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All's Well That Ends Well

Act V, Scene 3

Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
 
[Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two French Lords, with Attendants]
 
KING
           ,        x         ,         ,       ,
      We lost | a jewel | of her,| and our | esteem
            ,      T    Tx    T        ,          ,
      Was made | much poorer by | it: but | your son,
          ,        ,         ,           ,          ,
      As mad | in fol|ly, lacked | the sense | to know
           ,    ,        ,
      Her est|ima|tion home.
 
COUNTESS
                                    ,         ,
                             'Tis past | my liege,
          ,       ,           ,    ,           x
      And I | beseech | your maj|esty | to make it
       ,  2        ,          ,      2      ,          ,
      Natural | rebel|lion, done | in the blaze | of youth,
            ,          ,     T     T    .    T         ,
      When oil | and fire,| too strong for^reas|on's force,
              x           ,      ,
      Orebears it,| and burns | on.
 
KING
                                          ,         ,
                                    My | honored | lady,
      ,            ,      ,        ,       ,
      I have | forgiv|en and | forgot|ten all,
         ,     2    ,              ,      ,     ,
      Though my rev|enges | were high | bent u|pon him,
             ,            ,         ,
      And watched | the time | to shoot.
 
LAFEU
                                           ,            ,
                                         This I | must say,
            ,        ,        ,               ,     ,
      But first | I beg | my pard|on: the / young lord
       ,    2       ,   2           ,       ,       ,
      Did to his | majesty*,| his moth|er, and his lady,  ????
          ,          ,       ,         ,        ,
      Offense | of might|y note;| but to | himself
            ,         ,         ,         ,        ,
      The great|est wrong | of all.| He lost | a wife,
              ,      ,        x           ,     2->
      Whose^beaut|y did | astonish | the sur|vey
      <-     ,         ,            ,      T    T    T     ,
        Of rich||est eyes:| whose^words | all ears took | captive,
              ,        ,           ,             ,           ,
      Whose dear | perfec|tion, hearts | that scorned | to serve,
       ,        ,        ,
      Humbly | called | mistress.
 
KING
                                    ,            2     ,
                                  Praising | what is lost,
        ,      2    ,            T     T     T   .     ,
      Makes the re|membrance | dear. Well, call him | hither,
        2     ,      ,                 ,     ,            ,
      We are re|conciled,| and the / first view | shall kill
       T   T . T        ,       2     ,           x
      All repeti|tion: let | him not^ask | our pardon,  ??
           ,       ,         ,         ,          ,
      The nat|ure of | his great | offense | is dead,
            ,       ,       ,   2    ,       ,    3->
      And deep|er than | obliv|ion, we | do bu||ry
         2    ,       ,        x      ,             ,
      The incens|ing rel|ics of it.| Let him | approach
          ,         ,      ,          2     ,   ,
      A strang|er, no | offend|er; and in/form him
           ,          ,          ,
      So 'tis | our will | he should.
 
GENTLEMAN
                                          ,          ,
                                      I shall | my liege.
 
[Exit]
 
KING
             ,     ,             ,
      What says | he to | your daught|er,
                                           ,          ,
                                         Have | you spoke?
 
LAFEU
       ,      2      ,           ,          ,          ,
      All that he | is, hath | reference | to your | highness.
 
KING
Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me, that set him high in fame.
 
[Enter BERTRAM]
 
LAFEU
           ,       ,    2
      He looks | well on it.
 
KING
                              2    ,       ,          x
                             I am not | a day | of season,
            ,           ,       ,    ,              ,
      For thou | mayst see | a sun|shine, and | a hail
          ,        ,     ,              ,         ,
      In me | at once:| but to | the bright|est beams
           ,         ,           ,         ,            ,
      Distract|ed clouds | give^way,| so stand | thou forth,
            ,         ,       ,
      The time | is fair | again.
 
BERTRAM
           ,      ,         ,
      My high-|repent|ed blames (tri with prev)
             ,         ,       ,
      Dear sove|reign pard|on to | me.
 
