PAROLLES I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.
[Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and
PAROLLES retire]
LAFEU Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the
better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's
able to lead her a coranto.
PAROLLES Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?
LAFEU 'Fore God, I think so.
KING Go, call before me all the lords in court.
Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;
And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense
Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive
The confirmation of my promised gift,
Which but attends thy naming.
[Enter three or four Lords]
Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel
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 To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!
LAFEU I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,
My mouth no more were broken than these boys',
And writ as little beard.
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