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