And is enough for both.

1 Lord.
It is our hope, sir,
After well-enter'd soldiers, to return
And find your grace in health.

King. No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart Will not confess he owes the malady

That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;
Whether I live or die, be you the sons
Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy
Those bated, that inherit but the fall

of the last monarchy) see, that you come
Not to woo honor, but to wed it; when

The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. 2 Lord. Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!

King. Those girls of Italy, take heed of them; They say, our French lack language to deny, If they demand: beware of being captives, Before you serve.• Both. Our hearts receive your warnings. King. Farewell.-Come hither to me. The KING retires to a couch. 1 Lord. O my sweet lord, that you will stay be

hind us!

Par. 'Tis not his fault; the spark-
2 Lord.
O, tis brave wars.
Par. Most admirable: I have seen those wars.
Ber. I am commanded here, and kept a coil

with

To young, and the next year, and 'tis too early. Par. An thy mind stand to it, boy, steal away bravely.

Ber. I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Ta honor be bought

But one to dance with and no sword worn,

By heaven, I'll steal away. ! Lord. There's honor in the theft. Pr.

Commit it, count. Lord. I am your accessary; and so farewell. Ber. I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.

Lord. We shall, noble captain. Par. Mars dote on you for his novices! [Exeunt Lenks] What will you do? Br. Stay: the king- [Seeing him rise. Pr. Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time: tere, do muster true gait, eat, speak, and move. Under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil led the measure, such are to be flowed: after them, and take a more dilated fateWell,

Enter LAFEu.

Laf. Pardon, my lord, [Kneeling.] for me and for my tidings.

Then here's a man

King. I'll fee thee to stand up. Laf. Stands, that has brought his pardon. I would, you Had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy; and That, at my bidding, you could so stand up. King. I would I had; so I had broke thy pate And ask'd thee mercy for t. Laf. Goodfaith, across : But, my good lord, 'tis thus; Will you be cur'd Of your infirmity? King. Luf.

No.

O, will you eat
No grapes, my royal fox? yes, but you will,
My noble grapes, an if my royal fox
Could reach them: I have seen a medicine,
That's able to breathe life into a stone:

Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary,
With sprightly fire and motion whose simple touch
Is powerful to araise king Pepin, nay,

To give great Charlemain a pen in his hand,

And write to her a love-line.

King.

What her is this?
Laf. Why, doctor she: My lord, there's one ar-
riv'd,
If you will see her,-now, by my faith and honor,

If seriously I may convey my thoughts
In this my light deliverance, I have spoke
Wisdom, and constancy, hath amaz'd me more
With one, that in her sex, her years, profession,
Than I dare blame my weakness: Will you see her,
(For that is her demand,) and know her business?
That done, laugh well at me.
Now, good Lafeu,
Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine,
By wondering how thou look'st it.
Laf.

King.

And not be all day neither.

Nay Ill fit you,

[Exit LAFEU.

King. Thus he his special nothing ever pro

logues.

Re-enter LAFEU with HELENA.

Laf. Nay, come your ways.
King.

This haste hath wings indeed.

Laf. Nay, come your ways; This is his majesty, say your mind to him: A traitor you do look like: but such traitors His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, That dare leave two together; fare you well. [Exit. King. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? Hel. Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was My father; in what he did profess, well found. King. I knew him.

Hel. The rather will I spare my praises towards him; Knowing him, is enough. On his bed of death Many receipts he gave me; chietly one, Which, as the dearest issue of his practice, And of his old experience the only darling, He bade me store up, as a triple eye," Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so: And hearing your high majesty is touch d With that malignant cause wherein the honor Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it, and my appliance, With all bound humbleness.

King. We thank you, maiden, But may not be so credulous of cure,-When our most learned doctors leave us; and The congregated college have concluded That laboring art can never ransom nature From her inaidable estate,-I say we must not So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope. To prostitute our past-cure malady To empirics; or to dissever so

ur great self and our credit, to esteem

2 Unskilfully: a phrase taken from the exercise at a quintain.

A senseless help, when help past sense we deem.
Hel. My duty then shall pay me for my pams:
I will no more enforce mine office on you;
Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
A modest one, to bear me back again.

