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All's Well That Ends Well

Act II, Scene 1

Paris. The KING's palace.
 
[Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES]
 
KING
            ,      T     T      T      T   T    T      ,
      Farewell | young lords, these | warlike prin|ciples
          ,      ,           ,          ,         T     T   T
      Do not | throw from | you, and | you my | lords farewell: (hex with prev)
        ,      2     ,       ,          .   T    T    T
      Share the ad|vice be|twixt you,| if both gain, all
            ,            ,          ,         ,         ,
      The gift | doth^stretch | itself | as 'tis | received,
           ,      ,           ,
      And is | enough | for both.
 
FIRST LORD
                                   ,          ,
                                 'Tis our | hope sir,
       T  .   T   T        ,          ,       ,
      After well ent|ered sol|diers, to | return
            ,           ,           ,
      And find | your grace | in health.  \\
 
KING
       T   T   .  T       ,        ,         ,
      No, no, it can|not be;| and yet | my heart
            ,         ,         ,         ,    ,
      Will not | confess | he owes | the mal|ady
             ,         ,        ,           ,            ,
      That doth | my life | besiege:| Farewell | young^lords, ??
        ,           ,        ,        ,          ,
      Whether | I live | or die,| be you | the sons
           ,        ,         ,       x    ,
      Of worth|y French|men: let | higher It/aly  ??
         ,    ,               ,      ,          ,
      (Those bat/ed that | inher|it but | the fall
                 ,   ,     ,     ,               ,
      Of the / last mon|archy)| see that | you come
       T   .  T   T       ,        ,          ,
      Not to woo hon|or, but | to wed | it, when
            ,        ,          ,        ,               ,
      The brav|est ques|tant shrinks,| find what | you seek,
             ,         ,          ,       ,          ,
      That fame | may cry | you loud:| I say | farewell.
 
SECOND LORD
         ,              ,         ,           ,    ,
      Health at | your bid|ding serve | your maj|esty.
 
KING
              ,         ,   ,     ,    ,
      Those girls | of It|aly,| take heed / of them,
            ,           ,       ,    ,               ,
      They say | our French,| lack lang/uage to | deny
           ,        ,        ,         x       ,
      If they | demand:| beware | of being | captives
          ,          ,
      Before | you serve.
 
BOTH
                                ,         ,            ,       ->
                         Our hearts | receive | your warn||ings.
 
KING
        ,    T     T    T      ,       o
      Fare|well, Come hith|er to | me.
 
FIRST LORD
       ,        ,     ,                      ,          x
      Oh my | sweet lord / that you | will stay | behind us.
 
PAROLLES
            ,          ,           ,
      'Tis not | his fault,| the spark.
 
SECOND LORD
                                         T   .    T     T
                                        Oh 'tis brave wars.
 
PAROLLES
        ,   ,                       ,    ,     ,
      Most ad/mira|ble, I have // seen those wars.
 
BERTRAM
      ,   2     ,         ,           T  .   T    T
      I am com|manded | here, and | kept a coil with,
            ,        2      ,      ,          ,         ,
      Too^young,| and the next | year, and |'tis too | early.
 
PAROLLES
       ,          T    T    T       ,    oo
      And thy | mind stand to | it boy,|
        T   . T    T
      Steal away brave|ly.  \\
 
BERTRAM
                  ,    ,          ,    ,            ,
      I shall / stay here | the fore|horse to | a smock,
        ,             ,                ,    ,     ,
      Creaking | my shoes | on the / plain mas|onry,
             x           ,      ,         T   T     T
      Till honor | be bought | up, and | no sword worn
           ,      x                   x            ,       ,
      But one | to dance with:| By heaven,| I'll steal | away.  ??
 
FIRST LORD
               ,      ,         ,
      There's hon|or in | the theft.
 
PAROLLES
                                          ,         ,
                                      Commit | it count.
 
SECOND LORD
      ,        ,      ,   2         ,         ,
      I am | your ac|cessary,| and so | farewell.
 
