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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Antechamber in LEONTES' palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>the like occasion whereon my services are now on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>foot, you shall see, as I have said, great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>justified in our loves; for indeed--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Beseech you,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>They were trained together in their childhoods; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>which cannot choose but branch now. Since their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>more mature dignities and royal necessities made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>separation of their society, their encounters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>though not personal, have been royally attorneyed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>with interchange of gifts, letters, loving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>embassies; that they have seemed to be together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>winds. The heavens continue their loves!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>I think there is not in the world either malice or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>into my note.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>see him a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Would they else be content to die?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>desire to live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>ARCHIDAMUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>If the king had no son, they would desire to live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>on crutches till he had one.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room of state in the same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Nine changes of the watery star hath been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>The shepherd's note since we have left our throne</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>Without a burthen: time as long again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>And yet we should, for perpetuity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Yet standing in rich place, I multiply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>That go before it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10> Stay your thanks a while;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>And pay them when you part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Sir, that's to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Or breed upon our absence; that may blow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>No sneaping winds at home, to make us say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>To tire your royalty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>We are tougher, brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Than you can put us to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>No longer stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>One seven-night longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Very sooth, to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>We'll part the time between's then; and in that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>I'll no gainsaying.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>Press me not, beseech you, so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Were there necessity in your request, although</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>Were in your love a whip to me; my stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>To you a charge and trouble: to save both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>Farewell, our brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Tongue-tied, our queen?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>speak you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>He's beat from his best ward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Well said, Hermione.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>But let him say so then, and let him go;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>You take my lord, I'll give him my commission</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>To let him there a month behind the gest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>No, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Nay, but you will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56> I may not, verily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>Verily!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>You put me off with limber vows; but I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Though you would seek to unsphere the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>stars with oaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Force me to keep you as a prisoner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>One of them you shall be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Your guest, then, madam:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>To be your prisoner should import offending;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Which is for me less easy to commit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>Than you to punish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Not your gaoler, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>You were pretty lordings then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>We were, fair queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>Two lads that thought there was no more behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>But such a day to-morrow as to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>And to be boy eternal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>Was not my lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>The verier wag o' the two?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>And bleat the one at the other: what we changed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>Was innocence for innocence; we knew not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>That any did. Had we pursued that life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>Hereditary ours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92> By this we gather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>You have tripp'd since.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>O my most sacred lady!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>Temptations have since then been born to's; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>Of my young play-fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>Grace to boot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>Of this make no conclusion, lest you say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>Your queen and I are devils: yet go on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>The offences we have made you do we'll answer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>If you first sinn'd with us and that with us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>With any but with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>Is he won yet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>He'll stay my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>At my request he would not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>To better purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111> Never?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>Never, but once.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>What! have I twice said well? when was't before?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>Our praises are our wages: you may ride's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>My last good deed was to entreat his stay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>What was my first? it has an elder sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>Nay, let me have't; I long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>Why, that was when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>Ere I could make thee open thy white hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>'I am yours for ever.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>'Tis grace indeed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>The one for ever earn'd a royal husband;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>The other for some while a friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>[Aside] Too hot, too hot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>May a free face put on, derive a liberty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>And well become the agent; 't may, I grant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>As now they are, and making practised smiles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>Art thou my boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147> Ay, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>I' fecks!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>smutch'd thy nose?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.153>And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.154>Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.155>Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.156>Art thou my calf?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.157> Yes, if you will, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.158>Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.159>To be full like me: yet they say we are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.160>Almost as like as eggs; women say so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.161>That will say anything but were they false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.162>As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.163>As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.164>No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.165>To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.166>Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.167>Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.168>Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.169>Thou dost make possible things not so held,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.170>Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.171>With what's unreal thou coactive art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.172>And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.173>Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.174>And that beyond commission, and I find it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.175>And that to the infection of my brains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.176>And hardening of my brows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.177>What means Sicilia?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.178>He something seems unsettled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.179>How, my lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.180>What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.181>You look as if you held a brow of much distraction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.182>Are you moved, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.183>No, in good earnest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.184>How sometimes nature will betray its folly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.185>Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.186>To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.187>Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.188>Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.189>In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.190>Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.191>As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.192>How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.193>This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.194>Will you take eggs for money?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.195>No, my lord, I'll fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.196>You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.197>Are you so fond of your young prince as we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.198>Do seem to be of ours?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.199>If at home, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.200>He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.201>Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.202>My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.203>He makes a July's day short as December,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.204>And with his varying childness cures in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.205>Thoughts that would thick my blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.206>So stands this squire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.207>Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.208>And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.209>How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.210>Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.211>Next to thyself and my young rover, he's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.212>Apparent to my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.213>If you would seek us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.214>We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.215>To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.216>Be you beneath the sky.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.217>I am angling now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.218>Though you perceive me not how I give line.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.219>Go to, go to!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.220>How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.221>And arms her with the boldness of a wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.222>To her allowing husband!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.223>Gone already!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.224>Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.225>ears a fork'd one!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.226>Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.227>Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.228>Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.229>Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.230>There have been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.231>Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.232>And many a man there is, even at this present,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.233>Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.234>That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.235>And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.236>Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.237>Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.238>As mine, against their will. Should all despair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.239>That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.240>Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.241>It is a bawdy planet, that will strike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.242>Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.243>From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.244>No barricado for a belly; know't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.245>It will let in and out the enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.246>With bag and baggage: many thousand on's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.247>Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.248>I am like you, they say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.249>Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.250>Ay, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.251>Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MAMILLIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.252>Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.253>You had much ado to make his anchor hold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.254>When you cast out, it still came home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.255>Didst note it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.256>He would not stay at your petitions: made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.257>His business more material.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.258>Didst perceive it?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.259>They're here with me already, whispering, rounding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.260>'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.261>When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.262>That he did stay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.263> At the good queen's entreaty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.264>At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.265>But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.266>By any understanding pate but thine?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.267>For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.268>More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.269>But of the finer natures? by some severals</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.270>Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.271>Perchance are to this business purblind? say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.272>Business, my lord! I think most understand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.273>Bohemia stays here longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.274>Ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.275>Stays here longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.276>Ay, but why?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.277>To satisfy your highness and the entreaties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.278>Of our most gracious mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.279>Satisfy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.280>The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.281>Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.282>With all the nearest things to my heart, as well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.283>My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.284>Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.285>Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.286>Deceived in thy integrity, deceived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.287>In that which seems so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.288>Be it forbid, my lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.289>To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.290>If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.291>Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.292>From course required; or else thou must be counted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.293>A servant grafted in my serious trust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.294>And therein negligent; or else a fool</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.295>That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.296>And takest it all for jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.297>My gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.298>I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.299>In every one of these no man is free,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.300>But that his negligence, his folly, fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.301>Among the infinite doings of the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.302>Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.303>If ever I were wilful-negligent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.304>It was my folly; if industriously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.305>I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.306>Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.307>To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.308>Where of the execution did cry out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.309>Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.310>Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.311>Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.312>Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.313>Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.314>By its own visage: if I then deny it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.315>'Tis none of mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.316> Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.317>But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.318>Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.319>For to a vision so apparent rumour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.320>Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.321>Resides not in that man that does not think,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.322>My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.323>Or else be impudently negative,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.324>To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.325>My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.326>As rank as any flax-wench that puts to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.327>Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.328>I would not be a stander-by to hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.329>My sovereign mistress clouded so, without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.330>My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.331>You never spoke what did become you less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.332>Than this; which to reiterate were sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.333>As deep as that, though true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.334>Is whispering nothing?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.335>Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.336>Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.337>Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.338>Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.339>Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.340>Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.341>Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.342>That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.343>Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.344>The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.345>My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.346>If this be nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.347>Good my lord, be cured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.348>Of this diseased opinion, and betimes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.349>For 'tis most dangerous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.350>Say it be, 'tis true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.351>No, no, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.352> It is; you lie, you lie:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.353>I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.354>Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.355>Or else a hovering temporizer, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.356>Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.357>Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.358>Infected as her life, she would not live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.359>The running of one glass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.360>Who does infect her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.361>Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.362>About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.363>Had servants true about me, that bare eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.364>To see alike mine honour as their profits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.365>Their own particular thrifts, they would do that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.366>Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.367>His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.368>Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.369>Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.370>How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.371>To give mine enemy a lasting wink;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.372>Which draught to me were cordial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.373>Sir, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.374>I could do this, and that with no rash potion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.375>But with a lingering dram that should not work</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.376>Maliciously like poison: but I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.377>Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.378>So sovereignly being honourable.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.379>I have loved thee,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.380>Make that thy question, and go rot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.381>Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.382>To appoint myself in this vexation, sully</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.383>The purity and whiteness of my sheets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.384>Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.385>Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.386>Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.387>Who I do think is mine and love as mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.388>Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.389>Could man so blench?