King. I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: Thou thought st to help me; and such thanks 1 give,

As one near death to those that wish him live:
But what at full I know, thou know'st no part;
I knowing all my peril, thou no art.

He'. What I can do, can do no hurt to try,
Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy:
He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes. Great floods have
flown

From simple sources; and great seas have dried,
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.
King. I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind
maid;

Thy pains not used, must by thyself be paid:
Proilers, not took, reap thanks for their reward.

Hel. Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:
It is not so with him that all things knows,
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But, most it is presumption in as, when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.
Dear sir, to my endeavors give consent;
Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
I am not an imposter, that proclaim
Myself against the level of inine aim;
But know, I think, and think I know most sure,
Myar. is not past power, nor you past cure.
King. Art thou so confident? Within what space
Hop'st thou my cure?

He The greatest grace lending grace, Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring; Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quenched his sleepy lamp; Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass; What is intrin from the sound part shall fly, Health shall live free, and sickness freely die. King. Upon thy certainty and confidence, What dar st thou venture?

Hel.

Tax of impudence, A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame,Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name fear'd otherwise; ne worse of worst extended, With vilest torture let my life be ended.

King. Methinks, in thee some blessed spirit doth speak;

His powerful sound, within an organ weak:
And what impossibility would slay
In common sense, sense saves another way.
Thy life is dear; for all, that life can rate
Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate;
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, virtue, all
That happiness and prime can happy call:
Thou this to hazard, needs must intimate
Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate.
Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try;
That ministers thine own death, if I die.

Hel. If I break time, or flinch in property

Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die;
And well deserv'd: Not helping, death's my fee;
But if I help, what do you promise me?
King. Make thy demand.

Hel.

But will you make it even? King. Ay,by my sceptre,and my hopes of heaven. Hel. 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
s free for me to ask, thee to bestow

King. Here is my hand; the premises observ'd, hy will by my performance shall be serv'd; so make the choice of thine own time; for I, Thy resolv'd patient, on thee still rely, More should i question thee, and more I must:

Though, more to know, could not be more to 're
From whence thou cam st how tended on,-But:
Unquestion'd welcome, and undoubted blest.—
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed.
[Flourish. Exem

SCENE II.-Rousillon. A Room in the Coun tess' Palace.

Enter COUNTESS and Clown. Count. Come on, sir; I shall now put you the highest of your breeding.

Clo. I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught; I know my business is but to the court. Count. To the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with such contempt But to the court!

Clo. Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easly put it off at court; he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, hp, no cap; and, indeed, such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court: but, for me, I have an an swer will serve all men.

Count. Marry, that's a bountiful answer, that fits all questions.

Clo. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all but tocks; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, üs brawn-buttock, or any buttock.

Count. Will your answer serve fit to all question Clo. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of attorney, as your French crown for your taffata punk, as Tid's rush for Tom's fore-finger, as a pincake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin.

Count. Have you, I say, an answer of such filness for all questions?

Clo. From below your duke, to beneath your constable, it will fit any question.

Count. It must be an answer of most monstrous size, that must fit all demands.

Clo. But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it; and here it is, all that belongs to't: Ask me, if I am a courtier, it shall do you no harm to learn.

Count. To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you sir are you a courtier?

Clo. O Lord, sir,-There's a simple putting off-more, more, a hundred of them.

Count. Sir, I am a poor friend of yours that loves you.

Clo. O Lord, sir, -Thick, thick, spare not me. Count. I think sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.

Clo. O Lord, sir,-Nay, put me to't. I warrant you. Count. You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. Clo. O Lord, sir,-Spare not me.

Count. 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.

Clo. I ne'er had worse luck in my life, in myO Lord, sir: I see, things may serve long, but not

familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing Ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

Par. Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder, Lal hath shot out in our latter times. Ber. And so 'tis.

