All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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To grow there, and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--
This his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,--'Let me not live' quoth he, 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their fashions:'--This he wish'd: I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room. SECOND LORD. You're lov'd, sir; They that least lend it you shall lack you first. KING. I fill a place, I know't.--How long is't, Count, Since the physician at your father's died? He was much fam'd. BERTRAM. Some six months since, my lord. KING. If he were living, I would try him yet;-- Lend me an arm;--the rest have worn me out With several applications:--nature and sickness |
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