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Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good |
From our free person she should be confined, |
Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence |
Be left her to perform. Come, follow us; |
We are to speak in public; for this business |
Will raise us all. |
ANTIGONUS: |
PAULINA: |
The keeper of the prison, call to him; |
let him have knowledge who I am. |
Good lady, |
No court in Europe is too good for thee; |
What dost thou then in prison? |
Now, good sir, |
You know me, do you not? |
Gaoler: |
For a worthy lady |
And one whom much I honour. |
PAULINA: |
Pray you then, |
Conduct me to the queen. |
Gaoler: |
I may not, madam: |
To the contrary I have express commandment. |
PAULINA: |
Here's ado, |
To lock up honesty and honour from |
The access of gentle visitors! |
Is't lawful, pray you, |
To see her women? any of them? Emilia? |
Gaoler: |
So please you, madam, |
To put apart these your attendants, I |
Shall bring Emilia forth. |
PAULINA: |
I pray now, call her. |
Withdraw yourselves. |
Gaoler: |
And, madam, |
I must be present at your conference. |
PAULINA: |
Well, be't so, prithee. |
Here's such ado to make no stain a stain |
As passes colouring. |
Dear gentlewoman, |
How fares our gracious lady? |
EMILIA: |
As well as one so great and so forlorn |
May hold together: on her frights and griefs, |
Which never tender lady hath born greater, |
She is something before her time deliver'd. |
PAULINA: |
A boy? |
EMILIA: |
A daughter, and a goodly babe, |
Lusty and like to live: the queen receives |
Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner, |
I am innocent as you.' |
PAULINA: |
I dare be sworn |
These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king, |
beshrew them! |
He must be told on't, and he shall: the office |
Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me: |
If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister |
And never to my red-look'd anger be |
The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia, |
Commend my best obedience to the queen: |
If she dares trust me with her little babe, |
I'll show't the king and undertake to be |
Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know |
How he may soften at the sight o' the child: |
The silence often of pure innocence |
Persuades when speaking fails. |
EMILIA: |
Most worthy madam, |
Your honour and your goodness is so evident |
That your free undertaking cannot miss |
A thriving issue: there is no lady living |
So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship |
To visit the next room, I'll presently |
Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer; |
Who but to-day hammer'd of this design, |
But durst not tempt a minister of honour, |
Lest she should be denied. |
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