TPTT All's Well That Ends Well: ACT II
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace.
SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.
SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace.
SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.
SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace.
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.
Enter HELENA and Clown
HELENA
      My mother greets me kindly; is she well?
Clown
      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
5     world; but yet she is not well.
HELENA
      If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
      not very well?
Clown
      Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.
HELENA
      What two things?
Clown
10    One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her
      quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence
      God send her quickly!
Enter PAROLLES
PAROLLES
      Bless you, my fortunate lady!
HELENA
      I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own
15    good fortunes.
PAROLLES
      You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them
      on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?
Clown
      So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,
      I would she did as you say.
PAROLLES
20    Why, I say nothing.
Clown
      Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's
      tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say
      nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have
      nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which
25    is within a very little of nothing.
PAROLLES
      Away! thou'rt a knave.
Clown
      You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a
      knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had
      been truth, sir.
PAROLLES
30    Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.
Clown
      Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you
      taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;
      and much fool may you find in you, even to the
      world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.
PAROLLES
35    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,
      Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;
40    But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;
      Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
      Which they distil now in the curbed time,
      To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
      And pleasure drown the brim.
HELENA
45    What's his will else?
PAROLLES
      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.
HELENA
50    What more commands he?
PAROLLES
      That, having this obtain'd, you presently
      Attend his further pleasure.
HELENA
      In every thing I wait upon his will.
PAROLLES
      I shall report it so.
HELENA
55    I pray you.

Exit PAROLLES

      Come, sirrah.
Exeunt
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