| How is it that you are able to upload the video to a quicktime video file within 35 min of the orginal posting of the video blog on YouTube?
Lets see... by Andrew on 2006-09-10 21:36:42 hah! who didn't see this coming? by scottyo on 2006-09-10 21:37:52 hmm...does she really look skinnier to anyone. People are talking about it on youtube, but I dunno. by trash180 on 2006-09-10 21:44:55 I am the first one to post something here...yay for me eh?! by TheDecn on 2006-09-10 21:45:09 D'oh, beat me to it TRASH180, how'd you do that? And yes, she looks skinnier. Obviously had liposuction judging from the patch on her shoulder! Duh! by TheDecn on 2006-09-10 21:46:43 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO HER ARM! by m4me on 2006-09-10 21:47:27 yea! i'm thinking the same. her arms look way skinnier. even though i know this isn't real, i'm so excited to find out what this leads up to! if it has some big suprised on october 12 it'll be amazing!! this is such a great show (better than fear factor, yo) by jonny on 2006-09-10 21:50:04 i think she looks skinnier and i think she was shootin up heroin. ha. yeah. thats what it looks like to me. by cto on 2006-09-10 22:04:02 yes. herione is the answer. by ali on 2006-09-10 22:12:07 The Creators: i really don't think you guys should have come out so soon, it was dumb. The end. by ali on 2006-09-10 22:13:01 Well, one doesn't shoot heroin in the upper arm. That's where vaccinations and maybe antibiotics are given. Then, maybe she got a very tiny tattoo. Or daddy punished her with a cigarette. Seriously, I expected more backlash than being grounded for two weeks. by BadState on 2006-09-10 22:13:06 Skinnier and paler than yesterday. by Tst on 2006-09-10 22:45:28 im addicted, it worked. id like to see this turn out with a decent sorry. not some stupid horror. just a nice drama would be good. by bogusforumname on 2006-09-10 22:51:01 How does the owner of this site get better quality quicktime files(.mov) than on the flash player(.flv) on youtube and how does he/she put them up so fast? Oh and yeah she looks pretty skinny here. by Lee on 2006-09-10 23:05:50 look, anyone can name themselves the creators by Creator on 2006-09-10 23:20:07 that wasn't hard by The Creators on 2006-09-10 23:20:34 Stop with the "Fake!!!!" posts allready, everybody knows it is. I still like it, its funny to see that unreal people never have to study and seem to be having holidays and such simple problems. by novmati on 2006-09-11 00:09:58 Blah this Party Arc is bores me... Get back to the teen love drama damn you! And of course the proving science wrong! I love how she says that... haha good times... Anyways I'd say this is pretty much better then American TV... And almost on par with Japanese Drama... Hope the story doesn't get boring and I hope it doesn't go on forever... Make the endding good! by The King Of Root Beer on 2006-09-11 00:20:00 where did her napoleon dynamite poster go? :/ by FAMOUS on 2006-09-11 00:30:54 she looks thin but then she did say she had to go on a diet...ok, the bandage on her arm is most probably another clue...so what could it be? by harold on 2006-09-11 00:46:01 adorable idea! keep entertaining us, lonelygirl by pattie on 2006-09-11 02:26:35 Is there any way we can download the video and look for a timestamp? See if it was recorded yesterday or 3 months ago. by Tim on 2006-09-11 04:54:51 USE R AW GEEKS MAN :)) by REMO BOYZ on 2006-09-11 06:21:48 Daniel sure has been keeping a low profile the last couple of days. by Tim on 2006-09-11 06:28:48 YouTube video quality is always crap. The .mov files here have not been messed with by YouTube, hence they are better quality. by Truzenzex on 2006-09-11 07:24:40 What was the song in that video? Anyone know? by Larb on 2006-09-11 09:11:49 The injection bandage is certainly odd. I doubt she went to an innoculation party; they aren't very popular these days. It's good to see Bree taking a step toward independence. by Xen on 2006-09-11 09:28:49 I dont understand how if she is getting her name on a newspaper and if she is on headlines and stuff how could her parents not know whats going on? or that she has a webcam for that matter.. by Kara on 2006-09-11 14:18:47 I love it! by McLuhanMarshall on 2006-09-12 18:01:36 I'm sorry we had that fight. I want to get back together again. This time, I'll really try. by trichloramine on 2006-09-12 18:07:29 Hey - great new site LG... by tbird on 2006-09-12 18:07:55 yeah. she does look skinnier. but they did say she was supposed to be on that diet for a religion thing... by kristin on 2006-09-12 18:09:40 Great look, guys! Keep all the good stuff coming, don't worry about the naysayers and breespotters. Looking forward to the next chapter and eventually the next story. by Heather on 2006-09-12 18:35:40 For once, just once, I wish something could be genuine....real.. not contrived and thought up by some bigger entity- a company, a group just out to make money. How I wish LG15 were real... Kind of like how I felt about the tooth fairy as a little girl :( bb by brainy blonde on 2006-09-12 18:35:45 you know, i gotta say, it was a good one hell, i really thought she was real (for the most part) the only thing that really made me doubt it was that why would a girl with overprotecive parents let their 15 year old daughter have full internet access with a web cam? kudos! by exile on 2006-09-12 18:37:49 Great con job there dudes.. What's it for? Quite boring (think the concept behind the TV blockbuster "LOST" has been quite successfully adapted here) 'and shocking acting, but everyone is talking, so marketing idea has obviously worked. by kimbobadcat on 2006-09-12 18:40:29 *cough*idiot*cough* by Valerie on 2006-09-12 18:40:50 yeah i think shes skinier by bb on 2006-09-12 18:41:09 What IS your religion? I'm v. curious. by Boots on 2006-09-12 18:47:15 Hi there: for an actress this is not a good one: she can not look (let alone look) the part. Sorry. Bree by Fernando on 2006-09-12 18:51:44 honestly, it doesn't matter if she is real or fake, does that have any affect on your life either way?? the bandage is interesting... good for everyone involved with this for being so imaginative and creative. cant wait to see whats next by Miss Watts on 2006-09-12 18:52:18 this is so contrived.....her eyebrows are too perfect, skin too perfect, room too perfect, music too perfect etc etc etc. You get where I'm going with this. by Oddyssy on 2006-09-12 18:55:37 I did like the music tho by Oddyssy on 2006-09-12 18:57:30 so, what's the big deal with this person? who really cares, anyway? by Darrell on 2006-09-12 19:10:46 Well, of course she's getting skinnier. She has to diet because of the ceremony. duh. Also, I'm glad that she's liberating herself from her house and her parents. Everyone needs to take the first step and she did. Also, in reference to the bandage, I'm sure there were some drugs at the party... perhaps this relates? by JJ on 2006-09-12 19:21:35 well. this has site certainly changed its tune... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 by rachel on 2006-09-12 19:24:18 What is going on.. what is that bandage? by Grazer on 2006-09-12 19:26:41 Lazydork is better than her. by Texrat on 2006-09-12 19:32:05 Well from what I have heard about u, is that u are indeed a actress well thats what aol is sayin and why the hell would they make a big deal about video blogs I mean its ur choice about what u do on the internet its not like u r a sexual predator or something.... by Kelsee on 2006-09-12 19:44:27 14 minutes and counting... by nabakov on 2006-09-12 19:44:48 http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby Someone posted this earlier.. that is %100 her.. no doubt by Hoolicatt on 2006-09-12 19:46:37 ok, so if you all keep encouraging bree to disobey her mother and me, the ceremony won't work and we'll hav to have another female child to do the whole thing again. we'e already jeopardized our chances at this ceremony when we had to give her the sedative shot to keep her in line. and just so you know, you shouldn't pay any attention to the books on the shelf, they don't change in number or arrangement at all! by bree's dad on 2006-09-12 19:46:49 Why does she have a bandaid on her arm? by hey on 2006-09-12 19:50:03 Hardo Gei Deeees! This is all BS! by Hardo Gei on 2006-09-12 20:02:12 Must update my homepage. Ok i cant hear it bery well but it looks acted, But IM HOMESCHOOLED!!!!!!!!!!!!! And in two weeks ill be in Canada. Giggles. by Amanda on 2006-09-12 20:43:22 Taking bets on how long the website will be up this time...I'm going with 10 hours. by casey on 2006-09-12 20:43:42 Both Jessica (http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby) and "Bree" have a freckle on their cheek under their right eye, and a freckle on their right shoulder by LookTooClose on 2006-09-12 20:45:40 She used to be a bigger girl, not that there is anything wrong with that: http://alissabrooke.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=jessr&action=display&thread=1158038202&page=17 by slim on 2006-09-12 20:47:26 It's all spelled out in the NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html September 12, 2006 ‘Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN and TOM ZELLER A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees — themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why — appears to be in its final act. The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appeared to be the early, serialized version of what eventually would become a movie. Matt Foremski, the 18-year-old son of Tom Foremski, a reporter for the blog Silicon Valley Watcher, was the first to disinter a trove of photographs of the familiar-looking actress, who portrayed the character named Bree in the videos. The episodes suggested Bree was the home-schooled daughter of strictly religious parents who improbably stole time to upload video blogs of her innermost thoughts. The discovery and the swift and subsequent revelation of other details surrounding the perpetrators of the videos — and the phony fan site that accompanied them — marks the end of one of the Internet’s more elaborately constructed mysteries. Whether fans, whose disbelief in lonelygirl15 was not willingly suspended, but rather teased and toyed with, will embrace the project as a new narrative form, condemn it, or simply walk away, never to be fooled again, remains to be seen. The masterminds of the “lonelygirl15†videos are Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, Calif., and Miles Beckett, a doctor-turned-filmmaker. Many of the lonelygirl15 videos were shot in Mr. Flinders’s bedroom. Together with Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer in San Francisco, Mr. Flinders contrived to produce and distribute the videos so as to pique maximum curiosity about them. The photographs of the actress, which made it clear that Ms. Rose has been playing Bree in the videos, were found through Google. “We were all under N.D.A.’s†Mr. Steinfeld said, referring to the non-disclosure agreements that the cast — and their friends — were asked to sign, in order to preserve the mystery of lonelygirl15. “They had a lawyer involved,†he said. “My first impression was like, wow, can this be legitimate? Is this ethical? I was very concerned about that in the beginning.†But after he came to understand the project, Mr. Steinfeld said, he came to believe that something truly novel was at hand. “They were like the new Marshall McLuhan.†Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett obscured their location by sending e-mail messages as “Bree†from various Internet computer addresses, including the address of Creative Artists Agency, the Beverly Hills talent agency where the team is now represented. Amanda Solomon Goodfried, an assistant at the agency, is believed to have helped Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett conceal their identities. Moreover, Ms. Goodfried’s father-in-law, Kenneth Goodfried, an attorney in Encino, Calif., filed to trademark “lonelygirl15†in August. The story of how Mr. Flinders, Dr. Beckett and Ms. Rose were discovered in spite of their efforts to hide, and prolong the mystery, sheds light on the nature of online, wiki-style investigations and manhunts. When Mr. Steinfeld’s dummy site, which had been set up before the first lonelygirl15 video was even posted, struck users as suspicious and unsupervised — Mr. Steinfeld says he grew tired of running it, and dropped out of the project — fans set up their own site devoted to lonelygirl15, which soon attracted more than a thousand members. Both sites drew contributions from novelists, journalists, academics, day-traders, lawyers, bloggers, filmmakers, video-game designers, students, housewives, bored kids and experts on religion and botany. In the cacophony of conjecture, analysis, close-readings, jokes, insults, and distractions, good information sometimes surfaced. Last month, a lonelygirl15 fan discovered and posted a trademark application by Mr. Goodfried, which seemed to prove that the videos, which presented themselves as nothing but a video diary, were at least in part a commercial venture. Then, last week, three tech-savvy fans, working together, set up a sting on the e-mail address that was being used by “Breeâ€; the operation netted them the Internet address of a computer at Creative Artists Agency. On the strength of this information, Mr. Foremski was confident he could find some trace of “Bree†on the Internet. He was sure that any participant in a semi-professional production like “lonelygirl15†would have posted pictures somewhere. Sure enough, he was right. Mr. Steinfeld, on learning that Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett had been found out, offered his photographs of Ms. Rose as proof of his involvement in the “lonelygirl15†videos. He had been hired to take the on-set pictures at the start of shooting. The series, which Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett plan to continue on a site overseen by them, may play differently with fans now that they know for sure that the Bree is an actress. Part of the appeal of the series was that, in the serious-minded, literate Bree, it offered an unbeatable fantasy: a beautiful girl who tech-savvy guys had something in common with. On learning that Ms. Rose is an actress whose interests, unlike the scientific and religious issues that fascinated Bree, run to parties and posing, one fan wrote, “Very cute, but she’s really not into Feynmann and Jared Diamond! (I’m heart-broken. ... But a wonderful actress, had me fooled into thinking she was a geek like me.)†by Ransack on 2006-09-12 20:55:43 why did she have a shot??? by clr on 2006-09-12 21:06:15 she said she had to go on a diet for some sort of ceremony with her religeon - you dopes by clr on 2006-09-12 21:07:53 Bree's real name is Jessica Rose and she is from New Zealand. She is an aspiring actress, is 19 years old and moved to Hollywood to pursue her career. Looks like this whole thing was a good kickstart. Nice one Jessica. by Pooptart on 2006-09-12 21:11:08 ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FAKE!!!!!!!! by Jordan on 2006-09-12 21:18:58 I hope we start moving out of the bedroom. And we could use somemore characters as well. Let Daniel video tape thier next escapade. by robtomorrow on 2006-09-12 21:45:32 Wow... just saw this for the first time. If i didn't read that aol article about her, I'd wonder who wrote her script; she doesn't talk normal talk!! NORMAL people stammer, fidget slightly, blink more, etc. she's too perfect; obvious proof that this is a part of something bigger. but since i know for sure it's a "hoax" (not real and they were mean enough to not let us know) this looks like it could be interesting... by Deborah on 2006-09-12 22:03:22 Maybe they took blood to store for the ceremony... TO CLONE HER!! ;) by Deborah on 2006-09-12 22:04:27 I want watch video and download Thank U by dung on 2006-09-12 22:08:26 Her name is JESSICA ROSE. I am convinced that this is her. Much better match than the others mentioned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8iYeAzL1U by Rae on 2006-09-12 22:44:07 i just dont get it. i never heard of this whole thing until tonight where I saw it on a news website. i guess im too old :( by Laserchips on 2006-09-12 23:15:11 Shes a fake. its on youtube and the ny times!!! 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(j) a reference to a microform copy of the whole or a part of a work shall be read as a reference to a copy of the whole or a part of the work produced by miniaturizing the graphic symbols of which the work is composed; (k) a reference to a periodical publication shall be read as a reference to an issue of a periodical publication and a reference to articles contained in the same periodical publication shall be read as a reference to articles contained in the same issue of that periodical publication; (l) a reference to a record embodying a sound recording shall be read as a reference to: (i) a record produced upon the making of a sound recording; or (ii) another record embodying the sound recording directly or indirectly derived from a record so produced; (m) a reference to a relevant record, or a relevant declaration, in relation to the making, in reliance on a particular section (other than section 49): (i) of a copy, or a copy for a person with a print disability, of the whole or a part of a work; or (ia) of a copy for a person with an intellectual disability of the whole or a part of an eligible item; or (ii) of a copy of a sound recording or a cinematograph film; shall be read as a reference to any record or declaration of a kind referred to in that section that is required by this Act to be made in relation to the making of that copy; (ma) a reference to a relevant declaration, in relation to the making, in reliance on section 49, of a copy of the whole or a part of a work, shall be read as a reference to: (i) in a case where the copy is made in reliance on subsection 49(2)—a declaration of the kind referred to in subsection 49(1) that is furnished in relation to the making of the copy; (ii) in a case where the copy is made in reliance on subsection 49(2C)—a declaration of the kind referred to in paragraph 49(2C)(b) that is made in relation to the making of the copy; or (iii) in any case—a declaration of the kind referred to in subsection 49(5) that is made in relation to the making of the copy; and (n) a reference to a State shall be read as including a reference to the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island and a reference to a Territory shall be read as not including a reference to the Northern Territory or Norfolk Island. (4) Where: (a) a collection of documents or other material of historical significance or public interest that is in the custody of a body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, is being maintained by the body for the purpose of conserving and preserving those documents or other material; and (b) the body does not maintain and operate the collection for the purpose of deriving a profit; paragraph (b) of the definition of archives in subsection (1) applies to that collection. Example: Museums and galleries are examples of bodies that could have collections covered by paragraph (b) of the definition of archives . (5) For the purposes of the definition of copy in subsection (1), such a copy includes any form (whether visible or not) of storage of a cinematograph film, or a substantial part of a cinematograph film, (whether or not the copy of the film, or a substantial part of the film, can be reproduced). (6) For the purposes of paragraph 10(3)(c), a reference to a copy of a sound recording includes any form (whether visible or not) of storage of the sound recording, or a substantial part of the sound recording, (whether or not the copy of the recording, or a substantial part of the recording, can be reproduced). by Attourney at law on 2006-09-12 23:34:22 All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare homepage | All's Well That Ends Well | Entire play ACT I SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black COUNTESS In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. LAFEU You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you, sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather than lack it where there is such abundance. COUNTESS What hope is there of his majesty's amendment? LAFEU He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time. COUNTESS This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king's disease. LAFEU How called you the man you speak of, madam? COUNTESS He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon. LAFEU He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality. BERTRAM What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of? LAFEU A fistula, my lord. BERTRAM I heard not of it before. LAFEU I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Narbon? COUNTESS His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that her education promises; her dispositions she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity; they are virtues and traitors too; in her they are the better for their simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. LAFEU Your commendations, madam, get from her tears. COUNTESS 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in. The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena; go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than have it. HELENA I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too. LAFEU Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. COUNTESS If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal. BERTRAM Madam, I desire your holy wishes. LAFEU How understand we that? 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. What heaven more will, That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord; 'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord, Advise him. LAFEU He cannot want the best That shall attend his love. COUNTESS Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram. Exit BERTRAM [To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. LAFEU Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of your father. Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU HELENA O, were that all! I think not on my father; And these great tears grace his remembrance more Than those I shed for him. What was he like? I have forgot him: my imagination Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. I am undone: there is no living, none, If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table; heart too capable Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here? Enter PAROLLES Aside One that goes with him: I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. PAROLLES Save you, fair queen! HELENA And you, monarch! PAROLLES No. HELENA And no. PAROLLES Are you meditating on virginity? HELENA Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him? PAROLLES Keep him out. HELENA But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant, in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some warlike resistance. PAROLLES There is none: man, sitting down before you, will undermine you and blow you up. HELENA Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up! Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men? PAROLLES Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't! HELENA I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin. PAROLLES There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the principal itself not much the worse: away with 't! HELENA How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? PAROLLES Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it? HELENA Not my virginity yet [ ] There shall your master have a thousand loves, A mother and a mistress and a friend, A phoenix, captain and an enemy, A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear; His humble ambition, proud humility, His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he-- I know not what he shall. God send him well! The court's a learning place, and he is one-- PAROLLES What one, i' faith? HELENA That I wish well. 'Tis pity-- PAROLLES What's pity? HELENA That wishing well had not a body in't, Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born, Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, Might with effects of them follow our friends, And show what we alone must think, which never Return us thanks. Enter Page Page Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you. Exit PAROLLES Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I will think of thee at court. HELENA Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star. PAROLLES Under Mars, I. HELENA I especially think, under Mars. PAROLLES Why under Mars? HELENA The wars have so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars. PAROLLES When he was predominant. HELENA When he was retrograde, I think, rather. PAROLLES Why think you so? HELENA You go so much backward when you fight. PAROLLES That's for advantage. HELENA So is running away, when fear proposes the safety; but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. PAROLLES I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell. Exit HELENA Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love so high, That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose What hath been cannot be: who ever strove So show her merit, that did miss her love? The king's disease--my project may deceive me, But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me. Exit SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace. Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants KING The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; Have fought with equal fortune and continue A braving war. First Lord So 'tis reported, sir. KING Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, With caution that the Florentine will move us For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business and would seem To have us make denial. First Lord His love and wisdom, Approved so to your majesty, may plead For amplest credence. KING He hath arm'd our answer, And Florence is denied before he comes: Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see The Tuscan service, freely have they leave To stand on either part. Second Lord It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING What's he comes here? Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES First Lord It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, Young Bertram. KING Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. BERTRAM My thanks and duty are your majesty's. KING I would I had that corporal soundness now, As when thy father and myself in friendship First tried our soldiership! He did look far Into the service of the time and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on And wore us out of act. It much repairs me To talk of your good father. In his youth He had the wit which I can well observe To-day in our young lords; but they may jest Till their own scorn return to them unnoted Ere they can hide their levity in honour; So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, His equal had awaked them, and his honour, Clock to itself, knew the true minute when Exception bid him speak, and at this time His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him He used as creatures of another place And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, Making them proud of his humility, In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times; Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now But goers backward. BERTRAM His good remembrance, sir, Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; So in approof lives not his epitaph As in your royal speech. KING Would I were with him! He would always say-- Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them, To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'-- This his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he, 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd; I after him do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room. Second Lord You are loved, sir: They that least lend it you shall lack you first. KING I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count, Since the physician at your father's died? He was much famed. BERTRAM Some six months since, my lord. KING If he were living, I would try him yet. Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out With several applications; nature and sickness Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; My son's no dearer. BERTRAM Thank your majesty. Exeunt. Flourish SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown COUNTESS I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman? Steward Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. COUNTESS What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah: the complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours. Clown 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow. COUNTESS Well, sir. Clown No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel the woman and I will do as we may. COUNTESS Wilt thou needs be a beggar? Clown I do beg your good will in this case. COUNTESS In what case? Clown In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no heritage: and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for they say barnes are blessings. COUNTESS Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. Clown My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. COUNTESS Is this all your worship's reason? Clown Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they are. COUNTESS May the world know them? Clown I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry that I may repent. COUNTESS Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness. Clown I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake. COUNTESS Such friends are thine enemies, knave. Clown You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of. He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage; for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl horns together, like any deer i' the herd. COUNTESS Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave? Clown A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next way: For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find; Your marriage comes by destiny, Your cuckoo sings by kind. COUNTESS Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon. Steward May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to you: of her I am to speak. COUNTESS Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her; Helen, I mean. Clown Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, Why the Grecians sacked Troy? Fond done, done fond, Was this King Priam's joy? With that she sighed as she stood, With that she sighed as she stood, And gave this sentence then; Among nine bad if one be good, Among nine bad if one be good, There's yet one good in ten. COUNTESS What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah. Clown One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman, if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we might have a good woman born but one every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck one. COUNTESS You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you. Clown That man should be at woman's command, and yet no hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither. Exit COUNTESS Well, now. Steward I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely. COUNTESS Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds: there is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand. Steward Madam, I was very late more near her than I think she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son: Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god, that would not extend his might, only where qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surprised, without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal; sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it. COUNTESS You have discharged this honestly; keep it to yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this before, which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you, leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon. Exit Steward Enter HELENA 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, Such were our faults, or then we thought them none. Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now. HELENA What is your pleasure, madam? COUNTESS You know, Helen, I am a mother to you. HELENA Mine honourable mistress. COUNTESS Nay, a mother: Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,' Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,' That you start at it? I say, I am your mother; And put you in the catalogue of those That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds: You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, Yet I express to you a mother's care: God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, That this distemper'd messenger of wet, The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye? Why? that you are my daughter? HELENA That I am not. COUNTESS I say, I am your mother. HELENA Pardon, madam; The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother: I am from humble, he from honour'd name; No note upon my parents, his all noble: My master, my dear lord he is; and I His servant live, and will his vassal die: He must not be my brother. COUNTESS Nor I your mother? HELENA You are my mother, madam; would you were,-- So that my lord your son were not my brother,-- Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers, I care no more for than I do for heaven, So I were not his sister. Can't no other, But, I your daughter, he must be my brother? COUNTESS Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law: God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see The mystery of your loneliness, and find Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross You love my son; invention is ashamed, Against the proclamation of thy passion, To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true; But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors That in their kind they speak it: only sin And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so? If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew; If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, Tell me truly. HELENA Good madam, pardon me! COUNTESS Do you love my son? HELENA Your pardon, noble mistress! COUNTESS Love you my son? HELENA Do not you love him, madam? COUNTESS Go not about; my love hath in't a bond, Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose The state of your affection; for your passions Have to the full appeach'd. HELENA Then, I confess, Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: Be not offended; for it hurts not him That he is loved of me: I follow him not By any token of presumptuous suit; Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; Yet never know how that desert should be. I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, Let not your hate encounter with my love For loving where you do: but if yourself, Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, Did ever in so true a flame of liking Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity To her, whose state is such that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to lose; That seeks not to find that her search implies, But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies! COUNTESS Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,-- To go to Paris? HELENA Madam, I had. COUNTESS Wherefore? tell true. HELENA I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear. You know my father left me some prescriptions Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading And manifest experience had collected For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them, As notes whose faculties inclusive were More than they were in note: amongst the rest, There is a remedy, approved, set down, To cure the desperate languishings whereof The king is render'd lost. COUNTESS This was your motive For Paris, was it? speak. HELENA My lord your son made me to think of this; Else Paris and the medicine and the king Had from the conversation of my thoughts Haply been absent then. COUNTESS But think you, Helen, If you should tender your supposed aid, He would receive it? he and his physicians Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him, They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off The danger to itself? HELENA There's something in't, More than my father's skill, which was the greatest Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour. COUNTESS Dost thou believe't? HELENA Ay, madam, knowingly. COUNTESS Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love, Means and attendants and my loving greetings To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home And pray God's blessing into thy attempt: Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this, What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. Exeunt ACT II SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace. Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES KING Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell: Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And is enough for both. First Lord 'Tis our hope, sir, After well enter'd soldiers, to return And find your grace in health. KING No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart Will not confess he owes the malady That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords; Whether I live or die, be you the sons Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,-- Those bated that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy,--see that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. Second Lord Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! KING Those girls of Italy, take heed of them: They say, our French lack language to deny, If they demand: beware of being captives, Before you serve. Both Our hearts receive your warnings. KING Farewell. Come hither to me. Exit, attended First Lord O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! PAROLLES 'Tis not his fault, the spark. Second Lord O, 'tis brave wars! PAROLLES Most admirable: I have seen those wars. BERTRAM I am commanded here, and kept a coil with 'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.' PAROLLES An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely. BERTRAM I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till honour be bought up and no sword worn But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away. First Lord There's honour in the theft. PAROLLES Commit it, count. Second Lord I am your accessary; and so, farewell. BERTRAM I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body. First Lord Farewell, captain. Second Lord Sweet Monsieur Parolles! PAROLLES Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his reports for me. First Lord We shall, noble captain. Exeunt Lords PAROLLES Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do? BERTRAM Stay: the king. Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and move under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell. BERTRAM And I will do so. PAROLLES Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men. Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES Enter LAFEU LAFEU [Kneeling] Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. KING I'll fee thee to stand up. LAFEU Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon. I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy, And that at my bidding you could so stand up. KING I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, And ask'd thee mercy for't. LAFEU Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus; Will you be cured of your infirmity? KING No. LAFEU O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch, Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay, To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand, And write to her a love-line. KING What 'her' is this? LAFEU Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived, If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour, If seriously I may convey my thoughts In this my light deliverance, I have spoke With one that, in her sex, her years, profession, Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her For that is her demand, and know her business? That done, laugh well at me. KING Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took'st it. LAFEU Nay, I'll fit you, And not be all day neither. Exit KING Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA LAFEU Nay, come your ways. KING This haste hath wings indeed. LAFEU Nay, come your ways: This is his majesty; say your mind to him: A traitor you do look like; but such traitors His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, That dare leave two together; fare you well. Exit KING Now, fair one, does your business follow us? HELENA Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was my father; In what he did profess, well found. KING I knew him. HELENA The rather will I spare my praises towards him: Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one. Which, as the dearest issue of his practise, And of his old experience the oily darling, He bade me store up, as a triple eye, Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so; And hearing your high majesty is touch'd With that malignant cause wherein the honour Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it and my appliance With all bound humbleness. KING We thank you, maiden; But may not be so credulous of cure, When our most learned doctors leave us and The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransom nature From her inaidible estate; I say we must not So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, To prostitute our past-cure malady To empirics, or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help when help past sense we deem. HELENA My duty then shall pay me for my pains: I will no more enforce mine office on you. Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts A modest one, to bear me back a again. KING I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live: But what at full I know, thou know'st no part, I knowing all my peril, thou no art. HELENA What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. KING I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid; Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid: Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. HELENA Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd: It is not so with Him that all things knows As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us when The help of heaven we count the act of men. Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent; Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. I am not an impostor that proclaim Myself against the level of mine aim; But know I think and think I know most sure My art is not past power nor you past cure. KING Are thou so confident? within what space Hopest thou my cure? HELENA The great'st grace lending grace Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp, Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass, What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, Health shall live free and sickness freely die. KING Upon thy certainty and confidence What darest thou venture? HELENA Tax of impudence, A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended With vilest torture let my life be ended. KING Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak His powerful sound within an organ weak: And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way. Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate Worth name of life in thee hath estimate, Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all That happiness and prime can happy call: Thou this to hazard needs must intimate Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try, That ministers thine own death if I die. HELENA If I break time, or flinch in property Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die, And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee; But, if I help, what do you promise me? KING Make thy demand. HELENA But will you make it even? KING Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. HELENA Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand What husband in thy power I will command: Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate With any branch or image of thy state; But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. KING Here is my hand; the premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served: So make the choice of thy own time, for I, Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely. More should I question thee, and more I must, Though more to know could not be more to trust, From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest. Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed. Flourish. Exeunt SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter COUNTESS and Clown COUNTESS Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding. Clown I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I know my business is but to the court. COUNTESS To the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court! Clown Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all men. COUNTESS Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions. Clown It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks, the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock. COUNTESS Will your answer serve fit to all questions? Clown As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin. COUNTESS Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all questions? Clown From below your duke to beneath your constable, it will fit any question. COUNTESS It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands. Clown But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn. COUNTESS To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier? Clown O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More, more, a hundred of them. COUNTESS Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you. Clown O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me. COUNTESS I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. Clown O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. COUNTESS You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. Clown O Lord, sir! spare not me. COUNTESS Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and 'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. Clown I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord, sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever. COUNTESS I play the noble housewife with the time To entertain't so merrily with a fool. Clown O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again. COUNTESS An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this, And urge her to a present answer back: Commend me to my kinsmen and my son: This is not much. Clown Not much commendation to them. COUNTESS Not much employment for you: you understand me? Clown Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs. COUNTESS Haste you again. Exeunt severally SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES LAFEU They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. PAROLLES Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times. BERTRAM And so 'tis. LAFEU To be relinquish'd of the artists,-- PAROLLES So I say. LAFEU Both of Galen and Paracelsus. PAROLLES So I say. LAFEU Of all the learned and authentic fellows,-- PAROLLES Right; so I say. LAFEU That gave him out incurable,-- PAROLLES Why, there 'tis; so say I too. LAFEU Not to be helped,-- PAROLLES Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a-- LAFEU Uncertain life, and sure death. PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said. LAFEU I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. PAROLLES It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in--what do you call there? LAFEU A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. PAROLLES That's it; I would have said the very same. LAFEU Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me, I speak in respect-- PAROLLES Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the-- LAFEU Very hand of heaven. PAROLLES Ay, so I say. LAFEU In a most weak-- pausing and debile minister, great power, great transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a further use to be made than alone the recovery of the king, as to be-- pausing generally thankful. PAROLLES I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king. Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire LAFEU Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's able to lead her a coranto. PAROLLES Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen? LAFEU 'Fore God, I think so. KING Go, call before me all the lords in court. Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive The confirmation of my promised gift, Which but attends thy naming. Enter three or four Lords Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice I have to use: thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. HELENA To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one! LAFEU I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And writ as little beard. KING Peruse them well: Not one of those but had a noble father. HELENA Gentlemen, Heaven hath through me restored the king to health. All We understand it, and thank heaven for you. HELENA I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest, That I protest I simply am a maid. Please it your majesty, I have done already: The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me, 'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused, Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; We'll ne'er come there again.' KING Make choice; and, see, Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. HELENA Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, And to imperial Love, that god most high, Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit? First Lord And grant it. HELENA Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. LAFEU I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life. HELENA The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Before I speak, too threateningly replies: Love make your fortunes twenty times above Her that so wishes and her humble love! Second Lord No better, if you please. HELENA My wish receive, Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave. LAFEU Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine, I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of. HELENA Be not afraid that I your hand should take; I'll never do you wrong for your own sake: Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed! LAFEU These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her: sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er got 'em. HELENA You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a son out of my blood. Fourth Lord Fair one, I think not so. LAFEU There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already. HELENA [To BERTRAM] I dare not say I take you; but I give Me and my service, ever whilst I live, Into your guiding power. This is the man. KING Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife. BERTRAM My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness, In such a business give me leave to use The help of mine own eyes. KING Know'st thou not, Bertram, What she has done for me? BERTRAM Yes, my good lord; But never hope to know why I should marry her. KING Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed. BERTRAM But follows it, my lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raising? I know her well: She had her breeding at my father's charge. A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain Rather corrupt me ever! KING 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off In differences so mighty. If she be All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest, A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest Of virtue for the name: but do not so: From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name. Vileness is so: The property by what it is should go, Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair; In these to nature she's immediate heir, And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, Which challenges itself as honour's born And is not like the sire: honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said? If thou canst like this creature as a maid, I can create the rest: virtue and she Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me. BERTRAM I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't. KING Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose. HELENA That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad: Let the rest go. KING My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, I must produce my power. Here, take her hand, Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; That dost in vile misprision shackle up My love and her desert; that canst not dream, We, poising us in her defective scale, Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know, It is in us to plant thine honour where We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt: Obey our will, which travails in thy good: Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right Which both thy duty owes and our power claims; Or I will throw thee from my care for ever Into the staggers and the careless lapse Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice, Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer. BERTRAM Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit My fancy to your eyes: when I consider What great creation and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now The praised of the king; who, so ennobled, Is as 'twere born so. KING Take her by the hand, And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise A counterpoise, if not to thy estate A balance more replete. BERTRAM I take her hand. KING Good fortune and the favour of the king Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast Shall more attend upon the coming space, Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her, Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES LAFEU [Advancing] Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you. PAROLLES Your pleasure, sir? LAFEU Your lord and master did well to make his recantation. PAROLLES Recantation! My lord! my master! LAFEU Ay; is it not a language I speak? PAROLLES A most harsh one, and not to be understood without bloody succeeding. My master! LAFEU Are you companion to the Count Rousillon? PAROLLES To any count, to all counts, to what is man. LAFEU To what is count's man: count's master is of another style. PAROLLES You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. LAFEU I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee. PAROLLES What I dare too well do, I dare not do. LAFEU I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou't scarce worth. PAROLLES Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,-- LAFEU Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well: thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me thy hand. PAROLLES My lord, you give me most egregious indignity. LAFEU Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. PAROLLES I have not, my lord, deserved it. LAFEU Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple. PAROLLES Well, I shall be wiser. LAFEU Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the default, he is a man I know. PAROLLES My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation. LAFEU I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave. Exit PAROLLES Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again. Re-enter LAFEU LAFEU Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress. PAROLLES I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good lord: whom I serve above is my master. LAFEU Who? God? PAROLLES Ay, sir. LAFEU The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee: I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. PAROLLES This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord. LAFEU Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you. Exit PAROLLES Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good; let it be concealed awhile. Re-enter BERTRAM BERTRAM Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! PAROLLES What's the matter, sweet-heart? BERTRAM Although before the solemn priest I have sworn, I will not bed her. PAROLLES What, what, sweet-heart? BERTRAM O my Parolles, they have married me! I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. PAROLLES France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits The tread of a man's foot: to the wars! BERTRAM There's letters from my mother: what the import is, I know not yet. PAROLLES Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars! He wears his honour in a box unseen, That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, Spending his manly marrow in her arms, Which should sustain the bound and high curvet Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades; Therefore, to the war! BERTRAM It shall be so: I'll send her to my house, Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, And wherefore I am fled; write to the king That which I durst not speak; his present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields, Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife. PAROLLES Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure? BERTRAM Go with me to my chamber, and advise me. I'll send her straight away: to-morrow I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. PAROLLES Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: A young man married is a man that's marr'd: Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. Exeunt SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter HELENA and Clown HELENA My mother greets me kindly; is she well? Clown She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the world; but yet she is not well. HELENA If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's not very well? Clown Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things. HELENA What two things? Clown One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence God send her quickly! Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES Bless you, my fortunate lady! HELENA I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes. PAROLLES You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady? Clown So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as you say. PAROLLES Why, I say nothing. Clown Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a very little of nothing. PAROLLES Away! thou'rt a knave. Clown You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had been truth, sir. PAROLLES Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee. Clown Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter. PAROLLES A good knave, i' faith, and well fed. Madam, my lord will go away to-night; A very serious business calls on him. The great prerogative and rite of love, Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; But puts it off to a compell'd restraint; Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets, Which they distil now in the curbed time, To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy And pleasure drown the brim. HELENA What's his will else? PAROLLES That you will take your instant leave o' the king And make this haste as your own good proceeding, Strengthen'd with what apology you think May make it probable need. HELENA What more commands he? PAROLLES That, having this obtain'd, you presently Attend his further pleasure. HELENA In every thing I wait upon his will. PAROLLES I shall report it so. HELENA I pray you. Exit PAROLLES Come, sirrah. Exeunt SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM LAFEU But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier. BERTRAM Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. LAFEU You have it from his own deliverance. BERTRAM And by other warranted testimony. LAFEU Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting. BERTRAM I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge and accordingly valiant. LAFEU I have then sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour; and my state that way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make us friends; I will pursue the amity. Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] These things shall be done, sir. LAFEU Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? PAROLLES Sir? LAFEU O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good workman, a very good tailor. BERTRAM [Aside to PAROLLES] Is she gone to the king? PAROLLES She is. BERTRAM Will she away to-night? PAROLLES As you'll have her. BERTRAM I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure, Given order for our horses; and to-night, When I should take possession of the bride, End ere I do begin. LAFEU A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain. BERTRAM Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur? PAROLLES I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure. LAFEU You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for your residence. BERTRAM It may be you have mistaken him, my lord. LAFEU And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur: I have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil. Exit PAROLLES An idle lord. I swear. BERTRAM I think so. PAROLLES Why, do you not know him? BERTRAM Yes, I do know him well, and common speech Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. Enter HELENA HELENA I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king and have procured his leave For present parting; only he desires Some private speech with you. BERTRAM I shall obey his will. You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, Which holds not colour with the time, nor does The ministration and required office On my particular. Prepared I was not For such a business; therefore am I found So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you That presently you take our way for home; And rather muse than ask why I entreat you, For my respects are better th by All's well that ends well on 2006-09-12 23:37:23 All's Well That Ends Well Shakespeare homepage | All's Well That Ends Well | Entire play ACT I SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black COUNTESS In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. LAFEU You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you, sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather than lack it where there is such abundance. COUNTESS What hope is there of his majesty's amendment? LAFEU He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time. COUNTESS This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king's disease. LAFEU How called you the man you speak of, madam? COUNTESS He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon. LAFEU He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality. BERTRAM What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of? LAFEU A fistula, my lord. BERTRAM I heard not of it before. LAFEU I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman the daughter of Gerard de Narbon? COUNTESS His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that her education promises; her dispositions she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity; they are virtues and traitors too; in her they are the better for their simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. LAFEU Your commendations, madam, get from her tears. COUNTESS 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in. The remembrance of her father never approaches her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena; go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect a sorrow than have it. HELENA I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too. LAFEU Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. COUNTESS If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess makes it soon mortal. BERTRAM Madam, I desire your holy wishes. LAFEU How understand we that? 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. What heaven more will, That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord; 'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord, Advise him. LAFEU He cannot want the best That shall attend his love. COUNTESS Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram. Exit BERTRAM [To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. LAFEU Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of your father. Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU HELENA O, were that all! I think not on my father; And these great tears grace his remembrance more Than those I shed for him. What was he like? I have forgot him: my imagination Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. I am undone: there is no living, none, If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one That I should love a bright particular star And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague, To see him every hour; to sit and draw His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, In our heart's table; heart too capable Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here? Enter PAROLLES Aside One that goes with him: I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, That they take place, when virtue's steely bones Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. PAROLLES Save you, fair queen! HELENA And you, monarch! PAROLLES No. HELENA And no. PAROLLES Are you meditating on virginity? HELENA Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him? PAROLLES Keep him out. HELENA But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant, in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some warlike resistance. PAROLLES There is none: man, sitting down before you, will undermine you and blow you up. HELENA Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up! Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men? PAROLLES Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't! HELENA I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin. PAROLLES There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the principal itself not much the worse: away with 't! HELENA How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? PAROLLES Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it? HELENA Not my virginity yet [ ] There shall your master have a thousand loves, A mother and a mistress and a friend, A phoenix, captain and an enemy, A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear; His humble ambition, proud humility, His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he-- I know not what he shall. God send him well! The court's a learning place, and he is one-- PAROLLES What one, i' faith? HELENA That I wish well. 'Tis pity-- PAROLLES What's pity? HELENA That wishing well had not a body in't, Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born, Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, Might with effects of them follow our friends, And show what we alone must think, which never Return us thanks. Enter Page Page Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you. Exit PAROLLES Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I will think of thee at court. HELENA Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star. PAROLLES Under Mars, I. HELENA I especially think, under Mars. PAROLLES Why under Mars? HELENA The wars have so kept you under that you must needs be born under Mars. PAROLLES When he was predominant. HELENA When he was retrograde, I think, rather. PAROLLES Why think you so? HELENA You go so much backward when you fight. PAROLLES That's for advantage. HELENA So is running away, when fear proposes the safety; but the composition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. PAROLLES I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell. Exit HELENA Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love so high, That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose What hath been cannot be: who ever strove So show her merit, that did miss her love? The king's disease--my project may deceive me, But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me. Exit SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace. Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants KING The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; Have fought with equal fortune and continue A braving war. First Lord So 'tis reported, sir. KING Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, With caution that the Florentine will move us For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business and would seem To have us make denial. First Lord His love and wisdom, Approved so to your majesty, may plead For amplest credence. KING He hath arm'd our answer, And Florence is denied before he comes: Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see The Tuscan service, freely have they leave To stand on either part. Second Lord It well may serve A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit. KING What's he comes here? Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES First Lord It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, Young Bertram. KING Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. BERTRAM My thanks and duty are your majesty's. KING I would I had that corporal soundness now, As when thy father and myself in friendship First tried our soldiership! He did look far Into the service of the time and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on And wore us out of act. It much repairs me To talk of your good father. In his youth He had the wit which I can well observe To-day in our young lords; but they may jest Till their own scorn return to them unnoted Ere they can hide their levity in honour; So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, His equal had awaked them, and his honour, Clock to itself, knew the true minute when Exception bid him speak, and at this time His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him He used as creatures of another place And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, Making them proud of his humility, In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times; Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now But goers backward. BERTRAM His good remembrance, sir, Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; So in approof lives not his epitaph As in your royal speech. KING Would I were with him! He would always say-- Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them, To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'-- This his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he, 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd; I after him do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room. Second Lord You are loved, sir: They that least lend it you shall lack you first. KING I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count, Since the physician at your father's died? He was much famed. BERTRAM Some six months since, my lord. KING If he were living, I would try him yet. Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out With several applications; nature and sickness Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; My son's no dearer. BERTRAM Thank your majesty. Exeunt. Flourish SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown COUNTESS I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman? Steward Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. COUNTESS What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah: the complaints I have heard of you I do not all believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours. Clown 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow. COUNTESS Well, sir. Clown No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel the woman and I will do as we may. COUNTESS Wilt thou needs be a beggar? Clown I do beg your good will in this case. COUNTESS In what case? Clown In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no heritage: and I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for they say barnes are blessings. COUNTESS Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. Clown My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. COUNTESS Is this all your worship's reason? Clown Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they are. COUNTESS May the world know them? Clown I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry that I may repent. COUNTESS Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness. Clown I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have friends for my wife's sake. COUNTESS Such friends are thine enemies, knave. Clown You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of. He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage; for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl horns together, like any deer i' the herd. COUNTESS Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave? Clown A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next way: For I the ballad will repeat, Which men full true shall find; Your marriage comes by destiny, Your cuckoo sings by kind. COUNTESS Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon. Steward May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to you: of her I am to speak. COUNTESS Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her; Helen, I mean. Clown Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, Why the Grecians sacked Troy? Fond done, done fond, Was this King Priam's joy? With that she sighed as she stood, With that she sighed as she stood, And gave this sentence then; Among nine bad if one be good, Among nine bad if one be good, There's yet one good in ten. COUNTESS What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah. Clown One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying o' the song: would God would serve the world so all the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman, if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we might have a good woman born but one every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck one. COUNTESS You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you. Clown That man should be at woman's command, and yet no hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither. Exit COUNTESS Well, now. Steward I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely. COUNTESS Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully make title to as much love as she finds: there is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she'll demand. Steward Madam, I was very late more near her than I think she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate to herself her own words to her own ears; she thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son: Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no god, that would not extend his might, only where qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surprised, without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she delivered in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal; sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it. COUNTESS You have discharged this honestly; keep it to yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this before, which hung so tottering in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you, leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon. Exit Steward Enter HELENA 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, Such were our faults, or then we thought them none. Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now. HELENA What is your pleasure, madam? COUNTESS You know, Helen, I am a mother to you. HELENA Mine honourable mistress. COUNTESS Nay, a mother: Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,' Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,' That you start at it? I say, I am your mother; And put you in the catalogue of those That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds: You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, Yet I express to you a mother's care: God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, That this distemper'd messenger of wet, The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye? Why? that you are my daughter? HELENA That I am not. COUNTESS I say, I am your mother. HELENA Pardon, madam; The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother: I am from humble, he from honour'd name; No note upon my parents, his all noble: My master, my dear lord he is; and I His servant live, and will his vassal die: He must not be my brother. COUNTESS Nor I your mother? HELENA You are my mother, madam; would you were,-- So that my lord your son were not my brother,-- Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers, I care no more for than I do for heaven, So I were not his sister. Can't no other, But, I your daughter, he must be my brother? COUNTESS Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law: God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see The mystery of your loneliness, and find Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross You love my son; invention is ashamed, Against the proclamation of thy passion, To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true; But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors That in their kind they speak it: only sin And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so? If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew; If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee, As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, Tell me truly. HELENA Good madam, pardon me! COUNTESS Do you love my son? HELENA Your pardon, noble mistress! COUNTESS Love you my son? HELENA Do not you love him, madam? COUNTESS Go not about; my love hath in't a bond, Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose The state of your affection; for your passions Have to the full appeach'd. HELENA Then, I confess, Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: Be not offended; for it hurts not him That he is loved of me: I follow him not By any token of presumptuous suit; Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; Yet never know how that desert should be. I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and intenible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, Religious in mine error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, Let not your hate encounter with my love For loving where you do: but if yourself, Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, Did ever in so true a flame of liking Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity To her, whose state is such that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to lose; That seeks not to find that her search implies, But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies! COUNTESS Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,-- To go to Paris? HELENA Madam, I had. COUNTESS Wherefore? tell true. HELENA I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear. You know my father left me some prescriptions Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading And manifest experience had collected For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them, As notes whose faculties inclusive were More than they were in note: amongst the rest, There is a remedy, approved, set down, To cure the desperate languishings whereof The king is render'd lost. COUNTESS This was your motive For Paris, was it? speak. HELENA My lord your son made me to think of this; Else Paris and the medicine and the king Had from the conversation of my thoughts Haply been absent then. COUNTESS But think you, Helen, If you should tender your supposed aid, He would receive it? he and his physicians Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him, They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off The danger to itself? HELENA There's something in't, More than my father's skill, which was the greatest Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour. COUNTESS Dost thou believe't? HELENA Ay, madam, knowingly. COUNTESS Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love, Means and attendants and my loving greetings To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home And pray God's blessing into thy attempt: Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this, What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. Exeunt ACT II SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace. Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES KING Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell: Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And is enough for both. First Lord 'Tis our hope, sir, After well enter'd soldiers, to return And find your grace in health. KING No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart Will not confess he owes the malady That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords; Whether I live or die, be you the sons Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,-- Those bated that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy,--see that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. Second Lord Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! KING Those girls of Italy, take heed of them: They say, our French lack language to deny, If they demand: beware of being captives, Before you serve. Both Our hearts receive your warnings. KING Farewell. Come hither to me. Exit, attended First Lord O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! PAROLLES 'Tis not his fault, the spark. Second Lord O, 'tis brave wars! PAROLLES Most admirable: I have seen those wars. BERTRAM I am commanded here, and kept a coil with 'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.' PAROLLES An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely. BERTRAM I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till honour be bought up and no sword worn But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away. First Lord There's honour in the theft. PAROLLES Commit it, count. Second Lord I am your accessary; and so, farewell. BERTRAM I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body. First Lord Farewell, captain. Second Lord Sweet Monsieur Parolles! PAROLLES Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his reports for me. First Lord We shall, noble captain. Exeunt Lords PAROLLES Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do? BERTRAM Stay: the king. Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and move under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell. BERTRAM And I will do so. PAROLLES Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men. Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES Enter LAFEU LAFEU [Kneeling] Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. KING I'll fee thee to stand up. LAFEU Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon. I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy, And that at my bidding you could so stand up. KING I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, And ask'd thee mercy for't. LAFEU Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus; Will you be cured of your infirmity? KING No. LAFEU O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone, Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch, Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay, To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand, And write to her a love-line. KING What 'her' is this? LAFEU Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived, If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour, If seriously I may convey my thoughts In this my light deliverance, I have spoke With one that, in her sex, her years, profession, Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her For that is her demand, and know her business? That done, laugh well at me. KING Now, good Lafeu, Bring in the admiration; that we with thee May spend our wonder too, or take off thine By wondering how thou took'st it. LAFEU Nay, I'll fit you, And not be all day neither. Exit KING Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA LAFEU Nay, come your ways. KING This haste hath wings indeed. LAFEU Nay, come your ways: This is his majesty; say your mind to him: A traitor you do look like; but such traitors His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, That dare leave two together; fare you well. Exit KING Now, fair one, does your business follow us? HELENA Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was my father; In what he did profess, well found. KING I knew him. HELENA The rather will I spare my praises towards him: Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one. Which, as the dearest issue of his practise, And of his old experience the oily darling, He bade me store up, as a triple eye, Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so; And hearing your high majesty is touch'd With that malignant cause wherein the honour Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, I come to tender it and my appliance With all bound humbleness. KING We thank you, maiden; But may not be so credulous of cure, When our most learned doctors leave us and The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransom nature From her inaidible estate; I say we must not So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, To prostitute our past-cure malady To empirics, or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help when help past sense we deem. HELENA My duty then shall pay me for my pains: I will no more enforce mine office on you. Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts A modest one, to bear me back a again. KING I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give As one near death to those that wish him live: But what at full I know, thou know'st no part, I knowing all my peril, thou no art. HELENA What I can do can do no hurt to try, Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. He that of greatest works is finisher Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. KING I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid; Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid: Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. HELENA Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd: It is not so with Him that all things knows As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us when The help of heaven we count the act of men. Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent; Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. I am not an impostor that proclaim Myself against the level of mine aim; But know I think and think I know most sure My art is not past power nor you past cure. KING Are thou so confident? within what space Hopest thou my cure? HELENA The great'st grace lending grace Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp, Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass, What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, Health shall live free and sickness freely die. KING Upon thy certainty and confidence What darest thou venture? HELENA Tax of impudence, A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended With vilest torture let my life be ended. KING Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak His powerful sound within an organ weak: And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way. Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate Worth name of life in thee hath estimate, Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all That happiness and prime can happy call: Thou this to hazard needs must intimate Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try, That ministers thine own death if I die. HELENA If I break time, or flinch in property Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die, And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee; But, if I help, what do you promise me? KING Make thy demand. HELENA But will you make it even? KING Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. HELENA Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand What husband in thy power I will command: Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate With any branch or image of thy state; But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. KING Here is my hand; the premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served: So make the choice of thy own time, for I, Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely. More should I question thee, and more I must, Though more to know could not be more to trust, From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest. Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed. Flourish. Exeunt SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. Enter COUNTESS and Clown COUNTESS Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding. Clown I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I know my business is but to the court. COUNTESS To the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court! Clown Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all men. COUNTESS Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions. Clown It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks, the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock. COUNTESS Will your answer serve fit to all questions? Clown As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin. COUNTESS Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all questions? Clown From below your duke to beneath your constable, it will fit any question. COUNTESS It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands. Clown But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn. COUNTESS To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier? Clown O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More, more, a hundred of them. COUNTESS Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you. Clown O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me. COUNTESS I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. Clown O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. COUNTESS You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. Clown O Lord, sir! spare not me. COUNTESS Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and 'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. Clown I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord, sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever. COUNTESS I play the noble housewife with the time To entertain't so merrily with a fool. Clown O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again. COUNTESS An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this, And urge her to a present answer back: Commend me to my kinsmen and my son: This is not much. Clown Not much commendation to them. COUNTESS Not much employment for you: you understand me? Clown Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs. COUNTESS Haste you again. Exeunt severally SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES LAFEU They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. PAROLLES Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath shot out in our latter times. BERTRAM And so 'tis. LAFEU To be relinquish'd of the artists,-- PAROLLES So I say. LAFEU Both of Galen and Paracelsus. PAROLLES So I say. LAFEU Of all the learned and authentic fellows,-- PAROLLES Right; so I say. LAFEU That gave him out incurable,-- PAROLLES Why, there 'tis; so say I too. LAFEU Not to be helped,-- PAROLLES Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a-- LAFEU Uncertain life, and sure death. PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said. LAFEU I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. PAROLLES It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you shall read it in--what do you call there? LAFEU A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. PAROLLES That's it; I would have said the very same. LAFEU Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me, I speak in respect-- PAROLLES Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the-- LAFEU Very hand of heaven. PAROLLES Ay, so I say. LAFEU In a most weak-- pausing and debile minister, great power, great transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a further use to be made than alone the recovery of the king, as to be-- pausing generally thankful. PAROLLES I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king. Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire LAFEU Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's able to lead her a coranto. PAROLLES Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen? LAFEU 'Fore God, I think so. KING Go, call before me all the lords in court. Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive The confirmation of my promised gift, Which but attends thy naming. Enter three or four Lords Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice I have to use: thy frank election make; Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. HELENA To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one! LAFEU I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture, My mouth no more were broken than these boys', And writ as little beard. KING Peruse them well: Not one of those but had a noble father. HELENA Gentlemen, Heaven hath through me restored the king to health. All We understand it, and thank heaven for you. HELENA I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest, That I protest I simply am a maid. Please it your majesty, I have done already: The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me, 'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused, Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; We'll ne'er come there again.' KING Make choice; and, see, Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. HELENA Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, And to imperial Love, that god most high, Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit? First Lord And grant it. HELENA Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. LAFEU I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace for my life. HELENA The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Before I speak, too threateningly replies: Love make your fortunes twenty times above Her that so wishes and her humble love! Second Lord No better, if you please. HELENA My wish receive, Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave. LAFEU Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine, I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the Turk, to make eunuchs of. HELENA Be not afraid that I your hand should take; I'll never do you wrong for your own sake: Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed! LAFEU These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her: sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er got 'em. HELENA You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a son out of my blood. Fourth Lord Fair one, I think not so. LAFEU There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already. HELENA [To BERTRAM] I dare not say I take you; but I give Me and my service, ever whilst I live, Into your guiding power. This is the man. KING Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife. BERTRAM My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness, In such a business give me leave to use The help of mine own eyes. KING Know'st thou not, Bertram, What she has done for me? BERTRAM Yes, my good lord; But never hope to know why I should marry her. KING Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed. BERTRAM But follows it, my lord, to bring me down Must answer for your raising? I know her well: She had her breeding at my father's charge. A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain Rather corrupt me ever! KING 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off In differences so mighty. If she be All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest, A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest Of virtue for the name: but do not so: From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour. Good alone Is good without a name. Vileness is so: The property by what it is should go, Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair; In these to nature she's immediate heir, And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, Which challenges itself as honour's born And is not like the sire: honours thrive, When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said? If thou canst like this creature as a maid, I can create the rest: virtue and she Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me. BERTRAM I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't. KING Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose. HELENA That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad: Let the rest go. KING My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, I must produce my power. Here, take her hand, Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; That dost in vile misprision shackle up My love and her desert; that canst not dream, We, poising us in her defective scale, Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know, It is in us to plant thine honour where We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt: Obey our will, which travails in thy good: Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right Which both thy duty owes and our power claims; Or I will throw thee from my care for ever Into the staggers and the careless lapse Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice, Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer. BERTRAM Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit My fancy to your eyes: when I consider What great creation and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now The praised of the king; who, so ennobled, Is as 'twere born so. KING Take her by the hand, And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise A counterpoise, if not to thy estate A balance more replete. BERTRAM I take her hand. KING Good fortune and the favour of the king Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast Shall more attend upon the coming space, Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her, Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES LAFEU [Advancing] Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you. PAROLLES Your pleasure, sir? LAFEU Your lord and master did well to make his recantation. PAROLLES Recantation! My lord! my master! LAFEU Ay; is it not a language I speak? PAROLLES A most harsh one, and not to be understood without bloody succeeding. My master! LAFEU Are you companion to the Count Rousillon? PAROLLES To any count, to all counts, to what is man. LAFEU To what is count's man: count's master is of another style. PAROLLES You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. LAFEU I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee. PAROLLES What I dare too well do, I dare not do. LAFEU I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou't scarce worth. PAROLLES Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,-- LAFEU Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well: thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me thy hand. PAROLLES My lord, you give me most egregious indignity. LAFEU Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. PAROLLES I have not, my lord, deserved it. LAFEU Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple. PAROLLES Well, I shall be wiser. LAFEU Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the default, he is a man I know. PAROLLES My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation. LAFEU I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave. Exit PAROLLES Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again. Re-enter LAFEU LAFEU Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for you: you have a new mistress. PAROLLES I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good lord: whom I serve above is my master. LAFEU Who? God? PAROLLES Ay, sir. LAFEU The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee: I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. PAROLLES This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord. LAFEU Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than the commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you. Exit PAROLLES Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good; let it be concealed awhile. Re-enter BERTRAM BERTRAM Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! PAROLLES What's the matter, sweet-heart? BERTRAM Although before the solemn priest I have sworn, I will not bed her. PAROLLES What, what, sweet-heart? BERTRAM O my Parolles, they have married me! I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. PAROLLES France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits The tread of a man's foot: to the wars! BERTRAM There's letters from my mother: what the import is, I know not yet. PAROLLES Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars! He wears his honour in a box unseen, That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, Spending his manly marrow in her arms, Which should sustain the bound and high curvet Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades; Therefore, to the war! BERTRAM It shall be so: I'll send her to my house, Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, And wherefore I am fled; write to the king That which I durst not speak; his present gift Shall furnish me to those Italian fields, Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife. PAROLLES Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure? BERTRAM Go with me to my chamber, and advise me. I'll send her straight away: to-morrow I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. PAROLLES Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: A young man married is a man that's marr'd: Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. Exeunt SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter HELENA and Clown HELENA My mother greets me kindly; is she well? Clown She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the world; but yet she is not well. HELENA If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's not very well? Clown Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things. HELENA What two things? Clown One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence God send her quickly! Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES Bless you, my fortunate lady! HELENA I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes. PAROLLES You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady? Clown So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as you say. PAROLLES Why, I say nothing. Clown Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a very little of nothing. PAROLLES Away! thou'rt a knave. Clown You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had been truth, sir. PAROLLES Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee. Clown Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and the increase of laughter. PAROLLES A good knave, i' faith, and well fed. Madam, my lord will go away to-night; A very serious business calls on him. The great prerogative and rite of love, Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; But puts it off to a compell'd restraint; Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets, Which they distil now in the curbed time, To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy And pleasure drown the brim. HELENA What's his will else? PAROLLES That you will take your instant leave o' the king And make this haste as your own good proceeding, Strengthen'd with what apology you think May make it probable need. HELENA What more commands he? PAROLLES That, having this obtain'd, you presently Attend his further pleasure. HELENA In every thing I wait upon his will. PAROLLES I shall report it so. HELENA I pray you. Exit PAROLLES Come, sirrah. Exeunt SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace. Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM LAFEU But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier. BERTRAM Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. LAFEU You have it from his own deliverance. BERTRAM And by other warranted testimony. LAFEU Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting. BERTRAM I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in knowledge and accordingly valiant. LAFEU I have then sinned against his experience and transgressed against his valour; and my state that way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make us friends; I will pursue the amity. Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] These things shall be done, sir. LAFEU Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? PAROLLES Sir? LAFEU O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good workman, a very good tailor. BERTRAM [Aside to PAROLLES] Is she gone to the king? PAROLLES She is. BERTRAM Will she away to-night? PAROLLES As you'll have her. BERTRAM I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure, Given order for our horses; and to-night, When I should take possession of the bride, End ere I do begin. LAFEU A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain. BERTRAM Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur? PAROLLES I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's displeasure. LAFEU You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for your residence. BERTRAM It may be you have mistaken him, my lord. LAFEU And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur: I have spoken better of you than you have or will to deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil. Exit PAROLLES An idle lord. I swear. BERTRAM I think so. PAROLLES Why, do you not know him? BERTRAM Yes, I do know him well, and common speech Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. Enter HELENA HELENA I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king and have procured his leave For present parting; only he desires Some private speech with you. BERTRAM I shall obey his will. You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, Which holds not colour with the time, nor does The ministration and required office On my particular. Prepared I was not For such a business; therefore am I found So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you That presently you take our way for home; And rather muse than ask why I entreat you, For my respects are better th by All's well that ends well on 2006-09-12 23:39:06 * * * * * Sunday, September 10th, 2006 at 9:33 pm “House Arrest†« I’m Going to the Party! Text Comments (70) 1. Andrew Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:36 pm How is it that you are able to upload the video to a quicktime video file within 35 min of the orginal posting of the video blog on YouTube? Lets see… 2. scottyo Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:37 pm hah! who didn’t see this coming? 3. trash180 Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:44 pm hmm…does she really look skinnier to anyone. People are talking about it on youtube, but I dunno. 4. TheDecn Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:45 pm I am the first one to post something here…yay for me eh?! 5. TheDecn Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:46 pm D’oh, beat me to it TRASH180, how’d you do that? And yes, she looks skinnier. Obviously had liposuction judging from the patch on her shoulder! Duh! 6. m4me Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:47 pm I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO HER ARM! 7. jonny Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:50 pm yea! i’m thinking the same. her arms look way skinnier. even though i know this isn’t real, i’m so excited to find out what this leads up to! if it has some big suprised on october 12 it’ll be amazing!! this is such a great show (better than fear factor, yo) 8. cto Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:04 pm i think she looks skinnier and i think she was shootin up heroin. ha. yeah. thats what it looks like to me. 9. ali Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:12 pm yes. herione is the answer. 10. ali Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:13 pm The Creators: i really don’t think you guys should have come out so soon, it was dumb. The end. 11. BadState Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:13 pm Well, one doesn’t shoot heroin in the upper arm. That’s where vaccinations and maybe antibiotics are given. Then, maybe she got a very tiny tattoo. Or daddy punished her with a cigarette. Seriously, I expected more backlash than being grounded for two weeks. 12. Tst Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:45 pm Skinnier and paler than yesterday. 