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HERMIONE: |
Nay, but you will? |
POLIXENES: |
I may not, verily. |
HERMIONE: |
Verily! |
You put me off with limber vows; but I, |
Though you would seek to unsphere the |
stars with oaths, |
Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily, |
You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's |
As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? |
Force me to keep you as a prisoner, |
Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees |
When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? |
My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,' |
One of them you shall be. |
POLIXENES: |
Your guest, then, madam: |
To be your prisoner should import offending; |
Which is for me less easy to commit |
Than you to punish. |
HERMIONE: |
Not your gaoler, then, |
But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you |
Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys: |
You were pretty lordings then? |
POLIXENES: |
We were, fair queen, |
Two lads that thought there was no more behind |
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, |
And to be boy eternal. |
HERMIONE: |
Was not my lord |
The verier wag o' the two? |
POLIXENES: |
We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, |
And bleat the one at the other: what we changed |
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not |
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd |
That any did. Had we pursued that life, |
And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd |
With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven |
Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd |
Hereditary ours. |
HERMIONE: |
By this we gather |
You have tripp'd since. |
POLIXENES: |
O my most sacred lady! |
Temptations have since then been born to's; for |
In those unfledged days was my wife a girl; |
Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes |
Of my young play-fellow. |
HERMIONE: |
Grace to boot! |
Of this make no conclusion, lest you say |
Your queen and I are devils: yet go on; |
The offences we have made you do we'll answer, |
If you first sinn'd with us and that with us |
You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not |
With any but with us. |
LEONTES: |
Is he won yet? |
HERMIONE: |
He'll stay my lord. |
LEONTES: |
At my request he would not. |
Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest |
To better purpose. |
HERMIONE: |
Never? |
LEONTES: |
Never, but once. |
HERMIONE: |
What! have I twice said well? when was't before? |
I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's |
As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless |
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. |
Our praises are our wages: you may ride's |
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere |
With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal: |
My last good deed was to entreat his stay: |
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