'st must intimate skill infinite or monstrous desperate

sweet practiser thy physic i will try that ministers thine own death if i die if i break time or flinch in property of what i spoke unpitied let me die and well deserved not helping death's my fee but if i help what do you promise me make thy demand but will you make it even

Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heav'n. LUCIA. Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand What husband in thy pow'r I will command: Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate With any branch or image of thy state, But such a one, thy vassal, Whom I know is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.

here is my hand the premises observed thy will by my performance shall be served so make the choice of thine own time for i thy resolved patient on thee still rely more should i question thee and more i must though more to know could not be more to trust from whence thou cam'st thou tended on but rest unquestioned welcome and undoubted blest

give me some help here oh if thou proceed as hires would my deed shall match thy meed flourish excellent scene to the count's palace enter countess and clown come on sir i shall now put you to the height of your breeding

I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. I know my business is but to the court. To the court? Why, what place makes you special when you put off that with such contempt, but to the court? Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court. He that cannot make a leg put off's cap.

kiss his hand and say nothing has neither leg hands lip nor cap and indeed such a fellow to say precisely were not for the court but for me i have an answer will serve all men mary that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions it's like barber's chair that fits all buttocks the pin buttock

the quatch buttock the brawn buttock or any buttock will your answer serve fit to all questions as fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney as your french crown for your taffeta punk as tibbs rush for tom's forefinger

as a pancake for shrove tuesday a morris for may-day as the nail to his hole the cuckold to his horn as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth nay as the pudding to his skin a few i say an answer of such fitness for all questions

from below your duke to beneath your constable it will fit any question it must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands but a trifle neither in good faith if the learned should speak truth of it here it is and all that belongs to it ask me if i am a courtier

it shall do you no harm to learn lady utterword to be young again if we could i will be a fool in question hoping to be the wiser by your answer i pray you sir are you a courtier sir oh lord sir there's a simple putting off more more a hundred of them lady utterword sir i am a poor friend of yours that loves you

oh lord sir thick thick spare not me i think sir you can eat none of this homely meat oh lord sir nay put me to it i warrant you you were lately whipped sir as i think oh lord sir spare not me

do you cry o lord sir at your whipping and spare not me indeed your o lord sir is very sequent to your whipping you would answer very well to your whipping if you were but bound to it i ne'er had worse luck in my life in my o lord sir i see things may serve long but not serve ever

i play the noble housewife with the time to entertain so merrily with a fool lord sir why there it serves well again an end sir to your business give helen this and urge her to a present answer back commend me to my kinsman and my son this is not much not much commendation to them

not much employment for you you understand me most fruitfully i am there before my legs haste you again scene three paris the king's palace enter bertram lafew and parolles

they say miracles are past and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless

hence it is that we make trifles of terrors ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear and so tis to be relinquished of the artist

So I say. Both of Galen and Paracelsus. So I say. Of all the learned and authentic fellows. Right, so I say. That gave him out incurable. Why, there it is. So say I too. Not to be held. Right, as twere a man assured of a... Uncertain life and sure death.

just you say well so would i have said i may truly say it is a novelty to the world it is indeed if you will have it in showing you shall read it in what do you call it there a showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor that's it i would have said the very same why your dolphin is not lustier

for me i speak in respect gustav nay tis strange tis very strange that is the brief and the tedious of it and he's of a most fascinerious spirit that would not acknowledge it to be the gustav very hand of heaven gustav ay so i say gustav in a most weak

and debile minister great power great transcendence which should indeed give us a farther use to be made than alone the recovery of the king has to be generally thankful i would have said it you say well here comes the king enter king helena and attendants lafue and parolles retire

lustig as the dutchman says how like a maid the better whilst i have a tooth in my head why he's able to lead her a coranto mon duvenegre is not this helen for god i think so go call before me all the lords in court sit my preserver by thy patient side

and with this healthful hand whose banished sense thou hast repealed a second time receive the confirmation of my promised gift which but attends thy naming enter three or four lords fair maid send forth thine eye this youthful parcel of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing or whom both sovereign power and father's voice i have to use thy frank election make

thou hast power to choose and they none to forsake to each of you one fair and virtuous mistress fall when love please marry to each but one i'd give bay curtle and his furniture my mouth no more were broken than these boys and ritter's little beard peruse them well not one of those but had a noble father

gentlemen heaven hath through me restor'd the king to health we understand it and thank heav'n for you i am a simple maid and therein wealthiest that i protest i simply am a maid please it your majesty i have done already the blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me

we blush that thou shouldst choose but be refus'd let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever we'll ne'er come there again make choice and see who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me now dion from thy altar do i fly and to imperial love that god most high do my sighs stream

Sir, will you hear my suit? And grant it? Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. I had rather be in this choice Than throw Ames' ace for my life. The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes Before I speak too threateningly replies. Love make your fortunes twenty times above her That so wishes and her humble love. No better, if you please.

My wish receive, which great love grant, and so I take my leave. Do they all deny her? And they were sons of mine, I'd have them whipped.

Or I would send them to the Turk To make eunuchs of. LADY MACBETH: Be not afraid that I your hand should take. I'll never do you wrong for your own sake. Blessing upon your vows, And in your bed find fairer fortune if you ever wed. LADY MACBETH: These boys are boys of ice, though none have her. Sure they are bastards to the English, The French ne'er got 'em.

you are too young too happy and too good to make yourself a son out of my blood helena fair one i think not so duke there's one grape yet i am sure thy father drunk wine but if thou be'st not an ass i am a youth of fourteen i have known thee already helena i dare not say i take you

but i give me and my service ever whilst i live into your guiding power this is the man burr why then young bertram take her she's thy wife bertram my wife my liege

I shall beseech your highness: in such a business, could me leave to use the health of my own eyes. BIRTHRIM. Know'st thou not, Bertram, what she has done for me? BIRTHRIM. Yes, my good lord, but never hope to know why I should marry her. BIRTHRIM. Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed. BIRTHRIM. But follows it my lord to bring me down must answer for your raising? I know her well; she had her breeding at my father's charge. Her poor physician's daughter, my wife, disdain rather corrupt me ever.

tis only title thou disdain'st in her the which i can build up strange is it that our bloods of colour weight and heat poured all together would quite confound distinction yet stand off indifferences so mighty if she be all that is virtuous save what thou dislike'st a poor physician's daughter

thou dislike'st a virtue for the name but do not so from lowest place when virtuous things proceed the place is dignified by the doer's deed where great addition swells and virtue none it is a dropsid honour good alone is good without a name vileness is so the property by what it is should go not by the title

she is young wise fair in these to nature she's immediate heir and these breed honour that is honour's scorn which challenges itself as honour's born and is not like the sire

honours thrive when rather from our acts we them derive than our foregoers the mere word's a slave deboshed on every tomb on every grave a lying trophy and as oft is dumb where dust and damned oblivion is the tomb of honoured bones indeed what should be said if thou canst like this creature as a maid i can create the rest

Virtue and she is her own dower, honour and wealth from me. I cannot love her, nor will strive to do it. Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou should strive to choose. That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad. Let the rest go. My honour's at the stake, which to defeat I must produce my power. Here.

take her hand proud scornful boy unworthy this good gift that doth in vile misprision shackle up my love and her desert that canst not dream we poising us in her defective scale shall weigh thee to the beam thou wilt not know it is in us to plant thine honour where we please to have it grow check thy contempt obey our will which travels in thy good

believe not thy disdain but presently do thine own fortunes that obedient right which both thy duty owes and our power claims or i will throw thee from my care for ever into the staggers and the careless lapse of youth and ignorance both my revenge and hate loosing upon thee in the name of justice without all terms of pity speak thine answer

pardon my gracious lord for i submit my fancy to your eyes when i consider what great creation and what dole of honour flies where you bid it i find that she which late was in my nobler thoughts most base is now the praisd of the king who so ennobled is as twere born so

Take her by the hand, and tell her she is thine, to whom I promise a counterpoise, if not to thy estate, a balance more effleet. I take her hand. Good fortune and the favour of the king smile upon this contract, whose ceremony shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, and be performed to-night. The solemn feast shall more attend upon the coming space, expecting absent friends.

as thou lovest her thy love's to me religious else does err accent all but le feu and parolles advancing do you hear monsieur a word with you your pleasure sir your lord and master did well to make his recantation

my lord my master. RASCAL. Ay, is it not a language I speak? COUNT. A most harsh one, and not to be understood without bloody succeeding, my master. RASCAL. Are you companion to the Count Rassilian? COUNT. To any count, to all counts, to what is man. RASCAL. To what is Count's man? Count's master is of another style.

you are too old sir let it satisfy you you are too old sir i must tell thee sirrah i write man to which title age cannot bring thee sir what i dare too well do i dare not do i did think thee for too ordinaries to be a pretty wise fellow thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel

it might pass, yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I have now found thee. When I lose thee again I care not, yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and that thou'rt scarce worth.

Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee? Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if, Lord have mercy on thee for a hen. So my good window of lattice, fare thee well. Thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee.

give me thy hand. My lord, you give me the most egregious indignity. Ay, with all my heart, and thou art worthy of it. I have not, my lord, deserved it. Yes, good faith, every dram of it, and I will not bait thee a scruple. Well, I shall be wiser. Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack of the contrary.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the default, He is a man I know. My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.

i would it were hell pains for thy sake and my poor doing eternal for doing i am past as i will by thee in what motion age will give me leave well thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me scurvy old filthy scurvy lord

well i must be patient there is no fettering of authority i'll beat him by my life if i can meet him with any convenience any word double and double lord i'll have no more pity of his age than if i would have beat him and if i could but meet him again re-enter lafue sirrah your lord and master's married there's news for you you have a new mistress

unfatedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs he is my good lord whom i serve above is my master who gone ay sir the devil it is that's thy master why dost thou garter up thy arms in this fashion dost make hose of sleeves do other servants so

thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands by mine honour if i were but two hours younger i beat thee methinks thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee

i think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee lear that is a hard and undeserved measure my lord lear go to sir you were beaten in italy for picking a colonel out of a pomegranate

you are a vagabond and no true traveller you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry you are not worth another word else i'd call you knave i leave you exit very good it is so then good very good let it be concealed awhile

re-enter bertram bertram undone and forfeited to cares for ever what's the matter sweetheart bertram although before the solemn priest i have sworn i will not bed her what what sweetheart bertram oh my parolees they have married me i'll to the tuscan wars and never bed her franz is a dog-hole and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot

to the wars there's letters from my mother what the import is i know not yet ay that would be known to the wars my boy to the wars he wears his honour in a box unseen that hugs his kicky wicky here at home spending his manly marrow in her arms which should sustain the bound and high curvet of mars's fiery steed to other regions

France is a stable, we that dwell in, jades. Therefore to the war. It shall be so. I'll send her to my house, Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, and wherefore I am fled, Write to the king that which I durst not speak. His present gift shall furnish me to those Italian fields, Where noble fellows strike.

war is no strife to the dark house and the detested wife will this comprit you hold in thee art sure go with me to my chamber and advise me i'll send her straight away to-morrow i'll to the wars she to her single sorrow why these balls bound there's noise in it tis hard a young man married is a man that's marred

therefore away and leave her bravely go the king has done you wrong but hush tis so my mother greets me kindly is she well she is not well but yet she has her health she's very merry but yet she is not well

but thanks be given she's very well and wants nothing in the world but yet she is not well if she be very well what does she ail that she's not very well truly she's very well indeed but for two things what two things one that she's not in heaven whither god send her quickly

the other that she's in earth from whence god sent her quickly inter parollus bless you my fortunate lady i hope sir i have your good will to have mine own good fortunes you had my prayers to lead them on and to keep them on have them still oh my knave how does my old lady so that you had her wrinkles and i her money

i would she did as you say why i say nothing mary you are the wiser man for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing to say nothing to do nothing to know nothing and to have nothing is to be a great part of your title which is within a very little of nothing away thou art a knave you should have said sir

before a knave thou'rt a knave that's before me thou'rt a knave this had been truth sir go to

thou art a witty fool i have found thee did you find me in yourself sir or were you taught to find me the search sir was profitable and much fool may you find in you even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter a good knave if aethon well fed

Madam, my lord will go away to-night. A very serious business calls on him. The great prerogative and right of love, which, as your due time claims, he does acknowledge, but puts it off to a compelled restraint, whose want and whose delay is strewed with sweets, which they distill now in the curbid time to make the coming hour over.

with joy and pleasure down the brim. LADY MACBETH: What's his will else? That you will take your instant leave of the king, and make this haste as your own good proceeding, strengthened with what apology you think may make it probable need. LADY MACBETH: What more commands he? That, having this obtained, you presently attend his further pleasure. LADY MACBETH: In every thing I wait upon his will. I shall report it so. LADY MACBETH: I pray you. Exit Parullus.

come sirrah but i hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier

Yes, my lord, and a very valiant approve. You have it from his own deliverance. And by other warranted testimony? Then my dial goes not true. I took this lark for a bunting. I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge and, accordingly, valiant. I have then sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour.

and my state that way is dangerous since i cannot yet find in my heart to repent here he comes i pray you make us friends i will pursue the amity enter parolles to bertram these things shall be done sir sir pray you sir who's his tailor sir sir oh i know him well i sir

he says a good workman a very good tailor is she gone to the king she is will she away to-night as you'll have her i have writ my letters casketed my treasure given order for our horses and to-night when i should take possession of the bride and ere i do begin good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner

but one that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with should be once heard and thrice beaten god save you captain captain is there any unkindness between my lord and you monsieur captain i know not how i have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure

you have made shift to run into it boots and spurs and all like him that leapt into the custard and out of it you'll run again rather than suffer question for your residence it may be you have mistaken him my lord and shall do so ever though i took him at prayers

fare you well my lord and believe this of me there can be no kernel in this light nut the soul of this man is his clothes trust him not in matter of heavy consequence i have kept of them tame and know their natures

farewell monsieur i have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand but we must do good against evil exit an idle lord i swear lear i think not so lear why do you not know him lear yes i do know him well and common speech gives him a worthy pass

here comes my clog enter helena helena i have sir as i was commanded from you spoke with the king and have procur'd his leave for present parting only he desires some private speech with you i shall obey his will you must not marvel helen at my course which holds not colour with the time nor does the ministration and required office on my particular prepared i was not for such a business therefore am i found so much unsettled

this drives me to entreat you that presently you take your way for home and rather muse than ask why i entreat you for my respects are better than they seem and my appointments have in them a need greater than shows itself at the first view to you that know them not this to my mother

It will be two days ere I shall see you; so I leave you to your wisdom. LADY MACBETH: Sir, I can nothing say but that I am your most obedient servant. CHASSE Come, come, no more of that. LADY MACBETH: And ever shall with true observance seek to eke out that wherein toward me my homely stars have failed to equal my great fortune. CHASSE Let that go. My haste is very great. Farewell, high home. LADY MACBETH: Pray, sir, your pardon.

well what would you say i am not worthy of the wealth i owe nor dare i say tis mine and yet it is but like a timorous thief most fain would steal what law does vouch mine own what would you have something scarce so much nothing indeed i would not tell you what i would my lord faith yes strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss

I pray you, stay not, but haste to horse. I shall not break your bidding, good my lord. Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell. Exit Helena. Go thou toward home, where I will never come, whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum. Away, and for our flight. Bravely. Coragio. Excerpt. End of Act II.

