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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
(stage directions) |
233 |
Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France,]
with letters, and divers Attendants]
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Helena |
805 |
Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand
What husband in thy power I will command:
Exempted be from me the arrogance
To choose from forth the royal blood of France,
My low and humble name to propagate
With any branch or image of thy state;
But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know
Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Parolles |
1176 |
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits
The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3] |
Parolles |
1180 |
Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!
He wears his honour in a box unseen,
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,
Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions
France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;
Therefore, to the war!
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 1] |
Duke of Florence |
1376 |
Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
Would in so just a business shut his bosom
Against our borrowing prayers.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Helena |
1478 |
[Reads] Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.
'Tis bitter.
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7 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Countess |
1484 |
Nothing in France, until he have no wife!
There's nothing here that is too good for him
But only she; and she deserves a lord
That twenty such rude boys might tend upon
And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?
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8 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Helena |
1509 |
'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'
Nothing in France, until he has no wife!
Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;
Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I
That chase thee from thy country and expose
Those tender limbs of thine to the event
Of the none-sparing war? and is it I
That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou
Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark
Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,
That ride upon the violent speed of fire,
Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,
That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.
Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;
Whoever charges on his forward breast,
I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;
And, though I kill him not, I am the cause
His death was so effected: better 'twere
I met the ravin lion when he roar'd
With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere
That all the miseries which nature owes
Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,
Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,
As oft it loses all: I will be gone;
My being here it is that holds thee hence:
Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although
The air of paradise did fan the house
And angels officed all: I will be gone,
That pitiful rumour may report my flight,
To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!
For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.
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9 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5] |
Widow |
1656 |
You came, I think, from France?
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10 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5] |
Diana |
1664 |
Whatsome'er he is,
He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,
As 'tis reported, for the king had married him
Against his liking: think you it is so?
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11 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Second Lord |
2130 |
What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel
higher, or return again into France?
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12 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Servant |
2164 |
He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath
taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next
morning for France. The duke hath offered him
letters of commendations to the king.
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13 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
Second Lord |
2395 |
Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?
I am for France.
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14 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3] |
First Soldier |
2405 |
If you could find out a country where but women were
that had received so much shame, you might begin an
impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France
too: we shall speak of you there.
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15 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 5] |
Clown |
2495 |
Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy
is more hotter in France than there.
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All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 1] |
Helena |
2576 |
Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.
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