7 The jeweller, that owes the ring, is sent for, Who hath abus'd me, as he knows himself, But 'twas his wife who then became with child: King. Re-enter Widow, with HELENA. Is there no exorcist Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? Is't real, that I see? Hel. 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see, No, my good lord; Both, both; O, pardon! The name, and not the thing. Ber. Hel. O, my good lord, when I was like this maid, I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring, And, look here's you, letter; This it says, When from my finger you can get this ring, And are by me with child, &c. your This is done: Will you be mine, now you are doubly won? Ber. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. Hel. If it appear not plain, and prove untrue, Laf. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon: Good Tom Drum, [TO PAROLLES.] lend me a handkerchief: So, I thank thee; wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones. : King. Let us from point to point this story know, To make the even truth in pleasure flow : If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower, [TO DIANA. 262 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. [ACT V. Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower; Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.- Advancing. [Flourish. The king's a beggar, now the play is done: All is well ended, if this suit be won, That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day: Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts", Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts. [Exeunt. 8 i. e. Take our parts, support and defend us. PERSONS REPRESENTED. A Lord. BAPTISTA, a rich gentleman of Padua. Persons in the Intro duction. LUCENTIO, Son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca. PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to Katharina. PEDANT, an old fellow set up to personate Vincentio. KATHARINA, the Shrew ; BIANCA, her sister, } daughters to Baptista. Widow. Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio. SCENE, sometimes in Padua; and sometimes in Petruchio's House in the Country. CHARACTERS IN THE INDUCTION To the Original Play of The Taming of a Shrew, entered on the Stationers' books in 1594, and printed in quarto in 1607. A Lord, &c. A Tapster. Page, Players, Huntsmen, &c. PERSONS REPRESENTED. ALPHONSUS, a merchant of Athens. JEROBEL, Duke of Cestus. AURELIUS, his son, FERANDO, POLIDOR, VALERIA, servant to Aurelius. SANDER, servant to Ferando. PHYLOTUS, a Merchant who personates the Duke. |