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act three of all's well that ends well by william shakespeare scene one florence the duke's palace flourish enter the duke of florence attended the two frenchmen with a troop of soldiers so that from point to point now have you heard the fundamental reasons of this war

whose great decision hath much blood let forth and more thirsts after holy seems the quarrel upon your grace's part black and fearful on the opposer therefore we marvel much our cousin france would in so just a business shut his bosom against our borrowing prayers

good my lord the reasons of our state i cannot yield but like a common and an outward man that the great figure of a council frames by self-unable motion therefore dare not say what i think of it since i have found myself in my uncertain grounds to fail as often as i guessed be it his pleasure but i am sure the younger of our nature

that surfeit on their ease will day by day come here for physic welcome shall they be and all the honors that fly from us shall on them settle you know your places well when better fall for your avails they fell to-morrow to the field

flourish exeunt scene two rossillon the count's palace enter countess and clown it hath happened all as i would have had it save that he comes not along with her by my troth i take my young lord to be a very melancholy man by what observance i pray you why he will look upon his boot and sing

mend the roof and sing ask questions and sing pick his teeth and sing i know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manner for a song let me see what he writes and when he means to come opening a letter i have no mind to isbel since i was at court

our old ling and our isbels of the country are nothing like your old ling and your isbels of the court the brains of my cupids knocked out and i begin to love as an old man loves money with no stomach what have we here in that you have there exit countess reads i have sent you a daughter-in-law

she hath recovered the king and undone me i have wedded her not bedded her and sworn to make the not eternal you shall hear i am run away know it before the report come if there be breadth enough in the world i will hold a long distance my duty to you your unfortunate son bertram

this is not well rationed unbridled boy to fly the favours of so good a king to pluck his indignation on thy head by the misprizing of a maid too virtuous for the contempt of empire re-enter clown oh madam yonder is heavy news within between two soldiers and my young lady what is the matter

nay there is some comfort in the news some comfort your son will not be killed so soon as i thought he would why should he be killed so say i madam if he run away as i hear he does the danger is in standing to it that's the loss of men though it be the getting of children here they come will tell you more

for my part i only hear your son was run away exit enter helena and two gentlemen helena save you good madam helena madam my lord is gone for ever gone helena do not say so helena think upon patience pray you gentlemen i have felt so many quirks of joy and grief that the first face of neither on the start can woman me unto't

Where is my son, I pray you? FRIAR LAWRENCE. Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence. We met him thitherward, for thence we came, and, after some dispatch in hand at court, thither we bend again. Look on his letter, madam, here's my passport. READS. When thou canst get the ring upon my finger, which never shall come off, and show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to, then call me husband. READS.

but in such a then i write a never this is a dreadful sentence brought you this letter gentlemen i madam and for the content's sake are sorry for our pain i prithee lady have a better cheer if thou engrossest all the griefs of thine thou rob'st me of a moiety he was my son but i do wash his name out of my blood and thou art all my child

towards florence is he ay madam and to be a soldier such is his noble purpose and believ'd the duke will lay upon him all the honour that good convenience claims return you thither ay madam with the swiftest wing of speed till i have no wife i have nothing in france tis bitter find you that there ay madam

"'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his heart was not consenting to. "'Nothing in France until he have no wife. There's nothing here that is too good for him but only she, and she deserves a lord that twenty such rude boys might tend upon and call her hourly mistress.'

"'Who was with him?' "'A servant only, and a gentleman, which I have some time known.' "'Parollus was it not?' "'Ay, my good lady, he.' "'A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. My son corrupts a well-derived nature with his inducement.' "'Indeed, good lady, the fellow has a deal of that too much, which holds him much to have.' "'You're welcome, gentlemen.'

i will entreat you when you see my son to tell him that his sword can never win the honour that he loses more i'll entreat you britain to bear along we serve you madam in that and all your worthiest affairs not so but as we change our courtesies will you draw near exeunt countess and gentlemen till i have no wife i have nothing in france

nothing in france until he have no wife thou shalt have none rosilian none in france then hast thou all again poor lord i that chase thee from thy country and expose those tender limbs of thine to the event of the nuns sparing war and is it i that drive thee from the sport of court where thou wast shot at with fair eyes to be the mark of smoky muskets

O you leaden messengers that ride upon the violent speed of fire, fly with false aim! Move the still peering air that sings with piercing: do not touch my lord! Whoever shoots at him, I set him there; whoever charges on his forward breast, I am the cative that do hold him to it; and though I kill him not, I am the cause his death was so effected.

better twere i met the rav'n lion when he roar'd with sharp constraint of hunger better twere that all the miseries which nature owes were mine at once no come thou home rassilion whence honour but of danger wins a scar as oft it loses all i will be gone my being here it is that holds thee hence shall i stay here to do it no

no although the air of paradise did fan the house and angels offic'd all i will be gone that pitiful rumour may report my flight to consolate thine ear come night end day for with the dark poor thief i'll steal away exit scene three florence before the duke's palace

flourish enter the duke of florence bertram parolles soldiers drum and trumpets duke of florence the general of our horse thou art and we great in our hope lay our best love and credence upon thy promising fortune

it is a charge too heavy for my strength but yet we'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake to the extreme edge of hazard then go thou forth and fortune play upon thy prosperous helm as thy auspicious mistress this very day great mars i put myself into thy file make me but like my thoughts and i shall prove a lover of thy drum hater of love

scene four rossillon the count's palace enter countess and steward alas and would you take the letter of her might you not know she would do as she has done by sending me a letter read it again i am st jacques's pilgrim thither gone

ambitious love hath so in me offended that barefoot plod i the cold ground upon with sainted vow my faults to have amended write write that from the bloody course of war my dearest master your dear son mayhigh bless him at home in peace whilst i from far his name with zealous fervor sanctify his taken labors bid him me forgive

i his despiteful juno sent him forth from courtly friends with camping foes to live where death and danger dogs the heels of worth he is too good and fair for death and me whom i myself embrace to set him free what sharp stings are in her mildest words rinaldo you did never lack advice so much as letting her pass so

had i spoke with her i could have well diverted her intents which thus she hath prevented adolph pardon me madam if i had given you this at over night she might have been oataean and yet she writes pursuit would be but vain adolph what angel shall bless this unworthy husband

he cannot thrive unless her prayers whom heaven delights to hear and loves to grant reprieve him from the wrath of greatest justice write write rinaldo to this unworthy husband of his wife let every word weigh heavy of her worth that he does weigh too light my greatest grief though little he do feel it set down sharply

dispatch the most convenient messenger when haply he shall hear that she is gone he will return and hope i may that she hearing so much will speed her foot again led hither by pure love which of them both is dearest to me i have no skill in sense to make distinction provide this messenger my heart is heavy and mine age is weak

grief would have tears and sorrow bids me speak excellent scene v florence without the walls a taccadar far off enter an old widow of florence diana violetta and marianna with other citizens nay come

for if they do approach the city we shall lose all the sight they say the french count has done most honourable service it is reported that he has taken their greatest commander and that with his own hand he slew the duke's brother we have lost our labour they are gone a contrary way hark you may know by their trumpets come let's return again and suffice ourselves with the report of it

well diana take heed of this french earl the honor of a maid is her name and no legacy is so rich as honesty i have told my neighbor how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion i know that knave hang him one parole does a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl

beware of them diana their promises enticements oaths tokens and all these engines of lust are not the thing they go under many a maid hath been seduced by them and the misery is example that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood cannot for all that dissuade succession but that they are lined with the twigs to threaten them

i hope i need not to advise you further but i hope your own grace will keep you where you are though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is lost helena you shall not need to fear me i hope so enter helena disguised like a pilgrim look here comes a pilgrim i know she will lie at my house thither they send one another i'll question her god save you pilgrim whither are you bound helena to st jacques le grand

where do the palmers lodge i do beseech you at the st francis here beside the port is this the way i marry ist a march afar hark you they come this way if you will tarry holy pilgrim but till the troops come by i will conduct you where you shall be lodged the rather for i think i know your hostess as ample as myself is it yourself

If you shall please so, pilgrim. I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure. You came, I think, from France? I did so. Here you shall see a countryman of yours, that has done worthy service. His name, I pray you. The Count Rassilian, know you such a one? But by the ear that hears most nobly of him, his face I know not.

