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        <title>The Winter's Tale</title>
        <author>William Shakespeare</author>
        <editor role="editor">W. G. Clark</editor>
        <editor role="editor">W. Aldis Wright</editor>
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            <editor role="editor">W. Aldis Wright</editor>
            <title>The Globe Shakespeare</title>
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              <pubPlace>New York</pubPlace>
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      <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="leon.">LEONTES</role><roleDesc>king of Sicilia</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="mam.">MAMILLIUS</role><roleDesc>young prince of Sicilia</roleDesc></castItem>
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          <lb/><head rend="braced"> Four Lords of Sicilia.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="cam.">CAMILLO</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="ant.">ANTIGONUS</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="cleo.">CLEOMENES</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="dion.">DION </role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="pol.">POLIXENES</role><roleDesc>king of Bohemia</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="flo.">FLORIZEL</role><roleDesc>prince of Bohemia</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="arch.">ARCHIDAMUS</role><roleDesc>a Lord of Bohemia</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="shep.">Old Shepherd</role><roleDesc>reputed father of Perdita</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="clo.">Clown</role><roleDesc>his son</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="aut.">AUTOLYCUS</role><roleDesc>a rogue</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="mar.">A Mariner</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="gaol.">A Gaoler</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="her.">HERMIONE</role><roleDesc>queen to Leontes</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="per.">PERDITA</role><roleDesc>wife to Antigonus</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="emil.">EMILIA</role><roleDesc>a lady attending on Hermione</roleDesc></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="paul.">PAULINA</role></castItem>
        <castGroup>
          <lb/><head rend="braced"> Shepherdesses.</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="mop.">MOPSA</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="dor.">DORCAS</role></castItem>
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          <lb/><head rend="braced">minor characters</head>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="first-gent.">First Gentleman</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-gent.">Second Gentleman</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="third-gent.">Third Gentleman</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="first-lord.">First Lord</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="lord.">Lord</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="first-lady.">First Lady</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-lady.">Second Lady</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="serv.">Servant</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="first-serv.">First Servant</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="sec-serv.">Second Servant</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="off.">Officer</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="lords.">Other Lords</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role id="gent.">Other Gentlemen</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role> Ladies</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role> Officers and Servants</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role> Shepherds</role></castItem>
          <castItem type="role"><role> and Shepherdesses.</role></castItem>
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        <castItem type="role"><role id="time.">Time</role><roleDesc>as Chorus</roleDesc></castItem>
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    <set><stage type="setting">SCENE: Sicilia, and Bohemia.</stage></set>
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<div1 n="1" type="act">
  <head>ACT I</head><lb n="2" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Antechamber in LEONTES' palace.</stage>
<lb n="3" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="4" ed="F1"/><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit
<lb ed="G"/>Bohemia, on <lb n="5" ed="F1"/>the like occasion whereon my
<lb ed="G"/>services are now <lb n="6" ed="F1"/>on foot, you shall see, as I
<lb ed="G"/>have said, great difference <lb n="7" ed="F1"/>betwixt our Bohemia
<lb ed="G"/>and your Sicilia.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="8" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>I think, this coming summer, the
<lb ed="G"/>King of <lb n="9" ed="F1"/>Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation
<lb ed="G"/>which he <lb n="10" ed="F1"/>justly owes him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="11" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>Wherein our entertainment shall
<lb ed="G"/>shame us we <lb n="12" ed="F1"/>will be justified in our loves; for
<lb ed="G"/>indeed--

<lb n="11" ed="G"/><lb n="13" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Beseech you,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="14" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>Verily, I speak it in the freedom of
<lb ed="G"/>my knowledge: <lb n="15" ed="F1"/>we cannot with such magnificence
<lb ed="G"/>--in so rare--<lb n="16" ed="F1"/>I know not what to say.
<lb ed="G"/>We will give you sleepy <lb n="17" ed="F1"/>drinks, that your
<lb ed="G"/>senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, <lb n="18" ed="F1"/>may,
<lb ed="G"/>though they cannot praise us, as little accuse <lb n="19" ed="F1"/>us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="20" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>You pay a great deal too dear for
<lb ed="G"/>what's given <lb n="21" ed="F1"/>freely.

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="22" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>Believe me, I speak as my understanding
<lb ed="G"/>instructs <lb n="23" ed="F1"/>me and as mine honesty
<lb ed="G"/>puts it to utterance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="24" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind
<lb ed="G"/>to Bohemia.   <lb n="25" ed="F1"/>They were trained together in
<lb ed="G"/>their childhoods; <lb n="26" ed="F1"/>and there rooted betwixt
<lb ed="G"/>them then such an affection, <lb n="27" ed="F1"/>which cannot
<lb ed="G"/>choose but branch now. Since their more <lb n="28" ed="F1"/>mature
<lb ed="G"/>dignities and royal necessities made separation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="29" ed="F1"/>of their society, their encounters,
<lb ed="G"/>though not personal, <lb n="30" ed="F1"/>have been royally attorneyed
<lb ed="G"/>with interchange of <lb n="31" ed="F1"/>gifts, letters, loving
<lb ed="G"/>embassies; that they have seemed to <lb n="32" ed="F1"/>be together,
<lb ed="G"/>though absent, shook hands, as over a
<lb ed="G"/>vast, <lb n="33" ed="F1"/>and embraced, as it were, from the ends
<lb ed="G"/>of opposed winds. <lb n="34" ed="F1"/>The heavens continue their loves!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="35" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>I think there is not in the world
<lb ed="G"/>either malice <lb n="36" ed="F1"/>or matter to alter it. You have
<lb ed="G"/>an unspeakable comfort <lb n="37" ed="F1"/>of your young prince
<lb ed="G"/>Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the <lb n="38" ed="F1"/>greatest
<lb ed="G"/>promise that ever came into my note.

<lb n="41" ed="G"/><lb n="39" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>I very well agree with you in the
<lb ed="G"/>hopes of him: <lb n="40" ed="F1"/>it is a gallant child; one that
<lb ed="G"/>indeed physics the subject, <lb n="41" ed="F1"/>makes old hearts
<lb ed="G"/>fresh: they that went on crutches <lb n="42" ed="F1"/>ere he was
<lb ed="G"/>born desire yet their life to see him a man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="43" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>Would they else be content to die?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="44" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Yes; if there were no other excuse
<lb ed="G"/>why they should <lb n="45" ed="F1"/>desire to live.

<lb n="49" ed="G"/><lb n="46" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="arch."><speaker>Arch.</speaker><p>If the king had no son, they would
<lb ed="G"/>desire to <lb n="47" ed="F1"/>live on crutches till he had one.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2>
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  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="48" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room of state in the same.</stage>
<lb n="49" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">   Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="50" ed="F1"/>
  
  <sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>Nine changes of the watery star hath been
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="51" ed="F1"/>The shepherd's note since we have left our throne
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="52" ed="F1"/>Without a burthen: time as long again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="53" ed="F1"/>Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="54" ed="F1"/>And yet we should, for perpetuity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="55" ed="F1"/>Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="56" ed="F1"/>Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="57" ed="F1"/>With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="58" ed="F1"/>That go before it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="59" ed="F1"/></p></sp>
  
  <sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Stay your thanks a while;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="60" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And pay them when you part.
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="61" ed="F1"/></l></sp>
  
  <sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, that's to-morrow.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="62" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="63" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or breed upon our absence; that may blow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="64" ed="F1"/></l><l>No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="65" ed="F1"/></l><l>'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="66" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To tire your royalty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="67" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">We are tougher, brother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="68" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than you can put us to 't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="69" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">No longer stay.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="70" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="I">One seven-night longer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="71" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Very sooth, to-morrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="72" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>We'll part the time between's then; and in that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="73" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll no gainsaying.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="74" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Press me not, beseech you, so.
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="75" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="76" ed="F1"/></l><l>So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="77" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were there necessity in your request, although
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="78" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="79" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="80" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were in your love a whip to me; my stay
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="81" ed="F1"/></l><l>To you a charge and trouble: to save both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="82" ed="F1"/></l><l>Farewell, our brother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="83" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Tongue-tied our queen? speak you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="84" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="85" ed="F1"/></l><l>You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="86" ed="F1"/></l><l>Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure
<lb n="31" ed="G"/><lb n="87" ed="F1"/></l><l>All in Bohemia's well: this satisfaction
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="88" ed="F1"/></l><l>The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="89" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He's beat from his best ward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="90" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Well said, Hermione.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="91" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="92" ed="F1"/></l><l>But let him say so then, and let him go;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="93" ed="F1"/></l><l>But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="94" ed="F1"/></l><l>We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="95" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="96" ed="F1"/></l><l>The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="97" ed="F1"/></l><l>You take my lord, I'll give him my commission
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="98" ed="F1"/></l><l>To let him there a month behind the gest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="99" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="100" ed="F1"/></l><l>I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="101" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="102" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">No, madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="103" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="I">Nay, but you will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="104" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">I may not, verily.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="105" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>Verily!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="106" ed="F1"/></l><l>You put me off with limber vows; but I,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="107" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="108" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="109" ed="F1"/></l><l>You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="110" ed="F1"/></l><l>As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="111" ed="F1"/></l><l>Force me to keep you as a prisoner,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="112" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="113" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="114" ed="F1"/></l><l>My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="115" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">One of them you shall be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="116" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Your guest, then, madam:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="117" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be your prisoner should import offending;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="118" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which is for me less easy to commit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="119" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than you to punish.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="120" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Not your gaoler, then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="121" ed="F1"/></l><l>But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you
<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="122" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="123" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You were pretty lordings then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="124" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">We were, fair queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="125" ed="F1"/></l><l>Two lads that thought there was no more behind
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="126" ed="F1"/></l><l>But such a day to-morrow as to-day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="127" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And to be boy eternal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="128" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Was not my lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="129" ed="F1"/></l><l>The verier wag o' the two?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="130" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="131" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bleat the one at the other: what we changed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="132" ed="F1"/></l><l>Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="133" ed="F1"/></l><l>The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="134" ed="F1"/></l><l>That any did. Had we pursued that life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="135" ed="F1"/></l><l>And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="136" ed="F1"/></l><l>With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="137" ed="F1"/></l><l>Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="138" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Hereditary ours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="139" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">By this we gather
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="140" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You have tripp'd since.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="141" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">O my most sacred lady!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="142" ed="F1"/></l><l>Temptations have since then been born to's; for
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="143" ed="F1"/></l><l>In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="144" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="145" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of my young play-fellow.

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="146" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Grace to boot!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="147" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of this make no conclusion, lest you say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="148" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your queen and I are devils: yet go on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="149" ed="F1"/></l><l>The offences we have made you do we'll answer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="150" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you first sinn'd with us and that with us
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="151" ed="F1"/></l><l>You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="152" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With any but with us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="153" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Is he won yet?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="154" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="I">He'll stay, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="155" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">At my request he would not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="156" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="157" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To better purpose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="158" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="Y">Never?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="159" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Never, but once.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="160" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>What! have I twice said well? when was't before?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="161" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="162" ed="F1"/></l><l>As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="163" ed="F1"/></l><l>Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="164" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our praises are our wages: you may ride's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="165" ed="F1"/></l><l>With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="166" ed="F1"/></l><l>With spur we heat an acre. But to the goal:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="167" ed="F1"/></l><l>My last good deed was to entreat his stay:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="168" ed="F1"/></l><l>What was my first? it has an elder sister,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="169" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="170" ed="F1"/></l><l>But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="171" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Nay, let me have't; I long.

<lb n="101" ed="G"/><lb n="172" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Why, that was when
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="173" ed="F1"/></l><l>Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="174" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ere I could make thee open thy white hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="175" ed="F1"/></l><l>And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="176" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'I am yours for ever.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="177" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis grace indeed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="178" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="179" ed="F1"/></l><l>The one for ever earn'd a royal husband;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="180" ed="F1"/></l><l>The other for some while a friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="181" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l><stage>[Aside]</stage> Too hot, too hot!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="182" ed="F1"/></l><l>To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="183" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="184" ed="F1"/></l><l>But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="185" ed="F1"/></l><l>May a free face put on, derive a liberty
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="186" ed="F1"/></l><l>From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="187" ed="F1"/></l><l>And well become the agent; 't may, I grant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="188" ed="F1"/></l><l>But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="189" ed="F1"/></l><l>As now they are, and making practised smiles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="190" ed="F1"/></l><l>As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="191" ed="F1"/></l><l>The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="192" ed="F1"/></l><l>My bosom likes not, nor my brows!   Mamillius,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="193" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Art thou my boy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="194" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="Y">Ay, my good lord.

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="195" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">I' fecks!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="196" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast smutch'd thy nose?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="197" ed="F1"/></l><l>They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="198" ed="F1"/></l><l>We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="199" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="200" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="201" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="202" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Art thou my calf?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="203" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="F">Yes, if you will, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="204" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="205" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be full like me: yet they say we are
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="206" ed="F1"/></l><l>Almost as like as eggs; women say so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="207" ed="F1"/></l><l>That will say any thing: but were they false
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="208" ed="F1"/></l><l>As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="209" ed="F1"/></l><l>As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="210" ed="F1"/></l><l>No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="211" ed="F1"/></l><l>To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="212" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="213" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most dear'st! my collop!   Can thy dam?-may't be?--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="214" ed="F1"/></l><l>Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="215" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou dost make possible things not so held,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="216" ed="F1"/></l><l>Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="217" ed="F1"/></l><l>With what's unreal thou coactive art,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="218" ed="F1"/></l><l>And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="219" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="220" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that beyond commission, and I find it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="221" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that to the infection of my brains
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="222" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And hardening of my brows.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="223" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">What means Sicilia?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="224" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="I">He something seems unsettled.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="225" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">How, my lord!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="226" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What cheer? how is 't with you, best brother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="227" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">You look</l>
<l>As if you held a brow of much distraction:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="228" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Are you moved, my lord?