13. bogusforumname Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:51 pm im addicted, it worked. id like to see this turn out with a decent sorry. not some stupid horror. just a nice drama would be good. 14. Lee Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:05 pm How does the owner of this site get better quality quicktime files(.mov) than on the flash player(.flv) on youtube and how does he/she put them up so fast? Oh and yeah she looks pretty skinny here. 15. Creator Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:20 pm look, anyone can name themselves the creators 16. The Creators Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:20 pm that wasn’t hard 17. novmati Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:09 am Stop with the “Fake!!!!†posts allready, everybody knows it is. I still like it, its funny to see that unreal people never have to study and seem to be having holidays and such simple problems. 18. The King Of Root Beer Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:20 am Blah this Party Arc is bores me… Get back to the teen love drama damn you! And of course the proving science wrong! I love how she says that… haha good times… Anyways I’d say this is pretty much better then American TV… And almost on par with Japanese Drama… Hope the story doesn’t get boring and I hope it doesn’t go on forever… Make the endding good! 19. FAMOUS Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:30 am where did her napoleon dynamite poster go? :/ 20. harold Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:46 am she looks thin but then she did say she had to go on a diet…ok, the bandage on her arm is most probably another clue…so what could it be? 21. pattie Says: September 11th, 2006 at 2:26 am adorable idea! keep entertaining us, lonelygirl 22. Tim Says: September 11th, 2006 at 4:54 am Is there any way we can download the video and look for a timestamp? See if it was recorded yesterday or 3 months ago. 23. REMO BOYZ Says: September 11th, 2006 at 6:21 am USE R AW GEEKS MAN :) ) 24. Tim Says: September 11th, 2006 at 6:28 am Daniel sure has been keeping a low profile the last couple of days. 25. Truzenzex Says: September 11th, 2006 at 7:24 am YouTube video quality is always crap. The .mov files here have not been messed with by YouTube, hence they are better quality. 26. Larb Says: September 11th, 2006 at 9:11 am What was the song in that video? Anyone know? 27. Xen Says: September 11th, 2006 at 9:28 am The injection bandage is certainly odd. I doubt she went to an innoculation party; they aren’t very popular these days. It’s good to see Bree taking a step toward independence. 28. Kara Says: September 11th, 2006 at 2:18 pm I dont understand how if she is getting her name on a newspaper and if she is on headlines and stuff how could her parents not know whats going on? or that she has a webcam for that matter.. 29. McLuhanMarshall Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:01 pm I love it! 30. trichloramine Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pm I’m sorry we had that fight. I want to get back together again. This time, I’ll really try. 31. tbird Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pm Hey - great new site LG… 32. kristin Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:09 pm yeah. she does look skinnier. but they did say she was supposed to be on that diet for a religion thing… 33. Heather Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pm Great look, guys! Keep all the good stuff coming, don’t worry about the naysayers and breespotters. Looking forward to the next chapter and eventually the next story. 34. brainy blonde Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pm For once, just once, I wish something could be genuine….real.. not contrived and thought up by some bigger entity- a company, a group just out to make money. How I wish LG15 were real… Kind of like how I felt about the tooth fairy as a little girl :( bb 35. exile Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:37 pm you know, i gotta say, it was a good one hell, i really thought she was real (for the most part) the only thing that really made me doubt it was that why would a girl with overprotecive parents let their 15 year old daughter have full internet access with a web cam? kudos! 36. kimbobadcat Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm Great con job there dudes.. What’s it for? Quite boring (think the concept behind the TV blockbuster “LOST†has been quite successfully adapted here) ‘and shocking acting, but everyone is talking, so marketing idea has obviously worked. 37. Valerie Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm *cough*idiot*cough* 38. bb Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:41 pm yeah i think shes skinier 39. Boots Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:47 pm What IS your religion? I’m v. curious. 40. Fernando Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pm Hi there: for an actress this is not a good one: she can not look (let alone look) the part. Sorry. Bree 41. Miss Watts Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:52 pm honestly, it doesn’t matter if she is real or fake, does that have any affect on your life either way?? the bandage is interesting… good for everyone involved with this for being so imaginative and creative. cant wait to see whats next 42. Oddyssy Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:55 pm this is so contrived…..her eyebrows are too perfect, skin too perfect, room too perfect, music too perfect etc etc etc. You get where I’m going with this. 43. Oddyssy Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:57 pm I did like the music tho 44. Darrell Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:10 pm so, what’s the big deal with this person? who really cares, anyway? 45. JJ Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:21 pm Well, of course she’s getting skinnier. She has to diet because of the ceremony. duh. Also, I’m glad that she’s liberating herself from her house and her parents. Everyone needs to take the first step and she did. Also, in reference to the bandage, I’m sure there were some drugs at the party… perhaps this relates? 46. rachel Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:24 pm well. this has site certainly changed its tune… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 47. Grazer Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:26 pm What is going on.. what is that bandage? 48. Texrat Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:32 pm Lazydork is better than her. 49. Kelsee Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm Well from what I have heard about u, is that u are indeed a actress well thats what aol is sayin and why the hell would they make a big deal about video blogs I mean its ur choice about what u do on the internet its not like u r a sexual predator or something…. 50. nabakov Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm 14 minutes and counting… 51. Hoolicatt Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:46 pm http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby Someone posted this earlier.. that is %100 her.. no doubt 52. bree's dad Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:46 pm ok, so if you all keep encouraging bree to disobey her mother and me, the ceremony won’t work and we’ll hav to have another female child to do the whole thing again. we’e already jeopardized our chances at this ceremony when we had to give her the sedative shot to keep her in line. and just so you know, you shouldn’t pay any attention to the books on the shelf, they don’t change in number or arrangement at all! 53. hey Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:50 pm Why does she have a bandaid on her arm? 54. Hardo Gei Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:02 pm Hardo Gei Deeees! This is all BS! 55. Amanda Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:43 pm Must update my homepage. Ok i cant hear it bery well but it looks acted, But IM HOMESCHOOLED!!!!!!!!!!!!! And in two weeks ill be in Canada. Giggles. 56. casey Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:43 pm Taking bets on how long the website will be up this time…I’m going with 10 hours. 57. LookTooClose Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:45 pm Both Jessica (http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby) and “Bree†have a freckle on their cheek under their right eye, and a freckle on their right shoulder 58. slim Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:47 pm She used to be a bigger girl, not that there is anything wrong with that: http://alissabrooke.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=jessr&action=display&thread=1158038202&page=17 59. Ransack Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:55 pm It’s all spelled out in the NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html September 12, 2006 ‘Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN and TOM ZELLER A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees — themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why — appears to be in its final act. The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appeared to be the early, serialized version of what eventually would become a movie. Matt Foremski, the 18-year-old son of Tom Foremski, a reporter for the blog Silicon Valley Watcher, was the first to disinter a trove of photographs of the familiar-looking actress, who portrayed the character named Bree in the videos. The episodes suggested Bree was the home-schooled daughter of strictly religious parents who improbably stole time to upload video blogs of her innermost thoughts. The discovery and the swift and subsequent revelation of other details surrounding the perpetrators of the videos — and the phony fan site that accompanied them — marks the end of one of the Internet’s more elaborately constructed mysteries. Whether fans, whose disbelief in lonelygirl15 was not willingly suspended, but rather teased and toyed with, will embrace the project as a new narrative form, condemn it, or simply walk away, never to be fooled again, remains to be seen. The masterminds of the “lonelygirl15†videos are Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, Calif., and Miles Beckett, a doctor-turned-filmmaker. Many of the lonelygirl15 videos were shot in Mr. Flinders’s bedroom. Together with Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer in San Francisco, Mr. Flinders contrived to produce and distribute the videos so as to pique maximum curiosity about them. The photographs of the actress, which made it clear that Ms. Rose has been playing Bree in the videos, were found through Google. “We were all under N.D.A.’s†Mr. Steinfeld said, referring to the non-disclosure agreements that the cast — and their friends — were asked to sign, in order to preserve the mystery of lonelygirl15. “They had a lawyer involved,†he said. “My first impression was like, wow, can this be legitimate? Is this ethical? I was very concerned about that in the beginning.†But after he came to understand the project, Mr. Steinfeld said, he came to believe that something truly novel was at hand. “They were like the new Marshall McLuhan.†Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett obscured their location by sending e-mail messages as “Bree†from various Internet computer addresses, including the address of Creative Artists Agency, the Beverly Hills talent agency where the team is now represented. Amanda Solomon Goodfried, an assistant at the agency, is believed to have helped Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett conceal their identities. Moreover, Ms. Goodfried’s father-in-law, Kenneth Goodfried, an attorney in Encino, Calif., filed to trademark “lonelygirl15†in August. The story of how Mr. Flinders, Dr. Beckett and Ms. Rose were discovered in spite of their efforts to hide, and prolong the mystery, sheds light on the nature of online, wiki-style investigations and manhunts. When Mr. Steinfeld’s dummy site, which had been set up before the first lonelygirl15 video was even posted, struck users as suspicious and unsupervised — Mr. Steinfeld says he grew tired of running it, and dropped out of the project — fans set up their own site devoted to lonelygirl15, which soon attracted more than a thousand members. Both sites drew contributions from novelists, journalists, academics, day-traders, lawyers, bloggers, filmmakers, video-game designers, students, housewives, bored kids and experts on religion and botany. In the cacophony of conjecture, analysis, close-readings, jokes, insults, and distractions, good information sometimes surfaced. Last month, a lonelygirl15 fan discovered and posted a trademark application by Mr. Goodfried, which seemed to prove that the videos, which presented themselves as nothing but a video diary, were at least in part a commercial venture. Then, last week, three tech-savvy fans, working together, set up a sting on the e-mail address that was being used by “Breeâ€; the operation netted them the Internet address of a computer at Creative Artists Agency. On the strength of this information, Mr. Foremski was confident he could find some trace of “Bree†on the Internet. He was sure that any participant in a semi-professional production like “lonelygirl15†would have posted pictures somewhere. Sure enough, he was right. Mr. Steinfeld, on learning that Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett had been found out, offered his photographs of Ms. Rose as proof of his involvement in the “lonelygirl15†videos. He had been hired to take the on-set pictures at the start of shooting. The series, which Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett plan to continue on a site overseen by them, may play differently with fans now that they know for sure that the Bree is an actress. Part of the appeal of the series was that, in the serious-minded, literate Bree, it offered an unbeatable fantasy: a beautiful girl who tech-savvy guys had something in common with. On learning that Ms. Rose is an actress whose interests, unlike the scientific and religious issues that fascinated Bree, run to parties and posing, one fan wrote, “Very cute, but she’s really not into Feynmann and Jared Diamond! (I’m heart-broken. … But a wonderful actress, had me fooled into thinking she was a geek like me.)†60. clr Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:06 pm why did she have a shot??? 61. clr Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:07 pm she said she had to go on a diet for some sort of ceremony with her religeon - you dopes 62. Pooptart Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:11 pm Bree’s real name is Jessica Rose and she is from New Zealand. She is an aspiring actress, is 19 years old and moved to Hollywood to pursue her career. Looks like this whole thing was a good kickstart. Nice one Jessica. 63. Jordan Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:18 pm ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FAKE!!!!!!!! 64. robtomorrow Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:45 pm I hope we start moving out of the bedroom. And we could use somemore characters as well. Let Daniel video tape thier next escapade. 65. Deborah Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:03 pm Wow… just saw this for the first time. If i didn’t read that aol article about her, I’d wonder who wrote her script; she doesn’t talk normal talk!! NORMAL people stammer, fidget slightly, blink more, etc. she’s too perfect; obvious proof that this is a part of something bigger. but since i know for sure it’s a “hoax†(not real and they were mean enough to not let us know) this looks like it could be interesting… 66. Deborah Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:04 pm Maybe they took blood to store for the ceremony… TO CLONE HER!! ;) 67. dung Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:08 pm I want watch video and download Thank U 68. Rae Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:44 pm Her name is JESSICA ROSE. I am convinced that this is her. Much better match than the others mentioned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8iYeAzL1U 69. Laserchips Says: September 12th, 2006 at 11:15 pm i just dont get it. i never heard of this whole thing until tonight where I saw it on a news website. i guess im too old :( 70. Chrislee Says: September 12th, 2006 at 11:25 pm Shes a fake. its on youtube and the ny times!!! Damn you jessica rose! 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Text Comments (70) 1. Andrew Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:36 pm How is it that you are able to upload the video to a quicktime video file within 35 min of the orginal posting of the video blog on YouTube? Lets see… 2. scottyo Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:37 pm hah! who didn’t see this coming? 3. trash180 Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:44 pm hmm…does she really look skinnier to anyone. People are talking about it on youtube, but I dunno. 4. TheDecn Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:45 pm I am the first one to post something here…yay for me eh?! 5. TheDecn Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:46 pm D’oh, beat me to it TRASH180, how’d you do that? And yes, she looks skinnier. Obviously had liposuction judging from the patch on her shoulder! Duh! 6. m4me Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:47 pm I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO HER ARM! 7. jonny Says: September 10th, 2006 at 9:50 pm yea! i’m thinking the same. her arms look way skinnier. even though i know this isn’t real, i’m so excited to find out what this leads up to! if it has some big suprised on october 12 it’ll be amazing!! this is such a great show (better than fear factor, yo) 8. cto Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:04 pm i think she looks skinnier and i think she was shootin up heroin. ha. yeah. thats what it looks like to me. 9. ali Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:12 pm yes. herione is the answer. 10. ali Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:13 pm The Creators: i really don’t think you guys should have come out so soon, it was dumb. The end. 11. BadState Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:13 pm Well, one doesn’t shoot heroin in the upper arm. That’s where vaccinations and maybe antibiotics are given. Then, maybe she got a very tiny tattoo. Or daddy punished her with a cigarette. Seriously, I expected more backlash than being grounded for two weeks. 12. Tst Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:45 pm Skinnier and paler than yesterday. 13. bogusforumname Says: September 10th, 2006 at 10:51 pm im addicted, it worked. id like to see this turn out with a decent sorry. not some stupid horror. just a nice drama would be good. 14. Lee Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:05 pm How does the owner of this site get better quality quicktime files(.mov) than on the flash player(.flv) on youtube and how does he/she put them up so fast? Oh and yeah she looks pretty skinny here. 15. Creator Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:20 pm look, anyone can name themselves the creators 16. The Creators Says: September 10th, 2006 at 11:20 pm that wasn’t hard 17. novmati Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:09 am Stop with the “Fake!!!!†posts allready, everybody knows it is. I still like it, its funny to see that unreal people never have to study and seem to be having holidays and such simple problems. 18. The King Of Root Beer Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:20 am Blah this Party Arc is bores me… Get back to the teen love drama damn you! And of course the proving science wrong! I love how she says that… haha good times… Anyways I’d say this is pretty much better then American TV… And almost on par with Japanese Drama… Hope the story doesn’t get boring and I hope it doesn’t go on forever… Make the endding good! 19. FAMOUS Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:30 am where did her napoleon dynamite poster go? :/ 20. harold Says: September 11th, 2006 at 12:46 am she looks thin but then she did say she had to go on a diet…ok, the bandage on her arm is most probably another clue…so what could it be? 21. pattie Says: September 11th, 2006 at 2:26 am adorable idea! keep entertaining us, lonelygirl 22. Tim Says: September 11th, 2006 at 4:54 am Is there any way we can download the video and look for a timestamp? See if it was recorded yesterday or 3 months ago. 23. REMO BOYZ Says: September 11th, 2006 at 6:21 am USE R AW GEEKS MAN :) ) 24. Tim Says: September 11th, 2006 at 6:28 am Daniel sure has been keeping a low profile the last couple of days. 25. Truzenzex Says: September 11th, 2006 at 7:24 am YouTube video quality is always crap. The .mov files here have not been messed with by YouTube, hence they are better quality. 26. Larb Says: September 11th, 2006 at 9:11 am What was the song in that video? Anyone know? 27. Xen Says: September 11th, 2006 at 9:28 am The injection bandage is certainly odd. I doubt she went to an innoculation party; they aren’t very popular these days. It’s good to see Bree taking a step toward independence. 28. Kara Says: September 11th, 2006 at 2:18 pm I dont understand how if she is getting her name on a newspaper and if she is on headlines and stuff how could her parents not know whats going on? or that she has a webcam for that matter.. 29. McLuhanMarshall Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:01 pm I love it! 30. trichloramine Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pm I’m sorry we had that fight. I want to get back together again. This time, I’ll really try. 31. tbird Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pm Hey - great new site LG… 32. kristin Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:09 pm yeah. she does look skinnier. but they did say she was supposed to be on that diet for a religion thing… 33. Heather Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pm Great look, guys! Keep all the good stuff coming, don’t worry about the naysayers and breespotters. Looking forward to the next chapter and eventually the next story. 34. brainy blonde Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:35 pm For once, just once, I wish something could be genuine….real.. not contrived and thought up by some bigger entity- a company, a group just out to make money. How I wish LG15 were real… Kind of like how I felt about the tooth fairy as a little girl :( bb 35. exile Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:37 pm you know, i gotta say, it was a good one hell, i really thought she was real (for the most part) the only thing that really made me doubt it was that why would a girl with overprotecive parents let their 15 year old daughter have full internet access with a web cam? kudos! 36. kimbobadcat Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm Great con job there dudes.. What’s it for? Quite boring (think the concept behind the TV blockbuster “LOST†has been quite successfully adapted here) ‘and shocking acting, but everyone is talking, so marketing idea has obviously worked. 37. Valerie Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:40 pm *cough*idiot*cough* 38. bb Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:41 pm yeah i think shes skinier 39. Boots Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:47 pm What IS your religion? I’m v. curious. 40. Fernando Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pm Hi there: for an actress this is not a good one: she can not look (let alone look) the part. Sorry. Bree 41. Miss Watts Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:52 pm honestly, it doesn’t matter if she is real or fake, does that have any affect on your life either way?? the bandage is interesting… good for everyone involved with this for being so imaginative and creative. cant wait to see whats next 42. Oddyssy Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:55 pm this is so contrived…..her eyebrows are too perfect, skin too perfect, room too perfect, music too perfect etc etc etc. You get where I’m going with this. 43. Oddyssy Says: September 12th, 2006 at 6:57 pm I did like the music tho 44. Darrell Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:10 pm so, what’s the big deal with this person? who really cares, anyway? 45. JJ Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:21 pm Well, of course she’s getting skinnier. She has to diet because of the ceremony. duh. Also, I’m glad that she’s liberating herself from her house and her parents. Everyone needs to take the first step and she did. Also, in reference to the bandage, I’m sure there were some drugs at the party… perhaps this relates? 46. rachel Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:24 pm well. this has site certainly changed its tune… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 47. Grazer Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:26 pm What is going on.. what is that bandage? 48. Texrat Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:32 pm Lazydork is better than her. 49. Kelsee Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm Well from what I have heard about u, is that u are indeed a actress well thats what aol is sayin and why the hell would they make a big deal about video blogs I mean its ur choice about what u do on the internet its not like u r a sexual predator or something…. 50. nabakov Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm 14 minutes and counting… 51. Hoolicatt Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:46 pm http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby Someone posted this earlier.. that is %100 her.. no doubt 52. bree's dad Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:46 pm ok, so if you all keep encouraging bree to disobey her mother and me, the ceremony won’t work and we’ll hav to have another female child to do the whole thing again. we’e already jeopardized our chances at this ceremony when we had to give her the sedative shot to keep her in line. and just so you know, you shouldn’t pay any attention to the books on the shelf, they don’t change in number or arrangement at all! 53. hey Says: September 12th, 2006 at 7:50 pm Why does she have a bandaid on her arm? 54. Hardo Gei Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:02 pm Hardo Gei Deeees! This is all BS! 55. Amanda Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:43 pm Must update my homepage. Ok i cant hear it bery well but it looks acted, But IM HOMESCHOOLED!!!!!!!!!!!!! And in two weeks ill be in Canada. Giggles. 56. casey Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:43 pm Taking bets on how long the website will be up this time…I’m going with 10 hours. 