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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1] |
Helena |
218 |
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
What power is it which mounts my love so high,
That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
The mightiest space in fortune nature brings
To join like likes and kiss like native things.
Impossible be strange attempts to those
That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose
What hath been cannot be: who ever strove
So show her merit, that did miss her love?
The king's disease—my project may deceive me,
But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
Helena |
734 |
My duty then shall pay me for my pains:
I will no more enforce mine office on you.
Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts
A modest one, to bear me back a again.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1] |
King of France |
754 |
I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;
Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:
Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 1] |
Widow |
2594 |
Lord, how we lose our pains!
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 1] |
Helena |
2600 |
I do beseech you, sir,
Since you are like to see the king before me,
Commend the paper to his gracious hand,
Which I presume shall render you no blame
But rather make you thank your pains for it.
I will come after you with what good speed
Our means will make us means.
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