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.390>I must believe you, sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.391>I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.392>Provided that, when he's removed, your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.393>Will take again your queen as yours at first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.394>Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.395>The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.396>Known and allied to yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.397>Thou dost advise me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.398>Even so as I mine own course have set down:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.399>I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.400>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.401>Go then; and with a countenance as clear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.402>As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.403>And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.404>If from me he have wholesome beverage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.405>Account me not your servant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.406>This is all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.407>Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.408>Do't not, thou split'st thine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.409>I'll do't, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.410>I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.411>O miserable lady! But, for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.412>What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.413>Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.414>Is the obedience to a master, one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.415>Who in rebellion with himself will have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.416>All that are his so too. To do this deed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.417>Promotion follows. If I could find example</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.418>Of thousands that had struck anointed kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.419>And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't; but since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.420>Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.421>Let villany itself forswear't. I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.422>Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.423>To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.424>Here comes Bohemia.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter POLIXENES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.425>This is strange: methinks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.426>My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.427>Good day, Camillo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.428> Hail, most royal sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.429>What is the news i' the court?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.430>None rare, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.431>The king hath on him such a countenance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.432>As he had lost some province and a region</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.433>Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.434>With customary compliment; when he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.435>Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.436>A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.437>So leaves me to consider what is breeding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.438>That changeth thus his manners.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.439>I dare not know, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.440>How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.441>Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.442>For, to yourself, what you do know, you must.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.443>And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.444>Your changed complexions are to me a mirror</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.445>Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.446>A party in this alteration, finding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.447>Myself thus alter'd with 't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.448>There is a sickness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.449>Which puts some of us in distemper, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.450>I cannot name the disease; and it is caught</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.451>Of you that yet are well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.452>How! caught of me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.453>Make me not sighted like the basilisk:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.454>I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.455>By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.456>As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.457>Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.458>Our gentry than our parents' noble names,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.459>In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.460>If you know aught which does behove my knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.461>Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.462>In ignorant concealment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.463>I may not answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.464>A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.465>I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.466>I conjure thee, by all the parts of man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.467>Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.468>Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.469>What incidency thou dost guess of harm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.470>Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.471>Which way to be prevented, if to be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.472>If not, how best to bear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.473>Sir, I will tell you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.474>Since I am charged in honour and by him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.475>That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.476>Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.477>I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.478>Cry lost, and so good night!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.479>On, good Camillo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.480>I am appointed him to murder you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.481>By whom, Camillo?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.482> By the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.483>For what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.484>He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.485>As he had seen't or been an instrument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.486>To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.487>Forbiddenly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.488> O, then my best blood turn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.489>To an infected jelly and my name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.490>Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.491>Turn then my freshest reputation to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.492>A savour that may strike the dullest nostril</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.493>Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.494>Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.495>That e'er was heard or read!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.496>Swear his thought over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.497>By each particular star in heaven and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.498>By all their influences, you may as well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.499>Forbid the sea for to obey the moon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.500>As or by oath remove or counsel shake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.501>The fabric of his folly, whose foundation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.502>Is piled upon his faith and will continue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.503>The standing of his body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.504>How should this grow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.505>I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.506>Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.507>If therefore you dare trust my honesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.508>That lies enclosed in this trunk which you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.509>Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.510>Your followers I will whisper to the business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.511>And will by twos and threes at several posterns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.512>Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.513>My fortunes to your service, which are here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.514>By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.515>For, by the honour of my parents, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.516>Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.517>I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.518>Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.519>His execution sworn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.520>I do believe thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.521>I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.522>Be pilot to me and thy places shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.523>Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.524>My people did expect my hence departure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.525>Two days ago. This jealousy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.526>Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.527>Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.528>Must it be violent, and as he does conceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.529>He is dishonour'd by a man which ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.530>Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.531>In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.532>Good expedition be my friend, and comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.533>The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.534>Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.535>I will respect thee as a father if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.536>Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.537>It is in mine authority to command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.538>The keys of all the posterns: please your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.539>To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>'Tis past enduring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Come, my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>Shall I be your playfellow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>No, I'll none of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Why, my sweet lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>I were a baby still. I love you better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>And why so, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Not for because</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Become some women best, so that there be not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Too much hair there, but in a semicircle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Or a half-moon made with a pen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Who taught you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>What colour are your eyebrows?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Blue, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>First Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Hark ye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Present our services to a fine new prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>If we would have you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Second Lady</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>She is spread of late</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>And tell 's a tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Merry or sad shall't be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>As merry as you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>A sad tale's best for winter: I have one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Of sprites and goblins.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Let's have that, good sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>There was a man--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39> Nay, come, sit down; then on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MAMILLIUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Yond crickets shall not hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Come on, then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>And give't me in mine ear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Even to their ships.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>How blest am I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>In my just censure, in my true opinion!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>In being so blest! There may be in the cup</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Is not infected: but if one present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>With violent hefts. I have drunk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>and seen the spider.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Camillo was his help in this, his pander:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>There is a plot against my life, my crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>He has discover'd my design, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>For them to play at will. How came the posterns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>So easily open?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67> By his great authority;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>Which often hath no less prevail'd than so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>On your command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70> I know't too well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>Have too much blood in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>What is this? sport?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Away with him! and let her sport herself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>Has made thee swell thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>But I'ld say he had not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>Howe'er you lean to the nayward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>You, my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Look on her, mark her well; be but about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>The justice of your bearts will thereto add</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>Praise her but for this her without-door form,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>That calumny doth use--O, I am out--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>That mercy does, for calumny will sear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>She's an adulteress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>Should a villain say so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>The most replenish'd villain in the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>He were as much more villain: you, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>Do but mistake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101> You have mistook, my lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>Should a like language use to all degrees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>And mannerly distinguishment leave out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>More, she's a traitor and Camillo is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>A federary with her, and one that knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>What she should shame to know herself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>But with her most vile principal, that she's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>A bed-swerver, even as bad as those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>To this their late escape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>No, by my life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>You scarce can right me throughly then to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>You did mistake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122> No; if I mistake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>In those foundations which I build upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>The centre is not big enough to bear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>But that he speaks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>There's some ill planet reigns:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>I must be patient till the heavens look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>I am not prone to weeping, as our sex</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Commonly are; the want of which vain dew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>That honourable grief lodged here which burns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>With thoughts so qualified as your charities</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>The king's will be perform'd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>Shall I be heard?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>My women may be with me; for you see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>Has deserved prison, then abound in tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>As I come out: this action I now go on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>I never wish'd to see you sorry; now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>Go, do our bidding; hence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HERMIONE, guarded; with Ladies</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>Beseech your highness, call the queen again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Yourself, your queen, your son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>For her, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>In this which you accuse her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>If it prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>For every inch of woman in the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165> Hold your peaces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Good my lord,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>You are abused and by some putter-on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>The second and the third, nine, and some five;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>If this prove true, they'll pay for't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>by mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>To bring false generations: they are co-heirs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>And I had rather glib myself than they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Should not produce fair issue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Cease; no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>You smell this business with a sense as cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>As you feel doing thus; and see withal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>The instruments that feel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>If it be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>We need no grave to bury honesty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Of the whole dungy earth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>What! lack I credit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>Upon this ground; and more it would content me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>To have her honour true than your suspicion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>Be blamed for't how you might.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>Why, what need we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>Commune with you of this, but rather follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>We need no more of your advice: the matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>Properly ours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203> And I wish, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>You had only in your silent judgment tried it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Without more overture.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>How could that be?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>Either thou art most ignorant by age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>Added to their familiarity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>But only seeing, all other circumstances</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>Yet, for a greater confirmation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>For in an act of this importance 'twere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>Well done, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>Though I am satisfied and need no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>Than what I know, yet shall the oracle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>Give rest to the minds of others, such as he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>Whose ignorant credulity will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>From our free person she should be confined,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>We are to speak in public; for this business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>Will raise us all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>[Aside]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>To laughter, as I take it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>If the good truth were known.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A prison.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>The keeper of the prison, call to him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>let him have knowledge who I am.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Good lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>No court in Europe is too good for thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>What dost thou then in prison?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>Now, good sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>You know me, do you not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>For a worthy lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>And one whom much I honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Pray you then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>Conduct me to the queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>I may not, madam:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>To the contrary I have express commandment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Here's ado,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>To lock up honesty and honour from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>The access of gentle visitors!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Is't lawful, pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>To see her women? any of them? Emilia?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>So please you, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>To put apart these your attendants, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Shall bring Emilia forth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>I pray now, call her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Withdraw yourselves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>And, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>I must be present at your conference.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>Well, be't so, prithee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Gaoler</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Here's such ado to make no stain a stain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>As passes colouring.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>Dear gentlewoman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>How fares our gracious lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>As well as one so great and so forlorn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>May hold together: on her frights and griefs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>Which never tender lady hath born greater,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>She is something before her time deliver'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>A boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36> A daughter, and a goodly babe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Lusty and like to live: the queen receives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>I am innocent as you.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>I dare be sworn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>beshrew them!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>He must be told on't, and he shall: the office</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>And never to my red-look'd anger be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>Commend my best obedience to the queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>If she dares trust me with her little babe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>I'll show't the king and undertake to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>How he may soften at the sight o' the child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>The silence often of pure innocence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>Persuades when speaking fails.