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KING.
Let us from point to point this story know,
To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
. . .
All yet seems well, and if it end so meet,
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [Flourish.]

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Helena forgives, Bertram appreciates. 💍

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 81, 3/23- Act V s3 from 233

DIANA.
I have spoke the truth.

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EPILOGUE [KING].
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;
Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.

Fin.

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KING

Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend
Till your deeds gain them; fairer prove your honour
Than in my thought it lies!

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V,3,182-184
William Shakespeare

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 80, 3/22- Act V s3 from 130 "KING. I am wrapped in dismal thinkings" to 232,

DIANA.
I have spoke the truth.

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KING

I am not a day of season,
For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail
In me at once. But to the brightest beams
Distracted clouds give way. So stand thou forth;
The time is fair again.
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Act V s3 (32-36)

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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 79, 3/21- Act V s3

Location. Rossillion.

KING.
We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem

to line 129,

BERTRAM.
Where yet she never was. [Exit, guarded.]

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KING

Let's take the instant by the forward top

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V,3,39

„The lock of hair on the forehead—the only place where one can seize the personified OPPORTUNITY or LUCK, which were symbolically depicted as a bald spot at the back of the head.“
Frank Günther (tr.)

“Truly, fortune’s displeasure is but sluttish, if it smell so strong, as thou speakest of: I will henceforth eat no fish of fortune’s buttering. Pr’ythee, allow the wind.”
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“That it will please you
To give this poor petition to the king,
And aid me with that store of power you have,
To come into his presence.”
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PAROLLES

. . . but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune’s mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure.
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Act V s2 (3-4)
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PAROLLES
O my good lord, you were the first that found me.

LAFEW
Was I, in sooth? And I was the first that lost thee.

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V,2,41-43
William Shakespeare

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 78, 3/20-

Act V s1 "HELENA. But this exceeding posting day and night" to end of sc.;

Act V s2 "PAROLLES. Good Monsieur Lavatch, give my Lord Lafew this letter" to end of sc.,

PAROLLES.
I praise God for you. [Exeunt.]

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LAFEU

‘Twas a good lady, ‘twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.
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Act IV s5 (11-12)
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Mention of the Black Prince, Edward (1330-76), today, Act IV s5. #TheBard_ProblemPlays #AllsWell_2026

Oldest son of King Edward III, he was a valiant warrior & skilled diplomat who held out the promise of continuing his father’s rule over England and much of France. (1/2)

Folger Shakespeare site.

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 77, 3/19- Act IV s5

Loc. Rossillion.

LAFEW.
No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipped-taffeta fellow

to end of sc.,

LAVATCH.
Faith, there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine
hats, & most courteous feathers, which bow the
head & nod at every man.

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HELENA

But with the word the time will bring on summer,

. . . We must away;
Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us.
All’s well that ends well:
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Act IV s4 (31; 34-35)
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 76, 3/18- Act IV s4

Location. Florence, the Widow's house.

HELENA.
That you may well perceive I have not wronged you

to end of sc.,

HELENA.
But with the word the time will bring on summer,
When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns
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PAROLLES

Simply the thing I am
Shall make me live.

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IV,321-322
William Shakespeare

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(Brain not working today...)

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IV,3,216-219

FIRST SOLDIER [Reads]

„When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;
After he scores he never pays the score.
Half-won is match well made; match, and well make it;
He ne'er pays after-debts; take it before.“

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 74, 3/16- Act IV s3 from line 136 "PAROLLES. Do. I'll take the Sacrament on 'it, how and" to 237
"BERTRAM. [Aside] He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme on 's forehead."

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Parallel to the question of nature and nurture is that of divine providence and individual responsibility. Helen believes…, like Bertram, she is a voice of modernity (1/2)
RSC intro.

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IV,3,133-134
William Shakespeare

PAROLLES
Do. I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.

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Parolles doesn't know what religion his tormentors belong to—a potentially serious problem in times of widespread religious conflict.

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 73, 3/15- Act IV s3

Location. Florentine camp.

FIRST LORD.
You have not given him his mother's letter?

to line 135,

FIRST SOLDIER.
Shall I set down your answer so? [He writes.]

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FIRST LORD

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
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Act IV s3 (65-68)

“Ay, so you serve us,
Till we serve you: but when you have our roses,
You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
And mock us with our bareness.”
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IV,2,25-27
William Shakespeare

DIANA

If I should swear by Jove's great attributes
I lov'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths
When I did love you ill?

Jupiter (Jove)
gravé par Etienne Delaune
Louvre

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 72, 3/14- Act IV s2

Location. Florence, the Widow's house.

BERTRAM.
They told me that your name was Fontibell.

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DIANA.
Only in this disguise I think 't no sin
To cozen him that would unjustly win. [Exit]

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