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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

THE adventures of HELENA form the only incidents in this play which are adapted to the present mode of illustration. PAROLLES, who forms a very conspicuous character in the piece, is not sufficiently connected with the main plot to be particularly prominent in the illustrations. His adventure, when in search of the drum, is inexplicable in a pictorial point of view.

I.

BERTRAM taking leave of his mother.

"COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.

BERT. And I, in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew. But I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.

LAFEU. You shall find in the king a husband, madam ; you, sir, a father."

ACT I. S. 1.

II.

LAFEU introducing HELENA to cure the KING.

"KING. What her is this?

LAFEU. Why, doctor She;

KING. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? HEL. Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was My father

On his bed of death

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Many receipts he gave me-chiefly one,
And, hearing your high majesty is touched
With that malignant cause, wherein the honour
Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,
I come to tender it."

ACT II. S. 1.

III.

HELENA giving the medicine to the KING.

"HEL.

Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring

Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,

What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,
Health shall live free, and sickness freely die."

ACT II. S. 1.

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