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not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of |
himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that |
joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother, |
thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then |
embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his |
daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old |
shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten |
conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such |
another encounter, which lames report to follow it |
and undoes description to do it. |
Second Gentleman: |
What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried |
hence the child? |
Third Gentleman: |
Like an old tale still, which will have matter to |
rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear |
open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this |
avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his |
innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a |
handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows. |
First Gentleman: |
What became of his bark and his followers? |
Third Gentleman: |
Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and |
in the view of the shepherd: so that all the |
instruments which aided to expose the child were |
even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble |
combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in |
Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of |
her husband, another elevated that the oracle was |
fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth, |
and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin |
her to her heart that she might no more be in danger |
of losing. |
First Gentleman: |
The dignity of this act was worth the audience of |
kings and princes; for by such was it acted. |
Third Gentleman: |
One of the prettiest touches of all and that which |
angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not |
the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's |
death, with the manner how she came to't bravely |
confessed and lamented by the king, how |
attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one |
sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,' |
I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my |
heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed |
colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world |
could have seen 't, the woe had been universal. |
First Gentleman: |
Are they returned to the court? |
Third Gentleman: |
No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue, |
which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many |
years in doing and now newly performed by that rare |
Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself |
eternity and could put breath into his work, would |
beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her |
ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that |
they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of |
answer: thither with all greediness of affection |
are they gone, and there they intend to sup. |
Second Gentleman: |
I thought she had some great matter there in hand; |
for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever |
since the death of Hermione, visited that removed |
house. Shall we thither and with our company piece |
the rejoicing? |
First Gentleman: |
Who would be thence that has the benefit of access? |
every wink of an eye some new grace will be born: |
our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge. |
Let's along. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, |
would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old |
man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard |
them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he |
at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter, |
so he then took her to be, who began to be much |
sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of |
weather continuing, this mystery remained |
undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I |
been the finder out of this secret, it would not |
have relished among my other discredits. |
Here come those I have done good to against my will, |
and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune. |
Shepherd: |
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