Reading Loues Labour's lost — William Shakespeare

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Kin.

Madame, your father heere doth intimate,

The paiment of a hundred thousand Crownes,

Being but th' one halfe, of an intire summe,

Disbursed by my father in his warres.

But say that he, or we, as neither haue

Receiu'd that summe; yet there remaines vnpaid

A hundred thousand more: in surety of the which,

One part of Aquitaine is bound to vs,

Although not valued to the moneys worth.

If then the King your father will restore

But that one halfe which is vnsatisfied,

We will giue vp our right in Aquitaine,

And hold faire friendship with his Maiestie:

But that it seemes he little purposeth,

For here he doth demand to haue repaie,

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