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The adventure of her person? |
FLORIZEL: |
Good my lord, |
She came from Libya. |
LEONTES: |
Where the warlike Smalus, |
That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved? |
FLORIZEL: |
Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter |
His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence, |
A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd, |
To execute the charge my father gave me |
For visiting your highness: my best train |
I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd; |
Who for Bohemia bend, to signify |
Not only my success in Libya, sir, |
But my arrival and my wife's in safety |
Here where we are. |
LEONTES: |
The blessed gods |
Purge all infection from our air whilst you |
Do climate here! You have a holy father, |
A graceful gentleman; against whose person, |
So sacred as it is, I have done sin: |
For which the heavens, taking angry note, |
Have left me issueless; and your father's blest, |
As he from heaven merits it, with you |
Worthy his goodness. What might I have been, |
Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on, |
Such goodly things as you! |
Lord: |
Most noble sir, |
That which I shall report will bear no credit, |
Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir, |
Bohemia greets you from himself by me; |
Desires you to attach his son, who has-- |
His dignity and duty both cast off-- |
Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with |
A shepherd's daughter. |
LEONTES: |
Where's Bohemia? speak. |
Lord: |
Here in your city; I now came from him: |
I speak amazedly; and it becomes |
My marvel and my message. To your court |
Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems, |
Of this fair couple, meets he on the way |
The father of this seeming lady and |
Her brother, having both their country quitted |
With this young prince. |
FLORIZEL: |
Camillo has betray'd me; |
Whose honour and whose honesty till now |
Endured all weathers. |
Lord: |
Lay't so to his charge: |
He's with the king your father. |
LEONTES: |
Who? Camillo? |
Lord: |
Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now |
Has these poor men in question. Never saw I |
Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; |
Forswear themselves as often as they speak: |
Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them |
With divers deaths in death. |
PERDITA: |
O my poor father! |
The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have |
Our contract celebrated. |
LEONTES: |
You are married? |
FLORIZEL: |
We are not, sir, nor are we like to be; |
The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: |
The odds for high and low's alike. |
LEONTES: |
My lord, |
Is this the daughter of a king? |
FLORIZEL: |
She is, |
When once she is my wife. |
LEONTES: |
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