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1 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Lafeu |
44 |
Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Bertram |
56 |
Madam, I desire your holy wishes.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Bertram |
74 |
[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in
your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable
to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Lafeu |
77 |
Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of
your father.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Parolles |
126 |
Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be
blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with
the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It
is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to
preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational
increase and there was never virgin got till
virginity was first lost. That you were made of is
metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost
may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is
ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!
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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!
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7 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Parolles |
153 |
Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it
likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with
lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't
while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.
Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out
of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just
like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not
now. Your date is better in your pie and your
porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,
your old virginity, is like one of our French
withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,
'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;
marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?
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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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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
204 |
So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;
but the composition that your valour and fear makes
in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.
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10 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
First Lord |
245 |
His love and wisdom,
Approved so to your majesty, may plead
For amplest credence.
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11 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
Bertram |
264 |
My thanks and duty are your majesty's.
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12 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
265 |
I would I had that corporal soundness now,
As when thy father and myself in friendship
First tried our soldiership! He did look far
Into the service of the time and was
Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;
But on us both did haggish age steal on
And wore us out of act. It much repairs me
To talk of your good father. In his youth
He had the wit which I can well observe
To-day in our young lords; but they may jest
Till their own scorn return to them unnoted
Ere they can hide their levity in honour;
So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness
Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,
His equal had awaked them, and his honour,
Clock to itself, knew the true minute when
Exception bid him speak, and at this time
His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him
He used as creatures of another place
And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,
Making them proud of his humility,
In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man
Might be a copy to these younger times;
Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now
But goers backward.
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13 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
Bertram |
290 |
His good remembrance, sir,
Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;
So in approof lives not his epitaph
As in your royal speech.
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14 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
King of France |
312 |
I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,
Since the physician at your father's died?
He was much famed.
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15 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 2] |
Bertram |
321 |
Thank your majesty.
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16 |
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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17 |
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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18 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
342 |
I do beg your good will in this case.
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19 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Countess |
351 |
Is this all your worship's reason?
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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3] |
Clown |
377 |
A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next
way:
For I the ballad will repeat,
Which men full true shall find;
Your marriage comes by destiny,
Your cuckoo sings by kind.
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