All's Well, that Ends Well.
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The fundamentall reasons of this warre,
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
And more thirsts after.
Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
And more thirsts after.
1.Lord.
Holy seemes the quarrell
Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull
On the opposer.
Holy seemes the quarrell
Vpon your Graces part: blacke and fearefull
On the opposer.
Duke.
Therefore we meruaile much our Cosin France
Would in so iust a businesse, shut his bosome
Against our borrowing prayers.
Therefore we meruaile much our Cosin France
Would in so iust a businesse, shut his bosome
Against our borrowing prayers.
French E.
Good my Lord,
The reasons of our state I cannot yeelde,
But like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a Counsaile frames,
By selfe vnable motion, therefore dare not
Say what I thinke of it, since I haue found
My selfe in my incertaine grounds to faile
As often as I guest.
Good my Lord,
The reasons of our state I cannot yeelde,
But like a common and an outward man,
That the great figure of a Counsaile frames,
By selfe vnable motion, therefore dare not
Say what I thinke of it, since I haue found
My selfe in my incertaine grounds to faile
As often as I guest.
Duke.
Be it his pleasure.
Be it his pleasure.
Fren.G.
But I am sure the yonger of our nature,
That surfet on their ease, will day by day
Come heere for Physicke.
But I am sure the yonger of our nature,
That surfet on their ease, will day by day
Come heere for Physicke.
Duke.
Welcome shall they bee:
And all the honors that can flye from vs,
Shall on them settle: you know your places well,
When better fall, for your auailes they fell,
Flourish.To morrow to'th the field.
Welcome shall they bee:
And all the honors that can flye from vs,
Shall on them settle: you know your places well,
When better fall, for your auailes they fell,
Flourish.To morrow to'th the field.
Enter Countesse and Clowne.
Count.
It hath happen'd all, as I would haue had it, saue
that he comes not along with her.
It hath happen'd all, as I would haue had it, saue
that he comes not along with her.
Clo.
By my troth I take my young Lord to be a verie
melancholly man.
By my troth I take my young Lord to be a verie
melancholly man.
Count.
By what obseruance I pray you.
By what obseruance I pray you.
Clo.
Why he will looke vppon his boote, and sing:
mend the Ruffe and sing, aske questions and sing, picke
his teeth, and sing: I know a man that had this tricke of
melancholy hold a goodly Mannor for a song.
Why he will looke vppon his boote, and sing:
mend the Ruffe and sing, aske questions and sing, picke
his teeth, and sing: I know a man that had this tricke of
melancholy hold a goodly Mannor for a song.
Lad.
Let me see what he writes, and when he meanes
to come.
Let me see what he writes, and when he meanes
to come.
Clow.
I haue no minde to Isbell since I was at Court.
Our old Lings, and our Isbels a'th Country, are nothing
like your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court: the brains
of my Cupid's knock'd out, and I beginne to loue, as an
old man loues money, with no stomacke.
I haue no minde to Isbell since I was at Court.
Our old Lings, and our Isbels a'th Country, are nothing
like your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court: the brains
of my Cupid's knock'd out, and I beginne to loue, as an
old man loues money, with no stomacke.
Lad.
What haue we heere?
What haue we heere?
Clo.
exitIn that you haue there.
exitIn that you haue there.
A Letter.
I haue sent you a daughter-in-Law, shee hath recouered the
King, and vndone me: I haue wedded her, not bedded her,
and sworne to make the not eternall. You shall heare I am
runne away, know it before the report come. If there bee
bredth enough in the world, I will hold a long distance. My
duty to you.Your vnfortunate sonne,
Bertram.
King, and vndone me: I haue wedded her, not bedded her,
and sworne to make the not eternall. You shall heare I am
runne away, know it before the report come. If there bee
bredth enough in the world, I will hold a long distance. My
duty to you.Your vnfortunate sonne,
Bertram.
This is not well rash and vnbridled boy,
To flye the fauours of so good a King,
To plucke his indignation on thy head,
By the misprising of a Maide too vertuous
For the contempt of Empire.
To flye the fauours of so good a King,
To plucke his indignation on thy head,
By the misprising of a Maide too vertuous
For the contempt of Empire.
Enter Clowne.
Clow.
O Madam, yonder is heauie newes within
betweene two souldiers, and my yong Ladie.
O Madam, yonder is heauie newes within
betweene two souldiers, and my yong Ladie.
La.
What is the matter.
What is the matter.
Clo.
Nay there is some comfort in the newes, some
comfort, your sonne will not be kild so soone as I thoght
he would.
Nay there is some comfort in the newes, some
comfort, your sonne will not be kild so soone as I thoght
he would.
La.
Why should he be kill'd?
Why should he be kill'd?
Clo.
