All’s Well That Ends Well

1 Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence attended; two French Lords, and
2 Soldiers.
3 DUKE.
4 So that, from point to point, now have you heard
5 The fundamental reasons of this war,
6 Whose great decision hath much blood let forth,
7 And more thirsts after.
8 FIRST LORD.
9 Holy seems the quarrel
10 Upon your Grace’s part; black and fearful
11 On the opposer.
12 DUKE.
13 Therefore we marvel much our cousin France
14 Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom
15 Against our borrowing prayers.
16 SECOND LORD.
17 Good my lord,
18 The reasons of our state I cannot yield,
19 But like a common and an outward man
20 That the great figure of a council frames
21 By self-unable motion; therefore dare not
22 Say what I think of it, since I have found
23 Myself in my incertain grounds to fail
24 As often as I guess’d.
25 DUKE.
26 Be it his pleasure.
27 FIRST LORD.
28 But I am sure the younger of our nature,
29 That surfeit on their ease, will day by day
30 Come here for physic.
31 DUKE.
32 Welcome shall they be;
33 And all the honours that can fly from us
34 Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
35 When better fall, for your avails they fell.
36 Tomorrow to the field.
37 [_Flourish. Exeunt._]