SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace. All's Well That Ends Well  Shakespeare homepage  |  All's Well That Ends Well  | Act 3, Scene 1 

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 Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.  DUKE  So that from point to point now have you heard 

 The fundamental reasons of this war, 

 Whose great decision hath much blood let forth 

 And more thirsts after. 

 First Lord  Holy seems the quarrel 

 Upon your grace's part; black and fearful 

 On the opposer. 

 DUKE  Therefore we marvel much our cousin France 

 Would in so just a business shut his bosom 

 Against our borrowing prayers. 

 Second Lord  Good my lord, 

 The 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 

 Myself in my incertain grounds to fail 

 As often as I guess'd. 

 DUKE  Be it his pleasure. 

 First Lord  But I am sure the younger of our nature, 

 That surfeit on their ease, will day by day 

 Come here for physic. 

 DUKE  Welcome shall they be; 

 And all the honours that can fly from us 

 Shall on them settle. You know your places well; 

 When better fall, for your avails they fell: 

 To-morrow to the field. 



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