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WELLE

BODL

ALL's WELL that ENDS

TWELFTH NIGHT; or, WHAT YOU WILL.

The COMEDY of ERRORS.

The WINTER-NIGHT'S TALE.

The LIFE and DEATH of KING JOHN,

EDINBURGH:

Printed by WAL. RUDDIMAN and Company.
MDCCLXIX.

DRAMATIS

KING of France.

Duke of Florence.
Bertram, Count of Roufillon.
Lafeu, an old Lord.

Parolles, a parasitical follower of
Bertram; a coward, but vain,

and a great pretender to valour. Several young French Lords, that ferve with Bertram in the Florentine war.

Steward, Servants to the Count-
Clown, Sess of Roufillon.

PERSONA.

Countess of Rousillon, mother to

Bertram.

Helena, daughter to Gerard de
Narton, a famous physician,
fome time fince dead.
An old widow of Florence.
Diana. daughter to the wid w.
Violenta,
neighbour s and friends
Mariana, S to the widow.

Lords attending on the King; Of-
ficers, Soldiers, &c.

SCENE lies partly in France, and partly in Tuscany.

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The Countess of Rousillon's house in France.

Enter Bertram, the Countess of Roufillon, Helena, and

Lafeu, all in mourning.

Countess.

I

N dissevering my fon from me, I bury a fecond 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 fubjection.

Laf. You shall fiud 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; whofe worthiness would ftir it up where it wanted, rather than flack it where there is such abundance.

Count. What hope is there of his Majesty's amendment?

* The plot taken from Boccace, Decam. 3. Nov. 9.

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