<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="229" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">No, in good earnest.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="230" ed="F1"/></l><l>How sometimes nature will betray its folly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="231" ed="F1"/></l><l>Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="232" ed="F1"/></l><l>To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="233" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="234" ed="F1"/></l><l>Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="235" ed="F1"/></l><l>In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="236" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="237" ed="F1"/></l><l>As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="238" ed="F1"/></l><l>How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="239" ed="F1"/></l><l>This squash, this gentleman.   Mine honest friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="240" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will you take eggs for money?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="241" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>No, my lord, I'll fight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="242" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="243" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are you so fond of your young prince as we
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="244" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Do seem to be of ours?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="245" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">If at home, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="246" ed="F1"/></l><l>He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="247" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="248" ed="F1"/></l><l>My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="249" ed="F1"/></l><l>He makes a July's day short as December,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="250" ed="F1"/></l><l>And with his varying childness cures in me
<lb n="171" ed="G"/><lb n="251" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thoughts that would thick my blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="252" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">So stands this squire
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="253" ed="F1"/></l><l>Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="254" ed="F1"/></l><l>And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="255" ed="F1"/></l><l>How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="256" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="257" ed="F1"/></l><l>Next to thyself and my young rover, he's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="258" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Apparent to my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="259" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">If you would seek us
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="260" ed="F1"/></l><l>We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there ?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="261" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="262" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be you beneath the sky. <stage>[Aside]</stage> I am angling now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="263" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though you perceive me not how I give line.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="264" ed="F1"/></l><l>Go to, go to!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="265" ed="F1"/></l><l>How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="266" ed="F1"/></l><l>And arms her with the boldness of a wife
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="267" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To her allowing husband!
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Polixenes, Hermione, and Attendants.</stage></l>
<l part="F">Gone already!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="268" ed="F1"/></l><l>Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a fork'd one!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="269" ed="F1"/></l><l>Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="270" ed="F1"/></l><l>Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="271" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamor
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="272" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play. There have been,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="273" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="274" ed="F1"/></l><l>And many a man there is, even at this present,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="275" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="276" ed="F1"/></l><l>That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="277" ed="F1"/></l><l>And his pond fish'd by his next neighbor, by
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="278" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sir Smile, his neighbor: nay, there's comfort in't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="279" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="280" ed="F1"/></l><l>As mine, against their will. Should all despair
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="281" ed="F1"/></l><l>That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="282" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="283" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is a bawdy planet, that will strike
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="284" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="285" ed="F1"/></l><l>From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="286" ed="F1"/></l><l>No barricado for a belly; know't;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="287" ed="F1"/></l><l>It will let in and out the enemy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="288" ed="F1"/></l><l>With bag and baggage: many thousand on's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="289" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="290" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="I">I am like you, they say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="291" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Why, that's some comfort.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="292" ed="F1"/></l><l>What, Camillo there?

<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="293" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>Ay, my good lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="294" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man.
<stage type="exit">[Exit Mamillius. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="295" ed="F1"/></l><l>Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="296" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>You had much ado to make his anchor hold:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="297" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">When you cast out, it still came home.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="298" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Didst note it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="299" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>He would not stay at your petitions: made
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="300" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">His business more material.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="301" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Didst perceive it?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="302" ed="F1"/></l><l><stage>[Aside]</stage> They're here with me already, whispering, rounding
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="303" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="304" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I shall gust it last. How came 't, Camillo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="305" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he did stay?

<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="306" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>At the good queen's entreaty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="307" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="308" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="309" ed="F1"/></l><l>By any understanding pate but thine?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="310" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="311" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="312" ed="F1"/></l><l>But of the finer natures? by some severals
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="313" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="314" ed="F1"/></l><l>Perchance are to this business purblind? say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="315" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>Business, my lord!   I think most understand
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="316" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Bohemia stays here longer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="317" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="Y">Ha!

<lb n="230" ed="G"/><lb n="318" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Stays here longer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="319" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Ay, but why?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="320" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>To satisfy your highness and the entreaties
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="321" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of our most gracious mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="322" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Satisfy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="323" ed="F1"/></l><l>The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="324" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="325" ed="F1"/></l><l>With all the nearest things to my heart, as well
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="326" ed="F1"/></l><l>My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="327" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="328" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been
<lb n="240" ed="G"/><lb n="329" ed="F1"/></l><l>Deceived in thy integrity, deceived
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="330" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In that which seems so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="331" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Be it forbid, my lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="332" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="333" ed="F1"/></l><l>If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="334" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="335" ed="F1"/></l><l>From course required; or else thou must be counted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="336" ed="F1"/></l><l>A servant grafted in my serious trust
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="337" ed="F1"/></l><l>And therein negligent; or else a fool
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="338" ed="F1"/></l><l>That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="339" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And takest it all for jest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="340" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">My gracious lord,
<lb n="250" ed="G"/><lb n="341" ed="F1"/></l><l>I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="342" ed="F1"/></l><l>In every one of these no man is free,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="343" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="344" ed="F1"/></l><l>Among the infinite doings of the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="345" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="346" ed="F1"/></l><l>If ever I were wilful-negligent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="347" ed="F1"/></l><l>It was my folly; if industriously
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="348" ed="F1"/></l><l>I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="349" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="350" ed="F1"/></l><l>To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,
<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="351" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whereof the execution did cry out
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="352" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="353" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="354" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="355" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="356" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="357" ed="F1"/></l><l>By its own visage: if I then deny it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="358" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'Tis none of mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="359" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="360" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that's past doubt, you have, or your eyeglass
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="361" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--
<lb n="270" ed="G"/><lb n="362" ed="F1"/></l><l>For to a vision so apparent rumor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="363" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="364" ed="F1"/></l><l>Resides not in that man that does not think,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="365" ed="F1"/></l><l>My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="366" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else be impudently negative,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="367" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="368" ed="F1"/></l><l>My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="369" ed="F1"/></l><l>As rank as any flax-wench that puts to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="370" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="371" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I would not be a stander-by to hear
<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="372" ed="F1"/></l><l>My sovereign mistress clouded so, without
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="373" ed="F1"/></l><l>My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="374" ed="F1"/></l><l>You never spoke what did become you less
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="375" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than this; which to reiterate were sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="376" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As deep as that, though true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Is whispering nothing?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="378" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="379" ed="F1"/></l><l>Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="380" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of laughter with a sigh?--a note infallible
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="381" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="382" ed="F1"/></l><l>Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="383" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes
<lb n="291" ed="G"/><lb n="384" ed="F1"/></l><l>Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="385" ed="F1"/></l><l>That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="386" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="387" ed="F1"/></l><l>The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="388" ed="F1"/></l><l>My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="389" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If this be nothing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="390" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Good my lord, be cured
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="391" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of this diseased opinion, and betimes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="392" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For 'tis most dangerous.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="393" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Say it be, 'tis true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="394" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="I">No, no, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="395" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">It is; you lie, you lie:
<lb n="300" ed="G"/><lb n="396" ed="F1"/></l><l>I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="397" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="398" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else a hovering temporizer, that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="399" ed="F1"/></l><l>Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="400" ed="F1"/></l><l>Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="401" ed="F1"/></l><l>infected as her life, she would not live
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="402" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The running of one glass.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="403" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Who does infect her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="404" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Why, he that wears her like her medal, hanging
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="405" ed="F1"/></l><l>About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="406" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had servants true about me, that bare eyes
<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="407" ed="F1"/></l><l>To see alike mine honor as their profits,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="408" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their own particular thrifts, they would do that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="409" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="410" ed="F1"/></l><l>His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="411" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have bench'd and rear'd to worship, who mayst see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="412" ed="F1"/></l><l>Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="413" ed="F1"/></l><l>How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="414" ed="F1"/></l><l>To give mine enemy a lasting wink;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="415" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Which draught to me were cordial.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="416" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="417" ed="F1"/></l><l>I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="418" ed="F1"/></l><l>But with a lingering dram that should not work
<lb n="321" ed="G"/><lb n="419" ed="F1"/></l><l>Maliciously like poison: but I cannot
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="420" ed="F1"/></l><l>Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="421" ed="F1"/></l><l>So sovereignly being honorable.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="422" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have loved thee,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="423" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Make that thy question, and go rot!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="424" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="425" ed="F1"/></l><l>To appoint myself in this vexation, sully
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="426" ed="F1"/></l><l>The purity and whiteness of my sheets,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="427" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="428" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="429" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,
<lb n="331" ed="G"/><lb n="430" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who I do think is mine and love as mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="431" ed="F1"/></l><l>Without ripe moving to't?   Would I do this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="432" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Could man so blench?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="433" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">I must believe you, sir:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="434" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="435" ed="F1"/></l><l>Provided that, when he's removed, your highness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="436" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will take again your queen as yours at first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="437" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="438" ed="F1"/></l><l>The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="439" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Known and allied to yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="440" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Thou dost advise me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="441" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even so as I mine own course have set down:
<lb n="341" ed="G"/><lb n="442" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll give no blemish to her honor, none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="443" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>My lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="444" ed="F1"/></l><l>Go then; and with a countenance as clear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="445" ed="F1"/></l><l>As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="446" ed="F1"/></l><l>And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="447" ed="F1"/></l><l>If from me he have wholesome beverage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="448" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Account me not your servant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="449" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">This is all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="450" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="451" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Do't not, thou split'st thine own.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="452" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">I'll do't, my lord.

<lb n="350" ed="G"/><lb n="453" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.
<stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="454" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>O miserable lady!   But, for me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="455" ed="F1"/></l><l>What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="456" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="457" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is the obedience to a master, one
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="458" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who in rebellion with himself will have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="459" ed="F1"/></l><l>All that are his so too. To do this deed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="460" ed="F1"/></l><l>Promotion follows. If I could find example
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="461" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of thousands that had struck anointed kings
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="462" ed="F1"/></l><l>And flourish'd after, I'd not do't; but since
<lb n="360" ed="G"/><lb n="463" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="464" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let villany itself forswear't. I must
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="465" ed="F1"/></l><l>Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="466" ed="F1"/></l><l>To me a break-neck. Happy star reign now!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="467" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Here comes Bohemia.
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="468" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">This is strange: methinks
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="469" ed="F1"/></l><l>My favor here begins to warp. Not speak?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="470" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Good day, Camillo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="471" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Hail, most royal sir!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="472" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="I">What is the news i' the court?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="473" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">None rare, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="474" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>The king hath on him such a countenance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="475" ed="F1"/></l><l>As he had lost some province and a region
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="476" ed="F1"/></l><l>Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him
<lb n="371" ed="G"/><lb n="477" ed="F1"/></l><l>With customary compliments; when he,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="478" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="479" ed="F1"/></l><l>A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="480" ed="F1"/></l><l>So leaves me to consider what is breeding
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="481" ed="F1"/></l><l>That changeth thus his manners.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="482" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I dare not know, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="483" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>How! dare not! do not. Do you know and dare not?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="484" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="485" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, to yourself, what you do know, you must,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="486" ed="F1"/></l><l>And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="487" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your changed complexions are to me a mirror
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="488" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="489" ed="F1"/></l><l>A party in this alteration, finding
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="490" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Myself thus alter'd with 't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="491" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">There is a sickness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="492" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which puts some of us in distemper, but
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="493" ed="F1"/></l><l>I cannot name the disease; and it is caught
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="494" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of you that yet are well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="495" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">How! caught of me!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="496" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make me not sighted like the basilisk:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="497" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="498" ed="F1"/></l><l>By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--
<lb n="391" ed="G"/><lb n="499" ed="F1"/></l><l>As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="500" ed="F1"/></l><l>Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="501" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our gentry than our parents' noble names,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="502" ed="F1"/></l><l>In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="503" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you know aught which does behove my knowledge
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="504" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="505" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In ignorant concealment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="506" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">I may not answer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="507" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="508" ed="F1"/></l><l>I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,
<lb n="400" ed="G"/><lb n="509" ed="F1"/></l><l>I conjure thee, by all the parts of man
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="510" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which honor does acknowledge, whereof the least
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="511" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="512" ed="F1"/></l><l>What incidency thou dost guess of harm
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="513" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="514" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which may be prevented, if to be;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="515" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If not, how best to bear it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="516" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, I will tell you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="517" ed="F1"/></l><l>Since I am charged in honor and by him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="518" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I think honorable; therefore mark my counsel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="519" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as
<lb n="410" ed="G"/><lb n="520" ed="F1"/></l><l>I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="521" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Cry lost, and so good night!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="522" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">On, good Camillo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="523" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I am appointed him to murder you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="524" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="I">By whom, Camillo?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="525" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="Y">By the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="526" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">For what?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="527" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="528" ed="F1"/></l><l>As he had seen't or been an instrument
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="529" ed="F1"/></l><l>To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="530" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Forbiddenly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="531" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">O, then my best blood turn
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="532" ed="F1"/></l><l>To an infected jelly and my name
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="533" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!
<lb n="420" ed="G"/><lb n="534" ed="F1"/></l><l>Turn then my freshest reputation to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="535" ed="F1"/></l><l>A savor that may strike the dullest nostril
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="536" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="537" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="538" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That e'er was heard or read!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="539" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Swear his thought over
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="540" ed="F1"/></l><l>By each particular star in heaven and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="541" ed="F1"/></l><l>By all their influences, you may as well
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="542" ed="F1"/></l><l>Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="543" ed="F1"/></l><l>As or by oath remove or counsel shake
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="544" ed="F1"/></l><l>The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
<lb n="430" ed="G"/><lb n="545" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is piled upon his faith and will continue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="546" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The standing of his body.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="547" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">How should this grow?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="548" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="549" ed="F1"/></l><l>Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="550" ed="F1"/></l><l>If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="551" ed="F1"/></l><l>That lies enclosed in this trunk which you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="552" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="553" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your followers I will whisper to the business,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="554" ed="F1"/></l><l>And will by twos and threes at several posterns
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="555" ed="F1"/></l><l>Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="556" ed="F1"/></l><l>My fortunes to your service, which are here
<lb n="441" ed="G"/><lb n="557" ed="F1"/></l><l>By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="558" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, by the honor of my parents, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="559" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="560" ed="F1"/></l><l>I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="561" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="562" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">His execution sworn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="563" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">I do believe thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="564" ed="F1"/></l><l>I saw his heart in's face. Give me thy hand:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="565" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be pilot to me and thy places shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="566" ed="F1"/></l><l>Still neighbor mine. My ships are ready and
<lb n="450" ed="G"/><lb n="567" ed="F1"/></l><l>My people did expect my hence departure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="568" ed="F1"/></l><l>Two days ago. This jealousy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="569" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="570" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="571" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must it be violent, and as he does conceive
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="572" ed="F1"/></l><l>He is dishonor'd by a man which ever
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="573" ed="F1"/></l><l>Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="574" ed="F1"/></l><l>In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="575" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good expedition be my friend, and comfort
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="576" ed="F1"/></l><l>The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing
<lb n="460" ed="G"/><lb n="577" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="578" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will respect thee as a father if
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="579" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="580" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>It is in mine authority to command
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="581" ed="F1"/></l><l>The keys of all the posterns: please your highness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="582" ed="F1"/></l><l>To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 n="2" type="act">
  <head>ACT II</head><lb n="583" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A room in LEONTE'S palace.</stage>
<lb n="584" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies.</stage>
<lb n="585" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="586" ed="F1"/><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="587" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'Tis past enduring.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="588" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lady."><speaker>First Lady.</speaker><l part="F">Come, my gracious lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="589" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Shall I be your playfellow?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="590" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="F">No, I'll none of you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="591" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lady."><speaker>First Lady.</speaker><l>Why, my sweet lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="592" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="593" ed="F1"/></l><l>I were a baby still. I love you better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="594" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-lady."><speaker>Sec. Lady.</speaker><l part="I">And why so, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="595" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="F">Not for because
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="596" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="597" ed="F1"/></l><l>Become some women best, so that there be not
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="598" ed="F1"/></l><l>Too much hair there, but in a semicircle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="599" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Or a half-moon made with a pen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="600" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-lady."><speaker>Sec. Lady.</speaker><l part="F">Who taught you this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="601" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="602" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What color are your eyebrows?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="603" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lady."><speaker>First Lady.</speaker><l part="F">Blue, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="604" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="605" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="606" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lady."><speaker>First Lady.</speaker><l part="F">Hark ye;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="607" ed="F1"/></l><l>The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="608" ed="F1"/></l><l>Present our services to a fine new prince
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="609" ed="F1"/></l><l>One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="610" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If we would have you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="611" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sec.-lady."><speaker>Sec. Lady.</speaker><l part="F">She is spread of late
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="612" ed="F1"/></l><l>Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!