57. LookTooClose Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:45 pm Both Jessica (http://www.neopets.com/~ziegs_baby) and “Bree†have a freckle on their cheek under their right eye, and a freckle on their right shoulder 58. slim Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:47 pm She used to be a bigger girl, not that there is anything wrong with that: http://alissabrooke.proboards56.com/index.cgi?board=jessr&action=display&thread=1158038202&page=17 59. Ransack Says: September 12th, 2006 at 8:55 pm It’s all spelled out in the NY Times www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html September 12, 2006 ‘Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN and TOM ZELLER A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees — themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why — appears to be in its final act. The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appeared to be the early, serialized version of what eventually would become a movie. Matt Foremski, the 18-year-old son of Tom Foremski, a reporter for the blog Silicon Valley Watcher, was the first to disinter a trove of photographs of the familiar-looking actress, who portrayed the character named Bree in the videos. The episodes suggested Bree was the home-schooled daughter of strictly religious parents who improbably stole time to upload video blogs of her innermost thoughts. The discovery and the swift and subsequent revelation of other details surrounding the perpetrators of the videos — and the phony fan site that accompanied them — marks the end of one of the Internet’s more elaborately constructed mysteries. Whether fans, whose disbelief in lonelygirl15 was not willingly suspended, but rather teased and toyed with, will embrace the project as a new narrative form, condemn it, or simply walk away, never to be fooled again, remains to be seen. The masterminds of the “lonelygirl15†videos are Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, Calif., and Miles Beckett, a doctor-turned-filmmaker. Many of the lonelygirl15 videos were shot in Mr. Flinders’s bedroom. Together with Grant Steinfeld, a software engineer in San Francisco, Mr. Flinders contrived to produce and distribute the videos so as to pique maximum curiosity about them. The photographs of the actress, which made it clear that Ms. Rose has been playing Bree in the videos, were found through Google. “We were all under N.D.A.’s†Mr. Steinfeld said, referring to the non-disclosure agreements that the cast — and their friends — were asked to sign, in order to preserve the mystery of lonelygirl15. “They had a lawyer involved,†he said. “My first impression was like, wow, can this be legitimate? Is this ethical? I was very concerned about that in the beginning.†But after he came to understand the project, Mr. Steinfeld said, he came to believe that something truly novel was at hand. “They were like the new Marshall McLuhan.†Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett obscured their location by sending e-mail messages as “Bree†from various Internet computer addresses, including the address of Creative Artists Agency, the Beverly Hills talent agency where the team is now represented. Amanda Solomon Goodfried, an assistant at the agency, is believed to have helped Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett conceal their identities. Moreover, Ms. Goodfried’s father-in-law, Kenneth Goodfried, an attorney in Encino, Calif., filed to trademark “lonelygirl15†in August. The story of how Mr. Flinders, Dr. Beckett and Ms. Rose were discovered in spite of their efforts to hide, and prolong the mystery, sheds light on the nature of online, wiki-style investigations and manhunts. When Mr. Steinfeld’s dummy site, which had been set up before the first lonelygirl15 video was even posted, struck users as suspicious and unsupervised — Mr. Steinfeld says he grew tired of running it, and dropped out of the project — fans set up their own site devoted to lonelygirl15, which soon attracted more than a thousand members. Both sites drew contributions from novelists, journalists, academics, day-traders, lawyers, bloggers, filmmakers, video-game designers, students, housewives, bored kids and experts on religion and botany. In the cacophony of conjecture, analysis, close-readings, jokes, insults, and distractions, good information sometimes surfaced. Last month, a lonelygirl15 fan discovered and posted a trademark application by Mr. Goodfried, which seemed to prove that the videos, which presented themselves as nothing but a video diary, were at least in part a commercial venture. Then, last week, three tech-savvy fans, working together, set up a sting on the e-mail address that was being used by “Breeâ€; the operation netted them the Internet address of a computer at Creative Artists Agency. On the strength of this information, Mr. Foremski was confident he could find some trace of “Bree†on the Internet. He was sure that any participant in a semi-professional production like “lonelygirl15†would have posted pictures somewhere. Sure enough, he was right. Mr. Steinfeld, on learning that Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett had been found out, offered his photographs of Ms. Rose as proof of his involvement in the “lonelygirl15†videos. He had been hired to take the on-set pictures at the start of shooting. The series, which Mr. Flinders and Dr. Beckett plan to continue on a site overseen by them, may play differently with fans now that they know for sure that the Bree is an actress. Part of the appeal of the series was that, in the serious-minded, literate Bree, it offered an unbeatable fantasy: a beautiful girl who tech-savvy guys had something in common with. On learning that Ms. Rose is an actress whose interests, unlike the scientific and religious issues that fascinated Bree, run to parties and posing, one fan wrote, “Very cute, but she’s really not into Feynmann and Jared Diamond! (I’m heart-broken. … But a wonderful actress, had me fooled into thinking she was a geek like me.)†60. clr Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:06 pm why did she have a shot??? 61. clr Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:07 pm she said she had to go on a diet for some sort of ceremony with her religeon - you dopes 62. Pooptart Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:11 pm Bree’s real name is Jessica Rose and she is from New Zealand. She is an aspiring actress, is 19 years old and moved to Hollywood to pursue her career. Looks like this whole thing was a good kickstart. Nice one Jessica. 63. Jordan Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:18 pm ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS FAKE!!!!!!!! 64. robtomorrow Says: September 12th, 2006 at 9:45 pm I hope we start moving out of the bedroom. And we could use somemore characters as well. Let Daniel video tape thier next escapade. 65. Deborah Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:03 pm Wow… just saw this for the first time. If i didn’t read that aol article about her, I’d wonder who wrote her script; she doesn’t talk normal talk!! NORMAL people stammer, fidget slightly, blink more, etc. she’s too perfect; obvious proof that this is a part of something bigger. but since i know for sure it’s a “hoax†(not real and they were mean enough to not let us know) this looks like it could be interesting… 66. Deborah Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:04 pm Maybe they took blood to store for the ceremony… TO CLONE HER!! ;) 67. dung Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:08 pm I want watch video and download Thank U 68. Rae Says: September 12th, 2006 at 10:44 pm Her name is JESSICA ROSE. I am convinced that this is her. Much better match than the others mentioned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8iYeAzL1U 69. Laserchips Says: September 12th, 2006 at 11:15 pm i just dont get it. i never heard of this whole thing until tonight where I saw it on a news website. i guess im too old :( 70. Chrislee Says: September 12th, 2006 at 11:25 pm Shes a fake. its on youtube and the ny times!!! Damn you jessica rose! Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website by All's well that ends well on 2006-09-12 23:43:10 Return to Declaration start page Back To Index Document Signers Related Information Jefferson's Account Declaration House Links Timeline Guestbook Search ushistory.org The Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence Declaration text | Rough Draft | Congress's Draft | Dunlap Broadside | Image | Scan IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. 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Where are the archives? by LonelyGirl 15 on 2006-09-13 00:19:24 Don't be mad. It's all for the sake of entertaintment. Anyways don't need to take stuffs on the internet seriously. Life is too great to be getting upset over things that do not matter. Anyways. I was very entertaintment by the Lonelygirl15 series. Please Don't stop. Keep more coming. Namaste, John TheLostHub.com - SteveIrwinMedia.blogspot.com - WeLoveSteveIrwin.blogspot.com by johntheentrepreneur on 2006-09-13 00:28:28 YOU'VE BEEN EXPOSED CUT THE CRAP! YOU GIVE NEW ZEALANDERS A BAD NAME! by babyjen29 on 2006-09-13 00:41:28 I just wanted to be in this messageboard. Bree...isn't that a kind of cheese? by emirrey on 2006-09-13 00:50:51 Fotze! Du Fotze! by Ignatz Karuse on 2006-09-13 02:31:48 Absolutely brilliant and absorbing. Somehow, in the span of 4 months (and 30 or so three minute long episodes), it was quite easy to get involved in this seemingly innocuous story of a goofy but likeable girl. Yet, as time goes on, the little details that appeared so harmless and unimportant before are starting to add up into something that could be quite sinister. Bravo. I can't wait to see what happens next. by Celyia on 2006-09-13 02:47:45 (translated from a language not spoken in 1,000 years) i am satan, lord of poking and fire. you mopes are waaaay off track with this whole satanic deal. let me tell you, bree is in no way associated with our products and services. while she is doing her part to ensure the inevitable arrival of more than some of your souls to my eternal hot lava fiesta, she is not in our employ nor does she hold any shares of our stock. (NASDAQ--MMN) to be completely candid, we did have several meetings with both bree and daniel. we got to be pretty close and we liked to call bree "boney girl" cause she's pretty slim, and we called daniel "dannaise" because he would always put mayonnaise on his french fries when we paused for lunch. i like to have nicknames for my buddies. so we would meet to try to see if we could work together sometime, like axl rose and elton john did that one time. turned out, our project schedules were just a little jammed. oh well. aaaanywhooo, so the message herre is 1) bree is not the devil, i am. 2) daniel is probably going to have some high cholesterol levels if he doesn't lay off the fries and mayo. also, there's a lot of buzz around why bree doesn't want anyone to light the candles on the so-called "alter." firstly, the word i think you're looking for here is "altar." and more to the point, and i'm suprised no one picked up on this, those candles were a gift to her from the "grand schmegma" of the masons. if she can make it to her 18th b-day and have those candles total an aggregate burning time of 10 hours, 12 minutes, and 0.6 seconds, she gets a year's supply of mason jars and a fur coat. also, during the daniel the neanderthal segment, our two kids are smack right next to the bookcase. i wish that segment were still up on this site in quicktime so we could have a clear version to peep those book titles. i hear bree's about halfway through gravity's rainbow and i want to know when she's done with it so i can borrow it! lastly, bree teaches us a great lesson in the pluto episode. if you ever want someone to stop asking questions, just accuse them of having sex with whomever they ask or about whatever they ask. for instance, george bush might be all, "hey, you keep asking me questions. you must want to get in on with me!" that would shut people up right away about the war on terror and stuff. oh, and i almost forgot...masons sit around naked, drink kegs of beer and pee on each other...that's why women aren't allowed! thanks! by satan on 2006-09-13 02:53:43 well,then why can't Iwatch it? by lydia on 2006-09-13 03:23:38 What A WASTE OF MONEY! by mike on 2006-09-13 03:26:31 haay.....I have read that you arnet lonely and that you are dont 15 bout 16 years old.... by Prza on 2006-09-13 03:27:51 hi your From the Mount aye? i'm sure i seen u there before? u go kiwi girl u!! haha snapped! by Jae Boro on 2006-09-13 03:44:48 Hi Jessica Rose aka Lonelygirl15 - hope to see you back home in New Zealand soon. Oops I think you did a typo, you're 19 silly. by kiwichick on 2006-09-13 03:46:48 What a bunch of crap. People, get a life and go back to the real world of real sickos like Kerry and Gore. by Francesca Dubois on 2006-09-13 03:46:55 Great production values! Too much time on your hands? by gaffer on 2006-09-13 04:04:48 If she didn't pluck her eyebrows she would have the biggist uni-brow by thedid on 2006-09-13 04:23:58 exposed! your a kiwi!!!! my mate used to know you by god of nations on 2006-09-13 04:25:13 Who did not know this was fake... by wow on 2006-09-13 04:35:27 What is the song that plays during the video? by audemars on 2006-09-13 04:42:28 You lied! by Dawn on 2006-09-13 04:42:57 Actually I wasn't aware that they have girls that cute in New Zealand. by BeenOnceToNewZealand on 2006-09-13 04:50:25 I love you by bao on 2006-09-13 05:16:04 plz... Whatever happened to funnygirl? -i bet you are "the lonliest kind", like superheroes. -Stay tuned for more Sedatives- by Sedatives on 2006-09-13 05:17:55 Nice girl, nice story, nice video, but who cares any more? by Robert on 2006-09-13 05:21:46 you suck at acting by bingo on 2006-09-13 05:32:19 And a new star is born, guess you know, but anyway you are in the norwegian newspaper. www.vg.no and its also the biggest newspaper in norway. And i have to say, mmmmhmmmhm ;) by R. Myren on 2006-09-13 05:37:17 Well we now know she's an actress - but I'm still interested. At least I don't feel as guilty now knowing that she's 19. ;-) by Dave on 2006-09-13 06:27:15 CNN just reported that lonelygirl15 was hoax the woman is an actor and in her 20's by sg on 2006-09-13 06:28:58 Lonelygirl15 shops online with Daddy-O Deals. http://www.daddyodeals.com by 5k4t3r on 2006-09-13 06:44:40 Horray, the less anti science crap the better. Good bye :-) by Tiggggrrrrrr on 2006-09-13 06:45:18 the real lonelygirl http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1158120000&en=a56f0e777a707f56&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin by LonelyMan on 2006-09-13 06:45:25 I think its a fabulous idea! We wathc movies and develop emotional connections to fictitious characters all the damn time. There is no reason whatsoever to be angry. The clips are well done. The actress is beautiful and believeable. The only reason anyone could possibly be mad is because they were too narrowminded to see an art that was new and innovative. Hey angry viewers? Witchhunt much? "We must destroy that which we fear or do not understand" Bless you all and thank you for the wonderful and intelligent entertainment. Pretty "Bree"? You're special. You're talented and you are as smart as you play :) Keep uo the great job! by Tragic on 2006-09-13 06:57:20 hehe i dont know what to write bree:p hmmm you was cute lol by lolz on 2006-09-13 07:11:38 If she took her top off, it might be more interesting by jim on 2006-09-13 07:33:59 hello...i will be a friend of you..what your msn adress? by theboss on 2006-09-13 07:42:38 I think you may be a fake? by you are a faker on 2006-09-13 08:14:44 Superb Acting! Jessica, you have amazing talent! WAY TO GO, CREATORS! I hope we see the new video soon. by CodeFox on 2006-09-13 08:15:34 KIWIS LOVE YOU, JESSICA! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! by KiwiHound on 2006-09-13 08:18:23 Why do people think she can respond to being "exposed"? THIS IS A FILM! SHE CAN'T RESPOND! It's like talking to the television, and hoping the characters do something different this time. ROFL! by CodeFox on 2006-09-13 08:25:50 Hey Jessica Rose! by s on 2006-09-13 08:38:57 BREE!!! Hey I love your videos!! Keep em comin and know that even all the way here in Texas, we love ya. BTW, just from experience, I would really advise against sneaking out when already grounded. I've been down that road....it's not worth it. Erich by Erich on 2006-09-13 08:39:28 yuiyiu by h on 2006-09-13 08:41:45 I really think you were funny =) do you have an msn adress? If you don`t want do give me yours you can have mine? Im from norway and i am 15 years old and are a girl by kay on 2006-09-13 08:43:46 What a joke. [insert yawn here] by Ana on 2006-09-13 09:11:13 This is a beautiful idea. Do not stop. by Mac on 2006-09-13 09:31:07 It's not real. HA HA by Sucka on 2006-09-13 09:43:16 Who is this girl? I woke up this morning to the headline that said "LonelyGirl15 is a fake." by Dan on 2006-09-13 09:49:31 Gotta hand it to the creators - they caused quite a stir. But now that the truth is out it will be interesting to see if they can hold an audience. As a mystery, there was a lot of interest and speculation. But that's gone. Will people continue to watch a fictional story? My opinion is they've had their 15 minutes of fame and people will quickly start to lose interest. by Jimmy on 2006-09-13 10:08:11 Very well done. I'm very impressed by the production of the Lonelygirl15 saga. "Bree" is charming and her performance is unbelievable, she really is quiet the character. Hope to see more. by Obe on 2006-09-13 10:16:56 I don't care if Bree isn't a real person. She has the same wants and fears every other person has in life and to me that makes her real enough! Can't wait to see what happens next! Don't let your parents rule your entire life! Get out there and enjoy being young!! What happened to your arm? Hope youre okay! by Kat on 2006-09-13 10:28:10 What's wrong with you people? It's a SHOW! It always was a SHOW! It's full of mysteries, but if you read the articles, it says the creators never intended it as a hoax or an alternate reality thing. It was always a SHOW. Do you go around saying "I hate 24 'cause it's fake!"? No, because it's a SHOW! Fiction. by David on 2006-09-13 10:35:02 One word, "BRILLIANT"! by Ocampas on 2006-09-13 10:38:29 KIWIS LOVE YOU, JESSICA! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! by CodeFox on 2006-09-13 10:39:30 I eagerly await new material... you've got me hook, line and sinker. You will always be Bree to me! :) by Fan on 2006-09-13 11:07:42 When's the next episode? The bandage looks like she was injected. But was it punishment for going out or preparation for the ceremony? by popculturejones on 2006-09-13 11:12:27 I'm not bothered that this is fiction. i suspected it from the beginning, but was still fascinated. i love the story and the characters, and the clever use of the medium. i think LG15 is a brilliant idea, and i'm curious to see where it goes. please continue. why let the fact that it's pretend or not what it seemed ruin the fun? how is that misdirection different from Blair Witch or M. Night’s “pulling the rug out from under us†trickery? just because we know how the magician did the trick doesn't mean we can enjoy or appreciate the magic. by sean stubblefield on 2006-09-13 11:17:14 ewwww...you're an occultist. aleister crowley is an absolutely disturbing man and i find it very creepy that you have a crowley shrine in your room, with which danielbeast (both being biblicly satanic references, by the way) lights the candles :/ but...thank god it's just a script with a california talent agency behind it :) by alex on 2006-09-13 11:30:20 This is some of the most poorly written crap i've ever been exposed to. "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade?" OMFG gag me with another 80's signpost cliche, please! The girl (Jessica Rose) is cute and will probably make a fine actor. She'd be better served by working with some able writers tho, this is the cheesiest crap I've ever seen. by Hazard J Simpson on 2006-09-13 11:31:00 She's got a tatty behind that bandage is my guess. by Dan on 2006-09-13 11:31:34 I think you're great, Entertaining and wonderfull! Keep up the great work! I think you need to be on the BIG SCREEN! by Brian Pav on 2006-09-13 11:34:51 Looking foward to more videos~! by Ethniu on 2006-09-13 12:34:19 yo sre so stupid for making this you do not know how serious someone could have taking this situation but you guys are lucky no one at all took it serious. YOU ARE COMPLETE RETARDS DUMB BOWS. by Tichina on 2006-09-13 12:35:16 Creative Artists Agency i Beverly Hills hm? by coop man ! on 2006-09-13 12:53:05 You are all nerds get a fregin life!!!! by deangelo_484 on 2006-09-13 12:58:07 bree/ jess/ whatever, i love your videoes! i watched them all yesterday and i was inspired, cuz you seem like an original person. which i love =] i don't care that you might be fake or whatever, keep the videoes coming! by acoustic on 2006-09-13 13:01:55 Post a new video already! You're losing viewers! by BoredBoy32 on 2006-09-13 13:16:54 Yeah, you're pretty much busted. Not that I didn't enjoy watching the posts, but I can't stand being duped by a chick. by Damien on 2006-09-13 13:22:05 hey gurl your story is unbelievable, yet very shocking.i like the video. it's actually better than my favorite show i like to watch but girl all i got to say is keep doing ya thang. don't let no hata get u down cuz they ain't runnin' nothing but their mouth so you ain't got to worry bout nothing take it from me i know. and you can check out my page @ DAT-SWISHA-GURL.bebo.com and @ myspace.com/strawberrykp09. by KEARRA PETERSON on 2006-09-13 13:29:57 you will pay for all your lies.. "Jessica ROSE" YOU WILL ALWAyS BE A LONELY ROSE!!!!!!!!!! by iknowwhereyoulive on 2006-09-13 13:30:51 Are you dating? Come to Rhode Island....its fun here. by Bee Free on 2006-09-13 13:32:02 Shes hott. by SHes hott on 2006-09-13 13:35:35 Kiwi eh?? Go ALL BLACKS!!! by Tana Umaga on 2006-09-13 13:38:20 That's pretty cool by Bang on 2006-09-13 13:39:49 What happened to bree's arm? Just curiour!! Mark (mecwag) by Mark on 2006-09-13 13:41:41 is.nt that a recycled felisity begging a come back in the body ov bree???that would make a good flash-back show!!...hey,,,,good thing you talked to your lawer....could smell $$$$$$$$$$ by wittler uth on 2006-09-13 13:44:33 UMM GUYS FIRST OF ALL SHES SOME FAMOUSE GIRL LIEK NICOLE RICHIE SHE HAS NO NEED TO GET LIPO SECONDLY SHE ONLY HAS ONE BANDAGE!! WHAT DO YOU THINK SHE GOT IT IN ONE ARM? YOU GUYS ARE DUMB I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THATS LIPO . AND GUYS JUST WAIT TILL THE "REAL" PEOPLE SAY THE TRUTH JUST WAIT LIEK THE ANGENCY AND STUFF by Hillary(not my real name) on 2006-09-13 13:59:33 SORRY CORRECTION SHES NOT SOME FAMOUSE GIRL ANDDD HER ARMS ARE THE SAME SO NO WAY SHE GOT IT IN ONE ARM . by Hillary(not my real name) on 2006-09-13 14:00:43 THIRD OF ALL SHES IN A TANK TOP ARE ANY OF THE OTHER EPISODES DOES SHE HAVE A TANK TOP ON ? SO NO ,,, DIDNT THINK SO YOU HAVNT SEEN HER IN A TANK THATS WHY YOU THINK THAT by Hillary(not my real name) on 2006-09-13 14:04:21 you whether or not this person is real or not this female is fine by datboiuhoh@yahoo.com on 2006-09-13 14:10:32 What a dumb movie. You call this entertainment? This is dumb if it was real, and even dumber knowing that some retards think it is "entertainment". What a bad actor. by deushe on 2006-09-13 14:11:45 I just want to know 2 things: What was that song playing - it's awesome. What kind of webcam is she using? The creators said that they use a "$130 web camera" and the sound comes from the internal mic on the webcam. I love the quality - would love to know wich webcam it is. by Dusty on 2006-09-13 14:11:52 Luremus! by Ubername on 2006-09-13 14:15:46 on youtube, she put up a comment about the bandage she said something like 'i just had to get a shot, its no big deal' ..just so ya know. but, heck, maybe thats fake too. =\ too bad she wasnt real. there were so many people like 'her' oh well. by tara on 2006-09-13 14:16:21 i'll still watch. by tara on 2006-09-13 14:16:39 Great, support kids not listening to their parents and running away. Very responsible of you. Please put a little more thought into your creation. And nice tattoo add in the end, fit the story perfect... by ConservativeRepublican on 2006-09-13 14:22:07 Man, this is crazy... it's soo brilliant! I wish I had thought of this! I read all about it in the news online. The creators would have eventually been discovered anyways, but hopefully they'll carry on or make a movie. PEACE by Christine on 2006-09-13 14:27:47 fanke, fake.. bla bla... i like to see more. its better than such shows on tv. even though i now know its fake by guy on 2006-09-13 14:28:19 Check this out lonelygirl http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html?hp&ex=1158120000&en=a56f0e777a707f56&ei=5094&partner=homepage by Pluto on 2006-09-13 14:30:36 haha, did you know you're in the biggest onlinenewspapers in NORWAY? I wish I saw these movies before they were revealed, but no... It's really funny to see how many people believed in this, and how many people really seeing this was all fake. http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/09/13/476606.html Here's the link, it's in norwegian though... if you need it translated, e-mail me, I'd be glad to translate it for you... The headline is "Historic netscam revealed!" Sencearly yours, Therese from Norway, Oslo. by Therese on 2006-09-13 14:35:51 HeY pa ...nije loshe ali moze i bolje :) malo vise maste i to je to hehehehehhe by Whisper on 2006-09-13 14:36:32 well, everyone...i tried to post a comment here last night and the moderators wouldn't publish it. that's rather bogus. i mean, why can't the lord of fire and poking post a telling comment while bree's "cousin" gets to say a bunch of crud? all of you who would like to see the comment, please let the moderators know. by satan on 2006-09-13 14:43:16 this is pretty cool regardless of the fact that its fake and we all know it! she's really cool and you're all jealous!!!! by first time viewer... on 2006-09-13 14:48:26 Why oh why did I waste my time watching this... by jajo on 2006-09-13 14:54:12 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14816502/ this is from msnbc about lonelygirl 15 a.k.a. Jessica Rose, a 19-year-old actress from New Zealand who recently moved to Los Angeles. by cue1 pro on 2006-09-13 14:55:58 I published all of lonelygirl15's videos (you tube embedded) in this site. Check it out its kewl. Send it to your friends. - Ralph by Ralph on 2006-09-13 15:04:20 What crap. I don't mind watching TV or a Movie, but this is like "War of the Worlds" all over again. I'm partly offended that all this is fake, and they use religion, be it whatever they imagined it to be, as a crutch to make her look normal and her parents weird or withdrawn from society. Yeah, I fell hook line and sinker, but, its time to move on and watch things that are either completely real or blantenly fake, not some crappy mix of both. by mfc2003 on 2006-09-13 15:09:15 I've stumbled across this within the last few days and have been immensely impressed. Brilliant harnessing of the internet's new creative possibilities, gentlemen! by ALIC3 on 2006-09-13 15:09:24 I want you to know I have enjoyed watching the videos and have kept my eye on what has unfolded and I pretty much know what has been released and everything but I want to see this continue.. by alex.x.x on 2006-09-13 16:38:05 This website looks terrible in Firefox by Josef Ferdinand on 2006-09-13 16:43:09 That´s a wonderful idea. by baobab on 2006-09-13 16:45:43 This is the first original thing I've seen come out of Hollywood in decades. by Dan on 2006-09-13 16:52:19 what? by admer on 2006-09-13 17:05:17 I enjoy these immensely. Keep them up. by TSmith on 2006-09-13 17:06:11 haha ur sooo crewl by Daniel on 2006-09-13 17:08:48 this is all fake stuff no one knows whats really goin on and why is there a cotton ball on her arm this chick is weird and rly ugly sorry by lonleygirl16 on 2006-09-13 17:09:27 i think all of you people who even got trapped into this psychopaths lies need to take a look at your lives and realize that life is alot more then the interweb and that if you acctually belive everything thats on the web... well...your stupid get a life. i only seen this because i was looking at the news! by admer on 2006-09-13 17:09:50 Bree, Jessica... whoever you are! :) Hello. What I'm curious about, now that we know you are Jessica... is who is Daniel? Also, Jessica/Bree, I like your eyebrows! :P -- Meg by megan.7410 on 2006-09-13 17:15:01 hey I think shes a fake cause there was a special on entertaint tonight and they said some guys were the ones who created her as a charcter and I think yhat's the truth!!!!!!!!! by Taylor Wallace on 2006-09-13 17:22:21 I don't care if this is real or fake i will watch it anyways! keep 'em commin'! :) by Josh90720 on 2006-09-13 17:28:51 nice job, i really like it, BRILLIANT. by Adrian.. on 2006-09-13 17:37:40 Never watched the videos until today when I read about it on the news thought it was cool. hope to see more! by LAH413 on 2006-09-13 17:41:55 Taylor Wallace, everyone already knows it's a fake, darling. I'm sorry that you are just now catching on! ;) :D Hmmm. -- Meg by megan.7410 on 2006-09-13 17:42:10 feelingsdont like my message They wont print my message....guess I hurt uglygirls15 errrrr lonelygirls15 feelings ....lolololololol by Mike on 2006-09-13 17:42:34 I wish everyone would get over the whole "fake" thing. It's not fake it's FICTIONAL. Some of us have thought it from the start, but it doesn't make the story any less compelling. More regular videos would be a boost though ;) by tobyvacher on 2006-09-13 17:43:07 Now I wonder who Danielle is ... by Naco on 2006-09-13 17:44:05 Like I said She Is F***able....as soon as she removes the cottonball from her arm from the VD shot. lolol Spread your legs and Say AWWWWWWWWW.. lololol by Mike on 2006-09-13 17:44:15 Oh my gawd tobyvacher....get a clue.. u know what fictional means? It means fake/not real...duhhhhhh Idiot by Mike on 2006-09-13 17:46:04 I don't think anyone understands that this would never have been as good as it was if we had all known it was fiction from the start. I think everyone involved is extremely creative and did a great job entertaining viewers and holding their interest. And keep in mind that half of the stuff on youtube is fictionalized anyway. Nobody ever said this was real to begin with and they didn't need to. Just because the format was done as a vlog doesn't mean it's real. I am anxiously awaiting the next installment... by buttonstealer on 2006-09-13 17:47:35 I hope you guys finish these series. I'm quite dissapointed, though. You guys lied to everybody and got us thinking she was a REAL teenage girl with troubles. Next time, just tell us your plans or hide the evidence. I'll still watch your videos because they're well done and it's a good idea. by Someone on 2006-09-13 17:52:01 Those rats in the picture on myspace are believed to be deities not "temple guardians" by vviv on 2006-09-13 17:53:02 Well, Congradulations Jess. You are now a Star. by Tech|Forumsâ„¢ on 2006-09-13 17:53:59 Please keep posting videos. For every person out there who's complaining about being 'mislead', there are ten who want to see more videos. I don't care if it's fictitious, I just want to watch the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of Bree and Daniel. Please, make more videos. Please. by Vanessa on 2006-09-13 17:58:00 I think she is ABSOLUTE PERFECTION! Regardless of what, she is a heavenly creature, beauty in its extreme. by Jerry on 2006-09-13 18:03:50 Wow, the TRUTH will set you FREE. So you really are a FAKE! OUCH! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hkh3M4zs9U OK, JESSICA ROSE.......what will you say to all of this scandal??? by modelmotion on 2006-09-13 18:07:20 Congratulations Jessica. I hope to be joining you soon... Lucy by LUCYinLA on 2006-09-13 18:08:13 Well thought out concept. Very cute chick. Simple but effective stories. Kudos to ya'all! A new form of entertainment is born. Keep it up. But... How could anyone even THINK it was real? by Alec Corday on 2006-09-13 18:11:36 I'm so confused....... by 1337Pr1nc355 on 2006-09-13 18:16:06 I still love you Lonelygirl15!!!!!!!!!!! by Steven on 2006-09-13 18:18:21 Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fap-Fappity-Fap-Fap by LB on 2006-09-13 18:19:45 me by me on 2006-09-13 18:25:50 Ride your 15 minutes as long as you can! Good Job! by Axzar on 2006-09-13 18:27:11 if nothing else, u made a high traffic website and can pretty much do whatever u want with it now! :-) by Travis on 2006-09-13 18:28:21 I am really impressed by this whole idea. The fact that so many people took it as reality just means that the creators did their job--they made people believe so much in the story that it felt real. By the same token, it very well could have been real; that is one of the beauties of the internet. I hope this continues and that it keeps up the same level of entertainment and creativity that it has so far. Also, I'd love to know what the heck that song is in this episode! by mike on 2006-09-13 18:29:51 It's my new favorite show. You watch t.v. don't you? Nothing on t.v. is real either. Don't complain...do a better job. I'll watch yours as well. Well done. Keep it up. by burns268 on 2006-09-13 18:34:03 You guys have just launched a whole new genre. This is absolutely brilliant!! by jerry on 2006-09-13 18:47:45 i just saw something on the news about this, and i just wanted to see what it is by Dee the star on 2006-09-13 18:58:14 So, yea. Who knew that me, who never knew about this girl, until yesterday, find out, that it is all fake. LOL, well, I didn't doubt it since yesterday is when I learned about the whole thing. But to the directors and the actors and actresses, you guys did a great job! 5 stars out of 5. Because you fooled a bunch of people. I wish I would have thought of this idea myself. I just do not have the man power in doing such a video. I am thinking about doing something basic, cheap, that will get a respose, but nothing like what you guys did. Great acting and keep up the great work. also keep it free :) Us Internet junkies need all the free stuff we can get, :) ~Joshua by Joshua on 2006-09-13 19:06:24 heyyyy I luv lonelygirl15 its relly awsome and i luv bree shes sorta starting to b a inspiration 2 meee by Kristen on 2006-09-13 19:12:18 I am very confused about the general attitude of being "tricked" by the creators of the Lonelygirl videos. If one were to see something on television that was not explicitly stated as fictitious, would one assume it was real? The gullability of the internet world actually makes it a perfect place for something like this. by ALIC3 on 2006-09-13 19:16:17 The show must go on. by xAlienx on 2006-09-13 19:19:46 Made the front page on msn. any way just watch your story and it was cute. your mom and dad do look out for you regardles it is your best interest they are concern about believe or not. by Kerry on 2006-09-13 19:24:23 OK, I Dont care what anybody says about this being fake, I Love the series. it's keeping me captivated. I enjoy it. Please continue!!! by Pingu on 2006-09-13 19:31:45 lonelygirl15 is a FAKE!!!!! it was on the news today, they interviewed the instigators of this stunt, 3 guys. lonelygirl is an actress they hired. check the news and you will find articles on it. haha! by FAKE on 2006-09-13 19:35:45 RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER by NEDM on 2006-09-13 19:36:41 "Danielbeast" is going to do a face turn and will be part of the ceremony. Why has he always been around? How did they meet? Maybe he’ll marry Bree, father a demon spawn, eat her still beating heart, turn her into a zombie. Who knows? But remember that "Beast" is Daniels last name. ha ha ha ha by tmssac on 2006-09-13 19:42:00 wats this lonely girl about? u were in the newspaper today. by daniqua on 2006-09-13 19:49:58 Yes! awesome fantastic go home town values great to see local girls (im from Tauranga 15 mins drive from Mt) can achive greatness im inspired hopefully someday we will get to see Jessica Rose on the big screen Go New Zealand actors/actress! by Alex Phipps on 2006-09-13 19:52:38 Thanks for being a fake there has been nothing better in a long time. by Allen on 2006-09-13 19:58:31 Hello I want to meet the girl of the photo of lonelygirl15 that Plesase I love she is the ideal girl for me I feel as if he knew her there is incredible the sensation that arises in me on having seen his photo, it is the second half that I need to be finished in this life thank you and you work is excellent by Diego on 2006-09-13 20:08:01 You know I was just looking on the internet and I came across"Lonelygirl15" Im not a crazy fan because Ive only seen it once but I will say I really enjoyed watching it. Bree is so realistic despite that the fact that she is just a character. Ive seen alot of negative comments on the website and I honestly think that it is stupid because the people that post them are the idiots that dont have anything else to do but nag all day. Now I have something to say to those people who post those comments. Why dont you shut up because you are too stupid to come up with something as good as "Lonelygirl15" Ok Ive wrote too much. Im done. by Sarah from Texas on 2006-09-13 20:08:57 sorry and my pagin is www.myspace.com/diegovcooper i love lonelygirl and my e-mail is diego-van-cooper@hotmail.com thanks by Diego on 2006-09-13 20:10:07 I think your videos are hilarious and enjoyable. (No this is not a solicited plug.) I love the sense of humor - especially P Monkey jamming to tunes. It's too bad people have to be so nasty about things. by Tony Zinnanti on 2006-09-13 20:26:43 Real or not this is awsome!!! Think of it as the new sitcom or soap ophera!!! I love it! I can't wait to see if she sneaks out and if she gets caught again. Also I'm interested in what her religion is. Keep it up!!! I will be book marking this site and checking it daily. Keep up the great film making!!!! You rock Lonleygirl15!!! Real or not you're awsome!!! by Amanda on 2006-09-13 20:28:41 Five words: Movie Offer September 14 MSN.COM by Universal Studios on 2006-09-13 20:34:08 Way to go, creators. You have done some groundbreaking work that will be remembered forever. I'm only a casual youtube user, so lonelygirl15 is one of the only vlogs I ever watched. I think Jess has a lot of talent, and half of America is in love with her. I guess it's only a matter of time before we see her in feature films. I think I like her even more now; instead of a bored teen with a lot of time on her hands, she's a working actress with ambition and a bright future. I look forward to seeing the saga unfold... by Jake on 2006-09-13 20:46:07 DON'T GO TO THE CEREMONY JESSICA!!! Break the cycle of child abuse! Go to http://www.childabuse.org/ Your parents making you engage in a cult and participate in cult behavior is forbidden by law. You can escape! Next time you sneak out, seek help at the nearest shelter for wayward or abused youths! Jessica you don't have to do to this! Get Daniel's help! I think Daniel is trying to help save you from a life of cult indoctrination and misery! Listen to me Jessica! He's your ticket out! As for your arm, did your parents inject you with a sedative? Are they trying to control you? Don't let them inject you with anything! JESSICA PLEASE GET HELP!!! by Juniper Flesco on 2006-09-13 20:54:06 Whoops I meant "Bree." by Juniper Flesco on 2006-09-13 20:54:26 Great work with these videos. Both characters are awesome. I have to admit there was some intrigue there for a bit, with the horror movie rumor, and then Bree insisting on running away, and appearing with the bandage on her arm. But I admit I'm much more interested seeing what gets created next. by kent on 2006-09-13 20:56:22 So what if she's a fake? It's a show online! Do ever y actress on tv have to tell you they're doing a true to life story or not? I think this thing they have going is a clever and original creation that has actually gotten everybody thinking and involved. But hey, if not for the whole "fakety scandal" thing, i wouldn't be interested in this lonelygirl series either. I say everybody's done a brilliant job. I hope the story gets more interesting! :D by pointer on 2006-09-13 20:57:32 Real or not, I love your character! Keep it up! And you're beautiful. Would you consider moving to New York? by Ken on 2006-09-13 21:09:16 Well I just Love the Whole Idea you People Came Up With :D Keep up the good work, it does really seem real, if you don't believe ask the Millions of Fans ;) Best Wishes, Alex H. by Alex H on 2006-09-13 21:19:19 Bree/Jessica whatever??? Your AWESOME! I would pay to see the movie this weekend... by MazziKing on 2006-09-13 21:21:39 Earlier today I saw a news story about lonelygirl15, so, of course, since I'm a lonelyguy I had to check it out. After viewing some of the vlogs, it seems very obvious that the vlogs are fictionalized. Dear Bree (Jessica Lee Rose), Despite the coldhearted and cruel statements some of you're ex-fans have made, I still think you are a cute, lovely young lady. Don't let haters upset you or make you feels as though you've done something wrong. Even though you are an actress, I can tell that you have a good heart. All the news stories will have a positive affect on your career because now the whole world knows about you. I and millions of others knew nothing about you or even youtube until today. In the entertainment business, any coverage is good coverage. I didn't necessarily like any of the episodes(especially the one's with other people in them) but I do love you. I love your big beautiful eyes, super cute face, adorable personality, and sweet soft voice. Your beauty and adorable personality alone are enough to keep me interested. Good luck with your career and God bless you. by Lonelyheart on 2006-09-13 21:29:31 I really want to see what happens next. Why are you guys bashing, is this no different then TV? by Brennan on 2006-09-13 21:36:21 I just now watched all the vids when I saw all the news about it. It's kind of a cute story if you look at it, knowing it's ficticious. But I really do think the producers, in an attempt at creating a false reality show / mystery, mislead a lot of people into truly thinking "Bree" was a real person. In doing this, the entertainment value of the project has declined in my opinion. There is more controversy about the videos than there is quality in the actual story line. None the less, people will want to see more. The public who were fooled into thinking Bree was real will eventually not care, and might even want to see more. Maybe not. I'd watch more. But I am one of your lucky viewers who knew the story was false from the beginning of viewing it. You should kiss my feet, hahaha. I really hope the story ties together nicely, and all the hints are used and not skipped over, or not explained. You have some hard work to do. by Morgan on 2006-09-13 21:43:21 woah this page and girl looks like a big deal!!! by bob on 2006-09-13 21:59:31 how can u even up load a video the stupid youtube doesn't work by agb on 2006-09-13 21:59:41 this is lame. lame, lame, lame. by lamo on 2006-09-13 22:23:17 So. You know, I am broke, I could use the money wasted on this. by Pants on 2006-09-13 22:40:55 Genious..... Sheer genious.... What a new and refreshing way to convey a story. It is my sincere hope that everyone involved in this project make millions for their ideas and efforts... by SandMan on 2006-09-13 22:43:06 why do people take the internet so seriously? It's entertainment, and fun. Sit back, relax and wait for whatever happens next!!! Live your life as a soap opra fools :P by Shanna on 2006-09-13 22:53:23 Hey, I want to say great job. I know a lot of people are pissed, and that should be somewhat expected, but I am impressed. You put on a great show, and it is a great idea for a new interactive series. I think it is wonderfull, I want to participate more now knowing that it is fake than before. Thanks and keep up the great work. by Tim on 2006-09-13 22:54:47 You mean you people actually thought this was real.. hell I could tell just by the (high)quality of the videos... by HaHa Fooled You! on 2006-09-13 23:10:08 The entire series will have to do with the girl Cassie she mentions and her occult rituals. Youtube user cassieiswatching with tags of 'bree tells lies'. A horror movie will be released based on this alternate reality game / viral marketing scheme. by Viral Marketing on 2006-09-13 23:13:58 Hey jessica, I just was wondering what you were really like, behind the whole lonelygirl15 thing. the reason I liked your blogs in the first place was because it seemed real so why don't you tell us who you REALLY are, Seeing as how the creators have exposed themselves and lost all the appeal this thing had in the first place. by Christof on 2006-09-13 23:14:10 btw, I loved how they made your character a satanist bahaha by Christof on 2006-09-13 23:19:26 Another proof that culture is a failed human venture! by Jack on 2006-09-13 23:27:48 Hi guys, I think this is a great idea! An ingenious new form of entertainment. But I was disappointed that this wasn't being made into a movie. Good Luck! by Karen on 2006-09-13 23:29:28 An experiment, worthy of mention on MSN news, the New York Times, and a lengthy entry into Wikipedia. Congratulations, Celebrity. Keep up the good work. The world needs more artists. by Spectrum Twilight on 2006-09-13 23:35:49 dam your hot by Carlo on 2006-09-13 23:36:12 Thelema. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. (The inscription above the Abbey of Theleme, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.) by aldi on 2006-09-13 23:50:51 Dear people who are reading this, I would just like to leave a comment. I hope nobody is taking this comment too seriously. Today i woke up and saw what happend to "Lonelygirl15" I think she should say sorry to what she did, and how she said it, and faked it. But if you call someone stupid, it doesn't make you any smarter, and if you call someone fat, it doesn't make you any skinner, and if you fake somethingk, it doesn't make you proud of you're self, thank-you for reading my letter, hopfully you'll agree, and understand my point of veiw, yours truly PianoMusic. by PianoMusic on 2006-09-13 23:53:26 lol by lol on 2006-09-13 23:54:24 come back to kiwi land...so you can teach us how 2 fake it out 2 all da gulibal people...lol by samcampro on 2006-09-13 23:56:16 I just found out about you, so I watched most of your videos. You're addictive and cute. I also have seen videos about people saying you are fake and how they feel. I'm brand new to youtube and I feel like I missed out on the hype, but I'll definitely watch the rest of the videos and try to watch any more that you create. I hope this only promotes your career. I'd love to see more of you. P.S. Nice eyes. by Tony Solomon on 2006-09-13 23:57:11 So its fake.. big deal. It's entertaining! And I know a lot of people that still want to watch more episodes, see what's gonna happen with the 'cult' and the 'ceremony' and with Daniel and all that. I started watching the videos a little late, and was hooked. I want to see them keep coming! So if "Bree", or "Jessica Rose" or "The Creators" check out these blogs, and forums: MORE MORE MORE! Finish the story!!! by Chelsea on 2006-09-14 00:02:17 Dear the people who are reading this, Lots of people have problems, and the point of this is well, nothing. Everybody makes mistakes, and I don't agree with her, but she should'nt have lied. Maybe she'll get what she needs, I did an interveiw with a woman named Annalise, i'd just like to show you, what she said about Lonelygirl. Annalise: "Yeah, i do think that she has a problem, and needs to get rid of that bad habbit of her's, she needs something more than to be home schooled, i think that she's a very young adult, and needs to have fresh air, please, don't be her friend, and try to forgive her, but if you need someone to help you, don't go onto webcam." PianoMusic: "Do you think she should be in jail for what she did?" Annalise: "Well, sometimes I think that I should trick people just a little bit, but it's her choice, she's done, what she's done, and you can't get mad at her, because it's over and done with, to me I think! And no, she's just a teenager, she shouldn't be in jail, although, sometimes teenagers do get into jail" PianoMusic: "Do you think that she should be taught a lesson?" Annalise: "hmmm, that's a hard question, let me think, well, I think alot of people do, so i'll just stick to that awsner." PianoMusic: "Well, thank-you for joining me, and I hope to see you next time" Annalise: "same with you too, goodbye." I hope that you agree with my letter, and please, don't take my letter too seriously, because I didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings, but thank-you again, and again, for reading my letter, have a good evening, and goodnight. by PianoMusic on 2006-09-14 00:05:58 WHAT?? No Santa Claus, no Easter Bunny, no Tooth Fairy and now no Lonelygirl15. Who cares? I keep up on current events by reading the Weekly World News. by stillbelieven on 2006-09-14 00:06:16 at least we got some funny video responses now ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2YRe8WHkI8&mode=related&search= by shodan on 2006-09-14 00:06:27 wow! I went to oxy with mesh. this is great to see potential success in the future for you. by chris on 2006-09-14 00:10:33 Hey LonelyGirl, Im from New Zealand too ^_^. You did some really good acting! You sort of... Made NZ proud? by InTheShadows on 2006-09-14 00:10:59 I don't really care wether it's fake or not. It' entertaintment. They never actually said this was real life or anything. If you go see a movie in the movie theater, they also don't state wether it's true(well, they do sometimes say it's based on a true store) but they never state something is ficticious, no? Yeah, I'm kind of disappointed that it isn't true, but I'm also happy that Bree isn't just a real girl out there always locked up by her parents in her room. I'm still going to enjoy it all the same, cuz it's still going to be entertaining! by Brittany on 2006-09-14 00:11:30 just read the article on canada.com. You know what guys? It's a really REALLY cool idea. Im down. Keep it going. by brendan on 2006-09-14 00:11:35 hay what wrong she look sad justlike me by vman on 2006-09-14 00:13:48 i think she is very tuff. by philip on 2006-09-14 00:15:37 There are other important matters to take care of in the world rather than getting oneself preoccupied with this nonsense! by Vanessa on 2006-09-14 00:16:01 I just read the article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonelygirl15 I didn't realize your character were into the occult. I only saw about 8 of your videos. I am dissappointed. It's bad enough hollywood embraces sin. I thought you were a Christian being homeschooled. I'm glad it's just a character, but I hope the videos don't promote the occult or satanism, regarding the viewers. Maybe, the backlash will help stop that, but anger is a sin, so I don't know. I also hope you and the creators are not into satan, because he hates us and wants us all to go to hell. Take care and God bless. by Tony Solomon on 2006-09-14 00:19:21 does anyone have reliable information that the "cassieiswatching" vid officially connected to this lonelygirl15 drama series? by solasura on 2006-09-14 00:19:41 it's an internet drama series kinda thing. it's nice to follow and all, but it's burning me to know if the "cassieiswatching" vid is related at all! by solasura on 2006-09-14 00:22:08 I thought she looks skinnier. Well... she does look skinnier than Jessica Rose. Im not saying its not her but she looks skinnier. And hot :P by xxdbxx on 2006-09-14 00:25:21 Just checking out your site after seeing you exposed on the news. I think you are a fine actress, well done. by Keenly on 2006-09-14 00:28:28 test. hehehehe by boladaz on 2006-09-14 00:28:34 This is GENIUS! Excellent work! I saw a clip of this on youtube and completely bought into it! Well done! - E by E-diddy on 2006-09-14 00:30:02 Jumped the shark! by Cosmo on 2006-09-14 00:34:09 Great work guys very unique project im very impressed! by Roy Rogers on 2006-09-14 00:36:49 Has anyone collected all the IP addresses of everyone that was going to this site before she was revealed to be 18? They should all be rounded up and jailed for fapping to percieved underage bloggetter. by Cowicide on 2006-09-14 00:37:57 Seriously, what is the issue... i read this on yahoo never heard of this before but who cares if this wasn't "What you wanted it to be". Don't come post your meaningless comments then =) I think from what I have seen on this site and what I have read else where this is a great idea. Why hasn't anyone else thought of this? Maybe because your too busy searching the web for things like this to talk bad upon. Go rizzle my nizzle and stay off thier case =D Have a good time doing your stuff guys good luck in your show =) by makavizzle on 2006-09-14 00:40:08 someone said the "cassieiswatching" vid was posted by a forum moderator on this site. the moderator said it's a joke. but then again even he himself doesnt know what's in the sack. god, i hope this story involves the murder of somebody! it'll be more fun to chase around to watch! by solasura on 2006-09-14 00:48:14 What's this all about? Is she in trouble ? I saw she has an injection on her shoulder... by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 00:56:50 shes a total fake! SELLOUT by nikkii hilton on 2006-09-14 01:03:42 Who is Morgan who orchestrate this whole thing ? by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 01:05:34 Is she real or created from the mind of somebody ? Why would anyone one put an exisitence into some nonsense and this girl got to act like this! How they do it. I am fascinated! by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 01:23:25 LG is not on youtube anymore, she goooooone. by bob on 2006-09-14 01:25:02 I think most of us felt attracted to her in someway. (e.g. the girlfriend we wish we had in our childhood - teenage years) by Andres Villamil on 2006-09-14 01:27:21 I think what SHE (who???) went through is real; even though the whole "movie" shows her a decent family daughter. BY the way, is there a doctor around for this evil rproject> by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 01:27:39 Who??I hope it is not ,e or ,,y wife. by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 01:32:12 What a cyberspace and cyber on air reality! by EK jjjL on 2006-09-14 01:33:39 Wow, how does this compare to VeriPic? by John VeriPic on 2006-09-14 01:43:06 Is she a friend of my management John Shurboff, Tim Diwiddie, Leuenberger etc. Because i thought i also had such experience maybe. by Management on 2006-09-14 01:46:19 ... Lonelygirl15... is... fake??? by Vixy on 2006-09-14 01:52:49 But something broadcasted in ABC news showed that your daily things were forged,were you? By the way,you're famous.I'm on the other end of the earth.Nice to meet you. by Chuan Qin on 2006-09-14 02:24:13 Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air I was born too lead to a world that doesn’t care Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair When the head of state didn’t play guitar, Not everybody drove a car, When music really mattered and radio was king, When accountants didn’t have control And the media couldn’t buy your soul And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything Chorus When popstars still remained a myth And ignorance could still be bliss And when God Save the Queen she turned a whiter shade of pale When my mom