What's a mare he is, he's bravely taken here. He's stole from France, as tis reported, for the king had married him against his liking. Think you it is so? Ay, surely, mere the truth, I know his lady. There is a gentleman that serves the count, reports but coarsely of her. What's his name? Monsieur Parollus.'

O, I believe with him an argument of praise, Or to the worth of the great Count himself, She is too mean to have her name repeated. All her deserving is a reserved honesty, And that I have not heard examined. ALAS! poor lady! tis a hard bondage To become the wife of a detesting lord. I warrant, good creature, Whereso'er she is, her heart weighs sadly.

this young maid might do her a shrewd turn if she pleased el how do you mean maybe the amorous count solicits her in the unlawful purpose he does indeed and brokes with all that can in such a suit corrupt the tender honour of a maid but she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard in honestest defence el the gods forbid else el so now they come drum and colours enter bertram parolles and the whole army

That is Antonio, the Duke's eldest son, that Aeschylus. Which is the Frenchman? He, that with the plume, tis a most gallant fellow. I would he loved his wife. If he were honester he were much goodlier. It's not a handsome gentleman. I like him well. Tis pity he is not honest. Yon's that same knave that leads him to these places. Were I his lady I would poison that vile rascal.

which is he that jackanapes with scarfs why is he melancholy perchance he's hurt the battle lose our drum well he's shrewdly vexed at something look he has spied us marry hen you and your courtesy for a ring-carrier exeunt bertram parolles and army the troop is past

come pilgrim i will bring you where you shall host of enjoin'd penitents there's four or five to greet st jack was bound already at my house i humbly thank you please it this matron and this gentle maid to eat with us to-night the charge and thanking shall be for me and to requite you further i will bestow some precepts of this virgin worthy the note we'll take your offer kindly

scene six camp before florence enter bertram and the two french lords bertram nay good my lord put him to't let him have his way burke if your lordship find him not a hilding hold me no more in your respect

on my life my lord a bubble do you think i am so far deceived in him believe it my lord in mine own direct knowledge without any malice but to speak of him as my kinsman he's a most notable coward an infinite and endless liar an hourly promise-breaker the owner of no one good quality worthy your lordship's entertainment it were fit you knew him lest reposing too far in his virtue which he hath not

he might at some great and trusty business in a main danger fail you adolph i would i knew in what particular action to try him adolph none better than to let him fetch off his drum which you hear him so confidently undertake to do

I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly surprise him. Such I will have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy. We will bind and hoodwink him so that he shall suppose no other, but that he is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries when we bring him to our own tent.

be but your lordship present at his examination if he do not for the promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of base fear offer to betray you and deliver all the intelligence in his power against you and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath never trust my judgment in anything oh for the love of laughter let him fetch his drum he says he has a stratagem fort

when your lordship sees the bottom of his success in it and to what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted if you give him not john drumm's entertainment your inclining cannot be removed here he comes enter parollus aside to bertram burke oh for the love of laughter hinder not the honour of his design let him fetch off his drum in any hand burke how now monsieur

this drum sticks sorely in your disposition a pox on't let it go tis but a drum but a drum is't but a drum a drum so lost

there was an excellent command to charge in with our horse upon our own wings and to rend our own soldiers that was not to be blamed in the command of the service it was a disaster of war that caesar himself could not have prevented if he had been there to command well we cannot greatly condemn our success

some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum but it is not to be recovered it might have been recovered it might but it's not now it is to be recovered but that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer i would have that drum or another or hick jacket why if you have a stomach to it monsieur

If you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native quarter, be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on. I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit. If you speed well in it, the Duke shall both speak of it and extend to you what further becomes his greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness. By the hand of a soldier, we'll undertake it.

But you must not now slumber in it. I'll about it this evening, and I will presently pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, put myself into my moral preparation, and by midnight look to hear further from me. May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it? I know not what the success will be, my lord, but the attempt I vow. I know thou art valiant.

and to the possibility of thy soldiership will subscribe for thee. Farewell. I love not many words. Exit. No more than a fish loves water.

"'Is not this a strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be done, damns himself to do, and dares better be damned than to do it?' "'You do not know him, my lord, as we do. Certain it is that he will steal himself into a man's favour, and for a weak escape a great deal of discoveries. But when you find him out, you have him ever after.'

Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of this that so seriously he does address himself unto? None in the world, but return with an invention and clap upon you two or three probable lies. But we have almost embossed him. You shall see his fall tonight, for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.

we'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him he was first smoked by the old lord la folle when his disguise and he is parted tell me what a sprat you shall find him which you shall see this very night i must go look my twigs he shall be caught your brother he shall go along with me ask please your lordship i'll leave you exit now will i lead you to the house and show you the lass i spoke of

But you say she's honest. That's all the fault. I spoke with her but once and found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her, by this same cockscomb that we have in the wind, tokens and letters, which she did re-send. And this is all I've done. She's a fair creature. Will you go see her? With all my heart, my lord. Excerpt. Scene 7. Florence, the widow's house. Enter Helena and Widow.

if you misdoubt me that i am not she i know not how i shall assure you further but i shall lose the grounds i work upon though my estate be fallen i was well born nothing acquainted with these businesses would not put reputation now in any staining act nor would i wish you first give me trust the count he is my husband and what to your sworn counsel i have spoken is so from word to word

and then you cannot by the good aid that i of you shall borrow err in bestowing it i should believe you for you have shewed me that which well approves your great infortune take this purse of gold and let me buy your friendly help thus far which i will overpay and pay again when i have found it the count he woos your daughter lays down his wanton siege before her beauty resolved to carry her

Let her in fine consent, as will direct her how tis best to bear it. Now his important blood will not deny that she'll demand. A ring the county wears, that downward hath succeeded in his house from son to son, some four or five dissents from the first father wore it. This ring he holds in most rich choice, yet in his idle fire to buy his will it would not seem too dear, howe'er repented after."

Now I see the bottom of your purpose. You see it lawful then. It is no more but that your daughter, ere she seems as one, desires this ring, appoints him an encounter, in fine, delivers me to fill the time, herself most chastely absent. After this, to marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns to what is past already. I have yielded.

instruct my daughter how she shall persevere that time and place with this deceit so lawful may prove coherent every night he comes with musics of all sorts and songs composed to her unworthiness it nothing steads us to chide him from our eaves for he persists as if his life

why then to-night let us assay our plot which of its speed is wicked meaning in a lawful deed and lawful meaning in a lawful act where both not sin and yet a sinful fact but lets about it

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ACT IV OF ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL by William Shakespeare. SCENE I. WITHOUT THE FLORENTINE CAMP. ENTER SECOND FRENCH LORD WITH FIVE OR SIX OTHER SOLDIERS IN AMBUSH.

he can come no other way but by this hedge-corner when you sally upon him speak what terrible language you will though you understand it not yourselves no matter for we must not seem to understand him unless some one among us whom we must produce for an interpreter good captain let me be thy interpreter art not acquainted with him knows he not thy voice

No, sir, I warrant you. But what Linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again? Even such as you speak to me. He must think us some band of strangers of the adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages. Therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we speak one to another. So we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose. Chuff's language, gabble enough and good enough.

as for you interpreter you must seem very politic but couch ho here he comes to beguile two hours in a sleep and then to return and swear the lies he forges enter parollus ten o'clock within these three hours twill be time enough to go home what shall i say i have done it must be a very plausible invention that carries it they begin to smoke me and disgraces have of late knock'd too often at my door

i find my tongue is too foolhardy but my heart hath the fear of mars before it and of his creatures not daring the reports of my tongue this is the first truth that e'er thy tongue was guilty of what the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum being not ignorant of the impossibility and knowing i had no such purpose i must give myself some hurts and say i got them in exploit yet slight ones will not carry it

they will say came you off with so little and great ones i dare not give wherefore what's the instance ah tongue i must put you into a butter woman's mouth and buy myself another of bajazet's mule if you prattle me into these perils

is it possible he should know what he is and be that he is i would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn or the breaking of my spanish sword we cannot afford you so or the baring of my beard and to say it was in stratagem twould not do or to drown my clothes and say i was stripped hardly sir

though i swore i leap'd from the window of the citadel adolph how deep adolph thirty fathom adolph three great oaths would scarce make that be believ'd adolph i would i had any drum of the enemy's i would swear i recover'd it adolph you shall hear one anon adolph o a drum now of the enemy's

"Oh, Ransom! Ransom, do not hide mine eyes!" They seize and blindfold him.