<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="613" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="614" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="615" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And tell's a tale.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="616" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="F">Merry or sad shall't be?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="617" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>As merry as you will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="618" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>A sad tale's best for winter: I have one
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="619" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of sprites and goblins.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="620" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Let's have that, good sir.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="621" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="622" ed="F1"/></l><l>To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="623" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l part="I">There was a man--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="624" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, come, sit down; then on.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="625" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mam."><speaker>Mam.</speaker><l>Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="626" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Yond crickets shall not hear it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="627" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Come on, then,</l>
<l>And give't me in mine ear.
<stage type="entrance">Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords, and others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="628" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Was he met there? his train? Camillo with <lb n="629" ed="F1"/>him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="630" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="631" ed="F1"/></l><l>Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="632" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Even to their ships.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="633" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">How blest am I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="634" ed="F1"/></l><l>In my just censure, in my true opinion!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="635" ed="F1"/></l><l>Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="636" ed="F1"/></l><l>In being so blest! There may be in the cup
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="637" ed="F1"/></l><l>A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="638" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="639" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is not infected: but if one present
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="640" ed="F1"/></l><l>The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="641" ed="F1"/></l><l>How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="642" ed="F1"/></l><l>With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="643" ed="F1"/></l><l>Camillo was his help in this, his pander:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="644" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is a plot against my life, my crown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="645" ed="F1"/></l><l>All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="646" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="647" ed="F1"/></l><l>He has discover'd my design, and I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="648" ed="F1"/></l><l>Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="649" ed="F1"/></l><l>For them to play at will. How came the posterns
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="650" ed="F1"/></l><l>So easily open?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="651" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>By his great authority;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="652" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which often hath no less prevail'd than so
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="653" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">On your command.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="654" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">I know't too well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="655" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="656" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="657" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Have too much blood in him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="658" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">What is this? sport?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="659" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her;
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="660" ed="F1"/></l><l>Away with him! and let her sport herself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="661" ed="F1"/></l><l>With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="662" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Has made thee swell thus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="663" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">But I'ld say he had not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="664" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="665" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Howe'er you lean to the nayward.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="666" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">You, my lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="667" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look on her, mark her well; be but about
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="668" ed="F1"/></l><l>To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="669" ed="F1"/></l><l>The justice of your hearts will thereto add
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="670" ed="F1"/></l><l>''Tis pity she's not honest, honorable:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="671" ed="F1"/></l><l>Praise her but for this her without-door form.
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="672" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="673" ed="F1"/></l><l>The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="674" ed="F1"/></l><l>That calumny doth use--O, I am out--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="675" ed="F1"/></l><l>That mercy does, for calumny will sear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="676" ed="F1"/></l><l>Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="677" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="678" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be't known,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="679" ed="F1"/></l><l>From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="680" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She's an adulteress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="681" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Should a villain say so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="682" ed="F1"/></l><l>The most replenish'd villain in the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="683" ed="F1"/></l><l>He were as much more villain: you, my lord
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="684" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Do but mistake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="685" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">You have mistook, my lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="686" ed="F1"/></l><l>Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="687" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="688" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="689" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should a like language use to all degrees
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="690" ed="F1"/></l><l>And mannerly distinguishment leave out
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="691" ed="F1"/></l><l>Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="692" ed="F1"/></l><l>She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="693" ed="F1"/></l><l>More, she's a traitor and Camillo is
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="694" ed="F1"/></l><l>A federary with her, and one that knows
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="695" ed="F1"/></l><l>What she should shame to know herself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="696" ed="F1"/></l><l>But with her most vile principal, that she's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="697" ed="F1"/></l><l>A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="698" ed="F1"/></l><l>That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="699" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To this their late escape.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="700" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">No, by my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="701" ed="F1"/></l><l>Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="702" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you shall come to clearer knowledge that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="703" ed="F1"/></l><l>You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="704" ed="F1"/></l><l>You scarce can right me throughly then to say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="705" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You did mistake.

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="706" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">No; if I mistake
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="707" ed="F1"/></l><l>In those foundations which I build upon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="708" ed="F1"/></l><l>The centre is not big enough to bear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="709" ed="F1"/></l><l>A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="710" ed="F1"/></l><l>He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="711" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But that he speaks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="712" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">There's some ill planet reigns:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="713" ed="F1"/></l><l>I must be patient till the heavens look
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="714" ed="F1"/></l><l>With an aspect more favorable.   Good my lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="715" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="716" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="717" ed="F1"/></l><l>Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="718" ed="F1"/></l><l>That honorable grief lodged here which burns
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="719" ed="F1"/></l><l>Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="720" ed="F1"/></l><l>With thoughts so qualified as your charities
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="721" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="722" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The king's will be perform'd!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="723" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Shall I be heard?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="724" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="725" ed="F1"/></l><l>My women may be with me; for you see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="726" ed="F1"/></l><l>My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="727" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="728" ed="F1"/></l><l>Has deserved prison, then abound in tears
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="729" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I come out: this action I now go on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="730" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="731" ed="F1"/></l><l>I never wish'd to see you sorry; now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="732" ed="F1"/></l><l>I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="733" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Go, do our bidding; hence!
<stage type="exit">[Exit Queen, guarded; with Ladies.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="734" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>Beseech your highness, call the queen again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="735" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="736" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="737" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Yourself, your queen, your son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="738" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">For her, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="739" ed="F1"/></l><l>I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="740" ed="F1"/></l><l>Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="741" ed="F1"/></l><l>I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="742" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In this which you accuse her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="743" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">If it prove
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="744" ed="F1"/></l><l>She's otherwise,   I'll keep my stables where
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="745" ed="F1"/></l><l>I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="746" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="747" ed="F1"/></l><l>For every inch of woman in the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="748" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="749" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If she be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="750" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="Y">Hold your peaces.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="751" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">Good my lord,--

<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="752" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="753" ed="F1"/></l><l>You are abused and by some putter-on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="754" ed="F1"/></l><l>That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="755" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would land-damn him. Be she honor-flaw'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="756" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="757" ed="F1"/></l><l>The second and the third, nine, and some five;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="758" ed="F1"/></l><l>If this prove true, they'll pay for't: by mine honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="759" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="760" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bring false generations: they are co-heirs;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="761" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I had rather glib myself than they
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="762" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Should not produce fair issue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="763" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Cease; no more.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="764" ed="F1"/></l><l>You smell this business with a sense as cold
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="765" ed="F1"/></l><l>As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="766" ed="F1"/></l><l>As you feel doing thus; and see withal
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="767" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The instruments that feel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="768" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">If it be so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="769" ed="F1"/></l><l>We need no grave to bury honesty:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="770" ed="F1"/></l><l>There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="771" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of the whole dungy earth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="772" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">What! lack I credit?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="773" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="774" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon this ground; and more it would content me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="775" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have her honor true than your suspicion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="776" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Be blamed for't how you might.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="777" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Why, what need we
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="778" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commune with you of this, but rather follow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="779" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our forceful instigation?   Our prerogative
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="780" ed="F1"/></l><l>Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="781" ed="F1"/></l><l>Imparts this; which if you, or stupified
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="782" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="783" ed="F1"/></l><l>Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="784" ed="F1"/></l><l>We need no more of your advice: the matter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="785" ed="F1"/></l><l>The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="786" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Properly ours.

<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="787" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">And I wish, my liege.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="788" ed="F1"/></l><l>You had only in your silent judgement tried it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="789" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Without more overture.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="790" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">How could that be?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="791" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either thou art most ignorant by age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="792" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="793" ed="F1"/></l><l>Added to their familiarity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="794" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="795" ed="F1"/></l><l>That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="796" ed="F1"/></l><l>But only seeing, all other circumstances
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="797" ed="F1"/></l><l>Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="798" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet, for a greater confirmation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="799" ed="F1"/></l><l>For in an act of this importance 'twere
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="800" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="801" ed="F1"/></l><l>To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="802" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="803" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="804" ed="F1"/></l><l>They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="805" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="806" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>Well done, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="807" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Though I am satisfied and need no more
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="808" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than what I know, yet shall the oracle
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="809" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give rest to the minds of others, such as he
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="810" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose ignorant credulity will not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="811" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="812" ed="F1"/></l><l>From our free person she should be confined,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="813" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="814" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="815" ed="F1"/></l><l>We are to speak in public; for this business
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="816" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Will raise us all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="817" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F"><stage>[Aside]</stage> To laughter, as I take it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="818" ed="F1"/></l><l>If the good truth were known.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="819" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A prison.</stage>
<lb n="820" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="821" ed="F1"/><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>The keeper of the prison, call to him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="822" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Let him have knowledge who I am.
<stage type="exit">[Exit Gent.</stage></l>
<l part="F">Good lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="823" ed="F1"/></l><l>No court in Europe is too good for thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="824" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What dost thou then in prison?
<stage type="entrance">    Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler.</stage></l>
<l part="F">Now, good sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="825" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You know me, do you not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="826" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l part="F">For a worthy lady
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="827" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And one whom much I honor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="828" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Pray you then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="829" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Conduct me to the queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="830" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l part="F">I may not madam:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="831" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the contrary I have express commandment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="832" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Here's ado,</l>
<l n="10">To lock up honesty and honor from
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="833" ed="F1"/></l><l>The access of gentle visitors! Is't lawful, pray you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="834" ed="F1"/></l><l>To see her women? any of them? Emilia?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="835" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l>So please you, madam,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="836" ed="F1"/></l><l>To put apart these your attendants, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="837" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Shall bring Emilia forth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="838" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">I pray now, call her.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="839" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Withdraw yourselves.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="840" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l part="F">And, madam,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="841" ed="F1"/></l><l>I must be present at your conference.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="842" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Well, be't so, prithee. <stage type="exit">[Exit Gaoler.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="843" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here's such ado to make no stain a stain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="844" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As passes coloring.
<stage type="entrance"> Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA.</stage></l>
<l n="20" part="F">Dear gentlewoman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="845" ed="F1"/></l><l>How fares our gracious lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="846" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>As well as one so great and so forlorn
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="847" ed="F1"/></l><l>May hold together: on her frights and griefs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="848" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which never tender lady hath borne greater,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="849" ed="F1"/></l><l>She is something before her time deliver'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="850" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="I">A boy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="851" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">A daughter, and a goodly babe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="852" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lusty and like to live: the queen receives
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="853" ed="F1"/></l><l>Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="854" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I am innocent as you.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="855" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">I dare be sworn:
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="856" ed="F1"/></l><l>These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king, beshrew them!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="857" ed="F1"/></l><l>He must be told on't, and he shall: the office
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="858" ed="F1"/></l><l>Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="859" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I prove honey-mouth'd, let my tongue blister
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="860" ed="F1"/></l><l>And never to my red-look'd anger be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="861" ed="F1"/></l><l>The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="862" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commend my best obedience to the queen:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="863" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she dares trust me with her little babe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="864" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll show't the king and undertake to be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="865" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="866" ed="F1"/></l><l>How he may soften at the sight o' the child:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="867" ed="F1"/></l><l>The silence often of pure innocence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="868" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Persuades when speaking fails.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="869" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Most worthy madam,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="870" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your honor and your goodness is so evident
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="871" ed="F1"/></l><l>That your free undertaking cannot miss
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="872" ed="F1"/></l><l>A thriving issue: there is no lady living
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="873" ed="F1"/></l><l>So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="874" ed="F1"/></l><l>To visit the next room, I'll presently
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="875" ed="F1"/></l><l>Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="876" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who but to-day hammer'd of this design,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="877" ed="F1"/></l><l>But durst not tempt a minister of honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="878" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Lest she should be denied.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="879" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Tell her, Emilia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="880" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="881" ed="F1"/></l><l>As boldness from my bosom, let't not be doubted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="882" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I shall do good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="883" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Now be you blest for it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="884" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll to the queen: please you, come something nearer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="885" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l>Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="886" ed="F1"/></l><l>I know not what I shall incur to pass it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="887" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Having no warrant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="888" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">You need not fear it, sir:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="889" ed="F1"/></l><l>This child was prisoner to the womb and is
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="890" ed="F1"/></l><l>By law and process of great nature thence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="891" ed="F1"/></l><l>Freed and enfranchised, not a party to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="892" ed="F1"/></l><l>The anger of the king nor guilty of,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="893" ed="F1"/></l><l>If any be, the trespass of the queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="894" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gaol."><speaker>Gaol.</speaker><l>I do believe it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="895" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Do not you fear: upon mine honor, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="896" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will stand betwixt you and danger.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="897" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in LEONTES' palace.</stage>
<lb n="898" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">   Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, <lb n="899" ed="F1"/>and Servants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="900" ed="F1"/><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="901" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="902" ed="F1"/></l><l>The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="903" ed="F1"/></l><l>She the adulteress; for the harlot king
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="904" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="905" ed="F1"/></l><l>And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="906" ed="F1"/></l><l>I can hook to me; say that she were gone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="907" ed="F1"/></l><l>Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="908" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Might come to me again. Who's there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="909" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l part="F">My lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="910" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>How does the boy?

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="911" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-serv."><speaker>First Serv.</speaker><l>He took good rest to-night;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="912" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="913" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>To see his nobleness!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="914" ed="F1"/></l><l>Conceiving the dishonor of his mother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="915" ed="F1"/></l><l>He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="916" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="917" ed="F1"/></l><l>Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="918" ed="F1"/></l><l>And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="919" ed="F1"/></l><l>See how he fares. <stage type="exit">[Exit Serv.</stage> Fie, fie! no thought of him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="920" ed="F1"/></l><l>The very thought of my revenges that way
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="921" ed="F1"/></l><l>Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="922" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in his parties, his alliance; let him be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="923" ed="F1"/></l><l>Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="924" ed="F1"/></l><l>Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="925" ed="F1"/></l><l>Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="926" ed="F1"/></l><l>They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="927" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Shall she within my power.
<lb n="928" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter PAULINA, with a child.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="929" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">You must not enter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="930" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="931" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="932" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="933" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">More free than he is jealous.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="934" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">That's enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="935" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sec-serv."><speaker>Sec. Serv.</speaker><l>Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="936" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">None should come at him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="937" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Not so hot, good sir:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="938" ed="F1"/></l><l>I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="939" ed="F1"/></l><l>That creep like shadows by him and do sigh
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="940" ed="F1"/></l><l>At each his needless heavings, such as you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="941" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nourish the cause of his awaking: I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="942" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do come with words as medicinal as true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="943" ed="F1"/></l><l>Honest as either, to purge him of that humor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="944" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That presses him from sleep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="945" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">What noise there, ho?

