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[Flourish. Enter King, old Lady Countess, Lafew, the two French Lords, with Attendants.]
KING OF FRANCE
We lost a jewel of her, and our esteem
Was made much poorer by it; but your son,
As mad in folly, lack’d the sense to know
Her estimation home.
COUNTESS OF ROUSSILLON
’Tis past, my liege,
And I beseech your Majesty to make it
Natural rebellion, done i� th� blade of youth,
When oil and fire, too strong for reason’s force,
O’erbears it, and burns on.
KING OF FRANCE
My honor’d lady,
I have forgiven and forgotten all,
Though my revenges were high bent upon him,
And watch’d the time to shoot.
LAFEW
This I must say�
But first I beg my pardon—the young lord
Did to his Majesty, his mother, and his lady
Offense of mighty note; but to himself
The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife
Whose beauty
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