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- $Unique_ID{SSP01159}
- $Title{All's Well That Ends Well: Act III, Scene I}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*01150.txt}
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- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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- ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
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- ACT III
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- SCENE I: Florence. The DUKE's palace.
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- {Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended;
- the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.
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- DUKE: So that from point to point now have you heard
- The fundamental reasons of this war,
- Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
- And more thirsts after.
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- First Lord: Holy seems the quarrel
- Upon your grace's part; black and fearful
- On the opposer.
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- DUKE: Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
- Would in so just a business shut his bosom
- Against our borrowing prayers.
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- Second Lord: Good my lord,
- The reasons of our state I cannot yield, 10
- But like a common and an outward man,
- That the great figure of a council frames
- By self-unable motion: therefore dare not
- Say what I think of it, since I have found
- Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
- As often as I guess'd.
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- DUKE: Be it his pleasure.
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- First Lord: But I am sure the younger of our nature,
- That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
- Come here for physic.
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- DUKE: Welcome shall they be;
- And all the honors that can fly from us 20
- Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
- When better fall, for your avails they fell:
- To-morrow to the field.
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- [Flourish. Exeunt.]
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