Count. Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all queftions?

Clo. From below your duke, to beneath your conftable, it will fit any queftion.

Count. It must be an answer of moft monstrous fize, that muft fit all demands.

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

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

Clo. O lord, Sir-there's a fimple 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, fpare not me.
Count. I think, Sir, you can eat none of this homely

meat.

Clo. O lord, Sir

you.

nay, put me to't, I warrant

Count. You were lately whipp'd, 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 fequent to your whipping: you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.

Clo. I ne'er had worfe luck in my life, in my-0 lord, Sir; I fee, things may ferve long, but not serve

ever.

Count. I play the noble hufwife with the time, to entertain it so merrily with a fool.

Clo. O lord, Sir-why, there't ferves well again. Count. An end, Sir; to your bufinefs: give Helen this, And urge her to a prefent answer back.

Commend me to my kinfmen, and my son:
This is not much.

Clo.

Clo. Not much commendation to them?

Count. Not much employment for you, you underftand me.

Clo. Moft fruitfully, I am there before my legs. Count. Hafte you again.

Laf.

[Exeunt.

HEY fay, miracles are paft; and we have our philofophical perfons to make modern, and familiar, things fupernatural and caufelefs. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; enfconfing ourfelves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

Par. Why, 'tis the rareft argument of wonder that hath fhot out in our later times.

Ber. And fo 'tis.

Laf. To be relinquifh'd of the artifts

Par. So I fay, both of Galen and Paracelfus.
Laf. Of all the learned and authentic Fellows-

Par. Right, fo I fay.

Laf. That gave him out incurable,

Par. Why, there 'tis, fo fay I too.

Laf. Not to be help'd,

Par. Right, as 'twere a man affur'd of an
Laf. Uncertain life, and fure death,

Par. Juft, you fay well: fo would I have faid. Laf. I may truly fay, it is a novelty to the world. Par. It is, indeed, if you will have it in fhewing, you fhall read it in, what do you call there

Laf. A fhewing of a heav'nly effect in an earthly actor. Par. That's it, I would have said the very fame. Laf. Why, your dolphin is not luftier: for me, I fpeak in refpect—

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Par.

Par. Nay, 'tis ftrange, 'tis very ftrange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most facinerious fpirit, that will not acknowledge it to be the

Laf. Very hand of heav'n.

Par. Ay, fo I fay.

Laf. In a moft weak

*

Par. And debile minifter, great power, great tranfcendance; which fhould, indeed, give us *** a farther ufe to be made than alone the recov'ry of the King; as to be

Laf. Generally thankful.

Par.

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Enter King, Helena, and Attendants.

Would have faid it, you faid well; here comes the King.

Laf. Luftic, as the Dutchman fays: I'll like a Maid the better, while I have a tooth in my head: why, he's able to lead her a Corranto.

Par. Mort du Vinaigre! is not this Helen?

Laf. 'Fore god, I think so.

King. Go, call before me all the Lords in court.

Sit, my preferver, by thy patient's fide;

And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Thou haft repeal'd, a second time receive

The confirmation of my promis'd gift;

Which but attends thy naming.

Enter three or four Lords.

Fair maid, fend forth thine eye; this youthful parcel Of noble bachelors ftand at my bestowing,

* which should, indeed, give us a farther use to be made, &c.] Between the Word us and a farther, there feems to have been two or three Words dropt, which appear to have been to this Purpose ----Should, indeed, give us, [uotice, that there is of this,] a farther Use to be fo that the Paffage fhould be read with Afterifks for the

made future.

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O'er

O'er whom both fov'reign power and Father's voice
I have to use; thy frank election make;
Thou haft power to chufe, and they none to forfake.
Hel. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when love please! marry, to each but one.
Laf. I'd give bay curtal and his furniture,

My mouth no more were broken than these boys,
And writ as little beard.

King. Peruse them well:

Not one of thofe, but had a noble father.

[She addreffes herself to a Lord. Hel. Gentlemen, heaven hath, through me, reftor'd The King to health.

All. We understand it, and thank heaven for you. Hel. I am a fimple maid, and therein wealthieft, That, I proteft, I fimply am a maid.

Please it your Majefty, I have done already :
The blushes in my cheeks thus whifper me,
We blush that thou fhould'ft chufe, but be refus'd;
Let the white death fit on thy cheek for ever,
We'll ne'er come there again.

King. Make choice, and fee,

Who fhuns thy love, fhuns all his love in me. Hel. Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, *And to impartial Love, that God moft high, Do my fighs ftream: Sir, will you hear my fuit? 1 Lord. And grant it.

Hel. Thanks, Sir;—all the reft is mute.

Laf. I had rather be in this choice, than throw ames-ace for my life.

Hel. The honour, Sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Before I speak, too threatningly replies :

Love make your fortunes twenty times above
Her that fo wishes, and her humble love!

And to imperial Love,] The old Editions'read impartial, which is right. Love who has no regard to difference of Condition, but yokes together high and low, which was her Cafe.

2 Lord. No better, if you pleafe. Hel. My wifh receive,

Which great Love grant! and fo I take my leave. Laf. Do all they deny her? if they were fons of mine, I'd have them whipt, or I would fend them

to the Turk to make eunuchs of.

Hel. Be not afraid that I your hand fhould take, I'll never do you wrong for your own fake: Bleffing upon your vows, and in your bed

Find fairer fortune, if

you ever wed!

Laf. Thele boys are boys of ice, they'll none of her: fure, they are baftards to the English, the French ne'er got 'em.

Hel. You are too young, too happy, and too good,
To make yourself a fon out of my blood.
4 Lord. Fair one, I think not fo.
Laf. There's one grape yet,-

Par. I am fure, thy father drunk wine.-
Laf. But if thou be'ft not an ass, I am a
Youth of fourteen. I have known thee already.
Hel. I dare not fay, I take you; but I give
Me and my fervice, ever whilft I live,

Into your guided power: this is the man.

[To Bertram. King. Why then; young Bertram, take her, fhe's thy wife,

Ber. My wife, my Liege? I fhall befeech your Highness,

In fuch a bufinefs give me leave to use

The help of mine own eyes.

King. Know'st thou not, Bertram,

What the hath done for me?

Ber. Yes, my good Lord,

But never hope to know why I should marry her. King. Thou know'ft, fhe has rais'd me from my fickly bed.

Ber. But follows it, my Lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raifing? I know her well:

She