BERTRAM
          ,      2      ,          ,     3  3   ,         ,    2->
      I grow | to you, and | our part|ing is a tor|tured bo||dy.
 
FIRST LORD
            ,     ,
      Farewell | captain.
 
SECOND LORD
                           ,         ,        ,
                         Sweet Mon|sieur Par|olles.
 
PAROLLES
Noble heroes; my sword and yours are kin, Good sparks and lustrous, a word good metals: you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii, one Captain Spurio his cicatrice, with an emblem of war here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it: say to him I live, and observe his reports for me.
 
FIRST LORD
We shall noble captain.
 
PAROLLES
Mars dote on you for his novices, what will ye do?
 
BERTRAM
Stay the king.
 
PAROLLES
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 received star, and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.
 
BERTRAM
And I will do so.
 
PAROLLES
Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
 
[Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES. Enter LAFEU]
 
LAFEU
       ,            ,         ,    ,     2      ,
      Pardon | my lord | for me | and for my | tidings.
 
KING
            ,      T   .   T    T
      I'll see | thee to stand up.  \\
 
LAFEU
              ,        ,       ,       2         ,           ,
      Then here's | a man | stands that has | brought his | pardon,
          ,        2       ,           ,      x          ,
      I would | you had kneeled | my lord | to ask me | mercy,
         2      ,       ,        ,           ,          ,
      And that at | my bid|ding you | could so | stand^up.
 
KING
          ,        ,     ,           ,           ,
      I would | I had,| so I | had broke | thy pate,
            ,           ,        x
      And asked | thee mer|cy for it.  \\
 
LAFEU
             ,        ,                ,    ,          ,
      Good faith | across,| but my / good lord |'tis thus,
            ,         ,          ,        ,    ,
      Will you | be cured | of your | infirm|ity?
 
KING
      __
      No.  \\
 
LAFEU
           ,         ,           ,         ,      ,
      O* will | you eat | no* grapes | my roy|al fox?
       ,              ,        ,        ,          ,
      Yes but | you will,| my nob|le grapes,| and if
           x      ,            ,           2       ,            3   3->
      My royal | fox could | reach them:| I have seen | a med||icine
              ,            ,      ,     ,         ,
      That's ab|le to / breathe life | into | a stone,
        ,    2      ,           ,          ,       ,
      Quicken a | rock, and | make you | dance ca|nary
              ,        ,         ,                  x     ,
      With sprite|ly fire | and mot|ion, whose / simple touch
           x    ,    2    T     T   T       ,
      Is power|ful to a|raise King Pep|in, nay
       .   T    T     T      ,       ,      2      ,
      To give great Char|lemain | a pen | in his hand,
            ,       Tx   .   T    T
      And write | to her a love-line.
 
KING
                                         T    Tx     T
                                       What her is this?
 
LAFEU
           ,       ,         ,             ,        ,
      Why Doc|tor She:| my lord,| there's one | arrived,
          ,          ,          ,      2     ,           x
      If you | will see | her: now | by my faith | and honor,
          ,   2   ,      ,        ,           ,
      If ser|iously | I may | convey | my thoughts
           ,         ,        ,    2     ,          ,
      In this | my light | deliv|erance, I | have spoke
            ,      ,    2       ,           ,         ,
      With one,| that in her | sex, her | years, pro|fession,
       ,             ,      ,       2   ,          ,
      Wisdom | and cons|tancy,| hath amazed | me more
                 ,    ,          ,          ,           x
      Than I / dare blame | my weak|ness: will | you see her?
              x      ,       ,           ,         ,
      For that is | her de|mand, and | know her | business?
            ,       ,     ,
      That done,| laugh well / at me.
 
KING
                                       T    T   . T
                                      Now good Lafeu,
        ,     2       ,    ,             ,          ,
      Bring in the | admi|ration,| that we | with thee
            ,          ,       ,     .   T   T    T
      May spend | our wond|er too,| or take off thine
           ,    2    ,               x
      By wond|ering how | thou tookst it.
 
