...reach the court and cure the King's disease, it may prove the way to Bertram's love: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. Which we ascribe to Heaven. The...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (Ii202) This is Helena's theme, that the heavens may help those who help themselves, and will hinder...

...statement of man's freedom, and hence of his responsibility, in any of the plays: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. The...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1.231-4) We are prone to that enervating dullness. It is a legacy to us of the offending Adam. But...

...220 band, and use him as he uses thee. So, farewell. fparolles and Page exiO HELEN Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven. The...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. 225 What power is it which mounts my love so high, That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The...

...perhaps what Shakespeare's Helena means in All's Well That Ends Well when she exclaims: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we ascribe to heaven:...pull / Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull." The lingo of astrologers came in for some mocking, of course. In John Marston's The Malcontent, a whore...

...Helena in All's Well, a player in this spirit war, is notably clear, or seems to be. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. The...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. (1.1) This passage became my touchstone for "Pelagian" Shakespeare, who doesn't believe there's a crack...

...audience, and at the same time indicates that this woman intends to pursue her desires: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. The...pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. . . . Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What...