Laf. To be relinquished of the artists,

Pur. So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus.
Laf. Of all the learned and authentic fellows,-
Pur. Right, so I say.

Luf. That gave him out incurable,-
Pur. Why, there 'tis; so say I too.
Luf. Not to be helped,--

Pur. Right: as 'twere a man assured of an-
Luf. Uncertain life, and sure death.

Fur. Just, you say well; so would I have said. Luf. I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. Pur. It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in-What do you call there?Lof. A showing of a heavenly eflect in an earthly

actor.

Par. That's it I would have said; the very same. Laf. Why, your dolphin' is not lustier: 'fore me, I speak in respect

Par. Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he is of a most facinorous! spirit, that will not acknowledge it to be Laf. Very hand of heaven. Pu. Ay, so I say.

Luf. In a most weak

Pr. And debile minister, great power, great transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a further use to be made, than alone the recovery of the king as to be

L. f. Generally thankful.

Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants.

Par. I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.

Lef. Lustick, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a nd the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: Way, he's able to lead her a coranto.

Par. Mort du Vinaigre! Is not this Helen?
Lef. Fore God. I think so.

King. Go, call before me all the lords in court.[Exit an Attendant.

Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;
And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense
Thou hast repeal d, a second time receive
The confirmation of my promis'd gift,
Which but attends thy naming.

Enter several Lords.

Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel fnoble bachelors stand at my bestowing,

er whom both sovereign power and father's voice I have to use: thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose and they none to forsake. Hel. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress Fai, when love please!-marry, to each, but one! Lef. Id give bay Curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And wrt as little beard.

Peruse them well:

King. Not one of those but had a noble father. Hel. Gentlemen, Heaven hath through me restor❜d the king to health. All. We understand it and thank heaven for you. Hel. I am a simple maid; and therein wealthiest. That, I protest, I simply am a maid :-Please it your majesty, I have done already: The blushes m my cheeks thus whisper me, We blush, that the shouldst choose; but be refus'd, Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; We'll ne'er come there again.

King. Make choice; and see, Who shuns thy love, shuns all his love in me. Hel. Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly: And to imperial Love, that god most high,

Do my sighs stream.-Sir, will you hear my suit! 1 Lord. And grant it.

Hel. Thanks sir; all the rest is mute.

Hel. The honor sir, that flames in your fair eyes Before I speak, too threateningly replies: Love make your fortunes twenty times above Her that so wishes, and her humble love! 2 Lord. No better, if you please. Hel. My wish receive, Which great love grant! and so I take my leave. Lof. Do all they deny her? an they were song of mine, I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of.

Hel. Be not afraid [To a Lord.] that I your hand should take;

I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:
Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed,
Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!

Laf. These boy's are boys of ice, they'll none have her sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er got them.

Hel. You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a son out of my blood. 4 Lord. Fair one, I think not so.

father drank wine.-But if thou best not an ass. I Lof. There's one grape yet,-I am sure, thy am a youth of fourteen; Ihave known thee already. Hel. I dare not say, I take you; [To BERTRAM.Î but I give

Me, and my service, ever whilst I live, into your guiding power,-This is the man. King. Why then, young Bertram take her, she's thy wife.

Ber. My wife, my liege? I shall beseech your highness,

In such a business give me leave to use
The help of mine own eyes.
King.

Know'st thou not, Bertram,

What she has done for me?
Ber.

Yes, my good lord; But never hope to know why I should marry her. King. Thou know'st she has raised me from my

sickly bed.

Ber. But follows it, my lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raising? I know her well; she had her breeding at my father's charge:

A poor physician's daughter my wife!-Disdain Rather corrupt me ever!

King. Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which

I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,
Of color, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty: If she be

All that is virtuous, (save what thou dislik'st,
A poor physician's daughter.) thou dislik'st,
of virtue for the name: but do not so:
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed:
Where great additionss swell, and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honor: good alone
Is good; without a name, vileness is so:
The property by what it is should go.
Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she's immediate heir;"
And these breed honor: that is honor's scorn,
Which challenges itself as honor ́s born,
And is not like the sire: Honors best thrive,
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our fore-goers: the mere word's a slave,
Debauch'd on every tomb; on every grave,
A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb,
Where dust, and damned oblivion is the tomb
Of honor'd bones indeed. What should be said!
If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
I can create the rest: virtue, and she,
Is her own dower; honor and wealth from me.
Ber. I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't
King. Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou should'st
strive to choose

Hel. That you are well restor'd, my lord, I'm glad;

Let the rest go.

We, poising us in her defective scale,
Shall weigh thee to the beam that wilt not know
It is in us to plant thine honor, where

We please to have it grow: Check thy contempt:
Obey our will, which travails in thy good:
Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
Which both thy duty owes, and our power claims;
Or I will throw thee from iny care for ever,
Into the staggers, and the careless lapse
Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate,
Loosing upon thee in the name of justice,
Without all terms of pity: Speak; thine answer.
Ber. Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit
My fancy to your eyes: When I consider,
What great creation, and what dole of honor,
Lies where you bid it, I find, that she, which late
Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,
Is, as 'twere, born so.

King.
Take her by the hand,
And tell her, she is thine: to whom I promise
A counterpoise; if not to thy estate,

I take her hand.

A balance more repletc.
Ber.
King. Good fortune, and the favor of the king,
Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony
Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
And be performed to-night: the solemn feast
Shall more attend upon the coming space,
Expecting absent friends. As thou lov'st her,
Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.

"

[Exeunt KING, BERTRAM, HELENA, Lords,

and Attendants.

Laf. Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you. Par. Your pleasure, sir?

Laf. Your ford and master did well to make his

recantation.

Par. Recantation ?-my lord ?-my master? Laf. Ay; Is it not a language, I speak? Par. A most harsh one; and not to be understood without bloody succeeding. My master

Luf. Are you companion to the count Rousillon? Pur. To any count: to all counts; to what is man. Luf. To what is count's man; count's master is of another style.

Par. You are two old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.

Laf. I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee.

Par. What I dare too well do, I dare not do. Laf. I did think thee for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel: it might pass: yet the scarfs, and the bannerets, about thee, did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee: when I lose thee again, I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou art scarce worth.

Par. Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,

him with any convenience, and he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his age, than I would have of-I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.

Re-enter LAFEU.

Laf, Sirrah, your lord and master's married, there's news for you; you have a new mistress. Par. I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs: Hei my good lord: whom I serve above is my master Luf. Who? God?

Par. Ay, sir.

Laf. The devil it is, that's thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion dost make hose of thy sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honor, if I were but two hours younger I'd beat thee; methinks, thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee. I think, thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.

Pur. This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.

Laf. Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords, and honorable personages, than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you com mission. You are not worth another word, els I'd call you knave. I leave you. [Eril.

I know not yet.

Laf. Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if-Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So my good window of lattice, fare thee well thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me thy hand.

Par. My lord, you give me most egregious dignity.

Luf. Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy

of it.

Par. I have not, my lord, deserved it.

Lof. Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple.

Par. Well, I shall be wiser.

Laf. E'en as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf, and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge; that I may say, in the default, he is a man I know,

Par. My lord, you do me most insupportable

vexation.

Laf. I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and Any poor doing eternal: for doing I am past; as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave. Exit.

Pur. Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy. old, filthy, scurvy lord!Well, must be patient; there is no fettering of author.ty. I'll beat him by my life, if I can meet ai. e. While I sat twice with thee at dinner. At a need,

Par. Will this capricio hold in thee, art sure? Ber. Go with me to my chamber, and advise ma I'll send her straight away: To-morrow I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow

Par. Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it.

-'Tis hard;

A young man, married, is a man that's marr'd:
Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:
The king has done you wrong; but, hush! 'tis so,
[Exeunt

SCENE IV. Another Room in the sume.

Enter HELENA and Clown.

