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Clo. Not much commendation to them?

Count. Not much imployment for you, you underftand me.

Clo. Moft fruitfully, I am there before my legs. Count. Hafte you again.

Laf.

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Changes to the Court of France.

Enter Bertram, Lafeu, and Parolles.

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HEY fay, miracles are paft; and we have our philofophical perfons to make modern, and familiar, things fupernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; enfconfing our felves into feeming knowledge, when we fhould fubmit our felves to an unknown fear.

Par. Why, 'tis the rareft argument of wonder that hath fhot out in our later times.

Ber. And fo 'tis.

Laf. To be relinquifh'd of the artists

Par. So I fay, both of Galen and Paracelfus.
Laf. Of all the learned and authentick Fellows
Par. Right, fo I fay.

Laf. That gave him out incurable,
Par. Why, there 'tis, fo fay I too.

1 unknown fear.] Unknown for supernatural.
2 Par. So I fay, both of Galen and Paracelfus.

Laf.

Laf. Of all the learned and authentick fellows.] ShakeSpear, as I have often obferved, never throws out his words at random. Paracelfus, tho' no better than an ignorant and knavish enthufiaft was at this time in fuch vogue, even amongst the learned, that he had almoft juftled Galen and the ancients out of credit. On this account learned is applied to Galen; and authentick or fashionable to Paracelfus. Sancy, in his Confeffion Catholique, P. 301. Ed. Col. 1720, is made to fay, Je trouve la Riviere premier Medecin, de meilleure humeur que ces gens-la. Il eft bon Ga

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leniste,

Laf. Not to be help'd,

Par. Right, as 'twere a man affur'd of an
Laf. Uncertain life, and fure death,

Par. Juft, you fay well: fo would I have said. Laf. I may truly fay, it is a novelty to the world. Par. It is, indeed, if you will have it in fhewing, you fhall read it in, what do you call there

Laf. A fhewing of a heav'nly effect in an earthly

actor.

Par. That's it, I would have faid the very fame. Laf. Why, your dolphin is not luftier: for me, I fpeak in refpect

Par. Nay, 'tis ftrange, 'tis very ftrange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a moft facinerious fpirit, that will not acknowledge it to be the

Laf. Very hand of heav'n.
Par. Ay, fo I fay.

Laf. In a moft weak

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Par. And debile minifter, great power, great tranfcendence; which fhould, indeed, give us 米米 farther ufe to be made than alone the recov'ry of the King; as to be

Laf Generally thankful.

Tenifte, & tres bon Paracelfifte. Il dit que la doctrine de Galien f honorable, & non mefprifable pour la pathologie, & profitable pour les Boutiques. L'autre, pourveu que ce foit de wrais preceptes Paracelfe, eft bonne à fuivre pour la verité, pour la fubtilité, pour l'efpargne; en fomme pour la Therapeutique.

3 A fbewing of a beav'nly effect, &c.] The title of fome pamphlet here ridiculed.

4 which should, indeed, give us a farther ufe to be made, &c.] Between the words us and a farther, there feems to have been two or three words dropt, which appear to have been to this purpofe-fhould, indeed, give us (notice, that there is of this,] a farther ufe to be made fo that the pailage fhould be read with afterisks for the future,

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Enter King, Helena, and Attendants.

Par. I would have faid it, you faid well: here comes the King.

Laf. Luftick, as the Dutchman fays: I'll like a Maid the better, while I have a tooth in my head: why, he's able to lead her a Corranto.

Par. Mort du Vinaigre! is not this Helen?
Laf. 'Fore God, I think fo.

King. Go, call before me all the Lords in court. Sit, my preferver, by thy patient's fide;

And with this healthful hand, whofe banifh'd fenfe Thou haft repeal'd, a fecond time receive

The confirmation of my promis'd gift;

Which but attends thy naming.

Enter three or four Lords.

Fair maid, fend forth thine eye; this youthful parcel
Of noble batchelors ftand at my beftowing,
O'er whom both fov'reign power and father's voice.
I have to use; thy frank election make;

Thou haft power to chufe, and they none to forfake.
Hel. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when love please! marry, to each but one.
Laf. I'd give bay curtal and his furniture,

My mouth no more were broken than these boys,
And writ as little beard.

King. Perufe them well:

Not one of thofe, but had a noble father..

[She addreffes herself to a Lord. Hel. Gentlemen, heaven hath, through me, reftor'd The King to health.

All. We understand it, and thank heaven for you, Hel. I am a fimple maid, and therein wealthiest, That, I proteft, I fimply am a maid.-———————

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Pleafe

Pleafe it your Majefty, I have done already :
The blufhes in my cheeks thus whisper me,
We blush that thou should'ft chufe, but be refus'd
Let the white death fit on thy cheek for ever,
We'll ne'er come there again.

King. Make choice, and fee,

Who Thuns thy love, fhuns all his love in me.
Hel. Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,
And to impartial Love, that God most high,
Do my fighs ftream: Sir, will you hear my fuit?
1 Lord. And grant it.

Hel. Thanks, Sir; all the rest is mute.

Laf. I had rather be in this choice, than throw ames-ace for my life.

Hel. The honour, Sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Before I fpeak, too threatningly replies:

Love make your fortunes twenty times above
Her that fo wifhes, and her humble love!
2 Lord. No better, if you please.

Hel. My wifh receive,

Which great Love grant! and fo I take my leave. Laf. Do all they deny her? if they were fons of mine, I'd have them whipt, or I would fend them to the Turk to make eunuchs of.

Hel. Be not afraid that I your hand fhould take, I'll never do you wrong for your own fake: Bleffing upon your vows, and in your bed Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!

Laf. These boys are boys of ice, they'll none of her: fure, they are baftards to the English, the French ne'er got 'em,

5 Let the white DEATH At on thy cheek for ever,] Shakespear, I think, wrote DEARTH; i. e. want of blood, or more figura tively barrennefs, want of fruit or issue.

6 And to IMPERIAL Love,] The old editions read IMPARTIAL, which is right. Love who has no regard to difference of condition, but yokes together high and low, which was her cafe.

Hel.

Hel. You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a fon out of my blood. 4 Lord. Fair one, I think not fo.

i Laf. There's one grape yet,

Par. I am fure, thy father drunk wine.
Laf. But if thou be'eft not an ass, I am a
Youth of fourteen. I have known thee already.
Hel. I dare not fay, I take you; but I give
Me and my fervice, ever whilft I live,

Into your guided power: this is the man.

[To Bertram. King. Why then; young Bertram, take her, he's thy wife.

Ber. My wife, my Liege? I fhall beseech your Highness,

In fuch a business give me leave to use

The help of mine own eyes.

King. Know'st thou not, Bertram,

What the hath done for me?

Ber. Yes, my good Lord,

But never hope to know why I fhould marry her. King. Thou know'ft, fhe has rais'd me from my fickly bed.

Ber. But follows it, my Lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raifing? I know her well: She had her breeding at my father's charge: A poor phyfician's daughter my wife! Difdain Rather corrupt me ever!

-King. 'Tis only title thou difdain'ft in her, the which
I can build up: ftrange is it, that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound diftinction, yet ftand off
In differences, fo mighty. If the be

All that is virtuous (fave what thou dislik'st
A poor physician's daughter,) thou dislik'st

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7 There's one grape yet, I have here regulated the speeches as they ought to be.

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