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="946" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>No noise, my lord; but needful conference
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="947" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">About some gossips for your highness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="948" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">How!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="949" ed="F1"/></l><l>Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="950" ed="F1"/></l><l>I charged thee that she should not come about me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="951" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I knew she would.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="952" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I told her so, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="953" ed="F1"/></l><l>On your displeasure's peril and on mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="954" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She should not visit you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="955" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">What, canst not rule her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="956" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>From all dishonesty he can: in this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="957" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unless he take the course that you have done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="958" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commit me for committing honor, trust it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="959" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He shall not rule me.

<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="960" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">La you now, you hear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="961" ed="F1"/></l><l>When she will take the rein I let her run;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="962" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But she'll not stumble.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="963" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Good my liege, I come;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="964" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="965" ed="F1"/></l><l>Myself your loyal servant, your physician,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="966" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="967" ed="F1"/></l><l>Less appear so in comforting your evils,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="968" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="969" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">From your good queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="970" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="Y">Good queen!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="971" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Good queen, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="972" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good queen; I say good queen;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="973" ed="F1"/></l><l>And would by combat make her good, so were I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="974" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A man, the worst about you.

<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="975" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Force her hence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="976" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="977" ed="F1"/></l><l>First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="978" ed="F1"/></l><l>But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="979" ed="F1"/></l><l>For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="980" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing.
<stage>[Laying down the child.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="981" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Out!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="982" ed="F1"/></l><l>A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="983" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A most intelligencing bawd!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="984" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Not so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="985" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am as ignorant in that as you
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="986" ed="F1"/></l><l>In so entitling me, and no less honest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="987" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="988" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As this world goes, to pass for honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="989" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Traitors!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="990" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="991" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="992" ed="F1"/></l><l>By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="993" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="994" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">For ever
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="995" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="996" ed="F1"/></l><l>Takest up the princess by that forced baseness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="997" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Which he has put upon't!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="998" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">He dreads his wife.

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="999" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1000" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You'ld call your children yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1001" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">A nest of traitors!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1002" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="I">I am none, by this good light.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1003" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Nor I, nor any
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1004" ed="F1"/></l><l>But one that's here, and that's himself, for he
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1005" ed="F1"/></l><l>The sacred honor of himself, his queen's,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1006" ed="F1"/></l><l>His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1007" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose sting is sharper than the sword's; and will not--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1008" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, as the case now stands, it is a curse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1009" ed="F1"/></l><l>He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1010" ed="F1"/></l><l>The root of his opinion, which is rotten
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1011" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As ever oak or stone was sound.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1012" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">A callet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1013" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1014" ed="F1"/></l><l>And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1015" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is the issue of Polixenes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1016" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hence with it, and together with the dam
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1017" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Commit them to the fire!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1018" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">It is yours;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1019" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1020" ed="F1"/></l><l>So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1021" ed="F1"/></l><l>Although the print be little, the whole matter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1022" ed="F1"/></l><l>And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1023" ed="F1"/></l><l>The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1024" ed="F1"/></l><l>The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,</l>
<l>His smiles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1025" ed="F1"/></l><l>The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1026" ed="F1"/></l><l>And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1027" ed="F1"/></l><l>So like to him that got it, if thou hast
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1028" ed="F1"/></l><l>The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colors
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1029" ed="F1"/></l><l>No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1030" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Her children not her husband's!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1031" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">A gross hag!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1032" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1033" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That wilt not stay her tongue.

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1034" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Hang all the husbands
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1035" ed="F1"/></l><l>That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1036" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Hardly one subject.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1037" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Once more, take her hence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1038" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>A most unworthy and unnatural lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1039" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Can do no more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1040" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="Y">I'll ha' thee burnt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1041" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">I care not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1042" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is an heretic that makes the fire,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1043" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1044" ed="F1"/></l><l>But this most cruel usage of your queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1045" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not able to produce more accusation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1046" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savors
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1047" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1048" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Yea, scandalous to the world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1049" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">On your allegiance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1050" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1051" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where were her life? she durst not call me so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1052" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she did know me one. Away with her!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1053" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1054" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours: Jove send her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1055" ed="F1"/></l><l>A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1056" ed="F1"/></l><l>You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1057" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will never do him good, not one of you.
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1058" ed="F1"/></l><l>So, so: farewell; we are gone.
<stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1059" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1060" ed="F1"/></l><l>My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1061" ed="F1"/></l><l>A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1062" ed="F1"/></l><l>And see it instantly consumed with fire;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1063" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1064" ed="F1"/></l><l>Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1065" ed="F1"/></l><l>And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1066" ed="F1"/></l><l>With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1067" ed="F1"/></l><l>And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1068" ed="F1"/></l><l>The bastard brains with these my proper hands
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1069" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1070" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For thou set'st on thy wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1071" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I did not, sir;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1072" ed="F1"/></l><l>These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1073" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Can clear me in't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1074" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lords."><speaker>Lords.</speaker><l part="F">We can: my royal liege,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1075" ed="F1"/></l><l>He is not guilty of her coming hither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1076" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>You're liars all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1077" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>Beseech your highness, give us better credit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1078" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have always truly served you, and beseech you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1079" ed="F1"/></l><l>So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1080" ed="F1"/></l><l>As recompense of our dear services
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1081" ed="F1"/></l><l>Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1082" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which being so horrible, so bloody, must
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1083" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1084" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>I am a feather for each wind that blows:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1085" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1086" ed="F1"/></l><l>And call me father? better burn it now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1087" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than curse it then. But be it; let it live.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1088" ed="F1"/></l><l>It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1089" ed="F1"/></l><l>You that have been so tenderly officious
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="1090" ed="F1"/></l><l>With Lady Margery, your midwife there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1091" ed="F1"/></l><l>To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1092" ed="F1"/></l><l>So sure as this beard's grey,--what will you adventure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1093" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To save this brat's life?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1094" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Any thing, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1095" ed="F1"/></l><l>That my ability may undergo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1096" ed="F1"/></l><l>And nobleness impose: at least thus much:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1097" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll pawn the little blood which I have left
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1098" ed="F1"/></l><l>To save the innocent: any thing possible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1099" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>It shall be possible. Swear by this sword
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1100" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thou wilt perform my bidding.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1101" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I will, my lord.

<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="1102" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Mark and perform   it, see'st thou? for the fail
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1103" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of any point in't shall not only be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1104" ed="F1"/></l><l>Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1105" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1106" ed="F1"/></l><l>As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1107" ed="F1"/></l><l>This female bastard hence and that thou bear it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1108" ed="F1"/></l><l>To some remote and desert place quite out
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1109" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1110" ed="F1"/></l><l>Without more mercy, to its own protection
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1111" ed="F1"/></l><l>And favor of the climate.   As by strange fortune
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="1112" ed="F1"/></l><l>It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1113" ed="F1"/></l><l>On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1114" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou commend it strangely to some place
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1115" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where chance may nurse or end it.   Take it up.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1116" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I swear to do this, though a present death
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1117" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had been more merciful.   Come on, poor babe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1118" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1119" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be thy nurses!   Wolves and bears, they say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1120" ed="F1"/></l><l>Casting their savageness aside have done
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1121" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="1122" ed="F1"/></l><l>In more than this deed does require! And blessing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1123" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against this cruelty fight on thy side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1124" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!
<stage type="exit">[Exit with the child.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1125" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">No, I'll not rear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1126" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Another's issue.
<stage type="entrance">                Enter a Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1127" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l part="F">Please your highness, posts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1128" ed="F1"/></l><l>From those you sent to the oracle are come
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1129" ed="F1"/></l><l>An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1130" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being well arrived from   Delphos, are both landed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1131" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hasting to the court.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1132" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l>So please you, sir, their speed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1133" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Hath been beyond account.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1134" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Twenty three days
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1135" ed="F1"/></l><l>They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="1136" ed="F1"/></l><l>The great Apollo suddenly will have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1137" ed="F1"/></l><l>The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1138" ed="F1"/></l><l>Summon a session, that we may arraign
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1139" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1140" ed="F1"/></l><l>Been publicly accused, so shall she have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1141" ed="F1"/></l><l>A just and open trial. While she lives
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1142" ed="F1"/></l><l>My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1143" ed="F1"/></l><l>And think upon my bidding.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 n="3" type="act">
  <head>ACT III</head><lb n="1144" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A sea-port in Sicilia.</stage>
<lb n="1145" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CLEOMENES and DION.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1146" ed="F1"/><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l>The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1147" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1148" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The common praise it bears.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1149" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dion."><speaker>Dion.</speaker><l part="F">I shall report,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1150" ed="F1"/></l><l>For most it caught me, the celestial habits,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1151" ed="F1"/></l><l>Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1152" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1153" ed="F1"/></l><l>How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1154" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">It was i' the offering

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1155" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l part="F">But of all, the burst
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1156" ed="F1"/></l><l>And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1157" ed="F1"/></l><l>Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1158" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That I was nothing.

<lb n="11" ed="G"/><lb n="1159" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dion."><speaker>Dion.</speaker><l part="F">If the event o' the journey
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1160" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1161" ed="F1"/></l><l>As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1162" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The time is worth the use on't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1163" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l part="F">Great Apollo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1164" ed="F1"/></l><l>Turn all to the best! These proclamations,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1165" ed="F1"/></l><l>So forcing faults upon Hermione,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1166" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I little like.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1167" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dion."><speaker>Dion.</speaker><l part="F">The violent carriage of it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1168" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1169" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1170" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall the contents discover, something rare
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1171" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1172" ed="F1"/></l><l>And gracious be the issue!
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="1173" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A court of Justice.</stage>
<lb n="1174" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers. </stage>
<lb n="1175" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1176" ed="F1"/><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1177" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1178" ed="F1"/></l><l>The daughter of a king, our wife, and one
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1179" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1180" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of being tyrannous, since we so openly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1181" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1182" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even to the guilt or the purgation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1183" ed="F1"/></l><l>Produce the prisoner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1184" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="off."><speaker>Off.</speaker><l>It is his highness' pleasure that the queen
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1185" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Appear in person here in court. Silence!
<stage type="entrance">   Enter HERMIONE guarded; PAULINA and Ladies attending.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1186" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Read the indictment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1187" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="off."><speaker>Off.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads]</stage> Hermione, queen to the
<lb ed="G"/>worthy Leontes, king <lb n="1188" ed="F1"/>of Sicilia, thou art here
<lb ed="G"/>accused and arraigned of high treason, <lb n="1189" ed="F1"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>committing adultery with Polixenes, king of
<lb ed="G"/>Bohemia, <lb n="1190" ed="F1"/>and conspiring with Camillo to take
<lb ed="G"/>away the life of our sovereign <lb n="1191" ed="F1"/>lord the king,
<lb ed="G"/>thy royal husband: the pretence whereof <lb n="1192" ed="F1"/>being
<lb ed="G"/>by circumstances partly laid open, thou,
<lb ed="G"/>Hermione, contrary <lb n="1193" ed="F1"/>to the faith and allegiance
<lb ed="G"/>of a true subject, didst counsel <lb n="1194" ed="F1"/>and aid
<lb ed="G"/>them, for their better safety, to fly away by <lb n="1195" ed="F1"/>night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1196" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>Since what I am to say must be but that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1197" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which contradicts my accusation and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1198" ed="F1"/></l><l>The testimony on my part no other
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1199" ed="F1"/></l><l>But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1200" ed="F1"/></l><l>To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1201" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1202" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be so received. But thus: if powers divine
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1203" ed="F1"/></l><l>Behold our human actions, as they do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1204" ed="F1"/></l><l>I doubt not then but innocence shall make
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1205" ed="F1"/></l><l>False accusation blush and tyranny
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1206" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1207" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who least will seem to do so, my past life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1208" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1209" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I am now unhappy; which is more
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1210" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than history can pattern, though devised
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1211" ed="F1"/></l><l>And play'd to take spectators. For behold me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1212" ed="F1"/></l><l>A fellow of the royal bed, which owe
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1213" ed="F1"/></l><l>A moiety of the throne, a great king's daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1214" ed="F1"/></l><l>The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1215" ed="F1"/></l><l>To prate and talk for life and honor 'fore
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1216" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1217" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1218" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis a derivative from me to mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1219" ed="F1"/></l><l>And only that I stand for. I appeal
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1220" ed="F1"/></l><l>To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1221" ed="F1"/></l><l>Came to your court, how I was in your grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1222" ed="F1"/></l><l>How merited to be so; since he came,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1223" ed="F1"/></l><l>With what encounter so uncurrent I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1224" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1225" ed="F1"/></l><l>The bound of honor, or in act or will
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1226" ed="F1"/></l><l>That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1227" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1228" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Cry fie upon my grave!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1229" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">I ne'er heard yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1230" ed="F1"/></l><l>That any of these bolder vices wanted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1231" ed="F1"/></l><l>Less impudence to gainsay what they did
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1232" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than to perform it first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1233" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">That's true enough;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1234" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1235" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="I">You will not own it.

<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1236" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">More than mistress of
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1237" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1238" ed="F1"/></l><l>At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1239" ed="F1"/></l><l>With whom I am accused, I do confess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1240" ed="F1"/></l><l>I loved him as in honor he required,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1241" ed="F1"/></l><l>With such a kind of love as might become
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1242" ed="F1"/></l><l>A lady like me, with a love even such,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1243" ed="F1"/></l><l>So and no other, as yourself commanded:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1244" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which not to have done I think had been in me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1245" ed="F1"/></l><l>Both disobedience and ingratitude
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1246" ed="F1"/></l><l>To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1247" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1248" ed="F1"/></l><l>That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1249" ed="F1"/></l><l>I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1250" ed="F1"/></l><l>For me to try how: all I know of it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1251" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is that Camillo was an honest man;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1252" ed="F1"/></l><l>And why he left your court, the gods themselves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1253" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1254" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>You knew of his departure, as you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1255" ed="F1"/></l><l>What you have underta'en to do in's absence.

