_Par._ Under Mars, I. 180 _Hel._ I especially think, under Mars. _Par._ Why under Mars? _Hel._ The wars have so kept you under, that you must needs be born under Mars. _Par._ When he was predominant. 185 _Hel._ When he was retrograde, I think, rather. _Par._ Why think you so? _Hel._ You go so much backward when you fight. _Par._ That's for advantage. _Hel._ So is running away, when fear proposes the safety: 190 but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. _Par._ I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be 195 capable of a courtier's counsel, and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends: get thee a good husband, and use 200 him as he uses thee: so, farewell. [_Exit._ _Hel._ Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. 205 What power is it which mounts my love so high; That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts to those 210 That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What hath been cannot be: who ever strove To show her merit, that did miss her love? The king's disease--my project may deceive me, But my intents are fix'd, and will not leave me. [_Exit._ 215 LINENOTES: ACT I. SCENE I.] Actus Primus. Scæna Prima. Ff. Enter.... ] Enter yong Bertram, Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke. Ff. [1] Count.] Mother. Ff, and afterwards Mo. _delivering_] _delivering up_ Hanmer. _dissevering_ Warburton. _son from me,_] _son, for me_ or _son, 'fore me_, Becket conj. [3] _And I in going, madam_] F1. _And in going Madam_ F2 F3 F4. _And in going, madam, I_ Rowe. [9] _lack_] _slack_ Theobald (Warburton). [13] _persecuted_] _prosecuted_ Hanmer. [17] _passage_] _preface_ Hanmer. _presage_ Warburton. _pesage_ Becket conj. _was_] om. Collier (Collier MS.). [18] _would_] _it would_ Rowe, _'t would_ Singer. [19] _have_] _have had_ Hanmer. _play_] _play'd_ Warburton. [29, 31, 52] Ber.] Ros. Ff. [35] _hopes of her good that her_] _good hopes of her that her_ or _hopes of her that her good_ Anon. conj.