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>Most worthy madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>Your honour and your goodness is so evident</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>That your free undertaking cannot miss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>A thriving issue: there is no lady living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>To visit the next room, I'll presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>Who but to-day hammer'd of this design,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>But durst not tempt a minister of honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>Lest she should be denied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.65>Tell her, Emilia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.66>I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.67>As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.68>I shall do good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.69> Now be you blest for it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.70>I'll to the queen: please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.71>come something nearer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.72>Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.73>I know not what I shall incur to pass it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.74>Having no warrant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.75> You need not fear it, sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.76>This child was prisoner to the womb and is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.77>By law and process of great nature thence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.78>Freed and enfranchised, not a party to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.79>The anger of the king nor guilty of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.80>If any be, the trespass of the queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.81>I do believe it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.82> Do not you fear: upon mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.83>I will stand betwixt you and danger.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A room in LEONTES' palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>She the adulteress; for the harlot king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>I can hook to me: say that she were gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>Might come to me again. Who's there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>My lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>How does the boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12> He took good rest to-night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>To see his nobleness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Conceiving the dishonour of his mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>See how he fares.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Fie, fie! no thought of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>The thought of my revenges that way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>And in his parties, his alliance; let him be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Shall she within my power.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAULINA, with a child</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>You must not enter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>More free than he is jealous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>That's enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>None should come at him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>Not so hot, good sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>That creep like shadows by him and do sigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>At each his needless heavings, such as you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>Nourish the cause of his awaking: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Do come with words as medicinal as true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Honest as either, to purge him of that humour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>That presses him from sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>What noise there, ho?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>No noise, my lord; but needful conference</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>About some gossips for your highness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>How!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>I charged thee that she should not come about me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>I knew she would.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53> I told her so, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>On your displeasure's peril and on mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>She should not visit you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>What, canst not rule her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>From all dishonesty he can: in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Unless he take the course that you have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Commit me for committing honour, trust it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>He shall not rule me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>La you now, you hear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>When she will take the rein I let her run;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>But she'll not stumble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Good my liege, I come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>Myself your loyal servant, your physician,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>Less appear so in comforting your evils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>From your good queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>Good queen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Good queen, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>Good queen; I say good queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>And would by combat make her good, so were I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>A man, the worst about you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Force her hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Laying down the child</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>Out!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>A most intelligencing bawd!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>Not so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>I am as ignorant in that as you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>In so entitling me, and no less honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>As this world goes, to pass for honest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>Traitors!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>For ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>Takest up the princess by that forced baseness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>Which he has put upon't!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>He dreads his wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>You'ld call your children yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>A nest of traitors!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>I am none, by this good light.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>Nor I, nor any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>But one that's here, and that's himself, for he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>The sacred honour of himself, his queen's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>Whose sting is sharper than the sword's;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>and will not--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>For, as the case now stands, it is a curse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>The root of his opinion, which is rotten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>As ever oak or stone was sound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>A callat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>It is the issue of Polixenes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>Hence with it, and together with the dam</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>Commit them to the fire!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>It is yours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>Although the print be little, the whole matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>His smiles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>So like to him that got it, if thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>Her children not her husband's!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>A gross hag</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>That wilt not stay her tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>Hang all the husbands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>Hardly one subject.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>Once more, take her hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>A most unworthy and unnatural lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>Can do no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143> I'll ha' thee burnt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>I care not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>It is an heretic that makes the fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>But this most cruel usage of your queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>Not able to produce more accusation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>Yea, scandalous to the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>On your allegiance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>Where were her life? she durst not call me so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>If she did know me one. Away with her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>Jove send her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>Will never do him good, not one of you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>So, so: farewell; we are gone.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>And see it instantly consumed with fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>The bastard brains with these my proper hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>For thou set'st on thy wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>I did not, sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>Can clear me in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178> We can: my royal liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>He is not guilty of her coming hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>You're liars all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>Beseech your highness, give us better credit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.182>We have always truly served you, and beseech you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.183>So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.184>As recompense of our dear services</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.185>Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.186>Which being so horrible, so bloody, must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.187>Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.188>I am a feather for each wind that blows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.189>Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.190>And call me father? better burn it now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.191>Than curse it then. But be it; let it live.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.192>It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.193>You that have been so tenderly officious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.194>With Lady Margery, your midwife there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.195>To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.196>So sure as this beard's grey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.197>--what will you adventure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.198>To save this brat's life?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.199>Any thing, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.200>That my ability may undergo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.201>And nobleness impose: at least thus much:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.202>I'll pawn the little blood which I have left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.203>To save the innocent: any thing possible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.204>It shall be possible. Swear by this sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.205>Thou wilt perform my bidding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.206>I will, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.207>Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.208>Of any point in't shall not only be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.209>Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.210>Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.211>As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.212>This female bastard hence and that thou bear it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.213>To some remote and desert place quite out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.214>Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.215>Without more mercy, to its own protection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.216>And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.217>It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.218>On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.219>That thou commend it strangely to some place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.220>Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.221>I swear to do this, though a present death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.222>Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.223>Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.224>To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.225>Casting their savageness aside have done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.226>Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.227>In more than this deed does require! And blessing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.228>Against this cruelty fight on thy side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.229>Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit with the child</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.230>No, I'll not rear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.231>Another's issue.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.232> Please your highness, posts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.233>From those you sent to the oracle are come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.234>An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.235>Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.236>Hasting to the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.237>So please you, sir, their speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.238>Hath been beyond account.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.239>Twenty-three days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.240>They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.241>The great Apollo suddenly will have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.242>The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.243>Summon a session, that we may arraign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.244>Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.245>Been publicly accused, so shall she have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.246>A just and open trial. While she lives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.247>My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.248>And think upon my bidding.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A sea-port in Sicilia.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CLEOMENES and DION</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>The common praise it bears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>I shall report,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>For most it caught me, the celestial habits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>It was i' the offering!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>But of all, the burst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>That I was nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>If the event o' the journey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>The time is worth the use on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Great Apollo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Turn all to the best! These proclamations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>So forcing faults upon Hermione,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>I little like.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22> The violent carriage of it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Shall the contents discover, something rare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>And gracious be the issue!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A court of Justice.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>The daughter of a king, our wife, and one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Of being tyrannous, since we so openly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Even to the guilt or the purgation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>Produce the prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>It is his highness' pleasure that the queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Appear in person here in court. Silence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HERMIONE guarded; PAULINA and Ladies attending</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>Read the indictment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>[Reads] Hermione, queen to the worthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>their better safety, to fly away by night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Since what I am to say must be but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Which contradicts my accusation and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>The testimony on my part no other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>Be so received. But thus: if powers divine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>Behold our human actions, as they do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>I doubt not then but innocence shall make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>False accusation blush and tyranny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>Who least will seem to do so, my past life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>As I am now unhappy; which is more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>Than history can pattern, though devised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>And play'd to take spectators. For behold me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>A fellow of the royal bed, which owe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>'Tis a derivative from me to mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>And only that I stand for. I appeal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Came to your court, how I was in your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>How merited to be so; since he came,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>With what encounter so uncurrent I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>The bound of honour, or in act or will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Cry fie upon my grave!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>I ne'er heard yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>That any of these bolder vices wanted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Less impudence to gainsay what they did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Than to perform it first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>That's true enough;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>You will not own it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>More than mistress of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>With whom I am accused, I do confess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>I loved him as in honour he required,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>With such a kind of love as might become</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>A lady like me, with a love even such,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>So and no other, as yourself commanded:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Which not to have done I think had been in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>Both disobedience and ingratitude</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>For me to try how: all I know of it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>Is that Camillo was an honest man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>And why he left your court, the gods themselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>You knew of his departure, as you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>What you have underta'en to do in's absence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>Sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>You speak a language that I understand not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>My life stands in the level of your dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>Which I'll lay down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>Your actions are my dreams;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>You had a bastard by Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>No father owning it,--which is, indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>More criminal in thee than it,--so thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Look for no less than death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>Sir, spare your threats:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>The bug which you would fright me with I seek.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>To me can life be no commodity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>But know not how it went. My second joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>And first-fruits of my body, from his presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>Haled out to murder: myself on every post</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Here to this place, i' the open air, before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>Tell me what blessings I have here alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>But what your jealousies awake, I tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>I do refer me to the oracle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Apollo be my judge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>This your request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>And in Apollos name, his oracle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt certain Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>The Emperor of Russia was my father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>O that he were alive, and here beholding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>His daughter's trial! that he did but see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>Of pity, not revenge!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>You have not dared to break the holy seal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>Nor read the secrets in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>All this we swear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>Break up the seals and read.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.139>[Reads] Hermione is chaste;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.140>Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.141>a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.142>and the king shall live without an heir, if that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.143>which is lost be not found.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.144>Now blessed be the great Apollo!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.145>Praised!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.146>Hast thou read truth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.147>Ay, my lord; even so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.148>As it is here set down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.149>There is no truth at all i' the oracle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.150>The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.151>My lord the king, the king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.152>What is the business?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.153>O sir, I shall be hated to report it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.154>The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.155>Of the queen's speed, is gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.156>How! gone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.157>Is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.158>Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.159>Do strike at my injustice.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>HERMIONE swoons</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.160>How now there!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.161>This news is mortal to the queen: look down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.162>And see what death is doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.163>Take her hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.164>Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.165>I have too much believed mine own suspicion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.166>Beseech you, tenderly apply to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.167>Some remedies for life.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.168>Apollo, pardon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.169>My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.170>I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.171>New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.172>Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.173>For, being transported by my jealousies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.174>To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.175>Camillo for the minister to poison</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.176>My friend Polixenes: which had been done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.177>But that the good mind of Camillo tardied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.178>My swift command, though I with death and with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.179>Reward did threaten and encourage him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.180>Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.181>And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.182>Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.183>Which you knew great, and to the hazard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.184>Of all encertainties himself commended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.185>No richer than his honour: how he glisters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.186>Thorough my rust! and how his pity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.187>Does my deeds make the blacker!