William Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene IV
Enter Helena and Clown
She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the world; but yet she is not well.
One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence God send her quickly!
Enter Parolles
You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a very little of nothing.
You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had been truth, sir.
Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.
Madam, my lord will go away to-night;
A very serious business calls on him.
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;
But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;
Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
Which they distil now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy
And pleasure drown the brim.
And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Strengthen'd with what apology you think
May make it probable need.
Exeunt
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