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HERMIONE: |
But I'ld say he had not, |
And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying, |
Howe'er you lean to the nayward. |
LEONTES: |
You, my lords, |
Look on her, mark her well; be but about |
To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and |
The justice of your bearts will thereto add |
'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:' |
Praise her but for this her without-door form, |
Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight |
The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands |
That calumny doth use--O, I am out-- |
That mercy does, for calumny will sear |
Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's, |
When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between |
Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known, |
From him that has most cause to grieve it should be, |
She's an adulteress. |
HERMIONE: |
Should a villain say so, |
The most replenish'd villain in the world, |
He were as much more villain: you, my lord, |
Do but mistake. |
LEONTES: |
You have mistook, my lady, |
Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing! |
Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, |
Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, |
Should a like language use to all degrees |
And mannerly distinguishment leave out |
Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said |
She's an adulteress; I have said with whom: |
More, she's a traitor and Camillo is |
A federary with her, and one that knows |
What she should shame to know herself |
But with her most vile principal, that she's |
A bed-swerver, even as bad as those |
That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy |
To this their late escape. |
HERMIONE: |
No, by my life. |
Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you, |
When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that |
You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord, |
You scarce can right me throughly then to say |
You did mistake. |
LEONTES: |
No; if I mistake |
In those foundations which I build upon, |
The centre is not big enough to bear |
A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison! |
He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty |
But that he speaks. |
HERMIONE: |
There's some ill planet reigns: |
I must be patient till the heavens look |
With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords, |
I am not prone to weeping, as our sex |
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew |
Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have |
That honourable grief lodged here which burns |
Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords, |
With thoughts so qualified as your charities |
Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so |
The king's will be perform'd! |
LEONTES: |
Shall I be heard? |
HERMIONE: |
Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness, |
My women may be with me; for you see |
My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools; |
There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress |
Has deserved prison, then abound in tears |
As I come out: this action I now go on |
Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord: |
I never wish'd to see you sorry; now |
I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave. |
LEONTES: |
Go, do our bidding; hence! |
First Lord: |
Beseech your highness, call the queen again. |
ANTIGONUS: |
Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice |
Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer, |
Yourself, your queen, your son. |
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