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="1256" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>Sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1257" ed="F1"/></l><l>You speak a language that I understand not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1258" ed="F1"/></l><l>My life stands in the level of your dreams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1259" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Which I'll lay down.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1260" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Your actions are my dreams;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1261" ed="F1"/></l><l>You had a bastard by Polixenes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1262" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1263" ed="F1"/></l><l>Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1264" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1265" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1266" ed="F1"/></l><l>No father owning it,--which is, indeed,
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1267" ed="F1"/></l><l>More criminal in thee than it,--so thou
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1268" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1269" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Look for no less than death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1270" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, spare your threats:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1271" ed="F1"/></l><l>The bug which you would fright me with I seek.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1272" ed="F1"/></l><l>To me can life be no commodity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1273" ed="F1"/></l><l>The crown and comfort of my life, your favor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1274" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1275" ed="F1"/></l><l>But know not how it went. My second joy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1276" ed="F1"/></l><l>And first-fruits of my body, from his presence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1277" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am barr'd, like one infectious.   My third comfort,
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1278" ed="F1"/></l><l>Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1279" ed="F1"/></l><l>The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1280" ed="F1"/></l><l>Haled out to murder: myself on every post
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1281" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proclaim'd a strumpet: with immodest hatred
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1282" ed="F1"/></l><l>The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1283" ed="F1"/></l><l>To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1284" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here to this place, i' the open air, before
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1285" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1286" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tell me what blessings I have here alive,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1287" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I should fear to die?   Therefore proceed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1288" ed="F1"/></l><l>But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,
<lb n="111" ed="G"/><lb n="1289" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prize it not a straw, but for mine honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1290" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1291" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1292" ed="F1"/></l><l>But what your jealousies awake, I tell you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1293" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis rigor and not law. Your honors all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1294" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do refer me to the oracle:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1295" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Apollo be my judge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1296" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">This your request
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1297" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1298" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in Apollo's name, his oracle.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt certain officers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1299" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l>The Emperor of Russia was my father:
<lb n="121" ed="G"/><lb n="1300" ed="F1"/></l><l>O that he were alive, and here beholding
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1301" ed="F1"/></l><l>His daughter's trial! that he did but see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1302" ed="F1"/></l><l>The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1303" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of pity, not revenge!
<stage type="entrance"> Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1304" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="off."><speaker>Off.</speaker><l>You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1305" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1306" ed="F1"/></l><l>Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1307" ed="F1"/></l><l>This seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1308" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of great Apollo's priest and that since then
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1309" ed="F1"/></l><l>You have not dared to break the holy seal
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1310" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor read the secrets in't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1311" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo. dion."><speaker>Cleo. Dion.</speaker><l>All this we swear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1312" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Break up the seals and read.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1313" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="off."><speaker>Off.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads]</stage>Hermione is chaste; Polixenes
<lb ed="G"/>blameless; Camillo <lb n="1314" ed="F1"/>a true subject; Leontes
<lb ed="G"/>a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1315" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>truly begotten; and the king shall live without
<lb ed="G"/>an heir, if that <lb n="1316" ed="F1"/>which is lost be not found.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1317" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lords."><speaker>Lords.</speaker><l part="I">Now blessed be the great Apollo!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1318" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><l part="F">Praised!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1319" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="I">Hast thou read truth?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1320" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="off."><speaker>Off.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, my lord; even so</l>
<l n="140">As it is here set down.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1321" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>There is no truth at all i' the oracle:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1322" ed="F1"/></l><l>The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.
<stage type="entrance">                 Enter Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1323" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l part="I">My lord the king, the king!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1324" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">What is the business?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1325" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>O sir, I shall be hated to report it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1326" ed="F1"/></l><l>The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1327" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of the queen's speed, is gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1328" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="Y">How! gone!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1329" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l part="F">Is dead.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1330" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1331" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do strike at my injustice.   <stage>[Hermione swoons]</stage></l>
<l>How now there!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1332" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>This news is mortal to the queen: look down
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1333" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And see what death is doing.

<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1334" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Take her hence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1335" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1336" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have too much believed mine own suspicion:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1337" ed="F1"/></l><l>Beseech you, tenderly apply to her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1338" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Some remedies for life.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Paulina and Ladies, with Hermione.</stage></l>
<l part="F">Apollo, pardon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1339" ed="F1"/></l><l>My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1340" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1341" ed="F1"/></l><l>New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1342" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1343" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, being transported by my jealousies
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1344" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose
<lb n="161" ed="G"/><lb n="1345" ed="F1"/></l><l>Camillo for the minister to poison
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1346" ed="F1"/></l><l>My friend Polixenes: which had been done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1347" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that the good mind of Camillo tardied
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1348" ed="F1"/></l><l>My swift command, though I with death and with
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1349" ed="F1"/></l><l>Reward did threaten and encourage him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1350" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1351" ed="F1"/></l><l>And fill'd with honor, to my kingly guest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1352" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unclasp'd my practice, quit his fortunes here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1353" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which you knew great, and to the hazard
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="1354" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of all incertainties himself commended,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1355" ed="F1"/></l><l>No richer than his honor: how he glisters
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1356" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thorough my rust! and how his piety
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1357" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Does my deeds make the blacker!
<stage type="entrance">                Re-enter PAULINA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1358" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Woe the while!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1359" ed="F1"/></l><l>O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1360" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Break too!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1361" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">What fit is this, good lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1362" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1363" ed="F1"/></l><l>What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1364" ed="F1"/></l><l>In leads or oils? what old or newer torture
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1365" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must I receive, whose every word deserves
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="1366" ed="F1"/></l><l>To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1367" ed="F1"/></l><l>Together working with thy jealousies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1368" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1369" ed="F1"/></l><l>For girls of nine, O, think what they have done
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1370" ed="F1"/></l><l>And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1371" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1372" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou betray'dst Polixenes, 'twas nothing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1373" ed="F1"/></l><l>That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1374" ed="F1"/></l><l>And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1375" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honor,
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="1376" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have him kill a king; poor trespasses,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1377" ed="F1"/></l><l>More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1378" ed="F1"/></l><l>The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1379" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be or none or little; though a devil
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1380" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1381" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1382" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of the young prince, whose honorable thoughts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1383" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1384" ed="F1"/></l><l>That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1385" ed="F1"/></l><l>Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1386" ed="F1"/></l><l>Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,
<lb n="201" ed="G"/><lb n="1387" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I have said, cry 'woe!'--the queen, the queen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1388" ed="F1"/></l><l>The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead, and vengeance for't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1389" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">Not dropp'd down yet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1390" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">The higher powers forbid!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1391" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1392" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1393" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1394" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1395" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1396" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="1397" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than all thy woes can stir: therefore betake thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1398" ed="F1"/></l><l>To nothing but despair. A thousand knees
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1399" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1400" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon a barren mountain, and still winter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1401" ed="F1"/></l><l>In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1402" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To look that way thou wert.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1403" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Go on, go on:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1404" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1405" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">All tongues to talk their bitterest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1406" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="first-lord."><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><l part="F">Say no more:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1407" ed="F1"/></l><l>Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1408" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I' the boldness of your speech.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1409" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">I am sorry for't:
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="1410" ed="F1"/></l><l>All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1411" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1412" ed="F1"/></l><l>The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1413" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1414" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should be past grief: do not receive affliction
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1415" ed="F1"/></l><l>At my petition; I beseech you, rather
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1416" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me be punish'd, that have minded you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1417" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of what you should forget.   Now, good my liege,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1418" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1419" ed="F1"/></l><l>The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1420" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;
<lb n="231" ed="G"/><lb n="1421" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll not remember you of my own lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1422" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who is lost too: take your patience to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1423" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And I'll say nothing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1424" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">              Thou didst speak but well
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1425" ed="F1"/></l><l>When most the truth; which I receive much better
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1426" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1427" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the dead bodies of my queen and son:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1428" ed="F1"/></l><l>One grave shall be for both: upon them shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1429" ed="F1"/></l><l>The causes of their death appear, unto
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1430" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1431" ed="F1"/></l><l>The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there
<lb n="241" ed="G"/><lb n="1432" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall be my recreation: so long as nature
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1433" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will bear up with this exercise, so long
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1434" ed="F1"/></l><l>I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1435" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unto these sorrows.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="1436" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Bohemia. A desert country near the sea.</stage>
<lb n="1437" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner.</stage>
<lb n="1438" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1439" ed="F1"/><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1440" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The deserts of Bohemia?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1441" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mar."><speaker>Mar.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, my lord: and fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1442" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1443" ed="F1"/></l><l>And threaten present blusters.   In my conscience,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1444" ed="F1"/></l><l>The heavens with that we have in hand are angry
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1445" ed="F1"/></l><l>And frown upon 's.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1446" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Their sacred wills be done!   Go, get aboard;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1447" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1448" ed="F1"/></l><l>I call upon thee.

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1449" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mar."><speaker>Mar.</speaker><l>Make your best haste, and go not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1450" ed="F1"/></l><l>Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1451" ed="F1"/></l><l>Besides, this place is famous for the creatures
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1452" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of prey that keep upon't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1453" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Go thou away:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1454" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll follow instantly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1455" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mar."><speaker>Mar.</speaker><l part="F">I am glad at heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1456" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To be so rid o' the business.
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1457" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Come, poor babe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1458" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o' the dead
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1459" ed="F1"/></l><l>May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1460" ed="F1"/></l><l>Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1461" ed="F1"/></l><l>So like a waking. To me comes a creature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1462" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sometimes her head on one side, some another;
<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="1463" ed="F1"/></l><l>I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1464" ed="F1"/></l><l>So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1465" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like very sanctity, she did approach
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1466" ed="F1"/></l><l>My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1467" ed="F1"/></l><l>And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1468" ed="F1"/></l><l>Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1469" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did this break from her: 'Good Antigonus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1470" ed="F1"/></l><l>Since fate, against thy better disposition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1471" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath made thy person for the thrower-out
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1472" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1473" ed="F1"/></l><l>Places remote enough are in Bohemia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1474" ed="F1"/></l><l>There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1475" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1476" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1477" ed="F1"/></l><l>Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1478" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1479" ed="F1"/></l><l>She melted into air. Affrighted much,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1480" ed="F1"/></l><l>I did in time collect myself and thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1481" ed="F1"/></l><l>This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1482" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1483" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will be squared by this. I do believe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1484" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1485" ed="F1"/></l><l>Apollo would, this being indeed the issue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1486" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1487" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either for life or death, upon the earth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1488" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1489" ed="F1"/></l><l>There lie, and there thy character: there these;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1490" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1491" ed="F1"/></l><l>And still rest thine. The storm begins: poor wretch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1492" ed="F1"/></l><l>That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1493" ed="F1"/></l><l>To loss and what may follow!   Weep I cannot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1494" ed="F1"/></l><l>But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1495" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1496" ed="F1"/></l><l>The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1497" ed="F1"/></l><l>A lullaby too rough: I never saw
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1498" ed="F1"/></l><l>The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamor!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1499" ed="F1"/></l><l>Well may I get aboard!   This is the chase:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1500" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am gone for ever.
<stage type="exit">[Exit, pursued by a bear.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">                Enter a Shepherd.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1501" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>I would there were no age between
<lb ed="G"/>sixteen and <lb n="1502" ed="F1"/>three-and-twenty, or that youth
<lb ed="G"/>would sleep out the rest; <lb n="1503" ed="F1"/>for there is nothing
<lb ed="G"/>in the between but getting wenches <lb n="1504" ed="F1"/>with child,
<lb ed="G"/>wronging the ancientry, stealing, <lb n="1505" ed="F1"/>fighting--
<lb ed="G"/>Hark you now!   Would any but these boiled
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1506" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt
<lb ed="G"/>this weather?   <lb n="1507" ed="F1"/>They have scared away two of
<lb ed="G"/>my best sheep, <lb n="1508" ed="F1"/>which I fear the wolf will
<lb ed="G"/>sooner find than the master: <lb n="1509" ed="F1"/>if any where I
<lb ed="G"/>have them, 'tis by the seaside, browsing <lb n="1510" ed="F1"/>of ivy.
<lb ed="G"/>Good luck, an't be thy will! what have <lb n="1511" ed="F1"/>we
<lb ed="G"/>here! Mercy on 's, a barne; a very pretty
<lb ed="G"/>barne! A <lb n="1512" ed="F1"/>boy or a child, I wonder?   A pretty
<lb ed="G"/>one; a very pretty <lb n="1513" ed="F1"/>one: sure, some 'scape:
<lb ed="G"/>though I am not bookish, yet I <lb n="1514" ed="F1"/>can read waiting-gentlewoman
<lb ed="G"/>in the 'scape. This has <lb n="1515" ed="F1"/>been
<lb ed="G"/>some stair-work, some trunk-work, some behind-door-work:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1516" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>they were warmer that got
<lb ed="G"/>this <lb n="1517" ed="F1"/>than the poor thing is here. I'll take it
<lb ed="G"/>up for pity: yet <lb n="1518" ed="F1"/>I'll tarry till my son come;
<lb ed="G"/>he hallooed but even now. <lb n="1519" ed="F1"/>Whoa, ho, hoa!
<lb n="1520" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter Clown.</stage>

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="1521" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Hilloa, loa!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1522" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>What, art so near? If thou'lt see a
<lb ed="G"/>thing to <lb n="1523" ed="F1"/>talk on when thou art dead and rotten,
<lb ed="G"/>come hither. <lb n="1524" ed="F1"/>What ailest thou, man?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1525" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I have seen two such sights, by sea
<lb ed="G"/>and by land! <lb n="1526" ed="F1"/>but I am not to say it is a sea,
<lb ed="G"/>for it is now the sky: betwixt <lb n="1527" ed="F1"/>the firmament
<lb ed="G"/>and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's <lb n="1528" ed="F1"/>point.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1529" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Why, boy, how is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1530" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I would you did but see how it chafes,
<lb ed="G"/>how it rages, <lb n="1531" ed="F1"/>how it takes up the shore! but
<lb ed="G"/>that's not to the point. <lb n="1532" ed="F1"/>O, the most piteous cry
<lb ed="G"/>of the poor souls! sometimes <lb n="1533" ed="F1"/>to see 'em, and
<lb ed="G"/>not to see 'em; now the ship boring <lb n="1534" ed="F1"/>the moon
<lb ed="G"/>with her main-mast, and anon swallowed <lb n="1535" ed="F1"/>with
<lb ed="G"/>yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a cork into a
<lb ed="G"/>hogshead. <lb n="1536" ed="F1"/>And then for the land-service, to
<lb ed="G"/>see how the <lb n="1537" ed="F1"/>bear tore out his shoulder-bone;
<lb ed="G"/>how he cried to me <lb n="1538" ed="F1"/>for help and said his name
<lb ed="G"/>was Antigonus, a nobleman. <lb n="1539" ed="F1"/>But to make an
<lb ed="G"/>end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1540" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>it; but, first, how the poor souls
<lb ed="G"/>roared, and <lb n="1541" ed="F1"/>the sea mocked them; and how
<lb ed="G"/>the poor gentleman roared <lb n="1542" ed="F1"/>and the bear
<lb ed="G"/>mocked him, both roaring louder <lb n="1543" ed="F1"/>than the sea
<lb ed="G"/>or weather.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1544" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Name of mercy, when was this, boy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1545" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Now, now: I have not winked since I
<lb ed="G"/>saw these <lb n="1546" ed="F1"/>sights: the men are not yet cold
<lb ed="G"/>under water, nor the <lb n="1547" ed="F1"/>bear half dined on the
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman: he's at it now.

