PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING OF FRANCE.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 3.

DUKE OF FLORENCE.

Appears, Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3.

BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 5.

Act III. sc. 3; sc. 5; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act V. sc. 3.

LAFEU, an old Lord.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 5.

Act IV. sc. 5.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 5. Act III. sc. 5; sc. 6. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Act V. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Several young French Lords that serve with Bertram in the

Florentine war.

Appear, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 1; sc. 6.
Act IV. sc. 1;

sc. 3.

Steward, servant to the Countess of Rousillon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 4.

Clown, servant to the Countess of Rousillon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 2. Act IV. sc. 5. Act V. sc. 2.

Astringer.

Appears, Act V. sc. 1.

A Page.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act IV. sc. 5. Act V. sc. 3.

HELENA, a gentlewoman, protected by the Countess.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 4; sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 2; sc. 5; sc. 7. Act IV. sc. 4.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3.

An old Widow of Florence.

Appears, Act III. sc. 5; sc. 7. Act IV. sc. 4. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3.
DIANA, daughter to the Widow.

Appears, Act III. sc. 5. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 4.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 3.

VIOLENTA, neighbour and friend to the Widow.
Appears, Act III. sc. 5.

MARIANA, neighbour and friend to the Widow.
Appears, Act III. sc. 5.

Lords attending on the King; Officers, Soldiers, &c., French
and Florentine.

SCENE,- -IN FRANCE AND IN TUSCANY.

THIS Comedy was first printed in the folio collection of 1623. In the original copy the play is divided into acts, but not into scenes. There are several examples of corruption in the text; but, upon the whole, it is very accurately printed, both with regard to the metrical arrangement and to punctuation.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Rousillon. A Room in the Countess's Palace.

Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, HELENA, and LAFEU, in mourning.

COUNT. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.

BER. And I, in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.

LAF. You shall find of the king a husband, madam;you, sir, a father: He that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it where there is such abundance.

COUNT. What hope is there of his majesty's amendment? LAF. He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope, and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time.

COUNT. This young gentlewoman had a father, (0, that had! how sad a passage 't is!) whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. 'Would, for the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king's disease.

LAF. How called you the man you speak of, madam? COUNT. He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.