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1603

ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
by William Shakespeare

HELENA. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,    
Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky    
Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull    
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.    
What power is it which mounts my love so high,    
That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?    
The mightiest space in fortune nature brings    
To join like likes, and kiss like native things.    
Impossible be strange attempts to those    
That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose    
What hath been cannot be. Who ever strove    
To show her merit that did miss her love?    
The King's disease-my project may deceive me,    
But my intents are fix'd, and will not leave me
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SECOND LORD. O, for the love of laughter, hinder not the honour of     his design; let him fetch off his drum in any hand.  
BERTRAM. How now, monsieur! This drum sticks sorely in your disposition.
FIRST LORD. A pox on 't; let it go; 'tis but a drum.  
PAROLLES. But a drum! Is't but a drum? A drum so lost! There was excellent command: to charge in with our horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!

1607
THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
by William Shakespeare
ANTONY. May I never    
To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,    
Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand.    
Further this act of grace; and from this hour    
The heart of brothers govern in our loves    
And sway our great designs!

CAESAR. O Antony,    
I have follow'd thee to this! But we do lance    
Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce    
Have shown to thee such a declining day    
Or look on thine; we could not stall together    
In the whole world. But yet let me lament...

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