Bosco's tremble to Bosco's. I know you are the Muscos regiment, and I shall lose my life for want of language. If there be here German or Dane, low Dutch, Italian or French, let him speak to me. I'll discover that which shall undo the Florentine. Bosco's vovedo. I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue. Carely bonto, sir.

betake thee to thy fate for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom oh pray pray pray manca rivagna dulce ask or be dulce's vol of orco the general is content to spare thee yet and who doing as thou art will lead thee on together from thee haply thou mayst inform something to save thy life oh let me live and to our camp i'll show their force their purposes

nay i'll speak that which you will wonder at but will thou faithfully if i do not damn me accor come on thou art granted space exit with parollas guarded a short alarum within go tell the count rosillion and my brother we have caught the woodcock and will keep him muffled till we do hear from them captain

i will betray us all unto ourselves inform on that sir eusebius so i will sir sir eusebius till then i'll keep him dark and safely locked scene two florence the widow's house enter bertram and diana they told me that your name was fontibelle no my good lord diana eusebius titled goddess and worth it with addition but fair soul in your fine frame

Love no quality? If the quick fire of youth Light not your mind You are no maiden But a monument When you are dead You should be such a one As you are now For you are cold And stern And now you should be As your mother was When your sweet self Was got She then was honest So should you be No My mother did but duty Such my lord As you owe to your wife No more of that

i prithee do not strive against my vows i was compelled to her but i love thee by love's own sweet constraint and will for ever do thee all rights of service

aye so you serve us till we serve you but when you have our roses you barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves and mock us with our bareness how have i sworn is not the many oaths that makes the truth but the plain single vow that is vow'd true

What is not holy that we swear not by, but take the highest to witness. Then pray you, tell me, if I should swear by God's great attributes I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths when I did love you ill? This has no holding to swear by him whom I protest to love that I will work against him. Therefore your oaths are words and poor conditions, but unsealed, at least in my opinion. Change it, change it!'

be not so wholly cruel love is holy and my integrity ne'er knew the crafts that you do charge men with stand no more off but give thyself unto my sick desires who then recovers say thou'rt mine and ever my love as it begins shall so persever i see that men make ropes in such a scar that we'll forsake ourselves give me that ring i'll lend it thee my dear

But have no power to give it from me. Will you not, my lord? It is an honour longing to our house bequeathed down from many ancestors, which were the greatest obloquy in the world, in me to lose. Mine honour's such a ring. My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors, which were the greatest obloquy of the world, in me to lose. Thus your own proper wisdom brings in the champion honour on my part against your vain assault. Here.

take my ring my house mine honour yea my life be thine and i'll be bid by thee when midnight comes knock at my chamber window i'll order take my mother shall not hear

"'Now will I charge you in the band of truth, when you have conquered my yet made-in-bed, remain there but an hour, nor speak to me. My reasons are most strong, and you shall know them when back again this ring shall be delivered. And on your finger in the night I'll put another ring, that what in time proceeds may token to the future our past deeds. Adieu till then. Then fail not. You have won a wife of me.'

though there my hope be done a heaven on earth i have won by wooing thee exit for which live long to thank both heaven and me you may so in the end my mother told me just how he would woo as if she sat in's heart she says all men have the like oaths he had sworn to marry me when his wife's dead therefore i'll lie with him when i am buried

since frenchmen are so braid marry that will i live and die a maid only in this disguise i think'd no sin to cozen him that would unjustly win exit scene three the florentine camp enter the two french lords and some two or three soldiers

you have not given him his mother's letter i have delivered it an hour since there is something in't that stings his nature for on the reading it he changed almost into another man he has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet a lady especially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the king who had even tuned his bounty to sing happiness to him

I will tell you a thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you. When you have spoken it, tis dead, and I am the grave of it. He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown, and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour. He hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition. Now God delay our rebellion, as we are ourselves. What things are we?

merely our own traitors and as in the common course of all treasons we still see them reveal themselves till they attain to their abhorred ends so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility in his proper stream o'erflows himself is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents we shall not then have his company to-night not till after midnight for he has dieted to his hour

that approaches apace i would gladly have him see his company anatomized that he might take a measure of his own judgments wherein so curiously he had set this counterfeit we will not meddle with him till he come for his presence must be the whip of the other in the mean time what hear you of these wars i hear there is an overture of peace nay i assure you a peace concluded

what will count rosulian do then will he travel higher or return again into france i perceive by this demand you are not altogether of his counsel let it be forbid sir so should i be a great deal of his act

sir his wife some two months since fled from his house her pretence is a pilgrimage to st jacques le grand with holy undertaking with most austere sanctimonies she accomplished and there residing the tenderness of her nature became as prey to her grief in fine made a groan of her last breath and now she sings in heaven how is this justified

the stronger part of it by her own letters which makes her story true even to the point of her death her death itself which could not be her office to say is come was faithfully confirmed by the rector of the place hath the count all this intelligence ay and the particular confirmations point from point so to the full arming of the verity i am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this

how mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses and how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears

the great dignity that his valour hath here acquired for him shall at home be encountered with a shame as ample the web of our life is of a mingled yarn good and ill together our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues

enter a messenger how now where's your master he met the duke in the street sir of whom he hath taken a solemn leave his lordship will next morning for france the duke hath offered him letters of commendation to the king they shall be no more than needful there if they were more than they can commend they cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness here's his lordship now

enter bertram bertram how now my lord is it not after midnight i have to-night despatched sixteen businesses a month's length apiece by an abstract of success i have

conge'd with the duke done my adieu with his nearest buried a wife mourn'd for her writ to my lady mother i am returning entertain'd my convoy and between these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer needs the last was the greatest but that i have not ended yet if the business be of any difficulty and this morning your departure hence it requires haste of your lordship i mean the business is not ended as fearing to hear of it hereafter

but shall we have this dialogue between the fool and the soldier come bring forth this counterfeited module he has deceived me like a double-meaning prophesier bring him forth has sat in the stocks all night poor gallant knave no matter his heels have deserved it in usurping his spurs so long how does he carry himself

i have told your lordship already the stocks carry him but to answer you as you would be understood he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk he hath confessed himself to morgan whom he supposes to be a friar from the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster of his setting of the stocks and what think you he hath confessed nothing of me has he his confession is taken and it shall be read to his face if your lordship be in't as i believe you are you must have the patience to bear it

enter parollus guarded and first soldier a plague upon him ha muffled he can say nothing of me hush hush hodman comes porto toto rossa he calls for the torturers what will you say without them i will confess what i know without constraint if you pinch me like a pasty i can say no more bosco si marco babbili bindo chica murco you are a merciful general

our general beats you answer to what i shall ask you out of a note head truly as i hope to live reads first demand of him how many horse the duke is strong what say you to that five or six thousand but very weak and unserviceable the troops are all scattered and the commanders very poor rogues upon my reputation and credit and as i hope to live

shall i said darnoor answer so do i'll take the sacrament darn it how and which way you will all's one to him what a past saving slave is this you're deceived my lord this is m parrholz the gallant militarist that was his own phrase that had the whole theric of war in the knot of his scarf and the practice in the shape of his dagger

