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1

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.

2

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1]

Parolles

137

There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the
rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,
is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible
disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:
virginity murders itself and should be buried in
highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate
offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,
much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very
paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.
Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of
self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the
canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose
by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make
itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the
principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!

3

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3]

Steward

421

Madam, I was very late more near her than I think
she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate
to herself her own words to her own ears; she
thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any
stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:
Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put
such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no
god, that would not extend his might, only where
qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that
would suffer her poor knight surprised, without
rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.
This she delivered in the most bitter touch of
sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I
held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;
sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns
you something to know it.

4

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1]

Parolles

636

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, with his cicatrice, 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.

5

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 2]

Countess

872

Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and
'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very
sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well
to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.

6

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3]

Parolles

916

That's it; I would have said the very same.

7

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3]

Parolles

919

Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the
brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most
facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the—

8

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3]

Lafeu

922

Very hand of heaven.

9

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3]

Parolles

1166

Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;
let it be concealed awhile.

10

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

Clown

1206

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 i', the
world; but yet she is not well.

11

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

Helena

1210

If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
not very well?

12

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

Clown

1212

Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.

13

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

Clown

1226

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.

14

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

Parolles

1240

A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.
Madam, my lord will go away to-night;
A very serious business calls on him.
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;
But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;
Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
Which they distil now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
And pleasure drown the brim.

15

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Bertram

1266

Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.

16

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Bertram

1270

I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in
knowledge and accordingly valiant.

17

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Lafeu

1281

O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good
workman, a very good tailor.

18

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Bertram

1345

Let that go:
My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.

19

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2]

Clown

1400

By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very
melancholy man.

20

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2]

Countess

1493

A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
My son corrupts a well-derived nature
With his inducement.