KING
                                        ,         ,
                                       All | is whole;
           ,      ,    ,                 ,       ,
      Not one | word more / of the | consum|ed time,
              ,         ,        ,        ,        ,
      Let's^take | the inst|ant by | the for|ward top;
           ,        ,         ,          ,          ,
      For we | are old,| and on | our quickst | decrees
         2   ,    ,          ,          ,         ,
      The inaud|ible,| and noise|less foot | of Time
         ,           ,    2     ,          ,      ,
      Steals, ere*| we can ef|fect them.| You re|member
            ,              ,    ,
      The daught|er of / this lord?  \\
 
BERTRAM
         ,      ,        ,     oo        ,
      Admir|ingly | my liege,|    | at first
          ,           ,       ,          ,         ,
      I stuck | my choice | upon | her, ere | my heart
        T     T   T      ,       ,         2      ,
      Durst make too | bold a | herald | of my tongue:
        ,      2     ,         ,         ,      ,
      Where the im|pression | of mine | eye in|fixing,
           ,           ,      2     ,        ,      ,
      Contempt | his scorn|ful perspect|ive did | lend me,
               ,             x      ,       ,       ,
      Which^warped | the line of | every | other | favor,
         T    .   T   T       ,        ,            x
      Scorned a fair col|or, or | expressed | it stolen,
         ,   ,    2      ,        ,       ,
      Exten|ded or con|tracted | all pro|portions  ??
        2    ,     ,  2      T  T      T          ,
      To a most | hideous | object. Thence | it came,
            ,          ,     T     T      .    T        ,
      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.
 
KING
                                           ,        ,
                                         Well | excused:
             ,              x         T      T     T       ,
      That thou | didst love her,| strikes some scores | away
                   ,     ,           ,           ,            ,
      From the / great compt:| but love | that comes | too* late,
        ,   2     ,         ,         ,       ,
      Like a re|morseful | pardon | slowly | carried,
                 ,     ,        ,         ,        ,
      To the / great send|er, turns | a sour | offense,
       ,                ,             ,     T    T     T
      Crying,| that's good | that's gone:| Our rash faults,
              ,   2    ,         ,          ,          ,
      Make* triv|ial price | of ser|ious things | we have,
       ,    ,                ,         ,            ,
      Not know/ing them,| until | we know | their grave.
       ,             ,         ,         ,         ,
      Oft our | displeas|ures to | ourselves | unjust,
          ,            ,           ,       ,            ,
      Destroy | our friends,| and aft|er weep | their dust:
           ,          ,         ,         ,             ,
      Our own | love^wak|ing, cries | to see | what's done,
              ,            ,            ,         ,      ,
      While shame | full^late | sleeps^out | the aft|ernoon.
           ,           ,         ,          ,          x
      Be this | sweet^Hel|en's knell,| and now | forget her.
             ,           ,  2      x           ,      ,
      Send^forth | your am|orous token | for fair | Maudlin,
            ,         ,          ,          ,            ,
      The main | consents | are had,| and here | we'll stay
          ,         ,   2      ,       ,         ,
      To see | our wid|ower's sec|ond mar|riage day:
        ,     x                   ,           T    Tx     T
      Which better / than the | first, O* | dear heaven bless,
       ,               ,        ,      ,        ,
      Or, ere*| they meet | in me,| O na|ture cesse.
 
LAFEU
            ,       ,         ,         ,        ,
      Come on | my son,| in whom | my house|'s name
            ,      ,         ,        ,       ,
      Must be | diges|ted: give | a favor | from you
           ,       ,          x       ,         ,
      To spark|le in | the spirits | of my | daughter,
            ,          ,        ,     .   T  T    T
      That she | may quick|ly come.| By* my old beard,
           ,       ,             x      ,               ,
      And eve|ry hair | that's on it,| Helen | that's dead
                ,     ,          ,        ,         ,
      Was a / sweet creat|ure: such | a ring | as this,
            ,          ,    T   T   T         ,
      The last | that ere | I took her | at court,
         ,      ,          ,
      I saw | upon | her fing|er.
 
BERTRAM
                                   ,      2    ,
                                 Hers | it was not.
 
KING
            ,         ,        ,                ,   ,
      Now pray | you let | me see | it. For / mine eye,
            ,         ,         ,          ,         x
      While I | was speak|ing, oft | was fast|ened to it:
             ,          ,          ,          x      ,
      This ring | was mine,| and when | I gave it | Helen,
          ,         ,        ,         ,      ,
      I bade | her if | her for|tunes ev|er stood
         ,      ,         ,          ,          x
      Neces|sitied | to help,| that by | this token
      ,      2     ,          ,     2         ,          ,
      I would re|lieve her.| Had you that | craft to | reave her
           ,             ,           ,
      Of what | should stead | her most?
 
