All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Act 3 - Scene 1
Florence. The DUKE’s palace.
Duke of Florence : So that from point to point now have you heard
[p]The fundamental
reasons of this war,
[p]Whose great decision hath much blood let
forth
[p]And more thirsts after.
First Lord : Holy seems the quarrel
[p]Upon your grace's part; black and
fearful
[p]On the opposer.
Duke of Florence : Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
[p]Would in so just a
business shut his bosom
[p]Against our borrowing prayers.
Second Lord : Good my lord,
[p]The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
[p]But like
a common and an outward man,
[p]That the great figure of a council
frames
[p]By self-unable motion: therefore dare not
[p]Say what I
think of it, since I have found
[p]Myself in my incertain grounds to
fail
[p]As often as I guess'd.
Duke of Florence : Be it his pleasure.
First Lord : But I am sure the younger of our nature,
[p]That surfeit on their
ease, will day by day
[p]Come here for physic.
Duke of Florence : Welcome shall they be;
[p]And all the honours that can fly from
us
[p]Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
[p]When better
fall, for your avails they fell:
[p]To-morrow to the field.
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