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Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence |
Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice! |
How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly |
It was i' the offering! |
CLEOMENES: |
But of all, the burst |
And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle, |
Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense. |
That I was nothing. |
DION: |
If the event o' the journey |
Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!-- |
As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy, |
The time is worth the use on't. |
CLEOMENES: |
Great Apollo |
Turn all to the best! These proclamations, |
So forcing faults upon Hermione, |
I little like. |
DION: |
The violent carriage of it |
Will clear or end the business: when the oracle, |
Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up, |
Shall the contents discover, something rare |
Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses! |
And gracious be the issue! |
LEONTES: |
This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce, |
Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried |
The daughter of a king, our wife, and one |
Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd |
Of being tyrannous, since we so openly |
Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, |
Even to the guilt or the purgation. |
Produce the prisoner. |
Officer: |
It is his highness' pleasure that the queen |
Appear in person here in court. Silence! |
LEONTES: |
Read the indictment. |
Officer: |
HERMIONE: |
Since what I am to say must be but that |
Which contradicts my accusation and |
The testimony on my part no other |
But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me |
To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity |
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, |
Be so received. But thus: if powers divine |
Behold our human actions, as they do, |
I doubt not then but innocence shall make |
False accusation blush and tyranny |
Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know, |
Who least will seem to do so, my past life |
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, |
As I am now unhappy; which is more |
Than history can pattern, though devised |
And play'd to take spectators. For behold me |
A fellow of the royal bed, which owe |
A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter, |
The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing |
To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore |
Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it |
As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour, |
'Tis a derivative from me to mine, |
And only that I stand for. I appeal |
To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes |
Came to your court, how I was in your grace, |
How merited to be so; since he came, |
With what encounter so uncurrent I |
Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond |
The bound of honour, or in act or will |
That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts |
Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin |
Cry fie upon my grave! |
LEONTES: |
I ne'er heard yet |
That any of these bolder vices wanted |
Less impudence to gainsay what they did |
Than to perform it first. |
HERMIONE: |
That's true enough; |
Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me. |
LEONTES: |
You will not own it. |
HERMIONE: |
More than mistress of |
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