BERTRAM
                                              ,         ,        ->
                                         My grac|ious sove||reign,
       ,     2     ,       ,         ,        ,
      How|ere it pleas|es you | to take | it so,
            ,         ,       ,
      The ring | was nev|er hers.
 
COUNTESS
                                  ,             ,
                                 Son, on | my life
       2       ,          ,         ,          ,        ,
      I have seen | her wear | it, and | she reck|oned it
                  ,     ,
      At her / life's rate.
 
LAFEU
                             2     ,       ,            x
                            I am sure | I saw | her wear it.
 
BERTRAM
       ,             ,          ,         ,        x
      You are | deceived | my lord,| she nev|er saw it:
           ,          x       ,        ,           ,
      In Flor|ence was it | from a | casement | thrown me,
         ,            ,        ,           ,           ,
      Wrapped in | a pap|er, which | contained | the name
          ,              x      ,           ,           ,
      Of her | that threw it:| noble | she was,| and thought
          ,         ,           ,       ,          ,
      I stood | engaged.| But when | I had | subscribed
        2      ,     ,         ,        ,          ,
      To mine^own | fortune,| and in|formed her | fully,
       2       ,     ,        ,           ,         ,
      I could not | answer | in that | course of | honor
          ,          ,         ,     ,           ,
      As she | had made | the ov|erture,| she ceased
           ,     ,     ,         ,            x
      In heav|y sat|isfac|tion, and | would never
          ,           ,       ,
      Receive | the ring | again.
 
KING
                                   ,            ,
                                  Plutus | himself,
             ,           ,          ,     ,       ,     2   ->
      That knows | the tinct | and mul|tiply|ing med||icine,
        ,       2    ,         ,   2     ,     ,
      Hath | not in nat|ure's mys|tery more | science,
           ,     T   .   T    T            ,             x
      Than I | have in this ring.| 'Twas mine,| 'twas Helen's,
          ,      ,        ,          ,         ,
      Whoev|er gave | it you:| Then if | you know
            ,          ,         ,        ,          ,
      That you | are well | acquaint|ed with | yourself,
           ,           ,         ,          ,         ,        2->
      Confess |'twas hers,| and by | what rough | enforce||ment
             x       ,               ,           ,           ,     ->
      You got it | from her,| she called | the saints | to sure||ty,
        ,       2        x      ,         ,          ,
      That | she would never | put it | from her | finger,
          ,          ,        ,         ,        ,
      Unless | she gave | it to | yourself | in bed,
             ,          ,       ,         ,        ,
      Where you | have nev|er come,| or sent | it us
        ,          ,        ,
      Upon | her great | disas|ter.
 
BERTRAM
                                            x      x
                                    She / never saw it.
 
KING
                  x       ,        ,       ,          ,
      Thou speakst it | falsely;| as I | love mine | honor,
             ,         ,    2     ,          ,     ,  2
      And makest | conjec|tural fears | to come | into me,
            ,           ,          ,        ,            ,
      Which I | would fain | shut^out,| if it | should prove
             ,         ,       x             ,      ,
      That thou | art so | inhuman,| 'twill not | prove so*:
           ,        ,     ,                  ,          ,     ->
      And yet | I know | not, thou | didst^hate | her dead||ly,
       ,       2     ,            ,       ,         ,
      And | she is dead,| which noth|ing but | to close
            ,        ,           ,     ,          ,
      Her eyes | myself,| could win | me to | believe,
        ,             ,           ,      ,          ,
      More than | to see | this ring.| Take him | away,
       .    T    T     T         ,         ,        ,
      My* fore-past proofs,| howere | the mat|ter fall
             ,         ,         ,       ,    ,
      Shall tax | my fears | of lit|tle van|ity,
       ,         ,         ,            x       ,      2
      Having | vainly | feared too | little. A|way with him,
              ,          ,        ,     2
      We'll sift | this mat|ter furth|er.
 
