All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
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SECOND LORD.
It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING. What's he comes here? [Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES.] FIRST LORD. It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, Young Bertram. KING. Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well compos'd thee. Thy father's moral parts Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. BERTRAM. My thanks and duty are your majesty's. KING. I would I had that corporal soundness now, As when thy father and myself in friendship First tried our soldiership! He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on, |
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