I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly. Well, that is said down. Five or six thousand horse, I said. I will say true, or thereabouts, said down, for I'll speak truth. He's very near the truth in this. But I con him no thanks for it in the nature he delivers it. Poor rogues, I pray you say.

well that's said down i humbly thank you sir a truth's a truth the rogues are marvellous poor demands of him of what strength they are afoot what say you to that by my troth sir if i were to live this present hour i will tell true let me see spurio a hundred and fifty sebastian so many corambis so many

I have so many: Giltian, Cosmo, Lodewick, and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; my own company, Critifer, Vomond, Bentii, two hundred and fifty each, so that the muster-file, rotten and sound upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand pole. Have the which dare not shake snow from out their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces? What shall be done to him? Nothing, but let him have thanks.

demand of him my condition and what credit i have with the duke well that's said done you shall demand of him whether one captain dumain be in the camp a frenchman what his reputation is with the duke what his valour honesty and expertness in wars and whether he thinks it were not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt him to revolt what say you to this what do you know of it

i beseech you let me answer to the particular of the interrogatories demand them singly captain do you know this captain dumain do i know him he was a butcher's prentice in paris from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's fool with child a dumb innocent that could not say him nay captain nay by your leave hold your hands though i know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls

well is this captain in the duke of florence's camp d d upon my knowledge he is and lousy laurence nay look not so upon me we shall hear of your lordship anon duke what is his reputation with the duke laurence the duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine

and writ to me this other day to turn him out of the band i think i have his letter in my pocket duke marie we will search duke in good sadness i do not know either it is there or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters in my tent duke here it is here is a paper shall i write it to you marie i do not know if it be or no duke our interpreter does it well excellently reads

the count is a fool and a fool of gold duke that is not the duke's letter sir that is an advertisement to a proper maid in florence one diana to take heed of the allurement of one count rosilian a foolish idle boy but for all that very ruttish i pray you sir put it up again

I'll read it first by your favour. My meaning in it, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the maid, for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy who is a whale to virginity and devours up all the fry it finds. Damnable both sides rogue! READS When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold and take it. After he scores, he never pays the score. Half won his match well made.

match and will make it he never pays after debts take it before and say a soldier dian told thee this men are to mail with boys are not to kiss for count of this the count is a fool i know it who pays before but not when he does owe it thine as he vowed to thee in thine year

he shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme in his forehead captain this is your devoted friend sir the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier captain i could endure anything before but a cat and now he's a cat to me i perceive sir by the general's looks we shall be fain to hang you captain my life sir in any case and not that i am afraid to die but that my offences being many i would repent out the remainder of nature

let me live sir in a dungeon in the stocks or anywhere so i may live we will see what may be done so you confess freely therefore once more to this captain dumain you have answered to his reputation with the duke and to his valour what is his honesty he will steal sir an egg out of a cloister

for rapes and ravishments he parallels nessus he professes not keeping of oaths in breaking them he is stronger than hercules he will lie sir with such volubility that you will think truth were a fool drunkenness is his best virtue for he will be swine drunk and in his sleep he does little harm save to his bedclothes about him but they know his conditions and lay him in straw

i have but little more to say sir of his honesty he has every thing that an honest man should not have what an honest man should have he has nothing i begin to love him for this for this description of thine honesty a pox upon him for me he is more and more a cat what say you to his expertness in war sir he has led the drum before the english tradidians to belie him i will not and more of his soldiership i know not

except in that country he had the honour to be the officer at a place there called mile end to instruct for the doubling of files i would do the man what honour i can but of this i am not certain he hath outvillained villainy so far that the rarity redeems him pox on him he's a cat still

His qualities being at this poor price, I need not to ask you if gold would corrupt him to revolt. Sir, for a quart d'aque he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut the entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. What's his brother, the other captain to Maine? Why does he ask him of me?

what is he he is a crow with the same nest not altogether so great as the first in goodness but greater a great deal in evil he exceeds his brother for a coward yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is in a retreat he outruns any lackey

merry in coming on he has the cramp if your life be saved will you undertake to betray the florentine florentine ay and the captain of his horse count rassilio i'll whisper to the general and know his pleasure aside no more drumming a plague of old drums only to seem to deserve well and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the count have i run into this danger

yet who would have suspected an ambush where i was taken there is no remedy sir but you must die the general says you that have so treacherously discovered the secrets of your army and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held can serve the world for no honest use therefore you must die

come headsman off with his head oh lord sir let me live or let me see my death captain parollus that shall you and take your leave of all your friends unblinding him captain parollus so look about you know you any here captain parollus good-morrow noble captain captain parollus god bless you captain parollus captain parollus god save you noble captain

captain what greeting will you to my lord le feu i am for france captain will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to diana in behalf of the count roussillon and i were not a very coward ill-compellate of you but fare you well you are undone captain all but your scarf

that has not on't yet who cannot be crushed with a plot if you could find out a country where but women were that had received so much shame you might begin an impudent nation farewell sir i am for france too we shall speak of you there exit with soldiers yet i am thankful if my heart were great twould burst at this

captain i'll be no more but i will eat and drink and sleep as soft as captain shall simply the thing i am shall make me live who knows himself a braggart let him fear this for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass rust sword blushes and parollists live safest in shame being fooled by foolery thrive there's place and means for every man alive

o after them exit scene for florence the widow's house enter helena widow and diana helena that you may well perceive i have not wrong'd you one of the greatest in the christian world shall be my surety for whose throne tis needful ere i can perfect mine intents to kneel

time was i did him a desired office dear almost as his life which gratitude through flinty tartar's bosom would peep forth and answer thanks i duly am informed his grace is at marseilles to which place we have convenient

you must know i am supposed dead the army breaking my husband hies him home where heaven aiding and by the leave of my good lord the king will be before our welcome lady gentle madam you never had a servant to whose trust your business was more welcome nor you mistress ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour to recompense your love

Doubt not, but heaven hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower, as it hath fated her to be my motive and helper to a husband. But, oh! strange men! that can such sweet use make of what they hate, when saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts defiles the pitchy night! So lust doth play with what it loathes for that which is away. But more of this hereafter.

you diana under my poor instructions yet must suffer something in my behalf let death and honesty go with your impositions i am yours upon your will to suffer yet i pray you but with the word the time will bring on summer when briers shall have leaves as well as thorns and be as sweet as sharp we must away our waggon is prepar'd and time revives us

all's well that ends well still the fine's the crown whate'er the course the end is the renown scene five rossillon the count's palace enter countess lafue and clown no no no your son was misled with a snipped taffeta fellow there

whose villainous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in his colour your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour and your son here at home more advanced by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee i speak of

i would i had not known him it was the death of the most vertuous gentlewoman that ever nature had praise for creating if she had partaken of my flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother i could not have owed her a more rooted love twas a good lady twas a good lady

we may pick a thousand salates ere we light on such another herb edw indeed sir she was the sweet marjoram of the salad or rather the herb of grace edw they are not herbs you knave they are nose herbs edw i am no great nebuchadnezzar sir i have not much skill in grass

whether dost thou profess thyself a knave or a fool? G. A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's. G. Your distinction. G. I would cousin the man of his wife, and do his service. G. So you were a knave at his service, indeed. G. And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.

