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After speaking with her steward, the Countess has just learnt that her ward, Helena, has fallen in love with her son, Bertram. The Countess immediately sends for Helena and, after much dissembling, Helena admits that she does indeed love Bertram, despite her commoner status. She has a plan to go and find Bertram in Paris and offer her medical services as a doctors at the French court, where Bertram resides. Despite her reservations, the Countess agrees that Helena can go.
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Even so it was with me when I was young:
If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn
Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;
Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;
It is the show and seal of nature's truth,
Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:
By our remembrances of days foregone,
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