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PAULINA: |
Tell her, Emilia. |
I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't |
As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted |
I shall do good. |
EMILIA: |
Now be you blest for it! |
I'll to the queen: please you, |
come something nearer. |
Gaoler: |
Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe, |
I know not what I shall incur to pass it, |
Having no warrant. |
PAULINA: |
You need not fear it, sir: |
This child was prisoner to the womb and is |
By law and process of great nature thence |
Freed and enfranchised, not a party to |
The anger of the king nor guilty of, |
If any be, the trespass of the queen. |
Gaoler: |
I do believe it. |
PAULINA: |
Do not you fear: upon mine honour, |
I will stand betwixt you and danger. |
LEONTES: |
Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness |
To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If |
The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause, |
She the adulteress; for the harlot king |
Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank |
And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she |
I can hook to me: say that she were gone, |
Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest |
Might come to me again. Who's there? |
First Servant: |
My lord? |
LEONTES: |
How does the boy? |
First Servant: |
He took good rest to-night; |
'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged. |
LEONTES: |
To see his nobleness! |
Conceiving the dishonour of his mother, |
He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply, |
Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself, |
Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep, |
And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go, |
See how he fares. |
Fie, fie! no thought of him: |
The thought of my revenges that way |
Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty, |
And in his parties, his alliance; let him be |
Until a time may serve: for present vengeance, |
Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes |
Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow: |
They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor |
Shall she within my power. |
First Lord: |
You must not enter. |
PAULINA: |
Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me: |
Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, |
Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul, |
More free than he is jealous. |
ANTIGONUS: |
That's enough. |
Second Servant: |
Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded |
None should come at him. |
PAULINA: |
Not so hot, good sir: |
I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you, |
That creep like shadows by him and do sigh |
At each his needless heavings, such as you |
Nourish the cause of his awaking: I |
Do come with words as medicinal as true, |
Honest as either, to purge him of that humour |
That presses him from sleep. |
LEONTES: |
What noise there, ho? |
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