BERTRAM
                                             ,            ,
                                         If you | shall prove
             ,          x      ,           ,         ,
      This ring | was ever | hers, you | shall as | easy
        ,       2     ,      ,         ,         ,
      Prove that I | husban|ded her | bed in | Florence,
             ,         ,      ,
      Where yet | she nev|er was.  \\
 
KING
      ,         ,          ,         ,         oo
      I am | wrapped in | dismal | thinkings.|
 
[Enter a Gentleman]
 
GENTLEMAN
        ,          ,
      Gracious | sovereign.  \\
        ,      2         ,         ,         ,             ,
      Whether I have | been to | blame or | no, I | know* not,
         ,          ,        ,        ,      ,
      Here's a | peti|tion from | a Flor|entine,
            ,          ,         ,     .  T     T    T
      Who hath | for four | or five | removes come short,
          ,       ,        ,    ,           x
      To tend|er it | herself.| I und|ertook it,
        ,                ,              ,    ,            ,
      Vanquished | thereto | by the / fair grace | and speech
        2      ,     ,           ,         ,        ,
      Of the poor | suppli|ant, who | by this | I know
           ,     x               ,          ,         ,
      Is here | attending:| her bus|iness looks | in her
        ,    2     ,        ,        ,          ,
      With an im|porting | visage,| and she | told me
               ,    ,        ,         ,         ,
      In a / sweet ver|bal brief,| it did | concern
             ,         ,         ,
      Your high|ness with | herself.  \\
 
KING
Upon his many protestations to marry me when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower, his vows are forfeited to me, and my honor's 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 Capilet.
 
LAFEU
I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for this. I'll none of him.
 
KING
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.
 
COUNTESS
Now justice on the doers.
 
[Enter BERTRAM, guarded]
 
KING
I wonder sir, sir, wives are monsters to you,
And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,
Yet you desire to marry. What woman's that?
 
[Enter Widow and Diana]
 
DIANA
         ,        ,         ,        ,      ,
      I am | my lord | a wretch|ed Flor|entine,
         ,       ,         ,        ,    ,
      Deriv|ed from | the an|cient Cap|ilet,
           ,       ,       ,      ,           ,
      My suit | as I | do und|erstand | you know,
            ,          ,         ,       ,          x
      And there|fore know | how far | I may | be pitied.
 
WIDOW
      ,   2        ,       ,           ,         ,
      I am her | mother | sir, whose^|age and | honor
        T    Tx    T       ,          ,          ,
      Both suffer und|er this | complaint | we bring,
            ,            ,          ,          ,    ,
      And both | shall cease,| without | your rem|edy.
 
KING
             ,       ,      ,         ,           ,
      Come^hith|er count,| do you | know these | women?
 
BERTRAM
           ,        ,       ,          ,       ,
      My lord,| I neith|er can | nor will | deny,
       ,      2      ,          ,           ,          ,
      But that I | know them,| do they | charge me | further?
 
DIANA
       ,             ,          ,        ,           ,
      Why do | you look | so strange | upon | your wife?
 
BERTRAM
              ,         ,         ,
      She's none | of mine | my lord.
 
DIANA
                                        x             ,
                                      If you shall | marry
            ,      ,           ,          ,         ,
      You give | away | this hand,| and that | is mine,
            ,    . T    Tx       T          ,           ,
      You give | away heaven's vows,| and those | are mine:
            ,      ,        ,                 ,     ,
      You give | away | myself,| which^is / known mine:
          ,       ,        ,      ,        ,
      For I | by vow | am so | embod|ied yours,
            ,           ,        ,          ,      ,
      That she | which^mar|ries you,| must^mar|ry me,
       ,         ,        __
      Either | both or | none.  \\
 
LAFEU
Your reputation comes too short for my daughter, you are no husband for her.
 
BERTRAM
           ,      ,    2      ,         ,   2        ,
      My lord,| this is a | fond and | desperate | creature,
             ,    ,   2          ,            ,           ,
      Whom some|time I have | laughed with:| let your | highness
       T  .   T   Tx        ,       ,          ,
      Lay a more noble | thought u|pon mine | honor,
            ,         ,          ,           ,         ,
      Than for | to think | that I | would sink | it here.
 
KING
       ,               ,            ,          ,          ,
      Sir for | my thoughts,| you have | them ill | to friend,
                    ,     ,           ,        ,            x
      Till your / deeds gain | them fair|er: prove | your honor,
            ,         ,           ,
      Than in | my thought | it lies.
 
