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HERMIONE: |
Praised! |
LEONTES: |
Hast thou read truth? |
Officer: |
Ay, my lord; even so |
As it is here set down. |
LEONTES: |
There is no truth at all i' the oracle: |
The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood. |
Servant: |
My lord the king, the king! |
LEONTES: |
What is the business? |
Servant: |
O sir, I shall be hated to report it! |
The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear |
Of the queen's speed, is gone. |
LEONTES: |
How! gone! |
Servant: |
Is dead. |
LEONTES: |
Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves |
Do strike at my injustice. |
How now there! |
PAULINA: |
This news is mortal to the queen: look down |
And see what death is doing. |
LEONTES: |
Take her hence: |
Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover: |
I have too much believed mine own suspicion: |
Beseech you, tenderly apply to her |
Some remedies for life. |
Apollo, pardon |
My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle! |
I'll reconcile me to Polixenes, |
New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo, |
Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy; |
For, being transported by my jealousies |
To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose |
Camillo for the minister to poison |
My friend Polixenes: which had been done, |
But that the good mind of Camillo tardied |
My swift command, though I with death and with |
Reward did threaten and encourage him, |
Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane |
And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest |
Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here, |
Which you knew great, and to the hazard |
Of all encertainties himself commended, |
No richer than his honour: how he glisters |
Thorough my rust! and how his pity |
Does my deeds make the blacker! |
PAULINA: |
Woe the while! |
O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, |
Break too. |
First Lord: |
What fit is this, good lady? |
PAULINA: |
What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? |
What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling? |
In leads or oils? what old or newer torture |
Must I receive, whose every word deserves |
To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny |
Together working with thy jealousies, |
Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle |
For girls of nine, O, think what they have done |
And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all |
Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it. |
That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing; |
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant |
And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much, |
Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour, |
To have him kill a king: poor trespasses, |
More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon |
The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter |
To be or none or little; though a devil |
Would have shed water out of fire ere done't: |
Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death |
Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts, |
Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart |
That could conceive a gross and foolish sire |
Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no, |
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