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PAULINA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.188>Woe the while!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.189>O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.190>Break too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.191> What fit is this, good lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.192>What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.193>What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.194>In leads or oils? what old or newer torture</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.195>Must I receive, whose every word deserves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.196>To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.197>Together working with thy jealousies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.198>Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.199>For girls of nine, O, think what they have done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.200>And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.201>Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.202>That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.203>That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.204>And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.205>Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.206>To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.207>More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.208>The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.209>To be or none or little; though a devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.210>Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.211>Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.212>Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.213>Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.214>That could conceive a gross and foolish sire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.215>Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.216>Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.217>When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.218>The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.219>and vengeance for't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.220>Not dropp'd down yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.221>The higher powers forbid!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.222>I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.223>Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.224>Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.225>Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.226>As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.227>Do not repent these things, for they are heavier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.228>Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.229>To nothing but despair. A thousand knees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.230>Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.231>Upon a barren mountain and still winter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.232>In storm perpetual, could not move the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.233>To look that way thou wert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.234>Go on, go on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.235>Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.236>All tongues to talk their bitterest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.237>Say no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.238>Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.239>I' the boldness of your speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.240>I am sorry for't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.241>All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.242>I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.243>The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.244>To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.245>Should be past grief: do not receive affliction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.246>At my petition; I beseech you, rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.247>Let me be punish'd, that have minded you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.248>Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.249>Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.250>The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.251>I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.252>I'll not remember you of my own lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.253>Who is lost too: take your patience to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.254>And I'll say nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.255>Thou didst speak but well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.256>When most the truth; which I receive much better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.257>Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.258>To the dead bodies of my queen and son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.259>One grave shall be for both: upon them shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.260>The causes of their death appear, unto</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.261>Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.262>The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.263>Shall be my recreation: so long as nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.264>Will bear up with this exercise, so long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.265>I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.266>Unto these sorrows.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert country near the sea.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>The deserts of Bohemia?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Mariner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Ay, my lord: and fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>The heavens with that we have in hand are angry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>And frown upon 's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>I call upon thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Mariner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Make your best haste, and go not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Besides, this place is famous for the creatures</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>Of prey that keep upon't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>Go thou away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>I'll follow instantly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Mariner</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>I am glad at heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>To be so rid o' the business.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ANTIGONUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>Come, poor babe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>I have heard, but not believed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>the spirits o' the dead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>So like a waking. To me comes a creature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>Sometimes her head on one side, some another;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Like very sanctity, she did approach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Since fate, against thy better disposition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Hath made thy person for the thrower-out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>Places remote enough are in Bohemia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>She melted into air. Affrighted much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>I did in time collect myself and thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>I will be squared by this. I do believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>Apollo would, this being indeed the issue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>Either for life or death, upon the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>There lie, and there thy character: there these;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>A lullaby too rough: I never saw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>I am gone for ever.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, pursued by a bear</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Shepherd</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>I would there were no age between sixteen and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>rest; for there is nothing in the between but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>pretty one; a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>though I am not bookish, yet I can read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>some stair-work, some trunk-work, some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hallooed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>Hilloa, loa!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>ailest thou, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>a bodkin's point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>Why, boy, how is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.94>how it takes up the shore! but that's not the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.95>point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.96>sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.97>ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.98>swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.99>cork into a hogshead. And then for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.100>land-service, to see how the bear tore out his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.101>shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.102>his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.103>end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.104>it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.105>sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.106>and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.107>the sea or weather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.108>Name of mercy, when was this, boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.109>Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.110>sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.111>the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.112>now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.113>Would I had been by, to have helped the old man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.114>I would you had been by the ship side, to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.115>helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.116>Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.117>boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.118>dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.119>thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.120>child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.121>open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.122>rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.123>open't. What's within, boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.124>You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.125>are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.126>This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.127>with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.128>We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.129>nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.130>boy, the next way home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.131>Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.132>if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.133>he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.134>are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.135>it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.136>That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.137>which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.138>sight of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.139>Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.140>'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.141>SCENE I:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Time, the Chorus</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Time</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.142>I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.143>Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.144>Now take upon me, in the name of Time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.145>To use my wings. Impute it not a crime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.146>To me or my swift passage, that I slide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.147>O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.148>Of that wide gap, since it is in my power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.149>To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.150>To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.151>The same I am, ere ancient'st order was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.152>Or what is now received: I witness to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.153>The times that brought them in; so shall I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.154>To the freshest things now reigning and make stale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.155>The glistering of this present, as my tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.156>Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.157>I turn my glass and give my scene such growing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.158>As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.159>The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.160>That he shuts up himself, imagine me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.161>Gentle spectators, that I now may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.162>In fair Bohemia, and remember well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.163>I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.164>I now name to you; and with speed so pace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.165>To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.166>Equal with wondering: what of her ensues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.167>I list not prophecy; but let Time's news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.168>Be known when 'tis brought forth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.169>A shepherd's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.170>And what to her adheres, which follows after,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.171>Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.172>If ever you have spent time worse ere now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.173>If never, yet that Time himself doth say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.174>He wishes earnestly you never may.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Bohemia. The palace of POLIXENES.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>'tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>grant this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>I have for the most part been aired abroad, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>think so, which is another spur to my departure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>thee thine own goodness hath made; better not to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>made me businesses which none without thee can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>them thyself or take away with thee the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>services thou hast done; which if I have not enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>considered, as too much I cannot, to be more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more; whose very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>naming punishes me with the remembrance of that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>and children are even now to be afresh lamented.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>being gracious, than they are in losing them when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>they have approved their virtues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>have missingly noted, he is of late much retired</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>from court and is less frequent to his princely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>exercises than formerly he hath appeared.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>care; so far that I have eyes under my service which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>look upon his removedness; from whom I have this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>daughter of most rare note: the report of her is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>appearing what we are, have some question with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>shepherd; from whose simplicity I think it not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>I willingly obey your command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A road near the Shepherd's cottage.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>When daffodils begin to peer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>With heigh! the doxy over the dale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Are summer songs for me and my aunts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>While we lie tumbling in the hay.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>I have served Prince Florizel and in my time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>wore three-pile; but now I am out of service:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>The pale moon shines by night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>And when I wander here and there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>I then do most go right.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>If tinkers may have leave to live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>And bear the sow-skin budget,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>Then my account I well may, give,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>And in the stocks avouch it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>of it. A prize! a prize!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>Let me see: every 'leven wether tods; every tod</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>shorn. what comes the wool to?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>[Aside]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>If the springe hold, the cock's mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>this sister of mine do with rice? But my father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>raisins o' the sun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>O that ever I was born!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Grovelling on the ground</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>I' the name of me--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>then, death, death!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>on thee, rather than have these off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>than the stripes I have received, which are mighty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>ones and millions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>great matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>What, by a horseman, or a footman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>A footman, sweet sir, a footman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>O, good sir, tenderly, O!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>Alas, poor soul!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>shoulder-blade is out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>How now! canst stand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>[Picking his pocket]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>Softly, dear sir; good sir, softly. You ha' done me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>a charitable office.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>that kills my heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>troll-my-dames; I knew him once a servant of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>His vices, you would say; there's no virtue whipped</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>there; and yet it will no more but abide.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>hath been since an ape-bearer; then a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>process-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>wife within a mile where my land and living lies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>and, having flown over many knavish professions, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>put me into this apparel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>How do you now?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>softly towards my kinsman's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>Shall I bring thee on the way?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>sheep-shearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>Prosper you, sweet sir!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Clown</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>make not this cheat bring out another and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>put in the book of virtue!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>And merrily hent the stile-a:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>A merry heart goes all the day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>Your sad tires in a mile-a.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. The Shepherd's cottage.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>These your unusual weeds to each part of you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Is as a meeting of the petty gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>And you the queen on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>Sir, my gracious lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>In every mess have folly and the feeders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Digest it with a custom, I should blush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>To see you so attired, sworn, I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>To show myself a glass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>I bless the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>When my good falcon made her flight across</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Thy father's ground.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>Now Jove afford you cause!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>To me the difference forges dread; your greatness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>To think your father, by some accident,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>How would he look, to see his work so noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>The sternness of his presence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>Apprehend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Humbling their deities to love, have taken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>As I seem now. Their transformations</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>Burn hotter than my faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>O, but, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>One of these two must be necessities,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>Which then will speak, that you must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>change this purpose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>Or I my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.47> Thou dearest Perdita,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.48>With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.49>The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.50>Or not my father's. For I cannot be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.51>Mine own, nor any thing to any, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.52>I be not thine. To this I am most constant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.53>Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.54>Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.55>That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.56>Lift up your countenance, as it were the day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.57>Of celebration of that nuptial which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.58>We two have sworn shall come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.59>O lady Fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.60>Stand you auspicious!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.61>See, your guests approach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.62>Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.63>And let's be red with mirth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.64>Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.65>This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.66>Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.67>Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.68>At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.69>On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.70>With labour and the thing she took to quench it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.71>She would to each one sip. You are retired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.72>As if you were a feasted one and not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.73>The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.74>These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.75>A way to make us better friends, more known.