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Title: An art edition of Shakespeare, classified as comedies, tragedies, histories and sonnets, each part arranged in chronological order, including also a list of familiar quotations
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847 Seymour, Mary. (from old catalog) Gaskell, Charles Arthur, 1849- ed. (from old catalog) Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897, illus
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Publisher: Chicago, U. S. publishing house
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ase. Helena did not deceive herself in the hope she conceived of the efficacy of herfathers medicine. Before two days were at an end the king was restored to perfecthealth, and he assembled all the young noblemen of his court together, in order toconfer the promised reward of a husband on his fair physician; and he desired Helenato look round on his youthful parcel of noble bachelors, and choose her husband.Helena was not slow to make her choice, for among these young lords she saw theCount Eossilion, and turning to Bertram, she said, This is the man. I dare notsay, my lord, I take you, but I give me and my service ever whilst I live, into your 4ie ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. guiding power. Why, then/ said the king, -young Bertram take her; she isyour wife. Bertram did not hesitate to declare his dislike to this present of thekings of the self-offered Helena, who, he said, was a poor physicians daughter, bredat his fathers charge, and now living a dependent on his mothers bounty. Helena
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heard him speak these words of rejection and of scorn, and she said to the king, That you are well, my lord, I am glad. Let the rest go. But the king wouldnot suffer his royal command to be so slighted; for the power of bestowing theirnobles in marriage was one of the many privileges of the kings of France; and thatsame day Bertram was married to Helena, a forced and uneasy marriage to Bertram,and of no promising hope totlic ))oorlady, who, though she gained the noble husband iU ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. she had hazarded her life to obtain, seemed to have won but a splendid blank, herhusbands love not being a gift in the power of the king of France to bestow. Helena was no sooner married than she was desired by Bertram to apply to theking for him for leave of absence from court; and when she brought him the kingsj)ermission for his dejDarture, Bertram told her that as he was not prepared for thissudden marriage, it had much unsettled him, and therefore she must not Avouder atthe cours

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