LAFEU
                                           ,           ,
                                          Nay, I'll | fit you,
           ,     .  T   T   T
      And not | be all day neith|er.  \\
 
KING
            ,         ,        ,       ,      ,     T   ->    
      Thus he | his spec|ial noth|ing ev|er pro||logues.
 
LAFEU
       T     T           ,
      Nay, come | your ways.  \\
 
[Enter HELENA]
 
KING
             ,            ,         ,
      This haste | hath wings | indeed. \\
 
LAFEU
       T     T    T     __
      Nay, come your | ways,  \\
        ,            ,   2     ,           ,        ,
      This is | his maj|esty, say | your mind | to him,
          ,     2     ,     T    T    .    T      ,
      A trait|or you do | look like, but such | traitors
           ,   2    ,        ,      2     ,          x
      His maj|esty sel|dom fears;| I am Cres|sid's uncle,
             ,      T    T   .  T        ,          ,
      That dare | leave two togeth|er, fare | you well.
 
[Exit]
 
KING
       T    T   T      ,          ,          ,    2
      Now fair one,| does your | business | follow us?
 
HELENA
       ,              ,
      Aye my | good lord.  \\
          ,        ,       ,         ,      o
      Gerard | de Nar|bon was | my fath|er,
           ,        ,         ,            ,
      In what | he did | profess,| well* found.
 
KING
                                                      x
                                                I knew him.
 
HELENA
            ,       ,        ,          ,             x
      The rath|er will | I spare | my prais|es towards him,
        ,        ,          ,       2     ,         ,
      Knowing | him is | enough:| On his bed | of death,
       ,          ,          ,          ,       ,
      Many | receipts | he gave | me, chief|ly one,
        ,      2        ,        ,       ,         ,
      Which, as the | dearest | issue | of his | practice
       ,    2       ,      ,            x        ,
      And of his | old ex|perience,| the^only | darling,
           ,         ,      ,           ,      ,
      He bade | me store | up, as | a trip|le eye,
       ,   2         T   T   T            ,     2      ,
      Safer than | mine own two;| more* dear | I have so,  ??
            ,        ,      ,   ,               ,
      And hear|ing your | high maj/esty | is touched
             ,       ,         ,           ,         x
      With that | malig|nant cause,| wherein | the honor
                ,    ,         ,       T     T    .  Tx
      Of my / dear fath|er's gift,| stands chief in power,
          ,        ,       ,    ,    2    ,
      I come | to tend|er it,| and my ap|pliance,
            ,      ,    ,
      With all | bound hum/bleness.
 
KING
                                        ,            x
                                   We thank | you maiden,
           ,          ,        ,     ,         ,
      But may | not* be | so cred|ulous | of cure,
                   ,    ,       ,            x      ,
      When our / most learn|ed doc|tors leave us,| and
      <-         ,     ,       ,          ,       ,
        The || congre|gated | college | have con|cluded,
            ,    2    ,          x      ,        ,
      That lab|oring art | can never | ransom | nature
        ,     2    ,   2       ,        ,      2      ,
      From her in|aidible | estate:| I say | we must not
            ,           ,         ,        ,          ,
      So* stain | our judg|ment, or | corrupt | our hope,
           ,      ,          ,     ,   ,
      To pros|titute | our past-|cure mal/ady
        2   ,        ,    T  T  T      ,
      To empir|ics, or | to dissev|er so
            ,       ,              ,       ,      ,
      Our great | self and | our cred|it, to | esteem
          ,          ,           ,      T    T    .   T
      A sense|less help,| when help | past sense we deem.
 
HELENA
          ,      ,           ,        ,         ,
      My du|ty then | shall pay | me for | my pains:
       2      ,     ,       ,           ,        ,
      I will no | more en|force mine | office | on you,
       ,           ,         ,          ,         ,
      Humbly | entreat|ing from | your roy|al thoughts,
         ,       ,         ,         ,       ,
      A mod|est one | to bear | me back | again.
 
