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Ha! |
CAMILLO: |
Stays here longer. |
LEONTES: |
Ay, but why? |
CAMILLO: |
To satisfy your highness and the entreaties |
Of our most gracious mistress. |
LEONTES: |
Satisfy! |
The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy! |
Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo, |
With all the nearest things to my heart, as well |
My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou |
Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed |
Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been |
Deceived in thy integrity, deceived |
In that which seems so. |
CAMILLO: |
Be it forbid, my lord! |
LEONTES: |
To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or, |
If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward, |
Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining |
From course required; or else thou must be counted |
A servant grafted in my serious trust |
And therein negligent; or else a fool |
That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn, |
And takest it all for jest. |
CAMILLO: |
My gracious lord, |
I may be negligent, foolish and fearful; |
In every one of these no man is free, |
But that his negligence, his folly, fear, |
Among the infinite doings of the world, |
Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord, |
If ever I were wilful-negligent, |
It was my folly; if industriously |
I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, |
Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful |
To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, |
Where of the execution did cry out |
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear |
Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord, |
Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty |
Is never free of. But, beseech your grace, |
Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass |
By its own visage: if I then deny it, |
'Tis none of mine. |
LEONTES: |
Ha' not you seen, Camillo,-- |
But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass |
Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,-- |
For to a vision so apparent rumour |
Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation |
Resides not in that man that does not think,-- |
My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess, |
Or else be impudently negative, |
To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say |
My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name |
As rank as any flax-wench that puts to |
Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't. |
CAMILLO: |
I would not be a stander-by to hear |
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without |
My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart, |
You never spoke what did become you less |
Than this; which to reiterate were sin |
As deep as that, though true. |
LEONTES: |
Is whispering nothing? |
Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? |
Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career |
Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible |
Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot? |
Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift? |
Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes |
Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only, |
That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing? |
Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing; |
The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing; |
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, |
If this be nothing. |
CAMILLO: |
Good my lord, be cured |
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes; |
For 'tis most dangerous. |
LEONTES: |
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