All's Well That Ends Well (Modern)

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1.0.11372Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two French Lords, 1373with a troop of soldiers.
1.11374Duke
 So that from point to point, now have you heard
1.21375The fundamental reasons of this war,
1.31376Whose great decision hath much blood let forth
1.41377And more thirsts after.
Lord
 And more thirsts after.  Holy seems the quarrel
1.51379Upon your grace's part; black and fearful
1.61380On the opposer.
1.71381Duke
 Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
1.81382Would in so just a business shut his bosom
1.91383Against our borrowing prayers.
Lord
 Against our borrowing prayers.  Good my lord,
1.101385The reasons of our state I cannot yield
1.111386But like a common and an outward man
1.121387That the great figure of a council frames
1.131388By self-unable motion; therefore dare not
1.141389Say what I think of it, since I have found
1.151390Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
1.161391As often as I guessed.
 1392Duke
 As often as I guessed.  Be it his pleasure.
1.1713932 Lord
 But I am sure the younger of our nature,
1.181394That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
1.191395Come here for physic.
 1396Duke
 Come here for physic.  Welcome shall they be,
1.201397And all the honors that can fly from us
1.211398Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
1.221399When better fall, for your avails they fell.
1.231400Tomorrow to th' field. 
1.23.1Flourish. [Exeunt.]

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All's Well That Ends Well (Modern)