KING
         ,        ,           ,      2      ,       ,
      I can|not give | thee less | to be called | grateful:
               ,            ,                ,     ,         ,
      Thou thoughtst | to help | me, and / such thanks | I give,
       .  T    T    T          ,            ,          ,
      As one near death | to those | that wish | him live:
            ,     .   T  T   T      T     T    .    T
      But what | at full I know,| thou knowst no* part,  ??
      T   Tx     T         x       T   T  T
      I knowing all | my peril,| thou no art.
 
HELENA
           ,        ,        ,         ,        ,
      What I | can do,| can do | no* hurt | to try,
             ,         ,          ,       T    T . T
      Since^you | set up | your rest |'gainst remedy:
           ,         ,         ,         ,      ,
      He that | of great|est works | is fin|isher,
            ,          ,         ,       ,     ,
      Oft does | them by | the weak|est min|ister:
          ,      ,         ,            ,         ,
      So ho|ly writ,| in babes | hath judg|ment shown,
             ,       ,           ,       T      T     .     T
      When judg|es have | been babes;| great floods have^flown
            ,        ,               ,     ,           ,
      From simp|le sourc|es: and / great seas | have dried
            ,    2     ,      2      ,         ,        ,
      When mir|acles have | by the great|est been | denied.
           ,     ,        ,      .    T   T    T
      Oft^ex|pecta|tion fails,| and most oft there
               ,         ,    ,         ,         ,
      Where* most | it prom|ises:| and oft | it hits,
              ,         ,        ,     .   T    T    T
      Where hope | is cold|est, and | despair most fits.
 
KING
          ,          ,            ,           ,           ,
      I must | not^hear | thee, fare | thee well | kind^maid,
            ,           ,          ,        ,          ,
      Thy pains | not^used,| must by | thyself | be* paid;
        ,              ,            ,           ,         ,
      Proffers | not^took,| reap^thanks | for their | reward.
 
HELENA
          ,      ,      ,         ,           ,
      Inspir|ed mer|it so | by breath | is barred,
          ,        ,         ,      .   T     T     T
      It is | not^so | with Him | that^all things knows
           ,          ,           ,           ,          ,
      As 'tis | with us,| that square | our guess | by shows:
            ,        ,        ,        ,         ,
      But most | it is | presump|tion in | us, when
            ,          x          ,          ,        ,
      The help | of heaven | we count | the act | of men.
        T   T    .  T      ,         ,         ,
      Dear sir, to my | endea|vors give | consent,
       .   Tx     T   T     ,          ,     ,
      Of heaven, not me,| make an | exper|iment.
         ,    ,          ,         ,         ,
      I am | not an | impos|tor, that | proclaim
          ,        ,          ,      ,         ,
      Myself | against | the lev|el of | mine^aim,
            ,        ,           ,         ,            ,
      But know | I think,| and think | I know | most* sure,
          ,     .  T    T    Tx         ,           ,
      My art | is not past power,| nor you | past^cure.  ??
 
KING
            ,        ,      ,        ,           ,
      Are thou | so con|fident?| Within | what^space
        ,               ,
      Hopst thou | my cure?
 
HELENA
                             .     T      T      T       ,
                            The greatst grace lend|ing grace,
            ,           ,      ,        ,            ,
      Ere twice | the hors|es of | the sun | shall bring
             ,       ,       ,       ,       ,
      Their fie|ry torch|er his | diur|nal ring,
            ,          ,         ,    ,        ,
      Ere twice | in murk | and oc|ciden|tal damp
        ,    ,                   ,            ,       ,
      Moist Hes/perus | hath quenched | his sleep|y lamp:
           ,          ,       ,          ,         ,
      Or four | and twen|ty times | the pil|ot's glass
             ,          ,        ,         ,           ,
      Hath told | the thiev|ish min|utes, how | they pass:
        ,           ,                  ,     ,            ,
      What is | infirm,| from your / sound parts | shall fly,
         ,             T    T    .    T         ,      ,
      Health shall | live free, and sick|ness free|ly die.
 
KING
        ,         ,       ,        ,      ,
      Upon | thy cert|ainty | and con|fidence,
             ,           ,
      What darst | thou vent|ure?
 
