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Paris. The KING's palace.
[Enter HELENA and Clown]
HELENA
My mother greets me kindly, is she well?
CLOWN
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.
HELENA
If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's not very well?
CLOWN
Truly she's very well indeed, but for two things.
HELENA
What two things?
CLOWN
One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly: the other, that
she's in earth, from whence God send her quickly.
PAROLLES
Bless you my fortunate lady.
HELENA
I hope sir I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes.
PAROLLES
You had my prayers to lead them on, and to keep them on, have them still. O,
my knave, how does my old lady?
CLOWN
So that you had her wrinkles, and I her money, I would she did as you say.
PAROLLES
Why I say nothing.
CLOWN
Marry 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.
PAROLLES
Away, thou'rt a knave.
CLOWN
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.
PAROLLES
Go to, thou art a witty fool, I have found thee.
CLOWN
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.
PAROLLES
A good knave in faith, and well fed.
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Madam,| my lord | will go | away | tonight;
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A ver|y ser|ious bus|iness calls | on him:
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The great | prerog|ative | and rite | of love,
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Which as your | due time claims,| he does |
acknow||ledge,
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But | puts it | off to a | compelled | restraint:
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Whose^want,| and whose | delay,| is strewed |
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Which^they | distill | now in | the curb|ed time,
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To make | the com|ing hour | *oreflow | with joy,
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And pleas|ure drown | the brim.
HELENA
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What's his will else?
PAROLLES
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That you | will take | your inst|ant leave | of
the king,
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And make | this haste | as your own | good
pro|ceeding,
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Strengthened | with what | apol|ogy | you think
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May make it | probable | need.
HELENA
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What | more com|mands he?
PAROLLES
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That hav|ing this | obtained,| you pres|ently
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Attend | his furth|er pleas|ure. \\
HELENA
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In eve|rything | I wait | upon | his will.
PAROLLES
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I shall | report | it so. \\
[Exit PAROLLES]
HELENA
I pray you come sirrah.
[Exeunt]