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1548" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Would I had been by, to have helped
<lb ed="G"/>the old <lb n="1549" ed="F1"/>man!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1550" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I would you had been by the ship
<lb ed="G"/>side, to have <lb n="1551" ed="F1"/>helped her: there your charity
<lb ed="G"/>would have lacked footing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1552" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Heavy matters! heavy matters! but
<lb ed="G"/>look thee <lb n="1553" ed="F1"/>here, boy. Now bless thyself: thou
<lb ed="G"/>mettest with things <lb n="1554" ed="F1"/>dying, I with things new-born.
<lb ed="G"/>Here's a sight for thee: <lb n="1555" ed="F1"/>look thee, a
<lb ed="G"/>bearing-cloth for a squire's child! look <lb n="1556" ed="F1"/>thee
<lb ed="G"/>here; take up, take up, boy; open't. So, let's
<lb ed="G"/>see: it <lb n="1557" ed="F1"/>was told me I should be rich by
<lb ed="G"/>the fairies.  This is some <lb n="1558" ed="F1"/>changeling: open't.
<lb ed="G"/>What's within, boy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1559" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>You're a made old man: if the sins
<lb ed="G"/>of your <lb n="1560" ed="F1"/>youth are forgiven you, you're well to
<lb ed="G"/>live. Gold! all <lb n="1561" ed="F1"/>gold!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1562" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill
<lb ed="G"/>prove so: up <lb n="1563" ed="F1"/>with't, keep it close: home,
<lb ed="G"/>home, the next way, We <lb n="1564" ed="F1"/>are lucky, boy; and
<lb ed="G"/>to be so still requires nothing but <lb n="1565" ed="F1"/>secrecy. Let
<lb ed="G"/>my sheep go: come, good boy, the next <lb n="1566" ed="F1"/>way home.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1567" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Go you the next way with your findings.
<lb ed="G"/>I'll go <lb n="1568" ed="F1"/>see if the bear be gone from the
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman and how <lb n="1569" ed="F1"/>much he hath eaten: they
<lb ed="G"/>are never curst but when they <lb n="1570" ed="F1"/>are hungry: if
<lb ed="G"/>there be any of him left, I'll bury it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1571" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>That's a good deed. If thou mayest
<lb ed="G"/>discern by <lb n="1572" ed="F1"/>that which is left of him what he
<lb ed="G"/>is, fetch me to the sight <lb n="1573" ed="F1"/>of him.

<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1574" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Marry, will I; and you shall help to
<lb ed="G"/>put him <lb n="1575" ed="F1"/>i' the ground.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1576" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do
<lb ed="G"/>good deeds <lb n="1577" ed="F1"/>on 't.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 n="4" type="act">
  <head>ACT IV</head><lb n="1578" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<lb n="1579" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">            Enter TIME, the Chorus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1580" ed="F1"/><sp who="time."><speaker>Time.</speaker><l>I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1581" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1582" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now take upon me, in the name of Time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1583" ed="F1"/></l><l>To use my wings. Impute it not a crime
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1584" ed="F1"/></l><l>To me or my swift passage, that I slide
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1585" ed="F1"/></l><l>O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1586" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of that wide gap, since it is in my power
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1587" ed="F1"/></l><l>To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1588" ed="F1"/></l><l>To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1589" ed="F1"/></l><l>The same I am, ere ancient'st order was
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1590" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or what is now received: I witness to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1591" ed="F1"/></l><l>The times that brought them in; so shall I do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1592" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the freshest things now reigning and make stale
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1593" ed="F1"/></l><l>The glistering of this present, as my tale
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1594" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1595" ed="F1"/></l><l>I turn my glass and give my scene such growing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1596" ed="F1"/></l><l>As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1597" ed="F1"/></l><l>The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1598" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he shuts up himself, imagine me,
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1599" ed="F1"/></l><l>Gentle spectators, that I now may be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1600" ed="F1"/></l><l>In fair Bohemia; and remember well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1601" ed="F1"/></l><l>I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1602" ed="F1"/></l><l>I now name to you; and with speed so pace
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1603" ed="F1"/></l><l>To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1604" ed="F1"/></l><l>Equal with wondering: what of her ensues
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1605" ed="F1"/></l><l>I list not prophesy; but let Time's news
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1606" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be known when 'tis brought forth. A shepherd's daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1607" ed="F1"/></l><l>And what to her adheres, which follows after,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1608" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1609" ed="F1"/></l><l>If ever you have spent time worse ere now;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1610" ed="F1"/></l><l>If never, yet that Time himself doth say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1611" ed="F1"/></l><l>He wishes earnestly you never may.
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="1612" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Bohemia.  The palace of POLIXENES.</stage>
<lb n="1613" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1614" ed="F1"/><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more
<lb ed="G"/>importunate: <lb n="1615" ed="F1"/>'tis a sickness denying thee any
<lb ed="G"/>thing; a death to <lb n="1616" ed="F1"/>grant this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1617" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>It is fifteen years since I saw my
<lb ed="G"/>country: <lb n="1618" ed="F1"/>though I have for the most part
<lb ed="G"/>been aired abroad, I desire <lb n="1619" ed="F1"/>to lay my bones
<lb ed="G"/>there. Besides, the penitent king, <lb n="1620" ed="F1"/>my master,
<lb ed="G"/>hath sent for me; to whose feeling sorrows <lb n="1621" ed="F1"/>I
<lb ed="G"/>might be some allay, or I o'erween to think so,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/>which <lb n="1622" ed="F1"/>is another spur to my departure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1623" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not
<lb ed="G"/>out the rest <lb n="1624" ed="F1"/>of thy services by leaving me now:
<lb ed="G"/>the need I have of <lb n="1625" ed="F1"/>thee thine own goodness
<lb ed="G"/>hath made; better not to <lb n="1626" ed="F1"/>have had thee than
<lb ed="G"/>thus to want thee: thou, having made <lb n="1627" ed="F1"/>me businesses
<lb ed="G"/>which none without thee can sufficiently
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1628" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>manage, must either stay to execute them thyself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1629" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>or take away with thee the very services
<lb ed="G"/>thou hast done; <lb n="1630" ed="F1"/>which if I have not enough
<lb ed="G"/>considered, as too much I <lb n="1631" ed="F1"/>cannot, to be more
<lb ed="G"/>thankful to thee shall be my study, <lb n="1632" ed="F1"/>and my
<lb ed="G"/>profit therein the heaping friendships. <lb n="1633" ed="F1"/>Of that
<lb ed="G"/>fatal country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1634" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1635" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>of that penitent, as thou callest
<lb ed="G"/>him, and reconciled king, <lb n="1636" ed="F1"/>my brother; whose
<lb ed="G"/>loss of his most precious queen and <lb n="1637" ed="F1"/>children
<lb ed="G"/>are even now to be afresh lamented. Say to
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1638" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my
<lb ed="G"/>son? Kings <lb n="1639" ed="F1"/>are no less unhappy, their issue
<lb ed="G"/>not being gracious, than <lb n="1640" ed="F1"/>they are in losing
<lb ed="G"/>them when they have approved their <lb n="1641" ed="F1"/>virtues.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1642" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Sir, it is three days since I saw the
<lb ed="G"/>prince. What <lb n="1643" ed="F1"/>his happier affairs may be, are
<lb ed="G"/>to me unknown: but I <lb n="1644" ed="F1"/>have missingly noted,
<lb ed="G"/>he is of late much retired from <lb n="1645" ed="F1"/>court and is
<lb ed="G"/>less frequent to his princely exercises than
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1646" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>formerly he hath appeared.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1647" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>I have considered so much, Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/>and with <lb n="1648" ed="F1"/>some care; so far that I have eyes
<lb ed="G"/>under my service <lb n="1649" ed="F1"/>which look upon his removedness;
<lb ed="G"/>from whom I have <lb n="1650" ed="F1"/>this intelligence,
<lb ed="G"/>that he is seldom from the house of a
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1651" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that
<lb ed="G"/>from very <lb n="1652" ed="F1"/>nothing, and beyond the imagination
<lb ed="G"/>of his neighbors, <lb n="1653" ed="F1"/>is grown into an unspeakable estate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1654" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>I have heard, sir, of such a man,
<lb ed="G"/>who hath a <lb n="1655" ed="F1"/>daughter of most rare note: the
<lb ed="G"/>report of her is extended <lb n="1656" ed="F1"/>more than can be
<lb n="50" ed="G"/>thought to begin from such a cottage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1657" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>That 's likewise part of my intelligence;
<lb ed="G"/>but, I <lb n="1658" ed="F1"/>fear, the angle that plucks our
<lb ed="G"/>son thither. Thou <lb n="1659" ed="F1"/>shalt accompany us to the
<lb ed="G"/>place; where we will, not appearing <lb n="1660" ed="F1"/>what we
<lb ed="G"/>are, have some question with the shepherd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1661" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>from whose simplicity I think it not uneasy
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb n="1662" ed="F1"/>get the cause of my son's resort thither.
<lb ed="G"/>Prithee, be my <lb n="1663" ed="F1"/>present partner in this business,
<lb ed="G"/>and lay aside the thoughts <lb n="1664" ed="F1"/>of Sicilia.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1665" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>I willingly obey your command.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1666" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>My best Camillo!   We must disguise
<lb ed="G"/>ourselves.                            <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="1667" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A road near the Shepherd's cottage.</stage>
<lb n="1668" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">           Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1669" ed="F1"/><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><l>When daffodils begin to peer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1670" ed="F1"/></l><l>With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1671" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1672" ed="F1"/></l><l>For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.</l>
<l>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1673" ed="F1"/></l><l>The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1674" ed="F1"/></l><l>With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1675" ed="F1"/></l><l>Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1676" ed="F1"/></l><l>For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.</l>
<l>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1677" ed="F1"/></l><l>The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1678" ed="F1"/></l><l>With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1679" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1680" ed="F1"/></l><l>While we lie tumbling in the hay.</l>
<l>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1681" ed="F1"/></l><p>I have served Prince Florizel and in my time
<lb ed="G"/>wore three-pile; <lb n="1682" ed="F1"/>but now I am out of service:
<lb ed="G"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1683" ed="F1"/></p><l>But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1684" ed="F1"/></l><l>The pale moon shines by night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1685" ed="F1"/></l><l>And when I wander here and there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1686" ed="F1"/></l><l>I then do most go right.</l>
<l>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1687" ed="F1"/></l><l>If tinkers may have leave to live,
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1688" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bear the sow-skin budget,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1689" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then my account I well may give,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1690" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in the stocks avouch it.</l>
<l>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1691" ed="F1"/></l><p>My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds,
<lb ed="G"/>look to <lb n="1692" ed="F1"/>lesser linen. My father named me
<lb ed="G"/>Autolycus; who being, <lb n="1693" ed="F1"/>as I am, littered under
<lb ed="G"/>Mercury, was likewise a <lb n="1694" ed="F1"/>snapper-up of unconsidered
<lb ed="G"/>trifles. With die and drab <lb n="1695" ed="F1"/>I purchased
<lb ed="G"/>this caparison, and my revenue is the silly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1696" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful
<lb ed="G"/>on <lb n="1697" ed="F1"/>the highway: beating and hanging are terrors
<lb ed="G"/>to me: <lb n="1698" ed="F1"/>for the life to come, I sleep out
<lb ed="G"/>the thought of it. A <lb n="1699" ed="F1"/>prize! a prize!
<lb n="1700" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter Clown.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1701" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Let me see: every 'leven wether tods;
<lb ed="G"/>every <lb n="1702" ed="F1"/>tod yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen
<lb ed="G"/>hundred <lb n="1703" ed="F1"/>shorn, what comes the wool to?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1704" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside]</stage> If the springe hold, the cock's
<lb ed="G"/>mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1705" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I cannot do't without counters. Let
<lb ed="G"/>me see; <lb n="1706" ed="F1"/>what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing
<lb ed="G"/>feast? Three <lb n="1707" ed="F1"/>pound of sugar, five
<lb ed="G"/>pound of currants, rice,--what <lb n="1708" ed="F1"/>will this sister
<lb ed="G"/>of mine do with rice?   But my father hath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1709" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>made her mistress of the feast, and she lays
<lb ed="G"/>it on. She <lb n="1710" ed="F1"/>hath made me four and twenty nosegays
<lb ed="G"/>for the shearers, <lb n="1711" ed="F1"/>three-man-song-men all,
<lb ed="G"/>and very good ones; but <lb n="1712" ed="F1"/>they are most of them
<lb ed="G"/>means and bases; but one puritan <lb n="1713" ed="F1"/>amongst
<lb ed="G"/>them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes. <lb n="1714" ed="F1"/>I
<lb ed="G"/>must have saffron to color the warden pies;
<lb ed="G"/>mace; <lb n="1715" ed="F1"/>dates?--none, that's out of my note;
<lb ed="G"/>nutmegs, seven; <lb n="1716" ed="F1"/>a race or two of ginger, but
<lb ed="G"/>that I may beg; four <lb n="1717" ed="F1"/>pound of prunes, and
<lb ed="G"/>as many of raisins o' the sun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1718" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O that ever I was born!
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Grovelling on the ground.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1719" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I' the name of me--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1720" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O, help me, help me! pluck but off
<lb ed="G"/>these <lb n="1721" ed="F1"/>rags; and then, death, death!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1722" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of
<lb ed="G"/>more rags <lb n="1723" ed="F1"/>to lay on thee, rather than have
<lb ed="G"/>these off.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1724" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends
<lb ed="G"/>me <lb n="1725" ed="F1"/>more than the stripes I have received,
<lb ed="G"/>which are mighty <lb n="1726" ed="F1"/>ones and millions.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1727" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Alas, poor man! a million of beating
<lb n="63" ed="G"/>may come <lb n="1728" ed="F1"/>to a great matter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1729" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my
<lb ed="G"/>money and apparel <lb n="1730" ed="F1"/>ta'en from me, and these
<lb ed="G"/>detestable things put upon <lb n="1731" ed="F1"/>me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1732" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>What, by a horseman, or a footman?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1733" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>A footman, sweet sir, a footman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1734" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Indeed, he should be a footman by
<lb ed="G"/>the garments <lb n="1735" ed="F1"/>he has left with thee: if this be
<lb ed="G"/>a horseman's coat, it <lb n="1736" ed="F1"/>hath seen very hot service.
<lb ed="G"/>Lend me thy hand, I'll help <lb n="1737" ed="F1"/>thee: come,
<lb ed="G"/>lend me thy hand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1738" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O, good sir, tenderly, O!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1739" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Alas, poor soul!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1740" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear,
<lb ed="G"/>sir, my <lb n="1741" ed="F1"/>shoulder-blade is out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1742" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>How now! canst stand?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1743" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p><stage>[Picking his pocket]</stage> Softly, dear sir;
<lb ed="G"/>good sir, softly. You ha' done <lb n="1744" ed="F1"/>me a charitable
<lb ed="G"/>office.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1745" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Dost lack any money?   I have a little
<lb n="83" ed="G"/>money for <lb n="1746" ed="F1"/>thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1747" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>No, good sweet sir; no I beseech
<lb ed="G"/>you, sir: I have <lb n="1748" ed="F1"/>a kinsman not past three
<lb ed="G"/>quarters of a mile hence, unto <lb n="1749" ed="F1"/>whom I was
<lb ed="G"/>going; I shall there have money, or any <lb n="1750" ed="F1"/>thing
<lb ed="G"/>I want: offer me no money, I pray you; that
<lb ed="G"/>kills <lb n="1751" ed="F1"/>my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1752" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>What manner of fellow was he that
<lb ed="G"/>robbed <lb n="1753" ed="F1"/>you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1754" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>A fellow, sir, that I have known to
<lb n="92" ed="G"/>go about <lb n="1755" ed="F1"/>with troll-my-dames; I knew him
<lb ed="G"/>once a servant of the <lb n="1756" ed="F1"/>prince: I cannot tell,
<lb ed="G"/>good sir, for which of his virtues <lb n="1757" ed="F1"/>it was, but
<lb ed="G"/>he was certainly whipped out of the <lb n="1758" ed="F1"/>court.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1759" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>His vices, you would say; there's no
<lb ed="G"/>virtue whipped <lb n="1760" ed="F1"/>out of the court: they cherish
<lb ed="G"/>it to make it stay there; <lb n="1761" ed="F1"/>and yet it will no
<lb ed="G"/>more but abide.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1762" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Vices, I would say, sir. I know this
<lb n="101" ed="G"/> man well: <lb n="1763" ed="F1"/>he hath been since an ape-bearer;
<lb ed="G"/>then a process-server, <lb n="1764" ed="F1"/>a bailiff; then he compassed
<lb ed="G"/>a motion of the Prodigal <lb n="1765" ed="F1"/>Son, and married
<lb ed="G"/>a tinker's wife within a mile where <lb n="1766" ed="F1"/>my
<lb ed="G"/>land and living lies; and, having flown over
<lb ed="G"/>many <lb n="1767" ed="F1"/>knavish professions, he settled only in
<lb ed="G"/>rogue: some <lb n="1768" ed="F1"/>call him Autolycus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1769" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig:
<lb ed="G"/>he haunts <lb n="1770" ed="F1"/>wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1771" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the
<lb ed="G"/>rogue that <lb n="1772" ed="F1"/>put me into this apparel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1773" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia:
<lb n="113" ed="G"/>if <lb n="1774" ed="F1"/>you had but looked big and spit at
<lb ed="G"/>him, he'ld have <lb n="1775" ed="F1"/>run.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1776" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I must confess to you, sir, I am no
<lb ed="G"/>fighter: I am <lb n="1777" ed="F1"/>false of heart that way; and
<lb ed="G"/>that he knew, I warrant him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1778" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>How do you now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1779" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Sweet sir, much better than I was; I
<lb ed="G"/>can stand <lb n="1780" ed="F1"/>and walk: I will even take my leave
<lb ed="G"/>of you, and pace softly <lb n="1781" ed="F1"/>towards my kinsman's.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1782" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Shall I bring thee on the way?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1783" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1784" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Then fare thee well: I must go buy
<lb ed="G"/>spices for our <lb n="1785" ed="F1"/>sheep-shearing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1786" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Prosper you, sweet sir! <stage>[Exit Clown.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Your purse is not hot enough <lb n="1787" ed="F1"/>to purchase your
<lb ed="G"/>spice. I'll be with you at your <lb n="1788" ed="F1"/>sheep-shearing
<lb ed="G"/>too: if I make not this cheat bring out <lb n="1789" ed="F1"/>another
<lb ed="G"/>and the shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1790" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>and my name put in the book of virtue!
<lb ed="G"/>   <stage>[Sings]</stage>
<lb n="132" ed="G"/><lb n="1791" ed="F1"/></p><l>Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1792" ed="F1"/></l><l>And merrily hent the stile-a:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1793" ed="F1"/></l><l>A merry heart goes all the day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1794" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your sad tires in a mile-a. <stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="4" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE IV</head><lb n="1795" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">The Shepherd's cottage.</stage>
<lb n="1796" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA.</stage>
<lb n="1797" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1798" ed="F1"/><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>These your unusual weeds to each part of you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1799" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1800" ed="F1"/></l><l>Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1801" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1802" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And you the queen on't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1803" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, my gracious lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1804" ed="F1"/></l><l>To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1805" ed="F1"/></l><l>O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1806" ed="F1"/></l><l>The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1807" ed="F1"/></l><l>With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1808" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1809" ed="F1"/></l><l>In every mess have folly and the feeders
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1810" ed="F1"/></l><l>Digest it with a custom, I should blush
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1811" ed="F1"/></l><l>To see you so attired, sworn, I think,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1812" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To show myself a glass.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1813" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I bless the time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1814" ed="F1"/></l><l>When my good falcon made her flight across
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1815" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thy father's ground.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1816" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Now Jove afford you cause!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1817" ed="F1"/></l><l>To me the difference forges dread; your greatness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1818" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1819" ed="F1"/></l><l>To think your father, by some accident,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1820" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1821" ed="F1"/></l><l>How would he look, to see his work so noble
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1822" ed="F1"/></l><l>Vilely bound up? What would he say?   Or how
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1823" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1824" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The sternness of his presence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1825" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Apprehend
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1826" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1827" ed="F1"/></l><l>Humbling their deities to love, have taken
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1828" ed="F1"/></l><l>The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1829" ed="F1"/></l><l>Became a bull, and   bellow'd; the green Neptune
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1830" ed="F1"/></l><l>A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1831" ed="F1"/></l><l>Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1832" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I seem now. Their transformations
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1833" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1834" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1835" ed="F1"/></l><l>Run not before mine honor, nor my lusts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1836" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Burn hotter than my faith.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1837" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">O, but, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1838" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1839" ed="F1"/></l><l>Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1840" ed="F1"/></l><l>One of these two must be necessities,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1841" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which then will speak, that you must change this purpose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1842" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or I my life.

