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give us a further use to be made than alone the recovery of the King, as to be
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LAFEW
Generally thankful.

Enter the King, Helena, and attendants.

PAROLLES
I would have said it, you say well. Here comes the King.

LAFEW
Lustique, as the Dutchman says. I’ll like a maid the better whilst I have a

tooth in my head. Why, he’s [40] able to lead her a coranto.

PAROLLES
Mort du vinaigre! Is not this Helen?

LAFEW
Fore God, I think so.

KING
Go, call before me all the lords in court.
Exit an attendant.
Sit, my preserver, by thy patient’s side, [45]

And with this healthful hand, whose banished sense
Thou hast repealed, a second time receive
The confirmation of my promised gift,

Which but attends thy naming.
Enter four Lords.
Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel [50]
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