DIANA
                                        ,      __
                                      Good my lord,
       ,          ,          ,        ,          ,
      Ask him | upon | his oath,| if he | does think
          ,     ,           ,    ,   oo
      He had | not my | virgin|ity.|
 
KING
             ,       ,    2
      What sayst | thou to her?
 
BERTRAM
                                         ,     ,         ,
                                  She's imp|udent | my lord,
           ,       ,        ,        ,         ,
      And was | a com|mon game|ster to | the camp.
 
DIANA
           ,         ,          ,       ,         ,
      He does | me wrong | my lord:| if I | were so,
           ,             ,      ,         ,        ,
      He might | have bought | me at | a com|mon price.
          ,        ,          ,       ,           ,
      Do not | believe | him. O | behold | this ring,
              ,        ,           ,       ,    ,
      Whose high | respect | and rich | valid|ity
            ,       ,     ,               ,    ,
      Did lack | a par|allel:| yet for / all that
           ,        ,      ,    2    ,         ,
      He gave | it to | a com|moner of | the camp
         ,       ,
      If I | be one.
 
COUNTESS
                          ,        ,         ,
                     He blush|es, and |'tis hit:
          ,        ,       ,  ,              ,
      Of six | preced|ing an|cestors,| that gem
            ,          ,     ,      2     ,         x
      Conferred | by test|ament | to the seq|uent issue
        ,              ,          ,          ,         ,
      Hath it | been owed | and worn.| This^is | his wife,
              ,         ,          ,
      That ring's | a thous|and proofs.
 
KING
                                            ,            ,
                                       Methought | you said
           ,     T    T   .   T            ,        ,
      You saw | one here in court | could wit|ness it.
 
DIANA
         ,         ,          ,      ,           ,
      I did | my lord,| but loath | am to | produce
          ,         ,      ,           ,        ,      2->
      So bad | an ins|trument,| his name's | Parol||les.
 
LAFEU
         ,         ,       ,        ,        ,
      I saw | the man | today,| if man | he be.
 
KING
        ,              ,           ,
      Find him,| and bring | him hith||er.
 
BERTRAM
                                            ,     ,
                                          What | of him:
             ,      ,        ,        ,   2     ,
      He's quot|ed for | a most | perfid|ious slave
            ,          ,       2      ,       ,              ,
      With all | the spots | of the world,| taxed and | deboshed,
             ,        ,        ,         ,         ,
      Whose na|ture sick|ens: but | to speak | a truth,
         ,        ,         ,          ,            x
      Am I,| or that | or this | for what | he'll utter,
          2       ,      , 2
      That will speak | anything.
 
KING
                                       ,           ,         ,
                                 She hath | that ring | of yours.
 
BERTRAM
          ,          ,      ,    2      ,       ,
      I think | she has;| certain it | is I | liked her,
            ,       ,      2      ,      ,         ,
      And board|ed her | in the want|on way | of youth:
            ,          ,         ,          x          ,
      She knew | her dist|ance, and | did angle | for me,
       ,         ,  ,                 ,          ,
      Madding | my eag/erness | with her | restraint,
          ,       ,     ,         ,          ,
      As all | imped|iments | in fan|cy's course
           ,              ,   ,       ,         ,
      Are mot|ives of / more fa|ncy, and | in fine,
           ,   2     ,         ,         ,        ,
      Her in|finite cun|ning with | her mod|ern grace,
           ,        ,         ,         ,          ,
      Subdued | me to | her rate,| she got | the ring,
          ,         ,           ,  2   ,   2    ,
      And I | had that | which an|y infer|ior might
           ,       ,             ,
      At mark|et price | have bought.
 
DIANA
                                         ,        ,        ->
                                     I must | be pat||ient:
       ,        2        ,      ,      ,        ,     ,
      You | that have turned | off a first so noble wife,  ????
            ,      ,     ,       ,         ,
      May just|ly di|et me.| I pray | you yet,
         ,           ,   ,        2         ,       ,
      (Since you | lack vir/tue, I will | lose a | husband)
        ,               ,    ,            ,         ,
      Send for | your ring,| I will | return | it home,
            ,         ,       ,
      And give | me mine | again.
 
BERTRAM
                                      ,        ,
                                  I have | it not.
 
KING
             ,          ,         ,
      What ring | was yours | I pray | you?  \\
 
DIANA
            ,      ,          ,     ,          ,
      Sir much | like the | same u|pon your | finger.
 