HELENA
                                   ,        ,     ,
                                  Tax | of imp|udence,
           ,          ,    ,          ,        ,
      A strump|et's bold|ness, a | divul|ged shame
           ,         ,  2      x           ,         ,
      Traduced | by od|ious ballads:| my maid|en's name
         T    T  .  T          ,          ,        ,      o
      Seared otherwise,| nay worse | of worst | exten|ded
            ,       ,         ,         ,        ,      o
      With vil|est tor|ture, let | my life | be end|ed.    (hex with prev)
 
KING
           ,          ,           ,         x            ,
      Methinks | in thee | some bles|sed spirit | doth speak
            x         ,         ,        ,       ,
      His power|ful sound | within | an org|an weak:
            ,       ,     ,    ,           ,
      And what | impos|sibil|ity | would slay
          ,        ,       T     T   .  T      ,
      In com|mon sense,| sense saves anoth|er way:
            ,         ,         ,           ,          ,
      Thy life | is dear,| for all | that life | can rate
        T     T   .   T         ,          ,     ,
      Worth name of life,| in thee | hath es|timate:
       ___      ,       ,         ,       ___
      Youth,| beauty,| wisdom,| courage,| all
            ,      ,          ,          ,       ,
      That hap|piness | and prime,| can hap|py call:
        T    T   .  T         ,           ,     ,
      Thou this to haz|ard, needs | must in|timate
        ,    ,               ,         ,      ,
      Skill in/finite,| or mons|trous des|perate,
        ,     ,                ,     ,         ,
      Sweet prac/tiser,| thy phys|ic I | will try,
            ,      ,           ,      T    . T  T
      That min|isters | thine^own | death if I die.
 
HELENA
       . T   T     T          ,          ,     ,
      If I break time,| or flinch | in prop|erty
           ,        ,        ,       ,        ,
      Of what | I spoke,| unpit|ied let | me die,
            ,         ,           ,          ,          ,
      And well | deserved:| not^help|ing, death's | my fee,
           ,       ,      ,             ,       ,
      But if | I help,| what do | you prom|ise me?
 
KING
        ,            ,
      Make thy | demand.
 
HELENA
                              ,          ,         x
                        But will | you make | it even?
 
KING
       ,            ,        ,         ,          ,
      Aye by | my scep|ter, and | my hopes | of help.
 
HELENA
             ,            ,         ,          ,       ,
      Then shalt | thou give | me with | thy king|ly hand
            ,        ,         x         ,         ,
      What hus|band in | thy power | I will | command:
         ,       ,         ,        ,     ,
      Exemp|ted be | from me | the ar|rogance
            ,            ,          ,       ,           ,
      To choose | from forth | the roy|al blood | of France,
          ,         ,        ,         ,     ,
      My low | and hum|ble name | to prop|agate
            ,      ,         ,      ,         ,
      With an|y branch | or im|age of | thy state;
            ,       ,         ,         ,        ,
      But such | a one | thy vas|sal, whom | I know
           ,         ,       ,      ,           ,
      Is free | for me | to ask,| thee to | bestow.
 
KING
        ,            ,          ,    ,         ,
      Here is | my hand,| the prem|ises | observed,
            ,        ,        ,         ,           ,
      Thy will | by my | perform|ance shall | be served:
            ,           ,         ,          ,        ,
      So* make | the choice | of thy | own^time,| for I
         2   ,       ,         ,          ,        ,
      Thy resolv|ed pat|ient, on | thee still | rely:
               ,         ,         ,          ,        ,
      More* should | I ques|tion thee,| and more | I must,
               ,         ,           ,         ,         ,
      Though more | to know | could not | be more | to trust:
              ,            ,           ,      ,         ,
      From whence | thou camst,| how tend|ed on,| but rest
          ,          ,         ,        ,         ,
      Unques|tioned wel|come, and | undoubt|ed blessed.
        ,              ,          ,        ,         ,
      Give me | some help | here ho,| if thou | proceed,
           ,         ,         ,            ,           ,
      As high | as word,| my deed | shall match | thy meed.
 
[Flourish. Exeunt]

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