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FLORIZEL: |
He neither does nor shall. |
POLIXENES: |
Methinks a father |
Is at the nuptial of his son a guest |
That best becomes the table. Pray you once more, |
Is not your father grown incapable |
Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid |
With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear? |
Know man from man? dispute his own estate? |
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing |
But what he did being childish? |
FLORIZEL: |
No, good sir; |
He has his health and ampler strength indeed |
Than most have of his age. |
POLIXENES: |
By my white beard, |
You offer him, if this be so, a wrong |
Something unfilial: reason my son |
Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason |
The father, all whose joy is nothing else |
But fair posterity, should hold some counsel |
In such a business. |
FLORIZEL: |
I yield all this; |
But for some other reasons, my grave sir, |
Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint |
My father of this business. |
POLIXENES: |
Let him know't. |
FLORIZEL: |
He shall not. |
POLIXENES: |
Prithee, let him. |
FLORIZEL: |
No, he must not. |
Shepherd: |
Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve |
At knowing of thy choice. |
FLORIZEL: |
Come, come, he must not. |
Mark our contract. |
POLIXENES: |
Mark your divorce, young sir, |
Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base |
To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir, |
That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor, |
I am sorry that by hanging thee I can |
But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece |
Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know |
The royal fool thou copest with,-- |
Shepherd: |
O, my heart! |
POLIXENES: |
I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made |
More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy, |
If I may ever know thou dost but sigh |
That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never |
I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession; |
Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin, |
Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words: |
Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time, |
Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee |
From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.-- |
Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too, |
That makes himself, but for our honour therein, |
Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou |
These rural latches to his entrance open, |
Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, |
I will devise a death as cruel for thee |
As thou art tender to't. |
PERDITA: |
Even here undone! |
I was not much afeard; for once or twice |
I was about to speak and tell him plainly, |
The selfsame sun that shines upon his court |
Hides not his visage from our cottage but |
Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone? |
I told you what would come of this: beseech you, |
Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,-- |
Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, |
But milk my ewes and weep. |
CAMILLO: |
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