KING
        ,               ,           ,         ,         ,
      Know you | this ring,| this ring | was his | of late.
 
DIANA
            ,         ,       ,          x       ,
      And this | was it | I gave | him being | abed.
 
KING
           ,       ,           ,           ,         ,
      The sto|ry then | goes^false,| you threw | it him
       ,           ,
      Out of | a case|ment.
 
DIANA
                            ,          ,           ,
                            I | have spoke | the truth.
 
BERTRAM
           ,       ,        ,          ,          ,
      My lord,| I do | confess | the ring | was hers.
 
[Enter PAROLLES]
 
KING
             x        ,        ,        ,          ,
      You boggle | shrewdly,| every | feather | starts you:
           ,         ,          ,
      Is this | the man | you speak | of?
 
DIANA
                                           ,         ,
                                          Aye,| my lord.
 
KING
        ,        ,             ,         ,         ,         ->
      Tell me | sirrah,| but tell | me true | I charge || you,
       ,      ,          2      ,       ,         ,       ->
      Not | fearing | the displeas|ure of | your mas||ter:
        ,       2       ,         ,         ,          ,
      Which | on your just | proceed|ing, I'll | keep^off,
          ,     ,    2        ,        ,            ,
      By him | and by this | woman | here, what | know you?
 
PAROLLES
So please your majesty, my master hath been an honorable gentleman. Tricks he hath had in him, which gentlemen have.
 
KING
Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?
 
PAROLLES
Faith sir he did love her, but how.
 
KING
How I pray you?
 
PAROLLES
He did love her sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.
 
KING
How is that?
 
PAROLLES
He loved her sir, and loved her not.
 
KING
As thou art a knave and no knave, what an equivocal companion is this?
 
PAROLLES
I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.
 
LAFEU
He's a good drum my lord, but a naughty orator.
 
DIANA
Do you know he promised me marriage?
 
PAROLLES
Faith I know more than I'll speak.
 
KING
But wilt thou not speak all thou knowst?
 
PAROLLES
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.
 
KING
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?
 
DIANA
Aye my good lord.
 
KING
Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?
 
DIANA
It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.
 
KING
Who lent it you?
 
DIANA
It was not lent me neither.
 
KING
Where did you find it then?
 
DIANA
I found it not.
 
KING
If it were yours by none of all these ways,
How could you give it him?
 
DIANA
I never gave it him.
 
LAFEU
This woman's an easy glove my lord, she goes off and on at pleasure.
 
KING
             ,          ,        ,               ,     ,
      This ring | was mine,| I gave | it his / first wife.
 
DIANA
           ,          ,          ,          ,         ,
      It might | be yours | or hers | for aught | I know.
 
KING
        ,          ,       ,         ,         ,
      Take her | away,| I do | not like | her now,
           ,       ,          ,      ,          ,
      To pris|on with | her: and | away | with him,
          ,            ,          ,            ,            ,
      Unless | thou tellst | me where | thou hadst | this ring,
             ,          ,           ,
      Thou diest | within | this hour.
 
DIANA
                                              x       ,
                                       I'll never | tell you.
 
KING
        ,          ,
      Take her | away.
 
DIANA
                            ,         ,         ,
                      I'll put | in bail | my liege.
 
KING
          ,           ,          ,       ,     ,
      I think | thee now | some com|mon cust|omer.
 
DIANA
           ,        ,    ,          ,          ,
      By Jove | if ev|er I | knew* man |'twas you.
 
KING
        ,           ,             ,          ,           ,
      Wherefore | hast thou | accused | him all | this while.
 
DIANA
          ,            ,       ,      2    ,      ,
      Because | he's guilt|y, and | he is not | guilty:
           ,             ,   ,     ,            ,     2
      He knows | I am / no maid,| and he'll | swear to it:
             ,        ,       ,     .   T   T    T
      I'll swear | I am | a maid,| and he knows not.
              ,       ,         ,        ,        ,
      Great^king | I am | no strump|et, by | my life,
       2     ,       ,         ,          ,            ,
      I am eith|er maid,| or else | this old | man's,wife.
 
KING
            ,       ,          ,         ,       ,        2->
      She does | abuse | our ears,| to pris|on with || her.
 