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1843" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>Thou dearest Perdita,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1844" ed="F1"/></l><l>With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1845" ed="F1"/></l><l>The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1846" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or not my father's. For I cannot be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1847" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mine own, nor any thing to any, if
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1848" ed="F1"/></l><l>I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1849" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1850" ed="F1"/></l><l>Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1851" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1852" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lift up your countenance, as it were the day
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1853" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of celebration of that nuptial which
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1854" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">We two have sworn shall come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1855" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">O lady Fortune,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1856" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Stand you auspicious!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1857" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">See, your guests approach:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1858" ed="F1"/></l><l>Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1859" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let's be red with mirth.
<stage type="entrance">Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1860" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l>Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1861" ed="F1"/></l><l>This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1862" ed="F1"/></l><l>Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1863" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1864" ed="F1"/></l><l>At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle;
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1865" ed="F1"/></l><l>On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1866" ed="F1"/></l><l>With labor and the thing she took to quench it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1867" ed="F1"/></l><l>She would to each one sip. You are retired,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1868" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if you were a feasted one and not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1869" ed="F1"/></l><l>The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1870" ed="F1"/></l><l>These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1871" ed="F1"/></l><l>A way to make us better friends, more known.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1872" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, quench your blushes and present yourself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1873" ed="F1"/></l><l>That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1874" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1875" ed="F1"/></l><l>As your good flock shall prosper.

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1876" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l> <stage>[To Pol.]</stage> Sir, welcome:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1877" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is my father's will I should take on me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1878" ed="F1"/></l><l>The hostess-ship o' the day.</l>
<l><stage>[To Cam.]</stage> You're welcome, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1879" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1880" ed="F1"/></l><l>For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1881" ed="F1"/></l><l>Seeming and savor all the winter long:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1882" ed="F1"/></l><l>Grace and remembrance be to you both,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1883" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And welcome to our shearing!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1884" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Shepherdess,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1885" ed="F1"/></l><l>A fair one are you--well you fit our ages
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1886" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With flowers of winter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1887" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, the year growing ancient,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1888" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1889" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' the season
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1890" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1891" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1892" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1893" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To get slips of them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1894" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Wherefore, gentle maiden,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1895" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Do you neglect them?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1896" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">For I have heard it said
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1897" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is an art which in their piedness shares
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1898" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With great creating nature.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1899" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Say there be;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1900" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet nature is made better by no mean
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1901" ed="F1"/></l><l>But nature makes that mean; so, over that art
<lb n="91" ed="G"/><lb n="1902" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which you say adds to nature, is an art
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1903" ed="F1"/></l><l>That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1904" ed="F1"/></l><l>A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1905" ed="F1"/></l><l>And make conceive a bark of baser kind
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1906" ed="F1"/></l><l>By bud of nobler race: this is an art
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1907" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1908" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The art itself is nature.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1909" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">So it is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1910" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1911" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And do not call them bastards.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1912" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">I'll not put
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1913" ed="F1"/></l><l>The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1914" ed="F1"/></l><l>No more than were I painted I would wish
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1915" ed="F1"/></l><l>This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1916" ed="F1"/></l><l>Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1917" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1918" ed="F1"/></l><l>The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1919" ed="F1"/></l><l>And with him rises weeping: these are flowers
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1920" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of middle summer, and I think they are given
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1921" ed="F1"/></l><l>To men of middle age. You're very welcome.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1922" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1923" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And only live by gazing.

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1924" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Out, alas!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1925" ed="F1"/></l><l>You'ld be so lean, that blasts of January
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1926" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1927" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1928" ed="F1"/></l><l>Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1929" ed="F1"/></l><l>That wear upon your virgin branches yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1930" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1931" ed="F1"/></l><l>For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1932" ed="F1"/></l><l>From Dis's waggon! daffodils,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1933" ed="F1"/></l><l>That come before the swallow dares, and take
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1934" ed="F1"/></l><l>The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
<lb n="121" ed="G"/><lb n="1935" ed="F1"/></l><l>But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1936" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1937" ed="F1"/></l><l>That die unmarried, ere they can behold
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1938" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1939" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most incident to maids: bold oxlips and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1940" ed="F1"/></l><l>The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1941" ed="F1"/></l><l>The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1942" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1943" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To strew him o'er and o'er!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1944" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">What, like a corse?

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1945" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l>No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1946" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1947" ed="F1"/></l><l>But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1948" ed="F1"/></l><l>Methinks I play as I have seen them do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1949" ed="F1"/></l><l>In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1950" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Does change my disposition.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1951" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">What you do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1952" ed="F1"/></l><l>Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1953" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1954" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1955" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1956" ed="F1"/></l><l>To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1957" ed="F1"/></l><l>A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1958" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing but that; move still, still so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1959" ed="F1"/></l><l>And own no other function: each your doing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1960" ed="F1"/></l><l>So singular in each particular,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1961" ed="F1"/></l><l>Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1962" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That all your acts are queens.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1963" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">O Doricles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1964" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your praises are too large: but that your youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1965" ed="F1"/></l><l>And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1966" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do plainly give you an unstain'd shepherd,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1967" ed="F1"/></l><l>With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1968" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You woo'd me the false way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1969" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I think you have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1970" ed="F1"/></l><l>As little skill to fear as I have purpose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1971" ed="F1"/></l><l>To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1972" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1973" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That never mean to part.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1974" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">I'll swear for 'em.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1975" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1976" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1977" ed="F1"/></l><l>But smacks of something greater than herself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1978" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Too noble for this place.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1979" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">He tells her something
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="1980" ed="F1"/></l><l>That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1981" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The queen of curds and cream.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1982" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><l part="F">Come on, strike up!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1983" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><l>Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1984" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To mend her kissing with!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1985" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><l part="F">Now, in good time!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1986" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><l>Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1987" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Come, strike up!
<lb n="1988" ed="F1"/><stage>[Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and <lb n="1989" ed="F1"/>Shepherdesses.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1990" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1991" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which dances with your daughter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1992" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l>They call him Doricles; and boasts himself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1993" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have a worthy feeding: but I have it
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="1994" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon his own report and I believe it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1995" ed="F1"/></l><l>He looks like sooth.   He says he loves my daughter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1996" ed="F1"/></l><l>I think so too; for never gazed the moon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1997" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon the water as he'll stand and read
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1998" ed="F1"/></l><l>As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1999" ed="F1"/></l><l>I think there is not half a kiss to choose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2000" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Who loves another best.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2001" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">She dances featly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2002" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l>So she does any thing; though I report it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2003" ed="F1"/></l><l>That should be silent: if young Doricles
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2004" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do light upon her, she shall bring him that
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="2005" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which he not dreams of.
<stage type="entrance">                  Enter Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2006" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>O master, if you did but hear the
<lb ed="G"/>pedlar at the <lb n="2007" ed="F1"/>door, you would never dance
<lb ed="G"/>again after a tabor and <lb n="2008" ed="F1"/>pipe; no, the bagpipe
<lb ed="G"/>could not move you: he sings <lb n="2009" ed="F1"/>several tunes
<lb ed="G"/>faster than you'll tell money; he utters <lb n="2010" ed="F1"/>them
<lb ed="G"/>as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears
<lb ed="G"/>grew to <lb n="2011" ed="F1"/>his tunes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2012" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>He could never come better; he shall
<lb ed="G"/>come in. <lb n="2013" ed="F1"/>I love a ballad but even too well, if
<lb ed="G"/>it be doleful matter <lb n="2014" ed="F1"/>merrily set down, or a
<lb ed="G"/>very pleasant thing indeed and <lb n="2015" ed="F1"/>sung lamentably.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2016" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>He hath songs for man or woman,
<lb ed="G"/>of all sizes; <lb n="2017" ed="F1"/>no milliner can so fit his customers
<lb ed="G"/>with gloves: he has <lb n="2018" ed="F1"/>the prettiest love-songs
<lb ed="G"/>for maids; so without bawdry, <lb n="2019" ed="F1"/>which is
<lb ed="G"/>strange; with such delicate burthens of dildos
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2020" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>and fadings, 'jump her and thump her;'
<lb ed="G"/>and where <lb n="2021" ed="F1"/>some stretch-mouthed rascal
<lb ed="G"/>would, as it were mean <lb n="2022" ed="F1"/>mischief and break a
<lb ed="G"/>foul gap into the matter, he <lb n="2023" ed="F1"/>makes the maid
<lb ed="G"/>to answer 'Whoop, do me no harm, good
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2024" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>man;' puts him off, slights him, with 'Whoop,
<lb n="201" ed="G"/>do me no <lb n="2025" ed="F1"/>harm, good man.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2026" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>This is a brave fellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2027" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable
<lb ed="G"/>conceited <lb n="2028" ed="F1"/>fellow. Has he any unbraided
<lb ed="G"/>wares?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2029" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>He hath ribbons of all the colors i'
<lb ed="G"/>the rainbow; <lb n="2030" ed="F1"/>points more than all the lawyers
<lb ed="G"/>in Bohemia can <lb n="2031" ed="F1"/>learnedly handle, though they
<lb ed="G"/>come to him by the gross: <lb n="2032" ed="F1"/>inkles, caddisses,
<lb ed="G"/>cambrics, lawns: why, he sings <lb n="2033" ed="F1"/>'em over as
<lb ed="G"/>they were gods or goddesses; you would <lb n="2034" ed="F1"/>think
<lb ed="G"/>a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to <lb n="2035" ed="F1"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2036" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Prithee bring him in; and let him approach
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2037" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>singing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2038" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><p>Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous
<lb ed="G"/>words <lb n="2039" ed="F1"/>in's tunes.
<stage type="exit">[Exit Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2040" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>You have of these pedlars, that have
<lb ed="G"/>more in <lb n="2041" ed="F1"/>them than you'ld think, sister.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2042" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><p>Ay, good brother, or go about to think.
<lb n="2043" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing.</stage>
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="2044" ed="F1"/></p><l>Lawn as white as driven snow;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2045" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cyprus black as e'er was crow;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2046" ed="F1"/></l><l>Gloves as sweet as damask roses;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2047" ed="F1"/></l><l>Masks for faces and for noses;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2048" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2049" ed="F1"/></l><l>Perfume for a lady's chamber;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2050" ed="F1"/></l><l>Golden quoifs and stomachers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2051" ed="F1"/></l><l>For my lads to give their dears:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2052" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2053" ed="F1"/></l><l>What maids lack from head to heel:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2054" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;
<lb n="231" ed="G"/><lb n="2055" ed="F1"/></l><l>Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry:</l>
<l>Come buy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2056" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou
<lb ed="G"/>shouldst <lb n="2057" ed="F1"/>take no money of me; but being enthralled
<lb ed="G"/>as I am, it will <lb n="2058" ed="F1"/>also be the bondage of
<lb ed="G"/>certain ribbons and gloves.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2059" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>I was promised them against the
<lb ed="G"/>feast; but they <lb n="2060" ed="F1"/>come not too late now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2061" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><p>He hath promised you more than that,
<lb n="240" ed="G"/>or there <lb n="2062" ed="F1"/>be liars.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2063" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>He hath paid you all he promised
<lb ed="G"/>you: may be, <lb n="2064" ed="F1"/>he has paid you more, which
<lb ed="G"/>will shame you to give him <lb n="2065" ed="F1"/>again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2066" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Is there no manners left among
<lb ed="G"/>maids? will they <lb n="2067" ed="F1"/>wear their plackets where
<lb ed="G"/>they should bear their faces?   <lb n="2068" ed="F1"/>Is there not
<lb ed="G"/>milking-time, when you are going to bed, <lb n="2069" ed="F1"/>or
<lb ed="G"/>kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you
<lb ed="G"/>must <lb n="2070" ed="F1"/>be tittle-tattling before all our guests?
<lb ed="G"/>'tis well they are <lb n="2071" ed="F1"/>whispering: clamor your
<lb n="251" ed="G"/>tongues, and not a word more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2072" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>I have done.  Come, you promised
<lb ed="G"/>me a tawdry-lace <lb n="2073" ed="F1"/>and a pair of sweet gloves.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2074" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Have I not told thee how I was cozened
<lb ed="G"/>by the <lb n="2075" ed="F1"/>way and lost all my money?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2076" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>And indeed, sir, there are cozeners
<lb ed="G"/>abroad; therefore <lb n="2077" ed="F1"/>it behoves men to be wary.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2078" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose
<lb ed="G"/>nothing here.

