Alls Well That Ends Well
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
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subject: lord
subject: parolles
subject: bertram
subject: king
subject: helena
subject: father
subject: times
subject: necessity
subject: hold
subject: virtue
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: alls
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING OF FRANCE (KING:) DUKE OF FLORENCE (DUKE:) BERTRAM Count of Rousillon. LAFEU an old lord. PAROLLES a follower of Bertram. Steward | | servants to the Countess of Rousillon. Clown | A Page. (Page:) COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON mother to Bertram. (COUNTESS:) HELENA a gentlewoman protected by the Countess. An old Widow of Florence. (Widow:) DIANA daughter to the Widow. VIOLENTA | | neighbours and friends to the Widow. MARIANA | Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &c., French and Florentine. (First Lord:) (Second Lord:) (Fourth Lord:) (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) (First Soldier:) (Gentleman:) SCENE Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL ACT I SCENE I 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 abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practises 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 stretched 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 called you the man you speak of, madam? COUNTESS He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his gre…