All's Well, That Ends Well
All's Well, That Ends Well LAFEW. They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
PAROLLES. Why, ’tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times.
BERTRAM. And so ’tis.
LAFEW. To be relinquish’d of the artists,—
PAROLLES. So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus.
LAFEW. Of all the learned and authentic fellows,—
PAROLLES. Right; so I say.
LAFEW. That gave him out incurable,—
PAROLLES. Why, there ’tis; so say I too.
LAFEW. Not to be helped.
PAROLLES. Right; as ’twere a man assur’d of a—
LAFEW. Uncertain life and sure death.
PAROLLES. Just; you say well. So would I have said.
LAFEW. I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.
PAROLLES. It is indeed; if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in what do you call there?
LAFEW. A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.