Countess: Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father / In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue / Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness / Sha...

Countess: Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father
In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue
Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness
Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

line from All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1605)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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