Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ber. For well you know here comes in Embassie
Ber. The French Kings daughter, with your selfe to speake:
Ber. A Maide of grace and compleate maiestie,
Ber. About surrender vp of Aquitaine:
Ber. To her decrepit, sicke, and bed‑rid Father.
Ber. Therefore this Article is made in vaine,
Ber. Or vainly comes th'admired Princesse hither.
Fer. Fer.
Fer. What say you Lords?
Fer. Why, this was quite forgot.
Ber. Ber.
Ber. So Studie euermore is ouershot,
Ber. While it doth study to haue what it would,
Ber. It doth forget to doe the thing it should:
Ber. And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
Ber. 'Tis won as townes with fire, so won, so lost.
Fer. We must of force dispence with this Decree,
Fer. She must lye here on meere necessitie.