The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ this drives me to entreat you:

       That presently you take your way for home,

       And rather muse than ask why I entreat you:

       For my respects are better than they seem;

       And my appointments have in them a need

       Greater than shows itself at the first view

       To you that know them not. This to my mother:

       [Giving a letter.]

       ‘Twill be two days ere I shall see you; so

       I leave you to your wisdom.

       HELENA.

       Sir, I can nothing say

       But that I am your most obedient servant.

       BERTRAM.

       Come, come, no more of that.

       HELENA.

       And ever shall

       With true observance seek to eke out that

       Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail’d

       To equal my great fortune.

       BERTRAM.

       Let that go:

       My haste is very great. Farewell; hie home.

       HELENA.

       Pray, sir, your pardon.

       BERTRAM.

       Well, what would you say?

       HELENA.

       I am not worthy of the wealth I owe;

       Nor dare I say ‘tis mine, and yet it is;

       But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal

       What law does vouch mine own.

       BERTRAM.

       What would you have?

       HELENA.

       Something; and scarce so much:—nothing, indeed.—

       I would not tell you what I would, my lord:—Faith, yes;—

       Strangers and foes do sunder and not kiss.

       BERTRAM.

       I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.

       HELENA.

       I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.

       BERTRAM.

       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.

       PAROLLES.

       Bravely, coragio!

       [Exeunt.]

       ACT III.

      SCENE 1. Florence. A room in the DUKE’s palace.

       [Flourish. Enter the DUKE OF FLORENCE, attended; two French

       Lords, and Soldiers.]

       DUKE.

       So that, from point to point, now have you heard

       The fundamental reasons of this war;

       Whose great decision hath much blood let forth,

       And more thirsts after.

       FIRST LORD.

       Holy seems the quarrel

       Upon your grace’s part; black and fearful

       On the opposer.

       DUKE.

       Therefore we marvel much our cousin France

       Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom

       Against our borrowing prayers.

       SECOND LORD.

       Good my lord,

       The reasons of our state I cannot yield,

       But like a common and an outward man

       That the great figure of a council frames

       By self-unable motion; therefore dare not

       Say what I think of it, since I have found

       Myself in my incertain grounds to fail

       As often as I guess’d.

       DUKE.

       Be it his pleasure.

       FIRST LORD.

       But I am sure the younger of our nature,

       That surfeit on their ease, will day by day

       Come here for physic.

       DUKE.

       Welcome shall they be;

       And all the honours that can fly from us

       Shall on them settle. You know your places well;

       When better fall, for your avails they fell:

       Tomorrow to th’ field.

       [Flourish. Exeunt.]

      SCENE 2. Rousillon. A room in the COUNTESS’S palace.

       [Enter COUNTESS and CLOWN.]

       COUNTESS. It hath happened all as I would have had it, save that he comes not along with her.

       CLOWN.

       By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man.

       COUNTESS.

       By what observance, I pray you?

       CLOWN. Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.

       COUNTESS.

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