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AUTOLYCUS: |
O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him, |
he'll be made an example. |
Clown: |
Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show |
our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your |
daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I |
will give you as much as this old man does when the |
business is performed, and remain, as he says, your |
pawn till it be brought you. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side; |
go on the right hand: I will but look upon the |
hedge and follow you. |
Clown: |
We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest. |
Shepherd: |
Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would |
not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am |
courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means |
to do the prince my master good; which who knows how |
that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring |
these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he |
think it fit to shore them again and that the |
complaint they have to the king concerns him |
nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far |
officious; for I am proof against that title and |
what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present |
them: there may be matter in it. |
CLEOMENES: |
Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd |
A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make, |
Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down |
More penitence than done trespass: at the last, |
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; |
With them forgive yourself. |
LEONTES: |
Whilst I remember |
Her and her virtues, I cannot forget |
My blemishes in them, and so still think of |
The wrong I did myself; which was so much, |
That heirless it hath made my kingdom and |
Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man |
Bred his hopes out of. |
PAULINA: |
True, too true, my lord: |
If, one by one, you wedded all the world, |
Or from the all that are took something good, |
To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd |
Would be unparallel'd. |
LEONTES: |
I think so. Kill'd! |
She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me |
Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter |
Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now, |
Say so but seldom. |
CLEOMENES: |
Not at all, good lady: |
You might have spoken a thousand things that would |
Have done the time more benefit and graced |
Your kindness better. |
PAULINA: |
You are one of those |
Would have him wed again. |
DION: |
If you would not so, |
You pity not the state, nor the remembrance |
Of his most sovereign name; consider little |
What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue, |
May drop upon his kingdom and devour |
Incertain lookers on. What were more holy |
Than to rejoice the former queen is well? |
What holier than, for royalty's repair, |
For present comfort and for future good, |
To bless the bed of majesty again |
With a sweet fellow to't? |
PAULINA: |
There is none worthy, |
Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods |
Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes; |
For has not the divine Apollo said, |
Is't not the tenor of his oracle, |
That King Leontes shall not have an heir |
Till his lost child be found? which that it shall, |
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