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.76>Come, quench your blushes and present yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.77>That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.78>And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.79>As your good flock shall prosper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.80>[To POLIXENES] Sir, welcome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.81>It is my father's will I should take on me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.82>The hostess-ship o' the day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CAMILLO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.83>You're welcome, sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.84>Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.85>For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.86>Seeming and savour all the winter long:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.87>Grace and remembrance be to you both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.88>And welcome to our shearing!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.89>Shepherdess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.90>A fair one are you--well you fit our ages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.91>With flowers of winter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.92>Sir, the year growing ancient,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.93>Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.94>Of trembling winter, the fairest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.95>flowers o' the season</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.96>Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.97>Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.98>Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.99>To get slips of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.100>Wherefore, gentle maiden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.101>Do you neglect them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.102>For I have heard it said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.103>There is an art which in their piedness shares</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.104>With great creating nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.105>Say there be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.106>Yet nature is made better by no mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.107>But nature makes that mean: so, over that art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.108>Which you say adds to nature, is an art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.109>That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.110>A gentler scion to the wildest stock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.111>And make conceive a bark of baser kind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.112>By bud of nobler race: this is an art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.113>Which does mend nature, change it rather, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.114>The art itself is nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.115>So it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.116>Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.117>And do not call them bastards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.118>I'll not put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.119>The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.120>No more than were I painted I would wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.121>This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.122>Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.123>Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.124>The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.125>And with him rises weeping: these are flowers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.126>Of middle summer, and I think they are given</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.127>To men of middle age. You're very welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.128>I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.129>And only live by gazing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.130>Out, alas!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.131>You'd be so lean, that blasts of January</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.132>Would blow you through and through.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.133>Now, my fair'st friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.134>I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.135>Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.136>That wear upon your virgin branches yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.137>Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.138>For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.139>From Dis's waggon! daffodils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.140>That come before the swallow dares, and take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.141>The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.142>But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.143>Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.144>That die unmarried, ere they can behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.145>Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.146>Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.147>The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.148>The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.149>To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.150>To strew him o'er and o'er!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.151>What, like a corse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.152>No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.153>Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.154>But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.155>Methinks I play as I have seen them do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.156>In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.157>Does change my disposition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.158>What you do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.159>Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.160>I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.161>I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.162>Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.163>To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.164>A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.165>Nothing but that; move still, still so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.166>And own no other function: each your doing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.167>So singular in each particular,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.168>Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.169>That all your acts are queens.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.170>O Doricles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.171>Your praises are too large: but that your youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.172>And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.173>Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.174>With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.175>You woo'd me the false way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.176>I think you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.177>As little skill to fear as I have purpose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.178>To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.179>Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.180>That never mean to part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.181>I'll swear for 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.182>This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.183>Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.184>But smacks of something greater than herself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.185>Too noble for this place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.186>He tells her something</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.187>That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.188>The queen of curds and cream.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.189>Come on, strike up!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.190>Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.191>To mend her kissing with!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.192>Now, in good time!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.193>Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.194>Come, strike up!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.195>Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.196>Which dances with your daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.197>They call him Doricles; and boasts himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.198>To have a worthy feeding: but I have it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.199>Upon his own report and I believe it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.200>He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.201>I think so too; for never gazed the moon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.202>Upon the water as he'll stand and read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.203>As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.204>I think there is not half a kiss to choose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.205>Who loves another best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.206>She dances featly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.207>So she does any thing; though I report it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.208>That should be silent: if young Doricles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.209>Do light upon her, she shall bring him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.210>Which he not dreams of.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.211>O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.212>door, you would never dance again after a tabour and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.213>pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.214>several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.215>utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.216>ears grew to his tunes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.217>He could never come better; he shall come in. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.218>love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.219>matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.220>indeed and sung lamentably.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.221>He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.222>milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.223>has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.224>bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.225>burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.226>her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.227>as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.228>the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.229>no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.230>'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.231>This is a brave fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.232>Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.233>fellow. Has he any unbraided wares?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.234>He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.235>points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.236>learnedly handle, though they come to him by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.237>gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.238>sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.239>would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.240>to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.241>Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.242>Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.243>You have of these pedlars, that have more in them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.244>than you'ld think, sister.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.245>Ay, good brother, or go about to think.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.246> Lawn as white as driven snow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.247>Cyprus black as e'er was crow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.248>Gloves as sweet as damask roses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.249>Masks for faces and for noses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.250>Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.251>Perfume for a lady's chamber;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.252>Golden quoifs and stomachers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.253>For my lads to give their dears:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.254>Pins and poking-sticks of steel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.255>What maids lack from head to heel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.256>Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.257>Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.258>If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.259>no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.260>will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.261>I was promised them against the feast; but they come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.262>not too late now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.263>He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.264>He hath paid you all he promised you; may be, he has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.265>paid you more, which will shame you to give him again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.266>Is there no manners left among maids? will they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.267>wear their plackets where they should bear their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.268>faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.269>going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.270>secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.271>our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.272>your tongues, and not a word more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.273>I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.274>and a pair of sweet gloves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.275>Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.276>and lost all my money?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.277>And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.278>therefore it behoves men to be wary.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.279>Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.280>I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.281>What hast here? ballads?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.282>Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.283>life, for then we are sure they are true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.284>Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.285>wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.286>burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.287>toads carbonadoed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.288>Is it true, think you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.289>Very true, and but a month old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.290>Bless me from marrying a usurer!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.291>Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.292>Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.293>present. Why should I carry lies abroad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.294>Pray you now, buy it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.295>Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.296>ballads; we'll buy the other things anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.297>Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.298>the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.299>forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.300>ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.301>thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.302>fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.303>loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.304>Is it true too, think you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.305>Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.306>my pack will hold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.307>Lay it by too: another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.308>This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.309>Let's have some merry ones.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.310>Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.311>the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.312>scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.313>request, I can tell you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.314>We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.315>shalt hear; 'tis in three parts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.316>We had the tune on't a month ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.317>I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.318>occupation; have at it with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>SONG</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.319>Get you hence, for I must go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.320>Where it fits not you to know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.321> Whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.322> O, whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.323>Whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.324> It becomes thy oath full well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.325>Thou to me thy secrets tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.326> Me too, let me go thither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.327> Or thou goest to the orange or mill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.328> If to either, thou dost ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.329>Neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.330> What, neither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.331>Neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>DORCAS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.332> Thou hast sworn my love to be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>MOPSA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.333> Thou hast sworn it more to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.334>Then whither goest? say, whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.335>We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.336>father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.337>not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.338>me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.339>have the first choice. Follow me, girls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit with DORCAS and MOPSA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.340>And you shall pay well for 'em.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Follows singing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.341>Will you buy any tape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.342>Or lace for your cape,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.343>My dainty duck, my dear-a?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.344>Any silk, any thread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.345>Any toys for your head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.346>Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.347>Come to the pedlar;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.348>Money's a medler.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.349>That doth utter all men's ware-a.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.350>Master, there is three carters, three shepherds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.351>three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.352>themselves all men of hair, they call themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.353>Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.354>say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.355>not in't; but they themselves are o' the mind, if it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.356>be not too rough for some that know little but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.357>bowling, it will please plentifully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.358>Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.359>homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.360>You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.361>these four threes of herdsmen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.362>One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.363>danced before the king; and not the worst of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.364>three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.365>Leave your prating: since these good men are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.366>pleased, let them come in; but quickly now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.367>Why, they stay at door, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Here a dance of twelve Satyrs</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.368>O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CAMILLO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.369>Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.370>He's simple and tells much.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FLORIZEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.371>How now, fair shepherd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.372>Your heart is full of something that does take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.373>Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.374>And handed love as you do, I was wont</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.375>To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.376>The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.377>To her acceptance; you have let him go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.378>And nothing marted with him. If your lass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.379>Interpretation should abuse and call this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.380>Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.381>For a reply, at least if you make a care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.382>Of happy holding her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.383>Old sir, I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.384>She prizes not such trifles as these are:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.385>The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.386>Up in my heart; which I have given already,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.387>But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.388>Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.389>Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.390>As soft as dove's down and as white as it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.391>Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.392>snow that's bolted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.393>By the northern blasts twice o'er.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.394>What follows this?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.395>How prettily the young swain seems to wash</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.396>The hand was fair before! I have put you out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.397>But to your protestation; let me hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.398>What you profess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.399> Do, and be witness to 't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.400>And this my neighbour too?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.401>And he, and more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.402>Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.403>That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.404>Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.405>That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.406>More than was ever man's, I would not prize them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.407>Without her love; for her employ them all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.408>Commend them and condemn them to her service</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.409>Or to their own perdition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.410>Fairly offer'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.411>This shows a sound affection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.412>But, my daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.413>Say you the like to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.414>I cannot speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.415>So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.416>By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.417>The purity of his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.418> Take hands, a bargain!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.419>And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.420>I give my daughter to him, and will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.421>Her portion equal his.