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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Countess |
17 |
This young gentlewoman had a father,—O, that
'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!—whose skill was
almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so
far, would have made nature immortal, and death
should have play for lack of work. Would, for the
king's sake, he were living! I think it would be
the death of the king's disease.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Lafeu |
27 |
He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very
lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he
was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge
could be set up against mortality.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Countess |
36 |
His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my
overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that
her education promises; her dispositions she
inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where
an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there
commendations go with pity; they are virtues and
traitors too; in her they are the better for their
simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Countess |
45 |
'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
51 |
I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
80 |
O, were that all! I think not on my father;
And these great tears grace his remembrance more
Than those I shed for him. What was he like?
I have forgot him: my imagination
Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.
I am undone: there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart too capable
Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:
But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy
Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?
[Enter PAROLLES]
[Aside]
One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;
And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,
That they take place, when virtue's steely bones
Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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7 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
114 |
Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me
ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how
may we barricado it against him?
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8 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
166 |
Not my virginity yet [—]
There shall your master have a thousand loves,
A mother and a mistress and a friend,
A phoenix, captain and an enemy,
A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,
A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;
His humble ambition, proud humility,
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,
His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world
Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he—
I know not what he shall. God send him well!
The court's a learning place, and he is one—
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9 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
197 |
The wars have so kept you under that you must needs
be born under Mars.
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10 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
235 |
The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;
Have fought with equal fortune and continue
A braving war.
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11 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
239 |
Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it
A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,
With caution that the Florentine will move us
For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend
Prejudicates the business and would seem
To have us make denial.
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12 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
248 |
He hath arm'd our answer,
And Florence is denied before he comes:
Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see
The Tuscan service, freely have they leave
To stand on either part.
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13 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
316 |
If he were living, I would try him yet.
Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out
With several applications; nature and sickness
Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;
My son's no dearer.
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14 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Steward |
325 |
Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I
wish might be found in the calendar of my past
endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make
foul the clearness of our deservings, when of
ourselves we publish them.
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15 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Countess |
330 |
What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:
the complaints I have heard of you I do not all
believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know
you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability
enough to make such knaveries yours.
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16 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
337 |
No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though
many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have
your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel
the woman and I will do as we may.
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17 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
344 |
In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no
heritage: and I think I shall never have the
blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for
they say barnes are blessings.
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18 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
352 |
Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they
are.
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19 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
355 |
I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and
all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry
that I may repent.
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20 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
359 |
I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have
friends for my wife's sake.
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