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      — Hamlet, Act I Scene 5

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1

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

1

Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA,]
and LAFEU, all in black]

2

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1]

Countess

45

'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise
in. The remembrance of her father never approaches
her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all
livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;
go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect
a sorrow than have it.

3

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 1]

Bertram

74

[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in
your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable
to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.

4

All's Well That Ends Well
[I, 3]

Countess

437

You have discharged this honestly; keep it to
yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this
before, which hung so tottering in the balance that
I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,
leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you
for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.
[Exit Steward]
[Enter HELENA]
Even so it was with me when I was young:
If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn
Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;
Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;
It is the show and seal of nature's truth,
Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:
By our remembrances of days foregone,
Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.
Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.

5

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

697

[Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA]

6

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 3]

Parolles

932

I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.
[Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and]
PAROLLES retire]

7

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

1204

[Enter HELENA and Clown]

8

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

(stage directions)

1317

[Enter HELENA]

9

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Bertram

1360

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.

10

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1444

[Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen]

11

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5]

Widow

1636

I hope so.
[Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim]
Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at
my house; thither they send one another: I'll
question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?

12

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 7]

(stage directions)

1846

[Enter HELENA and Widow]

13

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 4]

(stage directions)

2422

[Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA]

14

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

2564

[Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two]
Attendants]

15

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3]

(stage directions)

3022

[Re-enter Widow, with HELENA]

16

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

104

I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
As well possess'd; my love is more than his;
My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,
If not with vantage, as Demetrius';
And, which is more than all these boasts can be,
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:
Why should not I then prosecute my right?
Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,
Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,
And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
Upon this spotted and inconstant man.

17

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

162

A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;
And she respects me as her only son.
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;
And to that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with Helena,
To do observance to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.

18

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Lysander

186

Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.

19

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

187

[Enter HELENA]

20

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 1]

Hermia

188

God speed fair Helena! whither away?

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