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.422>O, that must be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.423>I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.424>I shall have more than you can dream of yet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.425>Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.426>Contract us 'fore these witnesses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.427>Come, your hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.428>And, daughter, yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.429>Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.430>Have you a father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.431> I have: but what of him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.432>Knows he of this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.433> He neither does nor shall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.434>Methinks a father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.435>Is at the nuptial of his son a guest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.436>That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.437>Is not your father grown incapable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.438>Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.439>With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.440>Know man from man? dispute his own estate?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.441>Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.442>But what he did being childish?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.443>No, good sir;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.444>He has his health and ampler strength indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.445>Than most have of his age.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.446>By my white beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.447>You offer him, if this be so, a wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.448>Something unfilial: reason my son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.449>Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.450>The father, all whose joy is nothing else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.451>But fair posterity, should hold some counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.452>In such a business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.453>I yield all this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.454>But for some other reasons, my grave sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.455>Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.456>My father of this business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.457>Let him know't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.458>He shall not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.459> Prithee, let him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.460>No, he must not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.461>Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.462>At knowing of thy choice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.463>Come, come, he must not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.464>Mark our contract.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.465> Mark your divorce, young sir,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Discovering himself</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.466>Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.467>To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.468>That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.469>I am sorry that by hanging thee I can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.470>But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.471>Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.472>The royal fool thou copest with,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.473>O, my heart!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.474>I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.475>More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.476>If I may ever know thou dost but sigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.477>That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.478>I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.479>Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.480>Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.481>Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.482>Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.483>From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.484>Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.485>That makes himself, but for our honour therein,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.486>Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.487>These rural latches to his entrance open,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.488>Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.489>I will devise a death as cruel for thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.490>As thou art tender to't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.491>Even here undone!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.492>I was not much afeard; for once or twice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.493>I was about to speak and tell him plainly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.494>The selfsame sun that shines upon his court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.495>Hides not his visage from our cottage but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.496>Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.497>I told you what would come of this: beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.498>Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.499>Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.500>But milk my ewes and weep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.501>Why, how now, father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.502>Speak ere thou diest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.503>I cannot speak, nor think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.504>Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.505>You have undone a man of fourscore three,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.506>That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.507>To die upon the bed my father died,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.508>To lie close by his honest bones: but now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.509>Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.510>Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.511>That knew'st this was the prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.512>and wouldst adventure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.513>To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.514>If I might die within this hour, I have lived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.515>To die when I desire.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.516>Why look you so upon me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.517>I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.518>But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.519>More straining on for plucking back, not following</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.520>My leash unwillingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.521>Gracious my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.522>You know your father's temper: at this time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.523>He will allow no speech, which I do guess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.524>You do not purpose to him; and as hardly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.525>Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.526>Then, till the fury of his highness settle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.527>Come not before him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.528>I not purpose it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.529>I think, Camillo?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.530> Even he, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.531>How often have I told you 'twould be thus!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.532>How often said, my dignity would last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.533>But till 'twere known!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.534>It cannot fail but by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.535>The violation of my faith; and then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.536>Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.537>And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.538>From my succession wipe me, father; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.539>Am heir to my affection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.540>Be advised.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.541>I am, and by my fancy: if my reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.542>Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.543>If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.544>Do bid it welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.545> This is desperate, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.546>So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.547>I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.548>Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.549>Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.550>The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.551>In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.552>To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.553>As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.554>When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.555>To see him any more,--cast your good counsels</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.556>Upon his passion; let myself and fortune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.557>Tug for the time to come. This you may know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.558>And so deliver, I am put to sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.559>With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.560>And most opportune to our need I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.561>A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.562>For this design. What course I mean to hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.563>Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.564>Concern me the reporting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.565>O my lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.566>I would your spirit were easier for advice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.567>Or stronger for your need.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.568>Hark, Perdita</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing her aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.569>I'll hear you by and by.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.570>He's irremoveable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.571>Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.572>His going I could frame to serve my turn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.573>Save him from danger, do him love and honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.574>Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.575>And that unhappy king, my master, whom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.576>I so much thirst to see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.577>Now, good Camillo;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.578>I am so fraught with curious business that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.579>I leave out ceremony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.580>Sir, I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.581>You have heard of my poor services, i' the love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.582>That I have borne your father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.583>Very nobly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.584>Have you deserved: it is my father's music</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.585>To speak your deeds, not little of his care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.586>To have them recompensed as thought on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.587>Well, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.588>If you may please to think I love the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.589>And through him what is nearest to him, which is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.590>Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.591>If your more ponderous and settled project</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.592>May suffer alteration, on mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.593>I'll point you where you shall have such receiving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.594>As shall become your highness; where you may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.595>Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.596>There's no disjunction to be made, but by--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.597>As heavens forefend!--your ruin; marry her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.598>And, with my best endeavours in your absence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.599>Your discontenting father strive to qualify</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.600>And bring him up to liking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.601>How, Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.602>May this, almost a miracle, be done?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.603>That I may call thee something more than man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.604>And after that trust to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.605>Have you thought on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.606>A place whereto you'll go?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.607>Not any yet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.608>But as the unthought-on accident is guilty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.609>To what we wildly do, so we profess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.610>Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.611>Of every wind that blows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.612>Then list to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.613>This follows, if you will not change your purpose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.614>But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.615>And there present yourself and your fair princess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.616>For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.617>She shall be habited as it becomes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.618>The partner of your bed. Methinks I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.619>Leontes opening his free arms and weeping</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.620>His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.621>As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.622>Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.623>'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.624>He chides to hell and bids the other grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.625>Faster than thought or time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.626>Worthy Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.627>What colour for my visitation shall I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.628>Hold up before him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech154><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.629>Sent by the king your father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.630>To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.631>The manner of your bearing towards him, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.632>What you as from your father shall deliver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.633>Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.634>The which shall point you forth at every sitting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.635>What you must say; that he shall not perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.636>But that you have your father's bosom there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.637>And speak his very heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech155><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.638>I am bound to you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.639>There is some sap in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech156><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.640>A cause more promising</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.641>Than a wild dedication of yourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.642>To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.643>To miseries enough; no hope to help you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.644>But as you shake off one to take another;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.645>Nothing so certain as your anchors, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.646>Do their best office, if they can but stay you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.647>Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.648>Prosperity's the very bond of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.649>Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.650>Affliction alters.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech157><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.651> One of these is true:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.652>I think affliction may subdue the cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.653>But not take in the mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech158><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.654>Yea, say you so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.655>There shall not at your father's house these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.656>seven years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.657>Be born another such.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech159><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.658>My good Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.659>She is as forward of her breeding as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.660>She is i' the rear our birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech160><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.661>I cannot say 'tis pity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.662>She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.663>To most that teach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech161><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.664>Your pardon, sir; for this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.665>I'll blush you thanks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech162><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.666>My prettiest Perdita!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.667>But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.668>Preserver of my father, now of me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.669>The medicine of our house, how shall we do?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.670>We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.671>Nor shall appear in Sicilia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech163><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.672>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.673>Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.674>Do all lie there: it shall be so my care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.675>To have you royally appointed as if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.676>The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.677>That you may know you shall not want, one word.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They talk aside</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter AUTOLYCUS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech164><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.678>Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.679>sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.680>all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.681>ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.682>knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.683>to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.684>should buy first, as if my trinkets had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.685>hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.686>by which means I saw whose purse was best in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.687>picture; and what I saw, to my good use I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.688>remembered. My clown, who wants but something to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.689>be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.690>wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.691>till he had both tune and words; which so drew the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.692>rest of the herd to me that all their other senses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.693>stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.694>was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.695>purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.696>chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.697>and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.698>time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.699>festival purses; and had not the old man come in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.700>with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.701>son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.702>left a purse alive in the whole army.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech165><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.703>Nay, but my letters, by this means being there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.704>So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech166><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.705>And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech167><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.706>Shall satisfy your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech168><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.707>Happy be you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.708>All that you speak shows fair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech169><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.709>Who have we here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Seeing AUTOLYCUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.710>We'll make an instrument of this, omit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.711>Nothing may give us aid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech170><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.712>If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech171><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.713>How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.714>not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech172><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.715>I am a poor fellow, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech173><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.716>Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.717>thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.718>make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.719>--thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.720>change garments with this gentleman: though the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.721>pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.722>there's some boot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech174><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.723>I am a poor fellow, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.724>I know ye well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech175><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.725>Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.726>flayed already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech176><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.727>Are you in earnest, sir?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.728>I smell the trick on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech177><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.729>Dispatch, I prithee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech178><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.730>Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.731>conscience take it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech179><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.732>Unbuckle, unbuckle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.733>Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.734>Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.735>Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.736>And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.737>Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.738>The truth of your own seeming; that you may--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.739>For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.740>Get undescried.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech180><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.741> I see the play so lies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.742>That I must bear a part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech181><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.743>No remedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.744>Have you done there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech182><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.745>Should I now meet my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.746>He would not call me son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech183><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.747>Nay, you shall have no hat.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving it to PERDITA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.748>Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech184><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.749>Adieu, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech185><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.750>O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.751>Pray you, a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech186><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.752>[Aside] What I do next, shall be to tell the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.753>Of this escape and whither they are bound;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.754>Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.755>To force him after: in whose company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.756>I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.757>I have a woman's longing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech187><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.758>Fortune speed us!