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All's Well That Ends Well (Modern)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editors: Andrew Griffin, Helen Ostovich

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All's Well That Ends Well (Modern)
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  24. Epilogue
All's Well That Ends Well (Folio 1, 1623)
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3.1

Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two French Lords, ¶with a troop of soldiers.

¶Duke So that from point to point, now have you heard

1375The fundamental reasons of this war,

¶Whose great decision hath much blood let forth

¶And more thirsts after.
¶1 Lord
	Holy seems the quarrel

¶Upon your grace's part; black and fearful

1380On the opposer.

¶Duke Therefore we marvel much our cousin France

¶Would in so just a business shut his bosom

¶Against our borrowing prayers.
¶1 Lord
	Good my lord,

1385The reasons of our state I cannot yield

¶But like a common and an outward man

¶That the great figure of a council frames

¶By self-unable motion; therefore dare not

¶Say what I think of it, since I have found

1390Myself in my incertain grounds to fail

¶As often as I guessed.
¶Duke
	Be it his pleasure.

¶2 Lord But I am sure the younger of our nature,

¶That surfeit on their ease, will day by day

1395Come here for physic.
¶Duke
	Welcome shall they be,

¶And all the honors that can fly from us

¶Shall on them settle. You know your places well;

¶When better fall, for your avails they fell.

1400Tomorrow to th' field.

Flourish. [Exeunt.]