i will subscribe for thee thou art both knave and fool at your service no no no why sir if i cannot serve you i can serve as great a prince as you are

who's that a frenchman sir has an english name but his physnomy is more hotter in france than here what prince is that the black prince sir alias the prince of darkness

alias the devil hold thee there's my purse i give thee not this to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of serve him still i am a woodland fellow sir that always loved a great fire and the master i speak of ever keeps a good fire but sure he is the prince of the world let his nobility remain in's court

i am for the house with the narrow gate which i take to be too little for pomp to enter some that humble themselves may but the many will be too chill and tender and they'll be for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate

and the great fire go thy ways i begin to be aweary of thee and i tell thee so before because i would not fall out with thee go thy ways let my horses be well looked to without any tricks if i put any tricks upon em sir they shall be jade's tricks which are their own right by the law of nature

exit a shrewd knave and an unhappy so he is my lord that's gone made himself much sport out of him by his authority he remains here which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness and indeed he has no pace but runs where he will i like him well tis not amiss

and i was about to tell you since i heard of the good lady's death and that my lord your son was upon his return home i moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter which in the minority of them both his majesty out of a self-gracious remembrance did first propose

his highness hath promised me to do it and to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your son there is no fitter matter how does your ladyship like it lady with very much content my lord and i wish it happily effected

his highness comes post from marseilles of as able body as when he numbered thirty he will be here to-morrow or i am deceived by him that in such intelligence hath seldom failed it rejoices me that i hope i shall see him ere i die i have letters that my son will be here to-night

i shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they meet together adolph madam i was thinking with what manners i might safely be admitted lady you need but plead your honourable privilege adolph lady of that i have made a bold charter but i thank my god it holds yet

o madam yonder's my lord your son with a patch of velvet on's face whether there be a scar under't or no the velvet knows but tis a goodly patch of velvet his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a half but his right cheek is worn bare

a scar nobly got or a noble scar is a good livery of honour so belike is that but it is your carbonado'd face lear let us go see your son i pray you i long to talk with the young noble soldier

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ACT V. OF ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

But this exceeding posting day and night Must wear your spirits low. We cannot help it. But since you have made the days and nights As one to wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, Be bold you do so grow in my requital As nothing can unroot you. In happy time. Enter a gentleman. This man may help me to his majesty's ear If he would spend his power. God save you, sir. And you? Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.

I have been sometimes there. I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen from the report that goes upon your goodness, and therefore goaded with most sharp occasions which lay nice manners by. I put you to the use of your own virtues, for the which I shall continue thankful. What's your will? That it will please you to give this poor petition to the king, and aid me with that store of power you have to come into his presence.

the king's not here. LADY MACBETH: Not here, sir? Not, indeed. He hence removed last night, and with more haste than is his use. LADY MACBETH: Lord, how we lose our pains! All's well that ends well yet, though time seems so adverse and means unfit. I do beseech you, whither is he gone? Marry as I take it to Rousillon, whither I am going.

I do beseech you, sir, since you are like to see the king before me, commend the paper to his gracious hand, which I presume shall render you no blame, but rather make you thank your pains for it. I will come after you with what good speed our means will make us means. This I'll do for you. And you shall find yourself to be well thanked whate'er falls more. We must to horse again. Go, go, provide. EXEMPT

scene two rossillon before the count's palace enter clown and parollus following ah good monsieur la vache give my lord le feu this letter i have ere now sir been better known to you when i have held familiarity with fresher clothes but i am now sir muddied in fortune's mood and smell somewhat strong of her strong

displeasure truly fortune's displeasure is but sluttish if it smell so strongly as thou speak'st of i will henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering prithee allow the wind

nay you need not to stop your nose sir i spake but by a metaphor indeed sir if your metaphors stink i will stop my nose or against any man's metaphor prithee get thee further pray you sir deliver me this paper pho prithee stand away a paper from fortune's close stool to give to a nobleman

look here he comes himself here is a purr of fortune sir or of fortune's cat but not a muscat that has fallen into the unclean fish-pond of her displeasure and as he says is muddied withal pray you sir use the carp as you may

for he looks like a poor decayed ingenious foolish rascally knave i do pity his distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to your lordship exit my lord i am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched and what would you have me to do tis too late to pare her nails now

wherein have you played the knave with fortune that she should scratch you who of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves thrive long under her there's a carte de queue for you let the justices make you and fortune friends i am for other business captain s i beseech your honour to hear me one single word

you beg a single penny more come you shall hide save your w my name my good lord is parollus you beg more than word then cox my passion give me your hand how does your drum

O my good lord, you were the first that found me. FRIAR LAWRENCE. Was I in sooth, and I was the first that lost thee. FRIAR LAWRENCE. It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace, for you did bring me out.

Out upon thee, knave, dost thou put upon me at once both the office of God and the devil. One brings thee in grace, and the other brings thee out. The king's coming, I know by his trumpets.

sirrah inquire further after me i had talk of you last night though you are a fool and a knave you shall eat go to follow i praise god for you scene three rossillon the count's palace flourish enter king countess lafue the two french lords with attendants

we lost a jewel of her and our esteem was made much poorer by it that your son as mad in folly lacked the sense to know her estimation home tis past my liege and i beseech your majesty to make it natural rebellion done in the place of youth when oil and fire too strong for reasons forsooth bears it and burns on my honoured lady i have forgiven and forgotten all

though my revengers were high bent upon him and watched the time to shoot this i must say but first i beg my pardon the young lord did to his majesty his mother and his lady offence of mighty note but to himself the greatest wrong of all

he lost a wife whose beauty did astonish the survey of richest eyes whose words all ears took captive whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve humbly called mistress praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear well call him hither

we are reconciled and the first view shall kill all repetition let him not ask our pardon the nature of his great offence is dead and deeper than oblivion do we bury the incensing relics of it let him approach a stranger no offender and inform him so tis our will he should i shall my liege exit

what says he to your daughter have you spoke all that he is hath reference to your highness then shall we have a match i have letters sent me that set him high in fame enter bertram i am not a day of season for thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail in me at once

but to the brightest beams distracted clouds give way so stand thou forth the time is fair again my high repented blames dear sovereign pardon to me all is whole not one word more of the consumd time let's take the instant by the forward top for we are old and on our quickest degrees the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals ere we can effect them you remember the daughter of this lord

admiringly my liege at first i stuck my choice upon her ere my heart durst make too bold a herald of my tongue where the impression of mine eye in fixing contempt his scornful perspective did lend me which warped the line of every other favour scorned a fair colour or expressed it stolen extended or contracted all proportions to a most hideous object

thence it came that she whom all men praised and whom myself since i have lost have loved was in mine eye the dust that did offend it well excused that thou didst love her strikes some scores away from the great comte but love that comes too late like a remorseful pardon slowly carried to the great sender turns a sour offence crying that's good that's gone

our rash faults make trivial price of serious things we have not knowing them until we know their grave oft our displeasures to ourselves unjust destroy our friends and after weep their dust our own love waking cries to see what's done while shame full late sleeps out the afternoon be this sweet helen's knell and now forget her

send forth your amorous token for fair magdalen the main consents are had and here we'll stay to see our widower's second marriage day magdalen which better than the first o dear heaven bless or ere they meet in me o nature cess come on my son in whom my house's name must be digested

Give a favour from you to sparkle in the spirits of my daughter, that she may quickly come. By my old beard, and every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead, was a sweet creature. Such a ring as this, the last that e'er I took her at court, I saw upon her finger.

hers it was not now pray you let me see it for mine eye whilst i was speaking oft was fastened to't this ring was mine and when i gave it helen i bade her if her fortunes ever stood necessitated to help that by this token i would relieve her

had you that craft to reave her of what should stead her most my gracious sovrant howe'er it pleases you to take it so the ring was never hers lady s on my life i have seen her wear it and she reckoned it at her life's rate lord i am sure i saw her wear it lord you are deceived my lord she never saw it in

florence was it from a casement thrown me wrapped in a paper which contained the name of her that threw it noble she was and thought i stood engaged but when i had subscribed to mine own fortune and informed her fully i could not answer in that course of honour as she had made the overture she ceased in heavy satisfaction

and would never receive the ring again plutus himself that knows the tinct and multiplying medicine hath not in nature's mystery more science than i have in this ring twas mine twas helen's whoever gave it you then if you know that you are well acquainted with yourself confess twas hers and by what rough enforcement you got it from her

"'She called the saints to surety that she would never put it from her finger, "'unless she gave it to yourself in bed where you have never come, "'or sent it us upon her great disaster.' "'She never saw it!' "'Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour, "'and make'st conjectural fears to come into me which I would fain shut out. "'If it should prove that thou art so inhuman, it will not prove so.'

