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DUKE

Be it his pleasure.

FIRST LORD
But I am sure the younger of our nature
That surfeit on their ease will day by day
Come here for physic.

DUKE

Welcome shall they be,
And all the honours that can fly from us [20]
Shall on them settle. You know your places well;
When better fall, for your avails they fell.
Tomorrow to the field.

Flourish. Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter the Countess and the Clown.

COUNTESS
It hath happened all as I would have had it, save that he comes not along

with her.

CLOWN
By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man.

COUNTESS
By what observance, I pray you? [5]

CLOWN
Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend the ruff and sing, ask
questions and sing, pick his teeth and sing. I knew a man that had this trick
of melancholy hold a goodly manor for a song.

COUNTESS