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.Where did you finde it then?Dia.I found it notKin.If it were yours by none of all these wayes,How could you giue it him?Dia.I neuer gaue it himLaf.This womans an easie gloue my Lord, she goesoff and on at pleasureKin.This Ring was mine, I gaue it his first wifeDia.It might be yours or hers for ought I knowKin.Take her away, I do not like her now,To prison with her: and away with him,Vnlesse thou telst me where thou hadst this Ring,Thou diest within this houreDia.Ile neuer tell youKin.Take her awayDia.Ile put in baile my liedgeKin.I thinke thee now some common CustomerDia.By Ioue if euer I knew man 'twas youKing.Wherefore hast thou accusde him al this whileDia.Because he's guiltie, and he is not guilty:He knowes I am no Maid, and hee'l sweare too't:Ile sweare I am a Maid, and he knowes not.Great King I am no strumpet, by my life,I am either Maid, or else this old mans wifeKin.She does abuse our eares, to prison with herDia.Good mother fetch my bayle.Stay Royall sir,The Ieweller that owes the Ring is sent for,And he shall surety me.But for this Lord,Who hath abus'd me as he knowes himselfe,Though yet he neuer harm'd me, heere I quit him.He knowes himselfe my bed he hath defil'd,And at that time he got his wife with childe:Dead though she be, she feeles her yong one kicke:So there's my riddle, one that's dead is quicke,And now behold the meaning.Enter Hellen and Widdow.Kin.Is there no exorcistBeguiles the truer Office of mine eyes?Is't reall that I see?Hel.No my good Lord,'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,The name, and not the thingRos.Both, both, O pardonHel.Oh my good Lord, when I was like this Maid,I found you wondrous kinde, there is your Ring,And looke you, heeres your letter: this it sayes,When from my finger you can get this Ring,And is by me with childe, &c.This is done,Will you be mine now you are doubly wonne?Ros.If she my Liege can make me know this clearly,Ile loue her dearely, euer, euer dearlyHel.If it appeare not plaine, and proue vntrue,Deadly diuorce step betweene me and you.O my deere mother do I see you liuing?Laf.Mine eyes smell Onions, I shall weepe anon:Good Tom Drumme lend me a handkercher.So I thanke thee, waite on me home, Ile make sport withthee: Let thy curtsies alone, they are scuruy onesKing.Let vs from point to point this storie know,To make the euen truth in pleasure flow:If thou beest yet a fresh vncropped flower,Choose thou thy husband, and Ile pay thy dower.For I can guesse, that by thy honest ayde,Thou keptst a wife her selfe, thy selfe a Maide.Of that and all the progresse more and lesse,Resoluedly more leasure shall expresse:All yet seemes well, and if it end so meete,The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.Flourish.The Kings a Begger, now the Play is done,All is well ended, if this suite be wonne,That you expresse Content: which we will pay,With strife to please you, day exceeding day:Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts,Your gentle hands lend vs, and take our hearts.Exeunt.omn.FINIS.ALL'S Well, that Ends Well [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]