Ber. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.
Hel. If it appear not plain, and prove untrue,
Deadly divorce step between me and you !——
O, my dear mother, do I see you living?
[Crossing to the Countess.
Lef. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon :-
Good Tom Drum, [To Paroles,] lend me a handkerchief.
-So, I thank thee.-Wait on me home, I'll make sport
with thee: let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.
King. Let us from point to point this story know.—-
If thou be'st yet free to thine own election, [To Diana.
Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower:
I thank thee well, that, by thy honest aid,
Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.—
Of that, and all the progress, more and less,
Resolvedly more leisure shall express.
All yet seems well; and, if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
Hel.[Advancing] Helen's a beggar, now the play is done All is well ended, if this suit is won,
That you express 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 us, and take our hearts.
DISPOSITION OF THE CHARACTERS AT THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN.
Bir. Lew. Wid. Par. Lef. King, Bert. Helen. Countess. Dum. Jaq. Tour. [L.