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.759>Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech188><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.760>The swifter speed the better.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech189><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.761>I understand the business, I hear it: to have an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.762>open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.763>necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.764>also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.765>this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.766>What an exchange had this been without boot! What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.767>a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.768>this year connive at us, and we may do any thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.769>extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.770>iniquity, stealing away from his father with his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.771>clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.772>honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.773>do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.774>and therein am I constant to my profession.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Clown and Shepherd</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.775>Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.776>every lane's end, every shop, church, session,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.777>hanging, yields a careful man work.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech190><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.778>See, see; what a man you are now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.779>There is no other way but to tell the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.780>she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech191><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.781>Nay, but hear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech192><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.782>Nay, but hear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech193><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.783>Go to, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech194><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.784>She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.785>and blood has not offended the king; and so your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.786>flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.787>those things you found about her, those secret</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.788>things, all but what she has with her: this being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.789>done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech195><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.790>I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.791>son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.792>neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.793>me the king's brother-in-law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech196><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.794>Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.795>could have been to him and then your blood had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.796>the dearer by I know how much an ounce.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech197><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.797>[Aside] Very wisely, puppies!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech198><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.798>Well, let us to the king: there is that in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.799>fardel will make him scratch his beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech199><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.800>[Aside] I know not what impediment this complaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.801>may be to the flight of my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech200><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.802>Pray heartily he be at palace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech201><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.803>[Aside] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.804>sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Takes off his false beard</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.805>How now, rustics! whither are you bound?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech202><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.806>To the palace, an it like your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech203><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.807>Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.808>of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.809>names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.810>thing that is fitting to be known, discover.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech204><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.811>We are but plain fellows, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech205><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.812>A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.813>lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.814>often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.815>it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.816>they do not give us the lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech206><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.817>Your worship had like to have given us one, if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.818>had not taken yourself with the manner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech207><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.819>Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech208><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.820>Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.821>thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.822>hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.823>receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.824>not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.825>for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.826>business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.827>cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.828>back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.829>open thy affair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech209><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.830>My business, sir, is to the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech210><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.831>What advocate hast thou to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech211><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.832>I know not, an't like you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech212><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.833>Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.834>have none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech213><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.835>None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech214><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.836>How blessed are we that are not simple men!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.837>Yet nature might have made me as these are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.838>Therefore I will not disdain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech215><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.839>This cannot be but a great courtier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech216><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.840>His garments are rich, but he wears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.841>them not handsomely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech217><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.842>He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.843>a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.844>on's teeth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech218><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.845>The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.846>Wherefore that box?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech219><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.847>Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.848>which none must know but the king; and which he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.849>shall know within this hour, if I may come to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.850>speech of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech220><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.851>Age, thou hast lost thy labour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech221><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.852>Why, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech222><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.853>The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.854>new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.855>if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.856>know the king is full of grief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech223><b>Shepard</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.857>So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.858>married a shepherd's daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech224><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.859>If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.860>the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.861>feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech225><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.862>Think you so, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech226><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.863>Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.864>and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.865>him, though removed fifty times, shall all come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.866>under the hangman: which though it be great pity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.867>yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.868>ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.869>grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.870>is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.871>sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech227><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.872>Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.873>like you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech228><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.874>He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.875>'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.876>wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.877>and a dram dead; then recovered again with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.878>aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.879>he is, and in the hottest day prognostication</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.880>proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.881>sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.882>is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.883>talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.884>are to be smiled at, their offences being so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.885>capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.886>men, what you have to the king: being something</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.887>gently considered, I'll bring you where he is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.888>aboard, tender your persons to his presence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.889>whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.890>besides the king to effect your suits, here is man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.891>shall do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech229><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.892>He seems to be of great authority: close with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.893>give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.894>bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.895>the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.896>and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech230><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.897>An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.898>us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.899>more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech231><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.900>After I have done what I promised?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech232><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.901>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech233><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.902>Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech234><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.903>In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.904>one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech235><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.905>O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.906>he'll be made an example.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech236><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.907>Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.908>our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.909>daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.910>will give you as much as this old man does when the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.911>business is performed, and remain, as he says, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.912>pawn till it be brought you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech237><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.913>I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.914>go on the right hand: I will but look upon the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.915>hedge and follow you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech238><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.916>We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech239><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.917>Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Shepherd and Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech240><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.918>If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.919>not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.920>courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.921>to do the prince my master good; which who knows how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.922>that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.923>these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.924>think it fit to shore them again and that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.925>complaint they have to the king concerns him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.926>nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.927>officious; for I am proof against that title and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.928>what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.929>them: there may be matter in it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>More penitence than done trespass: at the last,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>With them forgive yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Whilst I remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Her and her virtues, I cannot forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>My blemishes in them, and so still think of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>The wrong I did myself; which was so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>That heirless it hath made my kingdom and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>Bred his hopes out of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>True, too true, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>If, one by one, you wedded all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>Or from the all that are took something good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>Would be unparallel'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>I think so. Kill'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Say so but seldom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24> Not at all, good lady:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>You might have spoken a thousand things that would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>Have done the time more benefit and graced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Your kindness better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>You are one of those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Would have him wed again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>If you would not so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>You pity not the state, nor the remembrance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>Of his most sovereign name; consider little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>May drop upon his kingdom and devour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>Incertain lookers on. What were more holy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Than to rejoice the former queen is well?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>What holier than, for royalty's repair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>For present comfort and for future good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>To bless the bed of majesty again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>With a sweet fellow to't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>There is none worthy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>For has not the divine Apollo said,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>Is't not the tenor of his oracle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>That King Leontes shall not have an heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Is all as monstrous to our human reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>As my Antigonus to break his grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>And come again to me; who, on my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>My lord should to the heavens be contrary,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Oppose against their wills.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To LEONTES</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>Care not for issue;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>The crown will find an heir: great Alexander</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Left his to the worthiest; so his successor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>Was like to be the best.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Good Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>Who hast the memory of Hermione,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>I know, in honour, O, that ever I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Have taken treasure from her lips--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>And left them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>More rich for what they yielded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>Thou speak'st truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>And better used, would make her sainted spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>And begin, 'Why to me?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Had she such power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>She had just cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>She had; and would incense me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>To murder her I married.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>I should so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Should be 'Remember mine.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>Stars, stars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>I'll have no wife, Paulina.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Will you swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>Never to marry but by my free leave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>You tempt him over-much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>Unless another,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>As like Hermione as is her picture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>Affront his eye.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93> Good madam,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>I have done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>No remedy, but you will,--give me the office</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>As was your former; but she shall be such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>As, walk'd your first queen's ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>it should take joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>To see her in your arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>My true Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>We shall not marry till thou bid'st us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>That</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>Shall be when your first queen's again in breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>Never till then.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Gentleman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>To your high presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>What with him? he comes not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>Like to his father's greatness: his approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>By need and accident. What train?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>But few,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>And those but mean.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>His princess, say you, with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>That e'er the sun shone bright on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>O Hermione,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>As every present time doth boast itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>Above a better gone, so must thy grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>Have said and writ so, but your writing now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>To say you have seen a better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>Pardon, madam:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>Of all professors else, make proselytes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>Of who she but bid follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>How! not women?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>Women will love her, that she is a woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>More worth than any man; men, that she is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>The rarest of all women.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>Go, Cleomenes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CLEOMENES and others</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>He thus should steal upon us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>Had our prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>Well with this lord: there was not full a month</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>Between their births.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>Will bring me to consider that which may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>For she did print your royal father off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>Your father's image is so hit in you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>His very air, that I should call you brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>As I did him, and speak of something wildly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>Might thus have stood begetting wonder as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>All mine own folly--the society,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>Amity too, of your brave father, whom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>Though bearing misery, I desire my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.168>Once more to look on him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.169>By his command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.170>Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.171>Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.172>Can send his brother: and, but infirmity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.173>Which waits upon worn times hath something seized</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.174>His wish'd ability, he had himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.175>The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.176>Measured to look upon you; whom he loves--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.177>He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.178>And those that bear them living.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.179>O my brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.180>Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.181>Afresh within me, and these thy offices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.182>So rarely kind, are as interpreters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.183>Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.184>As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.185>Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.186>At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.187>To greet a man not worth her pains, much less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.188>The adventure of her person?