and dad were in their teen and anarchy was still a dream and the only way to stay in touch was a letter in the mail Chorus Chorus When record shops were on top and vinyl was all that they stocked and the super info highway was still drifting out in space kids were wearing hand me downs, and playing games meant kick arounds and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face Chorus I was born too lead to a world that doesn’t care Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair MORE COMING UP!!! Hips Don't Lie Ladies up in here tonight No fighting, no fighting We got the refugees up in here No fighting, no fighting Shakira, Shakira I never really knew that she could dance like this She makes a man want to speak Spanish Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa Shakira, Shakira Oh baby when you talk like that You make a woman go mad So be wise and keep on Reading the signs of my body And I'm on tonight You know my hips don't lie And I'm starting to feel it's right All the attraction, the tension Don't you see baby, this is perfection Hey Girl, I can see your body moving And it's driving me crazy And I didn't have the slightest idea Until I saw you dancing And when you walk up on the dance floor Nobody cannot ignore the way you move your body, girl And everything so unexpected - the way you right and left it So you can keep on taking it I never really knew that she could dance like this She makes a man want to speak Spanish Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa Shakira, Shakira Oh baby when you talk like that You make a woman go mad So be wise and keep on Reading the signs of my body And I'm on tonight You know my hips don't lie And I am starting to feel you boy Come on let's go, real slow Don't you see baby asi es perfecto Oh I know I am on tonight my hips don't lie And I'm starting to feel it's right All the attraction, the tension Don't you see baby, this is perfection Shakira, Shakira Oh boy, I can see your body moving Half animal, half man I don't, don't really know what I'm doing But you seem to have a plan My will and self restraint Have come to fail now, fail now See, I am doing what I can, but I can't so you know That's a bit too hard to explain Baila en la calle de noche Baila en la calle de dia Baila en la calle de noche Baila en la calle de dia I never really knew that she could dance like this She makes a man want to speak Spanish Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa Shakira, Shakira Oh baby when you talk like that You know you got me hypnotized So be wise and keep on Reading the signs of my body Señorita, feel the conga, let me see you move like you come from Colombia Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi, say it! Mira en Barranquilla se baila asi Yeah She's so sexy every man's fantasy a refugee like me back with the Fugees from a 3rd world country I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty I need a whole club dizzy Why the CIA wanna watch us? Colombians and Haitians I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction No more we do snatch ropes Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats I'm on tonight, my hips don't lie And I'm starting to feel you boy Come on let's go, real slow Baby, like this is perfecto Oh, you know I'm on tonight and my hips don't lie And I'm starting to feel it's right The attraction, the tension Baby, like this is perfection No fighting No fighting MORE COMING UP!!! Rihanna Unfaithful Lyrics Story of my life Searching for the right But it keeps avoiding me Sorrow in my soul `Coz it seems that wrong Really loves my company He's more than a man And this is more than love The reason that this sky is blue The clouds are rolling in Because I'm gone again And to him I just can't be true And I know that he knows I'm unfaithful And it kills him inside To know that I am happy With some other guy I can see him dying I don't wanna do this anymore I don't wanna be the reason why Everytime I walk out the door I see him die a little more inside I don't wanna hurt him anymore I don't wanna take away his life I don't wanna be...a murderer I feel it in the air As I'm doing my hair Preparing for another date A kiss upon my cheek As he reluctantly Asks if I'm gonna be out late I say I won't be long Just hanging with the girls A lie I didn't have to tell Because we both know Where I'm about to go And we know it very well `Coz I know that he knows I'm unfaithful And it kills him inside To know that I am happy with some other Guy...I can see him dying I don't wanna do this anymore I don't wanna be the reason why Everytime I walk out the door I see him die a little more inside I don't wanna hurt him anymore I don't wanna take away his life I don't wanna be...a murderer Our love, His trust I might as well take a gun and put it to his head Get it over with I dont wanna do this Anymore woahh anymore . . . I don't wanna do this anymore I don't wanna be the reason why And everytime I walk out the door I see him die a little more inside and I don't wanna hurt him anymore I don't wanna take away his life I don't wanna be... a murderer No no no I'd just like to say, I hope you liked what I brought for you, and hopfully, will bring more. I hope that these sad, sad, sad, memories come worse to worse, and help each other, and, NOT lie, just to get you're own way, THANK-YOU again, for reading my letter, and there's more sogs coming up....The song's that i'm going to share with you are... Punk Rocker-Sandi Thom Hip's Don't Lie-Shakira Unfaithful-Rihanna THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU!!!!! by PianoMusic on 2006-09-14 02:29:36 I'd just like to thank, the person "lol" for messaging me, and agreeing with my message, to the people who doesn't know what "lol" means, today is you're lucky day, or if you're not in my country, tonight is you're lucky night, lol, whooops! LOL means, laugh out loud, so i'll put it in a sentance... I was walking over to my freinds home. Lol, i saw a cat on top of the roof. so, just remember, LOL means ( lol means laugh out loud). Thank-you so very much, LOVE TO ALL OF MY FANS!!! by PianoMusic on 2006-09-14 02:39:35 I read about this on CNN and viewd the entire backlog of videos last night. It is well acted and a very creative approach to drama. It is a much more personal drama than the crap on TV, and does not take nearly as long to watch as TV. Excellent work and I am glad to view it. Excited to see where it goes next! by KjB on 2006-09-14 02:53:10 A hoax is a hoax. you dont go girl. by PlainBob on 2006-09-14 03:08:47 NBC Nightly News did a story exposing "Bree"... check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds50e4HIhMU by stevie on 2006-09-14 03:11:34 i still love the show. great acting...i could tell from day one that it was fiction (i just thought it was Bree (Jess') production) but the characters and story were so interesting i had to keep watching...and will continue. a 'slightly' dark turn on the religion side would be really fun... thanks by puregenius on 2006-09-14 03:34:50 OK..all of this is a set up. Lonely girl is an actor. This is marketing. by Vilenue on 2006-09-14 03:38:10 Hi, Jessica. I just write to say great job and that you're a wonderfull actress. See you later by Audrix31 on 2006-09-14 04:04:13 i think the shows were great.....im sure everybody still watches too...even the ones who act mad about the whole ordeal by mike on 2006-09-14 04:20:20 What a bunch of Fake crap! No realism by ZQQQ on 2006-09-14 04:33:23 Well, the truth is out. That doesn't mean you guys have to stop the show. I haven't caught ALL the videos, but the ones I have seen were funny, or at least interesting to a mid-teen. All in all, don't be discouraged by the bad press. Even Jerry Bruckheimer gets an occasional bad review - and sorry guys, but Jerry B., you ain't! But keep trying. See ya! by MadYank on 2006-09-14 04:46:27 Good for you guys. It's about time somebody figured out how to make this medium work for all of us "little guys". by deuddersun on 2006-09-14 04:48:12 Wow--how many actors/actresses have had their PERSONAL photos taken and posted all over creation? I really really hope this hasn't disenheartened anyone creating it, because NOW that I understand the plot line better it makes a LOT more sense and I hope this continues. I also hope that the actress playing Bree becomes a SUPER star for all the ridiculous BS that she's getting from people. Seriously, what the hell? She's an actress, she didn't create the videos, yet somehow she gets all the "You betrayed me" lines. Lol -- modern society mobs LOVE to blame figure heads. How lame lame lame. This has almost made me want to subscribe again, since when all the personal videos about relationship trouble stuff disgusted me so I canceled my subscription~now that I understand it, excellent. To people who are pissed off becuase they feel betrayed: Get off the net and find some real-world friends, go for a walk and don't get ALL your socialization from a 1way relationship with an image on the net. by Laurie Ningyoko on 2006-09-14 04:49:21 Again -- I can't stress enough: I hope you become a huge star--I know what it's like to get a lot of negative attention, like movie stars get, but not get the bennies: money, security, positive fame. Considering how much stars get reimbursed for their lack of priavacy--you definitely deserve it for all your hard work. by Laurie Ningyoko on 2006-09-14 04:53:09 I have enjoyed your videos Jessica. I was taken away by your innocent beauty and wanted to believe in your character "Bree". You are certainly a good actress and a tribute to your native land, a real treasure. I hope this leads to bigger things in the future so we can see more of you. by Nephi on 2006-09-14 04:57:08 I think this is all so genius. :) by Katie on 2006-09-14 05:20:55 So it was everywhere "ZOMG its fake" So this is what all the hub-ub is about, so i watched the vids, who cares if it's all staged, it's entertainment. Heres hoping the tree outside her window gets axed.... Bring on the teenage ANGST! by Natural Science on 2006-09-14 05:56:47 OWNED! by John Swarovski on 2006-09-14 06:01:05 Hello...i'm from Romania...i saw this blog yesterday for the first time...it's a nice idea...i liked the videos :) and i can say this is one of the most funniest girls i have seen...I'd love to have a friend like u...oh yeah...one more thing...how come u have just 1 friend? go out there...live your life...there are a lot of nice people...i'm sure you could make a lot of friend :) P.S. sorry if my english is not so good :) by Ciprian on 2006-09-14 06:35:56 Bree/Jessicaca... sparkle on ! by Starwizard on 2006-09-14 07:01:54 When is the next episode? I can't waite! by Karen on 2006-09-14 07:06:07 hey !! wats wrong wid your arms....?? by Akash on 2006-09-14 07:10:59 Good job, Jessica, seriously!!You (and the rest of the crew)had the whole world 'fooled'; not many people can say that!! I don't know why everybody is complaining and all right now; KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK and good luck with your carreer!!! by Gerko on 2006-09-14 07:12:18 oops I spoke too soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHtxWkeVD-I What do you think she is taking? (a pill) by Karen on 2006-09-14 07:12:32 U suck ima a badder gurl than u are lol u r just lonely ...BYE U SUCK again shaun aka bad gurl by shaundabadgurl on 2006-09-14 07:15:44 I saw this on MSNBC last night. It cracks me up that people got so hot under the collar. My view is that most people who got so mad are horny old sickos pissed that they weren't masturbating to a 15 year old. LOL. It's the fking internet. Quit the sick shit and get a life. by Chi-town on 2006-09-14 07:21:50 Did any of you know that the first name of Aleister Crowley's wife was Rose? Quite a coincidence since lonelygirl's name is Jessica Rose. by Jimmy on 2006-09-14 07:21:53 Lonely girl, do not believe all this hype. Regardless of the situation, you provided entertainment for the masses; people hinged on the next time you wanted to release a video. You were there for them. You are quite courageous by Tom Cooper on 2006-09-14 07:22:51 There is a new video out, last night ... should prolly get it ^ here ... by Clint on 2006-09-14 07:29:45 How could one not realise this is fake? The lighting and picture quality are way too good for a webcam, not to mention the editing. I'll keep watching as long as it stays interesting. by sparklish on 2006-09-14 07:35:43 I wish I had thought of this idea. Nice gimmick. by Ocampas on 2006-09-14 08:16:02 vergognati! by io on 2006-09-14 08:40:45 the whole drama series is a form of staged art, almost as if you're watching a theatric play, except that it's on youtube. read up more about bree instead of jessica then watch the whole series again to appreciate it. it's more than meets the eye outside all the "proving science wrong". cheers to LG15! by solasura on 2006-09-14 09:09:21 Im not lonely anymore now that ive found the lord. you should believe too oh lonely one. by D floor on 2006-09-14 09:13:31 Jessica, dont pay any attention to the negative comments on here - you were only doing a job. by LaurieJames on 2006-09-14 09:17:54 Stuff like this is why Bush was elected twice. by Sarah Green on 2006-09-14 10:15:07 hay i dont think that it is a very smart idea to leave if you are grounded. i mean think about it if you leave now you will be in even more trouble and i doubt that you want that. what i mean is, no kid or teenager as the case may be wants their parents mad at them. i myself hated my dads decision to marry my new step-mom because i hated her. yah, i tried to impress her by getting good grades but even that didnt work because she would always accuse me of lying to her about somthing and i hated it so bad that i never came home after school and i didnt really want to make her mad i thought that by leaving she would by happier without me but once she found me she said she was worried sick... yah riiiight. by Leon King on 2006-09-14 11:00:26 This is a weird situation. I can understand why many people were pissed when they found out the truth about "Bree"! Youtube users feel betrayed because their online community was somewhat used for commercial purposes - and they are disappointed because the story was a fake. But come on guys - there is so much more to find on youtube or elsewhere that is funnier than this videodrama!! The hype about lonelygirl15 just makes the whole "product" more popular. I think I'll just forget about it. There are more important things -like cutting my fingernails or so. by Kalaugn on 2006-09-14 11:13:04 Girl, please do something about those eyebrows! Talk about scary! by jaxon on 2006-09-14 11:26:51 GO FOR IT GIRL ALL THE NEG. COMMENTS ARE IS THEY ARE JUST JEALOUS. F.B. by frank on 2006-09-14 11:32:45 This is great lol ... all u complaining about her being fake give it up obviously ur all still here pissed or not ur still here so shut up and just enjoy it already!!! I Love This Best Marketing Ploy Ever!!!! You guys are awesome!!!! by yumcherry on 2006-09-14 11:56:09 I have to say that it was absolutely awesome. I loved it and I am still loving it, "Bree" is absolutely beautiful, and she really had me fooled as far as her acting goes. I had no Idea that it wasn't real. I just want to know what her religous beliefs are supposed to be. by Scott on 2006-09-14 12:16:04 your hot by bob on 2006-09-14 12:23:50 I think she's awesome. by Kasey on 2006-09-14 12:29:15 Ok , Now That Fact Your Saying 'Proving Science Wrong' In That wierd Voice Makes you Sound Stupider Than The Fact YOUR A 19 YEAR OLD ACTRESS ON YOUTUBE TRYING TO PROMOTE A CAREER THAT FRANKLY , ISNT GONNA HAPPEN FOR YA , IF YOU HAD BEEN HONEST FROM THE BEGINNING , IT COULD HAD BEEN MORE DIFFERENT. by Imagination on 2006-09-14 12:36:01 Anybody know what that song is? I like that sound of it. by khqzxe on 2006-09-14 13:22:47 To learn more of Bree visit the law firm of Beckett, Flinders, Goodfried and Rose. http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71780-0.html?tw=wn_index_13 by Litigant on 2006-09-14 13:28:42 LG15 honored Chilldogg. You go lonelygirl15! by Chilldogg on 2006-09-14 13:29:33 I just read about this perosn...but am lost about who she is and what she contributed that was so spectacular. Who is she? What happend? What secret did she reveal? Can anyone respond to me? If so, e-mail me at the_scary_munkiee_show@yahoo.com with answers to any, all or questions I may not have asked. Thank you. by ChibifromHell on 2006-09-14 13:46:58 I think this was a very smart cost effective scheme - brilliant guys! I know many of us are feeling betrayed; i know i was a bit disoppointed she wasnt real but i kind of expected that, for what its worth its about an adorable, smart but innocent girl's life, it may be acting but there are millions of people out there that can see parts of their sisters, best friends, girlfriends, daughters and even themselves in Bree. So far there is nothing immoral in these videos, just an intrigueing story line, Im still subscribing by wytekween on 2006-09-14 13:47:35 This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. by Samuel Gravina on 2006-09-14 14:03:03 Congratulations Jessica Lee! Guess you can't believe everything you see on the Internet, huh? :0) http://www.flickr.com/photos/85432410@N00/ www.myspace.com/jessro Hope to see you on Leno and hope your career takes off after this creative stunt. Are you from New Zealand or Ohio? Are you 19 or 25? Do you live in Burbank or Las Vegas? The mystery continues! It's been fun! by Rattles on 2006-09-14 14:03:23 I know your not supposed to talk to her but Lindsey wanted you to know that she had her baby ! 7lb 3oz boy named she named Cameron by sharkworld on 2006-09-14 14:09:25 Way to go Jessica. I think you have started a new wave of entertainment. You've got a "good look" and you seem talented. I hope this whole thing will bring you to where you want to be in the acting world. I was once in the "movie" business and it is very competitive and demanding. Good luck with it all. You've got a great smile as well! by MATT on 2006-09-14 14:25:20 Auditions? by DJ Sokola on 2006-09-14 14:27:47 Check out my myspace too. Thanks! :) by DJ Sokola on 2006-09-14 14:29:00 hey nice vids..even though it's only acting you're still very entertaining by friend2every1 on 2006-09-14 14:29:44 What's with the wierd religion crap. This started out as good, random thoughts from a teenage girl. Then turned into teenage girl in wierd cult. Don't get me wrong I'm not some right wing christian puritan. Get rid of the religion crap and get back to pointless 2 minute videos. by Joe on 2006-09-14 14:30:09 can you see the video's from beginning to end anywhere? by jcramz13 on 2006-09-14 14:31:57 your hot by Bob the shitter on 2006-09-14 14:47:19 For me the lonelygirl15 thing wrote media history and started a new area on youtube. the web 2.0 is powered by advertising (googleads etc.) and it is a illusion to think that youtube is free from professional productions. BWT: thanks for that. it was a great plot. I made a collection of all episodes. Download it on my myspace site (/lioninside). by lioninside on 2006-09-14 14:49:30 eat a cheeseburger, bree! you're wasting away! by christo on 2006-09-14 14:50:57 Wow. Fantastic videos! Funny too :D... I've been inspired to start my own video blog LOL. I may be more entertaining that way :O Rigel by Rigel on 2006-09-14 15:05:07 You guys are great. Great storyline, awesome filming technique ($130 webcam, who knew?), and a really cute actress. Kudos. by Alvin on 2006-09-14 15:20:36 I wanted to just point out...Look at her right arm...Who do u think done it? by Vicky on 2006-09-14 15:27:49 whatevs, i think it's entertaining. the people who make videos exposing the fakeness are the ones who need lives, not the people who watch 2 minute videos every other day. by bananas on 2006-09-14 15:32:54 http://www.exploretalent.com/display_casting4.php?casting_id=34339&s=fb9570381be19959a14ae44f6925fb93 by anon on 2006-09-14 15:53:19 A lot of people 'round here really need to get a life. by Ropey on 2006-09-14 16:17:57 all i can say is that the whole thing is amazing. and so what if it isn't real? its like a tv show. are those real? by zoe on 2006-09-14 16:23:57 Well, I just wanted to say that I thought it was wierd to see my name in a headline on MTV's news page...now I understand why. I only wish I was as popular as this other Jessica Rose. :) by Jess Rose on 2006-09-14 16:25:42 I knew something was wrong when Bree decided to sneak out of the house ... and to go to a party of all things. We all know what happens at parties, and that's just not cool. Now she's gonna sneak out of the house again even though she's under house arrest - this whole thing is gonna spiral and tornado into a big disaster, that's what I think by tron doe on 2006-09-14 16:26:26 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You guys = geniuses. -Dagaz by DagazIOT on 2006-09-14 16:29:14 Hello THE CREATORS. Well done at registering this site before lonelygirl videos were posted on youtube. by Astrantia on 2006-09-14 17:02:58 I am a parent. Please don't listen to your parents....they don't know what is good for you. Go party....life is too short to be stuck in your room.:) by Curlybyte on 2006-09-14 17:14:44 you tube is free for everyone and everything. everything is welcome! there are no boundaries and no rules. id like to see another personaltity that i could identifie better with. cant you produce a lonelyboy25 or something like that? somebody who drinks and smokes, and isnt nice sometimes. cant you make a lot of personalitites, so i can search for the one that fittest the best? by PlainBob on 2006-09-14 17:19:28 Anybody know what that song is? by khqzxe on 2006-09-14 23:47:47 Dear people who are reading this letter, last night, before I went to bed, I looked on youtube. I saw what she did, and (she put the American acsent on) and she was a complete fake. It was a night's sleep just to work it out, but she did have an augment, with a man called "Danuiel" and she was saying "Well, how come you sent in that letter? That was all about my religon!!!" anyway, go ahead, check it out! (just between you & me, it's such a put on!=(" by PianoMusic on 2006-09-15 01:47:55 even though you dont like to talk about your religion. can we please find out what it is!? we have actuallly watched from the last blog on september 10th all the way to the beginning…this is what english boarding school does to us. thanks for the entertainment! XXX by Grace and fleur on 2006-09-15 02:49:10 Where the heck is the last comment I left? U didn't like it producres? A lot of bad words for someone who is only 15? yeah..guess what i don't give a ****!!!!!! Except that i'd like my comment here but it isn't oh well... by GezinhaD on 2006-09-15 12:24:51 this is pretty gay you all r going to burn in hell for thinking dirty thoughts im out BEEACH by deangelo_484 on 2006-09-15 13:20:12 you guys are nerds get a life i think deangelo is hot by diablo_man_8 on 2006-09-15 13:22:58 nahhhhhhhhh just kidding deangelo is my bitch lol jk once again by diablo_man_8 on 2006-09-15 13:24:37 what da fuck is wrong wit you dude? ima kick your ass tommy!!!! by deangelo_484 on 2006-09-15 13:25:02 so, explain to me why you thought lying to the world was a good idea? I mean you could have just said hey i'm Jessica and I'm going to be doing a film about a lonely girl who as overly strict religious parents. People still would have watched. by asif on 2006-09-15 17:42:31 good stuff by blah on 2006-09-16 13:33:50 I just saw the video on youtube a couple of days ago. Looked fake before I knew it was. by z on 2006-09-17 07:46:45 As regards the plaster, I suspect it's a prop to raise suspicions. That said you can skin-pop heroin anywhere you choose. If it is real, an immunisation is most likely, she's probably off on holiday. Oh and as regards her weight - she's an actress of course she'll get skinnier. by Cylow on 2006-09-17 11:29:42 Hey Where is my comment on Satan, is it significant it does not pass moderation ? I quoted teenagers : "is my father satan" "my father is satan" and recommend we go to www.satan.com. by EKjjjL on 2006-09-19 05:35:51 i was wondering who sings the song thats played when shes juicing.....anyone? by Sherrie on 2006-10-02 19:42:16 Hii.. What have you done on your arm? please tell us ! by Emma on 2006-10-05 06:24:35 what is this song called? by katie on 2006-10-07 10:27:39 Like what you have to say. Your blog makes good since to me. by Offshore Vacancy on 2006-10-09 14:23:04 WHAT SONG IS THAT?!?!?! by kaylee on 2006-10-11 15:17:13 Why does she have a big bandaid on her arm? This is the second episode (not in a row) that has a big bandaid on her arm? by Kim on 2006-10-14 14:41:08 hey...still friggin waiting to see what the name of the song is...would reallllly apreciate it if you would tell me what it is... by Stephypoo on 2006-10-17 19:00:54 duh shes skinnier, shes on a diet 4 the ceremony. gosh!lol. she fake..... u guys do know that by ashley the greeat on 2006-10-18 13:26:33 hey guys dont any of u notice d goss on her arm??????????????????????????????????????????? by mmm.....dontknowhoiam on 2006-10-18 15:57:08 what is that song playing? its really cool! someone please tell me the name! by bel on 2006-10-20 21:17:03 granny pictures smv granny pictures giving hand jobs smv giving hand jobs gay teen sex smv gay teen sex casting couch teens smv casting couch teens female squirting smv female squirting transsexual smv transsexual party girls smv party girls granny sex smv granny sex by granny pictures on 2006-11-07 00:21:41 granny pictures vjv granny pictures giving hand jobs vjv giving hand jobs gay teen sex vjv gay teen sex casting couch teens vjv casting couch teens female squirting vjv female squirting transsexual vjv transsexual party girls vjv party girls granny sex vjv granny sex by granny pictures on 2006-11-07 00:21:56 college girls wild mwb college girls wild granny pussy mwb granny pussy twink sex mwb twink sex foot job mwb foot job anal teen mwb anal teen transvestite sex mwb transvestite sex granny sex videos mwb granny sex videos interracial mwb interracial by college girls wild on 2006-11-07 00:22:23 u go girl im not allowed 2 do this either girl power by lemonhead314159 on 2007-02-18 21:05:52 or when life gives u lemons u can make beef stew...... sour beef stew by PMonkeyfan on 2007-03-15 09:08:17 I'll bet she regretted that after...... well, you know. by kekoa on 2007-08-11 18:18:53 Ones if did something against my moms wishes and I felt sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad after. by niss on 2007-08-17 13:55:27 it's a juicer! for juicing things!! :DDD by yay disaster on 2007-08-29 12:45:50 i absolutely love this vid :) by p.monkeygetsfunky on 2007-10-15 21:11:15 whats that on her arm? by rissa406 on 2008-01-26 23:30:15 this is my favorite video of the series =] by lawngnomegoespoo on 2008-01-30 13:02:18 i love how bree says "been" it's funny by candyappleretto on 2008-02-05 11:55:14 Did she get a shot? Because there's cotton on her arm and tape by thugarhymez on 2008-04-14 17:44:42 whats up with yoru arm? did you get a shott? by cleversmynamee on 2008-05-24 10:48:55 y do u have that thing on ur arm by xoxjaimeexox4 on 2008-06-07 12:21:57 if u didnt watch the whole series yet what happens is her dad gives her shots to try and make her blood negative (she has a high ribosome count which is why her "religion" needs her blood) by oinkoinkpigsrule on 2008-07-07 16:08:30 |