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You're liars all. |
First Lord: |
Beseech your highness, give us better credit: |
We have always truly served you, and beseech you |
So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg, |
As recompense of our dear services |
Past and to come, that you do change this purpose, |
Which being so horrible, so bloody, must |
Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel. |
LEONTES: |
I am a feather for each wind that blows: |
Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel |
And call me father? better burn it now |
Than curse it then. But be it; let it live. |
It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither; |
You that have been so tenderly officious |
With Lady Margery, your midwife there, |
To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard, |
So sure as this beard's grey, |
--what will you adventure |
To save this brat's life? |
ANTIGONUS: |
Any thing, my lord, |
That my ability may undergo |
And nobleness impose: at least thus much: |
I'll pawn the little blood which I have left |
To save the innocent: any thing possible. |
LEONTES: |
It shall be possible. Swear by this sword |
Thou wilt perform my bidding. |
ANTIGONUS: |
I will, my lord. |
LEONTES: |
Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail |
Of any point in't shall not only be |
Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife, |
Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee, |
As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry |
This female bastard hence and that thou bear it |
To some remote and desert place quite out |
Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it, |
Without more mercy, to its own protection |
And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune |
It came to us, I do in justice charge thee, |
On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture, |
That thou commend it strangely to some place |
Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up. |
ANTIGONUS: |
I swear to do this, though a present death |
Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe: |
Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens |
To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say |
Casting their savageness aside have done |
Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous |
In more than this deed does require! And blessing |
Against this cruelty fight on thy side, |
Poor thing, condemn'd to loss! |
LEONTES: |
No, I'll not rear |
Another's issue. |
Servant: |
Please your highness, posts |
From those you sent to the oracle are come |
An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, |
Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed, |
Hasting to the court. |
First Lord: |
So please you, sir, their speed |
Hath been beyond account. |
LEONTES: |
Twenty-three days |
They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells |
The great Apollo suddenly will have |
The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords; |
Summon a session, that we may arraign |
Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath |
Been publicly accused, so shall she have |
A just and open trial. While she lives |
My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me, |
And think upon my bidding. |
CLEOMENES: |
The climate's delicate, the air most sweet, |
Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing |
The common praise it bears. |
DION: |
I shall report, |
For most it caught me, the celestial habits, |
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