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.189>Good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.190>She came from Libya.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.191>Where the warlike Smalus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.192>That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.193>Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.194>His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.195>A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.196>To execute the charge my father gave me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.197>For visiting your highness: my best train</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.198>I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.199>Who for Bohemia bend, to signify</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.200>Not only my success in Libya, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.201>But my arrival and my wife's in safety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.202>Here where we are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.203> The blessed gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.204>Purge all infection from our air whilst you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.205>Do climate here! You have a holy father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.206>A graceful gentleman; against whose person,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.207>So sacred as it is, I have done sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.208>For which the heavens, taking angry note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.209>Have left me issueless; and your father's blest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.210>As he from heaven merits it, with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.211>Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.212>Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.213>Such goodly things as you!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Lord</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.214>Most noble sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.215>That which I shall report will bear no credit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.216>Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.217>Bohemia greets you from himself by me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.218>Desires you to attach his son, who has--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.219>His dignity and duty both cast off--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.220>Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.221>A shepherd's daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.222>Where's Bohemia? speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.223>Here in your city; I now came from him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.224>I speak amazedly; and it becomes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.225>My marvel and my message. To your court</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.226>Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.227>Of this fair couple, meets he on the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.228>The father of this seeming lady and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.229>Her brother, having both their country quitted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.230>With this young prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.231>Camillo has betray'd me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.232>Whose honour and whose honesty till now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.233>Endured all weathers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.234>Lay't so to his charge:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.235>He's with the king your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.236>Who? Camillo?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.237>Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.238>Has these poor men in question. Never saw I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.239>Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.240>Forswear themselves as often as they speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.241>Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.242>With divers deaths in death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.243>O my poor father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.244>The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.245>Our contract celebrated.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.246>You are married?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.247>We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.248>The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.249>The odds for high and low's alike.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.250>My lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.251>Is this the daughter of a king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.252>She is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.253>When once she is my wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.254>That 'once' I see by your good father's speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.255>Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.256>Most sorry, you have broken from his liking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.257>Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.258>Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.259>That you might well enjoy her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FLORIZEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.260>Dear, look up:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.261>Though Fortune, visible an enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.262>Should chase us with my father, power no jot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.263>Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.264>Remember since you owed no more to time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.265>Than I do now: with thought of such affections,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.266>Step forth mine advocate; at your request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.267>My father will grant precious things as trifles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.268>Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.269>Which he counts but a trifle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.270>Sir, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.271>Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.272>'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.273>Than what you look on now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.274>I thought of her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.275>Even in these looks I made.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FLORIZEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.276>But your petition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.277>Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.278>Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.279>I am friend to them and you: upon which errand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.280>I now go toward him; therefore follow me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.281>And mark what way I make: come, good my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Before LEONTES' palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>commanded out of the chamber; only this methought I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>heard the shepherd say, he found the child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>I would most gladly know the issue of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>I make a broken delivery of the business; but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>staring on one another, to tear the cases of their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>extremity of the one, it must needs be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>The news, Rogero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>broken out within this hour that ballad-makers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>cannot be able to express it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a third Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>which is called true is so like an old tale, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>found his heir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>the letters of Antigonus found with it which they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>know to be his character, the majesty of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>and many other evidences proclaim her with all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>the meeting of the two kings?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>joy crown another, so and in such manner that it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>holding up of hands, with countenances of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>distraction that they were to be known by garment,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>another encounter, which lames report to follow it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>and undoes description to do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>hence the child?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>Like an old tale still, which will have matter to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>What became of his bark and his followers?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>in the view of the shepherd: so that all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>instruments which aided to expose the child were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>her husband, another elevated that the oracle was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>her to her heart that she might no more be in danger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>of losing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>The dignity of this act was worth the audience of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>kings and princes; for by such was it acted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>One of the prettiest touches of all and that which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>death, with the manner how she came to't bravely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>confessed and lamented by the king, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.91>could have seen 't, the woe had been universal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.92>Are they returned to the court?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.93>No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.94>which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.95>years in doing and now newly performed by that rare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.96>Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.97>eternity and could put breath into his work, would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.98>beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.99>ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.100>they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.101>answer: thither with all greediness of affection</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.102>are they gone, and there they intend to sup.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.103>I thought she had some great matter there in hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.104>for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.105>since the death of Hermione, visited that removed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.106>house. Shall we thither and with our company piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.107>the rejoicing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.108>Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.109>every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.110>our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.111>Let's along.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Gentlemen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.112>Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.113>would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.114>man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.115>them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.116>at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.117>so he then took her to be, who began to be much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.118>sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.119>weather continuing, this mystery remained</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.120>undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.121>been the finder out of this secret, it would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.122>have relished among my other discredits.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Shepherd and Clown</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.123>Here come those I have done good to against my will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.124>and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.125>Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.126>daughters will be all gentlemen born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.127>You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.128>this other day, because I was no gentleman born.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.129>See you these clothes? say you see them not and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.130>think me still no gentleman born: you were best say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.131>these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.132>lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.133>I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.134>Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.135>And so have I, boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.136>So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.137>father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.138>called me brother; and then the two kings called my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.139>father brother; and then the prince my brother and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.140>the princess my sister called my father father; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.141>so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.142>tears that ever we shed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.143>We may live, son, to shed many more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.144>Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.145>preposterous estate as we are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.146>I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.147>faults I have committed to your worship and to give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.148>me your good report to the prince my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.149>Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.150>gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.151>Thou wilt amend thy life?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.152>Ay, an it like your good worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.153>Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.154>art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.155>You may say it, but not swear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.156>Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.157>franklins say it, I'll swear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.158>How if it be false, son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.159>If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.160>it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.161>the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.162>that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.163>tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.164>drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.165>be a tall fellow of thy hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>AUTOLYCUS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.166>I will prove so, sir, to my power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.167>Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.168>wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.169>being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.170>and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.171>queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.172>good masters.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A chapel in PAULINA'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA, CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>That I have had of thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>What, sovereign sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>I did not well I meant well. All my services</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>With your crown'd brother and these your contracted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>It is a surplus of your grace, which never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>My life may last to answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>O Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>We honour you with trouble: but we came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>To see the statue of our queen: your gallery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>Have we pass'd through, not without much content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>In many singularities; but we saw not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>That which my daughter came to look upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>The statue of her mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>As she lived peerless,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>So her dead likeness, I do well believe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Excels whatever yet you look'd upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>To see the life as lively mock'd as ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE standing like a statue</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>I like your silence, it the more shows off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>Comes it not something near?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>Her natural posture!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>In thy not chiding, for she was as tender</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>So aged as this seems.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>O, not by much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>So much the more our carver's excellence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>As she lived now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38> As now she might have done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>So much to my good comfort, as it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Even with such life of majesty, warm life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>For being more stone than it? O royal piece,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>There's magic in thy majesty, which has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>My evils conjured to remembrance and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>Standing like stone with thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>And give me leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>And do not say 'tis superstition, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>Dear queen, that ended when I but began,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>Give me that hand of yours to kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>O, patience!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>So many summers dry; scarce any joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>Did ever so long live; no sorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>But kill'd itself much sooner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>Dear my brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>Let him that was the cause of this have power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>To take off so much grief from you as he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>Will piece up in himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Indeed, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>If I had thought the sight of my poor image</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>I'ld not have show'd it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Do not draw the curtain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>May think anon it moves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>Let be, let be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>What was he that did make it? See, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>Did verily bear blood?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>Masterly done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>The very life seems warm upon her lip.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>The fixture of her eye has motion in't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>As we are mock'd with art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>I'll draw the curtain:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>My lord's almost so far transported that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>He'll think anon it lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>O sweet Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>Make me to think so twenty years together!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>No settled senses of the world can match</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>I could afflict you farther.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>Do, Paulina;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>For this affliction has a taste as sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>For I will kiss her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>Good my lord, forbear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>No, not these twenty years.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PERDITA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>So long could I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>Stand by, a looker on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Either forbear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>For more amazement. If you can behold it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>I'll make the statue move indeed, descend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>And take you by the hand; but then you'll think--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>Which I protest against--I am assisted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>By wicked powers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110> What you can make her do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>I am content to look on: what to speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>To make her speak as move.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>It is required</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>On: those that think it is unlawful business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>I am about, let them depart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>Proceed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>No foot shall stir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>Music, awake her; strike!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>HERMIONE comes down</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Start not; her actions shall be holy as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>Until you see her die again; for then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>When she was young you woo'd her; now in age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>Is she become the suitor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>O, she's warm!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>If this be magic, let it be an art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>Lawful as eating.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135> She embraces him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>CAMILLO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>She hangs about his neck:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>If she pertain to life let her speak too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>POLIXENES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>Or how stolen from the dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>That she is living,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>Were it but told you, should be hooted at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>Like an old tale: but it appears she lives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>Our Perdita is found.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>You gods, look down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>And from your sacred vials pour your graces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Knowing by Paulina that the oracle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>Myself to see the issue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>There's time enough for that;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>Lest they desire upon this push to trouble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>Your joys with like relation. Go together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>You precious winners all; your exultation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>My mate, that's never to be found again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>Lament till I am lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>O, peace, Paulina!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>As I by thine a wife: this is a match,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>Is richly noted and here justified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>That e'er I put between your holy looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>Each one demand an answer to his part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>We were dissever'd: hastily lead away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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