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Came tripping by, but in her maiden hand, |
The fairest votary took up that fire, |
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed, |
And so the general of hot desire, |
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarmed. |
This brand she quenched in a cool well by, |
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual, |
Growing a bath and healthful remedy, |
For men discased, but I my mistress' thrall, |
Came there for cure and this by that I prove, |
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love. |
THE END |
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1603 |
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL |
by William Shakespeare |
Dramatis Personae |
KING OF FRANCE |
THE DUKE OF FLORENCE |
BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon |
LAFEU, an old lord |
PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram |
TWO FRENCH LORDS, serving with Bertram |
STEWARD, Servant to the Countess of Rousillon |
LAVACHE, a clown and Servant to the Countess of Rousillon |
A PAGE, Servant to the Countess of Rousillon |
COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram |
HELENA, a gentlewoman protected by the Countess |
A WIDOW OF FLORENCE. |
DIANA, daughter to the Widow |
VIOLENTA, neighbour and friend to the Widow |
MARIANA, neighbour and friend to the Widow |
Lords, Officers, Soldiers, etc., French and Florentine |
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SCENE: |
Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles |
ACT I. SCENE 1. |
Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace |
Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black |
COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. |
BERTRAM. And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; |
but I must attend his Majesty's command, to whom I am now in |
ward, evermore in subjection. |
LAFEU. You shall find of the King a husband, madam; you, sir, a |
father. He that so generally is at all times good must of |
necessity hold his virtue to you, whose worthiness would stir it |
up where it wanted, rather than lack it where there is such |
abundance. |
COUNTESS. What hope is there of his Majesty's amendment? |
LAFEU. He hath abandon'd his physicians, madam; under whose |
practices he hath persecuted time with hope, and finds no other |
advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time. |
COUNTESS. 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 stretch'd 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. |
LAFEU. How call'd you the man you speak of, madam? |
COUNTESS. He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his |
great right to be so- Gerard de Narbon. |
LAFEU. He was excellent indeed, madam; the King very lately spoke |
of him admiringly and mourningly; he was skilful enough to have |
liv'd still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality. |
BERTRAM. What is it, my good lord, the King languishes of? |
LAFEU. A fistula, my lord. |
BERTRAM. I heard not of it before. |
LAFEU. I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman the |
daughter of Gerard de Narbon? |
COUNTESS. 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. |
LAFEU. Your commendations, madam, get from her tears. |
COUNTESS. '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 to have- |
HELENA. I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too. |
LAFEU. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive |
grief the enemy to the living. |
COUNTESS. If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it |
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