So say I Madame, if he runne away, as I heare he
does, the danger is in standing too't, that's the losse of
men, though it be the getting of children. Heere they
come will tell you more. For my part I onely heare your
sonne was run away.
So say I Madame, if he runne away, as I heare he
does, the danger is in standing too't, that's the losse of
men, though it be the getting of children. Heere they
come will tell you more. For my part I onely heare your
sonne was run away.
Enter Hellen and two Gentlemen.
French E.
Saue you good Madam.
Saue you good Madam.
Hel.
Madam, my Lord is gone, for euer gone.
Madam, my Lord is gone, for euer gone.
French G.
Do not say so.
Do not say so.
La.
Thinke vpon patience, pray you Gentlemen,
I haue felt so many quirkes of ioy and greefe,
That the first face of neither on the start
Can woman me vntoo't. Where is my sonne I pray you?
Thinke vpon patience, pray you Gentlemen,
I haue felt so many quirkes of ioy and greefe,
That the first face of neither on the start
Can woman me vntoo't. Where is my sonne I pray you?
Fren.G.
Madam he's gone to serue the Duke of Florence,
We met him thitherward, for thence we came:
And after some dispatch in hand at Court,
Thither we bend againe.
Madam he's gone to serue the Duke of Florence,
We met him thitherward, for thence we came:
And after some dispatch in hand at Court,
Thither we bend againe.
Hel.
Looke on his Letter Madam, here's my Pasport.
Looke on his Letter Madam, here's my Pasport.
When thou canst get the Ring vpon my finger, which neuer
shall come off, and shew mee a childe begotten of thy bodie,
that I am father too, then call me husband: but in such a (then)
I write a Neuer.
This is a dreadfull sentence.
shall come off, and shew mee a childe begotten of thy bodie,
that I am father too, then call me husband: but in such a (then)
I write a Neuer.
This is a dreadfull sentence.
La.
Brought you this Letter Gentlemen?
Brought you this Letter Gentlemen?
1.G.
I Madam, and for the Contents sake are sorrie
for our paines.
I Madam, and for the Contents sake are sorrie
for our paines.
Old La.
I prethee Ladie haue a better cheere,
If thou engrossest, all the greefes are thine,
Thou robst me of a moity: He was my sonne,
But I do wash his name out of my blood,
And thou art all my childe. Towards Florence is he?
I prethee Ladie haue a better cheere,
If thou engrossest, all the greefes are thine,
Thou robst me of a moity: He was my sonne,
But I do wash his name out of my blood,
And thou art all my childe. Towards Florence is he?
Fren.G.
I Madam.
I Madam.
La.
And to be a souldier.
And to be a souldier.
Fren.G.
Such is his noble purpose, and beleeu't
The Duke will lay vpon him all the honor
That good conuenience claimes.
Such is his noble purpose, and beleeu't
The Duke will lay vpon him all the honor
That good conuenience claimes.
La.
Returne you thither.
Returne you thither.
Fren.E.
I Madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
I Madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
Hel.
Till I haue no wife, I haue nothing in France,
'Tis bitter.
Till I haue no wife, I haue nothing in France,
'Tis bitter.
La.
Finde you that there?
Finde you that there?
Hel.
I Madame.
I Madame.
Fren.E.
'Tis but the boldnesse of his hand haply, which
his heart was not consenting too.
'Tis but the boldnesse of his hand haply, which
his heart was not consenting too.
Lad.
Nothing in France, vntill he haue no wife:
There's nothing heere that is too good for him
But onely she, and she deserues a Lord
That twenty such rude boyes might tend vpon,
And call her hourely Mistris. Who was with him?
Nothing in France, vntill he haue no wife:
There's nothing heere that is too good for him
But onely she, and she deserues a Lord
That twenty such rude boyes might tend vpon,
And call her hourely Mistris. Who was with him?
Fren.E.
A seruant onely, and a Gentleman: which I
haue sometime knowne.
A seruant onely, and a Gentleman: which I
haue sometime knowne.
La.
Parolles was it not?
Parolles was it not?
Fren.E.
I my good Ladie, hee.
I my good Ladie, hee.
La.
A verie tainted fellow, and full of wickednesse,
My sonne corrupts a well deriued nature
With his inducement.
A verie tainted fellow, and full of wickednesse,
My sonne corrupts a well deriued nature
With his inducement.
Fren.E.
Indeed good Ladie the fellow has a deale of
that, too much, which holds him much to haue.
Indeed good Ladie the fellow has a deale of
that, too much, which holds him much to haue.
La.
Y'are welcome Gentlemen, I will intreate you
when you see my sonne, to tell him that his sword can
neuer winne the honor that he looses: more Ile intreate
Y'are welcome Gentlemen, I will intreate you
when you see my sonne, to tell him that his sword can
neuer winne the honor that he looses: more Ile intreate
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