"'Yet I know not. Thou didst hate her deadly, and she is dead, which nothing but to close her eyes myself could win me to believe more than to see this ring. Take him away.' Guards seize Bertram. "'My forepast proofs, howe'er the matter falls, shall tax my fears of little vanity, having vainly feared too little. Away with him! We'll sift this matter further.'

if you shall prove this ring was ever hers you shall as easy prove that i husbanded her bed in florence where yet she never was exit guarded i am wrapt in dismal thinkings enter a gentleman gracious sovereign whether i have been to blame or no i know not

here's a petition from a florentine who hath for four or five removes come short to tender it herself i undertook it vanquished thereto by the fair grace and speech of the poor suppliant who by this i know is here attending her business looks in her with an importing visage and she told me in a sweet verbal brief it did concern your highness with herself

upon his many protestations to marry me when his wife was dead i blush to say it he won me now is the count roussillon a widower his vows are forfeited to me and my honours paid to him he stole from florence taking no leave and i follow him to his country for justice grant it me o king in you it best lies otherwise a seducer flourishes and a poor maid is undone

diana capulet i will buy me a son-in-law in a fair and toll for this i'll none of him the heavens have thought well on thee lafeu to bring forth this discovery seek these suitors go speedily and bring again the count i am afeard the life of helen lady was foully snatched now justice on the doers re-enter bertram guard it

i wonder sir since wives are monsters to you and that you fly them as you swear them lordship yet you desire to marry enter widow and diana what owns that i am my lord a wretched florentine derived from the ancient capulet my suit as i do understand you know and therefore know how far i may be pitied

i am her mother sir whose age and honour both suffer under this complaint we bring and both shall cease without your remedy king come hither count do you know these women king my lord i neither can nor will deny but that i know them

Do they charge me further? Why do you look so strange upon your wife? She is not of mine, my lord. If you shall marry, you give away this hand, and that is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours, That she which marries you must marry me, either both or none.

your reputation comes too short for my daughter you are no husband for her my lord this is a fond and desperate creature whom some time i have laughed with let your highness lay a more noble thought upon mine honour than for to think that i would sink it here sir for my thoughts you have them ill to friend till your deeds gain them

fairer prove your honour than in my thought it lies. Good my lord, ask him upon his oath if he does think he had not my virginity. What say'st thou to her? She's impudent, my lord, and was a common gamester to the camp. He does me wrong, my lord. If I were so, he might have bought me at a common price. Do not believe him.

o behold this ring whose high respect and rich validity did lack a parallel yet for all that he gave it to a commoner of the camp if i be one he blushes and tis it of six preceding ancestors that gem conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue hath it been ow'd and worn this is his wife that rings a thousand proofs

methought you said you saw one here in court could witness it. I did, my lord, but loath am to produce so bad an instrument. His name's Parollus. I saw the man to-day, if man he be. Find him, and bring him hither. Exit an attendant. What of him? He's quoted for a most perfidious slave with all the spots of the world taxed and debauched, whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.

am i that or this for what heel utter that will speak anything she hath that ring of yours i think she has certain it is i liked her and boarded her in the wanton way of youth

She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine, Her infinite cunning with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate. She got the ring, and I had that Which any inferior might at market-place have bought.

i must be patient you that have turned off a first so noble wife may justly diet me i pray you yet since you lack virtue i will lose a husband send for your ring i will return it home and give me mine again i have it not what ring was yours i pray you sir much like the same upon your finger know you this ring this ring was his of late

and this was it i gave him being a bed the story then goes false you threw it him out of a casement i have spoke the truth inter parollis my lord i do confess the ring was hers you boggle shrewdly every feather stars you

is this the man you speak of ay my lord tell me sirrah but tell me true i charge you not fearing the displeasure of your master which on your just proceeding i'll keep off

by him and by this woman here what know you? so please your majesty my master hath been an honourable gentleman tricks he had in him which gentlemen have come come to the purpose did he love this woman? faith sir he did love her but how I pray you he did love her sir as a gentleman loves a woman how is that?

he loved her sir and loved her not as thou art a knave and no knave what an equivocal companion is this he's a good drum my lord but a naughty orator do you know he promised me marriage faith i know more than i'll speak

but wilt thou not speak all thou knowest sir john yes so please your majesty i did go between them as i said but more than that he loved her for indeed he was mad for her and talked of satan and of limbo and of furies and i know not what yet i was in that credit with them at that time that i knew of their going to bed and of other motions

as promising her marriage and things which would derive me ill-will to speak of therefore i will not speak what i know thou hast spoken all already unless thou canst say they are married but thou art too fine in thy evidence therefore stand aside this ring you say was yours lady arthur ay my good lord lord arthur where did you buy it or who gave it you

it was not given me nor i did not buy it who lent it you it was not lent me neither where did you find it then i found it not if it were yours by none of all these ways how could you give it him i never gave it him this woman's an easy glove my lord she goes off and on at pleasure this ring was mine i gave it his first wife

it might be yours or hers for aught i know. GERALD. Take her away, I do not like her now, to prison with her, and away with him. Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring, thou diest within the hour. LADY. I'll never tell you. GERALD. Take her away. LADY. I'll put in bail my liege. GERALD. I think thee now some common customer. LADY. By Jove, if ever I knew man t'was you! GERALD. Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while? LADY. Because he is guilty, and he is not guilty.

he knows i am no maid and he'll swear to it i'll swear i am a maid and he knows not great king i am no strumpet by my life i am either maid or else this old man's wife she does abuse our ears to prison with her good mother fetch my bail stay royal sir exit widow the jeweller that owes the ring is sent for and he shall surety me

But for this lord who hath abused me, As he knows himself, though yet he never harmed me, Here I quit him. He knows himself my bed he hath defiled, And at that time he got his wife with childs. Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick, So there's my riddle. One that's dead is quick, And now behold the meaning. RE-ENTER WIDOW WITH HELENA

is there no exorcist beguiles the truer office of mine eyes is't real that i see lady no my good lord tis but a shadow of a wife you see the name and not the thing both both oh pardon lady o my good lord when i was like this maid i found you wondrous kind there is your ring and look you here's your letter

this itch says when from my finger you can get this ring and you are by me with child c this is done will you be mine now you are doubly one if she my liege can make me know this clearly i'll love her dearly ever ever dearly if it appear not plain and prove untrue deadly divorce step between me and you

oh my dear mother do i see you living duke of oz mine eyes smell onions i shall weep anon to parollus duke of oz good tom drum lend me a handkercher so i thank thee wait on me home i'll make sport with thee let thy courtesies alone they are scurvy ones

let us from point to point this story know to make the even truth in pleasure flow to diana if thou be'st yet a fresh uncropp'd flower choose thou thy husband and i'll pay thy dower for i can guess that by thy honest aid thou keep'st a wife herself thyself a maid of that and all the progress more or less resolvedly more leisure shall express

all yet seems well and if it end so meet the bitter past more welcome is the sweet flourish the king's a beggar now the play is done all is well ended if this suit be one that you express content which we will pay with strife to please you day exceeding day ours be your patience then and yours our parts your gentle hands lend us

and take our heart.

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