All's Well, That Ends Well
All's Well, That Ends Well Sit, my preserver, by thy patient’s side, And with this healthful hand, whose banish’d sense Thou has repeal’d, a second time receive The confirmation of my promis’d gift, Which but attends thy naming.
Enter several Lords.
Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, O’er whom both sovereign power and father’s voice I have to use. Thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.
HELENA. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress Fall, when love please! Marry, to each but one!
LAFEW. I’d give bay curtal and his furniture My mouth no more were broken than these boys’, And writ as little beard.
KING. Peruse them well. Not one of those but had a noble father.
She addresses her to a Lord.
HELENA. Gentlemen, Heaven hath through me restor’d the king to health.
ALL. We understand it, and thank heaven for you.
HELENA. I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest That I protest I simply am a maid. Please it, your majesty, I have done already. The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me: “We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused, Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever, We’ll ne’er come there again.”