Hel. My mother greets me kindly: Is she well? Clo. 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!

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

Clo. Truly, she's very well, indeed, but for twe

things.

Hel. What two things?

Clo. Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: To By 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. P. Away, thou ́rt a knave.

Par. As you'll have her. Br. I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure Given order for our horses; and to-night, When I should take possession of the bride, And, ere I do begin,

end of a dinner; but one that lies three thirds, and Luf. A good traveller is something at the latter uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings God save you, captain! with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten.

and you, monsieur? Ber. Is there any unkindness between my lord

Par. I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure.

and spurs and all, like him that leaped into the Laf. You have made shift to run into't, boots custard; and out of it you'll run agani, rather than suiter question for your residence.

Ber. It may be, you have mistaken him, my lord. Laf. And shall do so ever, though I took him at

thou art a knave: that is, before me thou art a krave: this had been truth, sir.

Pur. Go to, thou art a witty fool, I have found

thee.

Clo. Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was protable; and much fool may you find in you, even by the world's pleasure, and the increase of laughter. Pr. 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,

this of ine, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes: trust him not in matter of heavy consequence: I have kept of them tame, and know their natures.-Farewel, monsieur! I have spoken better of you, than you have or will deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil. Exit.

Par. An idle lord, I swear.

Ber. I think so.

Pur. Why, do you not know him?

Ber. Yes, I do know him well; and common

speech

But puts it off by a compell'd restraint;

Wase want, and whose delay, is strewed with

sweets,

Which they distil now in the curbed time,

To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
Ha

What's his will else? Par. That you will take your instant leave o`the king,

And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Strengthen'd with what apology you think
May make it probable need.
He.
What more commands he?
P. That, having this obtain'd, you presently
Attend his further pleasure.

Hel. In every thing I wait upon his will.
Var. I shall report it so.
Hi.

I pray you.-Come, sirrah.
[Exeunt.

SCENE V-Another Room in the same. Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM. Laf. But I hope, your lordship thinks not him a

Ber. Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.
Laf. You have it from his own deliverance.
Ber. And by other warranted testimony.
Laf. Then my dial goes not true; I took this
ars for a bunting.

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

Lf. I have then sinned against his experience, and transgressed against his valor; and my state Cat way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in ay heart to repent. Here he comes; I pray you, ke us friends, I will pursue the amity.

Here comes my clog.

Enter HELENA.

Hel. I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king, and have procured his leave For present parting; only, he desires Some private speech with you.

Ber. I shall obey his will. You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, Which holds not color with the tinie, nor does The ministration and required office On my particular: prepar'd I was not For such a business; therefore am I found So much unsettled: This drives me to entreat you, That presently you take your way for home; And rather muse, than ask, why I entreat you: For my respects are better than they seem; And my appointments have in them a need, Greater than shows itself, at the first view, To you that know them not. This to my mother. Giving a letter. "Twill be two days ere I shall see you again; so I leave you to your wisdom. Hel. Sir, I can nothing say, But that I am your most obedient servant. Ber. Come, come, no more of that. Hel.

And ever shall

With true observance seek to eke out that,
Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
To equal my great fortune.
Let that go:

Ber.

My haste is very great: Farewell; hie home.
Hel. Pray, sir, your pardon.
Ber.
Well, what would you say?
Hel. I am not worthy of the wealth I owe;
Nor dare I say, 'tis mine; and yet it is;
But, like a timerous thief, most fain would steal
What law does vouch mine own.
Ber.

What would you have? Hel. Something; and scarce so much:-nothing,

indeed.

I would not tell you what I would: my lord-faith, yes;

Strangers, and foes, do sunder, and not kiss.

Ber. I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse. Hel. I shall not break your bidding, good my lord. Ber. Where are my other men, monsieur ?-Farewell. Exit HELENA. Go thou toward home; where I will never come, Whilst I can shake my sword, or hear the drum;-Away and for our flight.

Pur.

• Wonder.

Bravely, coragio! [Exeunt. 1 Possess.