DIANA
             ,       ,          ,      T    Tx   T
      Good moth|er fetch | my bail.| Stay royal sir,
            x    ,           ,          T   .   T   T
      The jewel|ler that | owes the | ring is sent for,
           ,           ,      ,        ,           ,
      And he | shall sure|ty me.| But for | this lord,
            ,       ,         ,        ,          ,
      Who hath | abused | me as | he knows | himself,
              ,         x        ,          ,        ,
      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 child:
        ,                 ,         ,      .    T    T    T
      Dead though*| she* be,| she feels | her young one kick:
            ,          ,        ,             ,         ,
      So there's | my rid|dle, one | that's dead | is quick,
           ,        ,          ,
      And now | behold | the mean|ing.  \\
 
[Enter Widow, with HELENA]
 
KING
           ,         ,     ,
      Is there | no ex|orcist  \\
           ,          ,      ,       ,          ,
      Beguiles | the tru|er of|fice of | mine eyes?
        2     ,              ,
      Is it real | that I / see?
 
HELENA
                                  ,    T   T    T
                                 No | my good lord;
            ,          ,      ,       ,         ,
      'Tis but | the shad|ow of | a wife | you see,
            ,         ,          ,
      The name,| and not | the thing.
 
BERTRAM
        T     T   T    ,
      Both, both, O | pardon.  (tri with prev)
 
HELENA
      ,             ,         ,         ,           ,
      O my | good lord,| when I | was like | this maid,
          ,           ,         ,      ,               ,
      I found | you wond|rous kind,| there is | your ring,
            ,            ,           ,         ,         ,
      And look | you, here's | your let|ter: this | it says,
             ,         ,      ,         ,           ,
      When from | my fing|er you | can get | this ring,
           ,        ,          ,          ,         ,
      And are | by me | with child. And this | is done,
            ,         ,     ,              ,      ,
      Will you | be mine | now you | are doub|ly won?
 
BERTRAM
          ,         ,           ,         ,           ,       o
      If she | my liege | can make | me know | this clear|ly,
             ,          ,       ,      ,      ,     o
      I'll love | her dear|ly, ev|er, ev|er dear|ly.   (hex with prev)
 
HELENA
          ,   .   T   T    T           ,         ,
      If it | appear not plain,| and prove | untrue,
        ,          ,       T   .  T    T        ,
      Deadly | divorce | step between me | and you.
      ,        ,    ,       2     ,         ,
      O my | dear moth/er do I | see you | living?
 
LAFEU
             ,           ,       ,           ,      ,
      Mine eyes | smell^on|ions, I | shall weep | anon:
        T   T    T      ,           ,       ,
      Good Tom Drum | lend me | a hand|kercher:
So I thank thee, wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.
 
KING
       ,              ,          ,           ,       ,
      Let us | from point | to point | this sto|ry know,
           ,         ,      ,          ,         ,
      To make | the ev|en truth | in pleas|ure flow:
           ,           ,        ,         ,         x
      If thou | beest^yet | a fresh | uncrop|ped flower,
               ,         ,         ,          ,          x
      Choose^thou | thy hus|band, and | I'll pay | thy dower.
          ,         ,           ,        ,       ,
      For I | can guess,| that by | thy hon|est aid,
              ,         ,         ,         ,        ,
      Thou keepst | a wife | herself,| thyself | a maid.
           ,         ,          ,         ,         ,
      Of that | and all | the prog|ress more | or less,
          ,     ,          ,        ,         ,
      Resolv|edly | more leis|ure shall | express:
            ,            ,         ,       ,         ,
      All* yet | seems^well,| and if | it end | so meet,
           ,        ,           ,        ,         ,
      The bit|ter past,| more* wel|come is | the sweet.
 
[Flourish]
 
EPILOGUE
 
KING
             ,        ,        ,          ,         ,
      The king's | a beg|gar, now | the play | is done,
       T   .   T   T       ,          ,        ,
      All is well end|ed, if | this suit | be won,
            ,        ,          ,           ,         ,
      That you | express | content:| which^we | will pay,
              ,           ,           ,        ,       ,
      With strife | to please | you, day | exceed|ing day:
        ,             ,          ,          ,           ,
      Ours be | your pat|ience then,| and yours | our parts,
             ,       ,       ,             ,           ,
      Your gent|le hands | lend us,| and take | our hearts.
 
[Exeunt]

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