<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="2079" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I hope so, sir; for I have about me
<lb ed="G"/>many parcels <lb n="2080" ed="F1"/>of charge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2081" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>What hast here? ballads?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2082" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad
<lb ed="G"/>in print o' <lb n="2083" ed="F1"/>life, for then we are sure they are
<lb ed="G"/>true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2084" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Here's one to a very doleful tune, how
<lb ed="G"/>a usurer's <lb n="2085" ed="F1"/>wife was brought to bed of twenty
<lb ed="G"/>money-bags at <lb n="2086" ed="F1"/>a burthen and how she longed
<lb ed="G"/>to eat adders' heads and <lb n="2087" ed="F1"/>toads carbonadoed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2088" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>Is it true, think you?

<lb n="270" ed="G"/><lb n="2089" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Very true, and but a month old.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2090" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><p>Bless me from marrying a usurer!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2091" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Here's the midwife's name to't, one
<lb ed="G"/>Mistress Tale-porter, <lb n="2092" ed="F1"/>and five or six honest
<lb ed="G"/>wives that were present. <lb n="2093" ed="F1"/>Why should I carry
<lb ed="G"/>lies abroad?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2094" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>Pray you now, buy it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2095" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Come on, lay it by: and let's first see
<lb ed="G"/>moe ballads; <lb n="2096" ed="F1"/>we'll buy the other things anon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2097" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Here's another ballad of a fish, that
<lb ed="G"/>appeared <lb n="2098" ed="F1"/>upon the coast on Wednesday the
<lb ed="G"/>fourscore of April, forty <lb n="2099" ed="F1"/>thousand fathom
<lb ed="G"/>above water, and sung his ballad against <lb n="2100" ed="F1"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>hard hearts of maids: it was thought she was
<lb ed="G"/>a woman <lb n="2101" ed="F1"/>and was turned into a cold fish for
<lb ed="G"/>she would not exchange <lb n="2102" ed="F1"/>flesh with one that
<lb ed="G"/>loved her; the ballad is very <lb n="2103" ed="F1"/>pitiful and as
<lb ed="G"/>true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2104" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><p>Is it true too, think you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2105" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Five justices' hand at it, and witnesses
<lb ed="G"/>more <lb n="2106" ed="F1"/>than my pack will hold.

<lb n="290" ed="G"/><lb n="2107" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Lay it by too: another.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2108" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>This is a merry ballad, but a very
<lb ed="G"/>pretty one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2109" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>Let's have some merry ones.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2110" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Why, this is a passing merry one and
<lb ed="G"/>goes to the <lb n="2111" ed="F1"/>tune of 'Two maids wooing a
<lb ed="G"/>man:' there's scarce a maid <lb n="2112" ed="F1"/>westward but she
<lb ed="G"/>sings it; 'tis in request, I can tell you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2113" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>Mop.</speaker><p>We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear
<lb ed="G"/>a part, thou <lb n="2114" ed="F1"/>shalt hear; 'tis in three parts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2115" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>Dor.</speaker><p>We had the tune on't a month ago.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2116" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I can bear my part; you must know
<lb ed="G"/>'tis my occupation; <lb n="2117" ed="F1"/>have at it with you.
<stage>SONG.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2118" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>A.</speaker><l>Get you hence, for I must go
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2119" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where it fits not you to know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2120" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>Wither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2121" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>M.</speaker><l>O, whither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2122" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>Whither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2123" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>M.</speaker><l>It becomes thy oath full well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2124" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou to me thy secrets tell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2125" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>Me too, let me go thither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2126" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>M.</speaker><l>Or thou goest to the grange or mill.

<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="2127" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>If to either, thou dost ill.
</l></sp>
<sp who="aut."><speaker>A.</speaker>  <lb n="2128" ed="F1"/><l>Neither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2129" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>What, neither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2130" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>A.</speaker><l>Neither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2131" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dor."><speaker>D.</speaker><l>Thou hast sworn my love to be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2132" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mop."><speaker>M.</speaker><l>Thou hast sworn it more to me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2133" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then whither goest? say, whither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2134" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>We'll have this song out anon by ourselves:
<lb ed="G"/>my <lb n="2135" ed="F1"/>father and the gentlemen are in
<lb ed="G"/>sad talk, and we'll not trouble <lb n="2136" ed="F1"/>them. Come,
<lb ed="G"/>bring away thy pack after me. Wenches, I'll
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2137" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>buy for you both. Pedlar, let's have the first
<lb ed="G"/>choice. Follow <lb n="2138" ed="F1"/>me, girls.
<stage type="exit">[Exit with Dorcas and Mopsa.</stage>
</p></sp>
<sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker>
<p>And you shall pay well for 'em.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Follows singing.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2139" ed="F1"/></p><l>Will you buy any tape,</l>
<l>Or lace for your cape,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2140" ed="F1"/></l><l>My dainty duck, my dear-a?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2141" ed="F1"/></l><l>Any silk, any thread,</l>
<l>Any toys for your head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2142" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2143" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come to the pedlar;</l>
<l>Money's a medler.
<lb n="330" ed="G"/><lb n="2144" ed="F1"/></l><l>That doth utter all men's ware-a.    <stage>[Exit.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">               Re-enter Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2145" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>Master, there is three carters, three
<lb ed="G"/>shepherds, <lb n="2146" ed="F1"/>three neat-herds, three swine-herds,
<lb ed="G"/>that have made <lb n="2147" ed="F1"/>themselves all men of hair,
<lb ed="G"/>they call themselves Saltiers, <lb n="2148" ed="F1"/>and they have a
<lb ed="G"/>dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2149" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>of gambols, because they are not in't; but
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2150" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>they themselves are o' the mind, if it be not
<lb ed="G"/>too rough <lb n="2151" ed="F1"/>for some that know little but bowling,
<lb n="339" ed="G"/>it will please <lb n="2152" ed="F1"/>plentifully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2153" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Away! we'll none on't: here has
<lb ed="G"/>been too <lb n="2154" ed="F1"/>much homely foolery already.   I
<lb ed="G"/>know, sir, we weary <lb n="2155" ed="F1"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2156" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><p>You weary those that refresh us:
<lb ed="G"/>pray, let's see <lb n="2157" ed="F1"/>these four threes of herdsmen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2158" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>One three of them, by their own report,
<lb ed="G"/>sir, <lb n="2159" ed="F1"/>hath danced before the king; and
<lb ed="G"/>not the worst of the <lb n="2160" ed="F1"/>three but jumps twelve
<lb ed="G"/>foot and a half by the squier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2161" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Leave your prating: since these good
<lb ed="G"/>men are <lb n="2162" ed="F1"/>pleased, let them come in; but quickly
<lb n="351" ed="G"/>now.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2163" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>Why, they stay at door, sir. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>
<lb n="2164" ed="F1"/><stage> Here a dance of twelve Satyrs. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2165" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2166" ed="F1"/></l><l><stage>[To Cam.]</stage> Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2167" ed="F1"/></l><l>He's simple and tells much. <stage>[To Flor.]</stage></l>
<l>How now, fair shepherd!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2168" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your heart is full of something that does take
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2169" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2170" ed="F1"/></l><l>And handed love as you do, I was wont
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2171" ed="F1"/></l><l>To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd
<lb n="361" ed="G"/><lb n="2172" ed="F1"/></l><l>The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2173" ed="F1"/></l><l>To her acceptance; you have let him go
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2174" ed="F1"/></l><l>And nothing marted with him. If your lass
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2175" ed="F1"/></l><l>Interpretation should abuse and call this
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2176" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2177" ed="F1"/></l><l>For a reply, at least if you make a care
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2178" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of happy holding her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2179" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Old sir, I know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2180" ed="F1"/></l><l>She prizes not such trifles as these are:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2181" ed="F1"/></l><l>The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2182" ed="F1"/></l><l>Up in my heart; which I have given already,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2183" ed="F1"/></l><l>But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2184" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before this ancient sir, who it should seem,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2185" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2186" ed="F1"/></l><l>As soft as dove's down and as white as it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2187" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd snow that's bolted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2188" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">By the northern blasts twice o'er.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2189" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">What follows this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2190" ed="F1"/></l><l>How prettily the young swain seems to wash
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2191" ed="F1"/></l><l>The hand was fair before! I have put you out:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2192" ed="F1"/></l><l>But to your protestation; let me hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2193" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What you profess.

<lb n="380" ed="G"/><lb n="2194" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Do, and be witness to't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2195" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="I">And this my neighbor too?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2196" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">And he, and more
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2197" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2198" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, were crown'd the most imperial monarch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2199" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2200" ed="F1"/></l><l>That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2201" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than was ever man's, I would not prize them
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2202" ed="F1"/></l><l>Without her love; for her employ them all;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2203" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commend them and condemn them to her service
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2204" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Or to their own perdition.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2205" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Fairly offer'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2206" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="I">This shows a sound affection.

<lb n="390" ed="G"/><lb n="2207" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l part="F">But, my daughter.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2208" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Say you the like to him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2209" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">I cannot speak
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2210" ed="F1"/></l><l>So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2211" ed="F1"/></l><l>By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2212" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The purity of his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2213" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l part="F">Take hands, a bargain!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2214" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2215" ed="F1"/></l><l>I give my daughter to him, and will make
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2216" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Her portion equal his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2217" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">O, that must be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2218" ed="F1"/></l><l>I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2219" ed="F1"/></l><l>I shall have more than you can dream of yet;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2220" ed="F1"/></l><l>Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2221" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Contract us 'fore those witnesses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2222" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l part="F">Come, your hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2223" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And, daughter, yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2224" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2225" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Have you a father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2226" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I have: but what of him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2227" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="I">Knows he of this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2228" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">He neither does nor shall.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2229" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>Methinks a father
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2230" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2231" ed="F1"/></l><l>That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2232" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is not your father grown incapable
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2233" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid
<lb n="410" ed="G"/><lb n="2234" ed="F1"/></l><l>With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2235" ed="F1"/></l><l>Know man from man? dispute his own estate?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2236" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2237" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But what he did being childish?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2238" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">No, good sir;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2239" ed="F1"/></l><l>He has his health and ampler strength indeed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2240" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than most have of his age.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2241" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">By my white beard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2242" ed="F1"/></l><l>You offer him, if this be so, a wrong
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2243" ed="F1"/></l><l>Something unfilial: reason my son
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2244" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2245" ed="F1"/></l><l>The father, all whose joy is nothing else
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2246" ed="F1"/></l><l>But fair posterity, should hold some counsel
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2247" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In such a business.

<lb n="420" ed="G"/><lb n="2248" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I yield all this;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2249" ed="F1"/></l><l>But for some other reasons, my grave sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2250" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2251" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My father of this business.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2252" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Let him know 't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2253" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="I">He shall not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2254" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="Y">Prithee, let him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2255" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">No, he must not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2256" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l>Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2257" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">At knowing of thy choice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2258" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Come, come, he must not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2259" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Mark our contract.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2260" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l part="F">Mark your divorce, young sir.
<stage>[Discovering himself.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2261" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2262" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2263" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,
<lb n="432" ed="G"/><lb n="2264" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2265" ed="F1"/></l><l>But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2266" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2267" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The royal fool thou copest with,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2268" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l part="F">O, my heart!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2269" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pol."><speaker>Pol.</speaker><l>I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2270" ed="F1"/></l><l>More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2271" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2272" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2273" ed="F1"/></l><l>I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession;
<lb n="441" ed="G"/><lb n="2274" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2275" ed="F1"/></l><l>Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2276" ed="F1"/></l><l>Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2277" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2278" ed="F1"/></l><l>From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2279" ed="F1"/></l><l>Worthy enough a herdsman; yea, him too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2280" ed="F1"/></l><l>That makes himself, but for our honor therein,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2281" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2282" ed="F1"/></l><l>These rural latches to his entrance open,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2283" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
<lb n="451" ed="G"/><lb n="2284" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will devise a death as cruel for thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2285" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As thou art tender to't.
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2286" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Even here undone!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2287" ed="F1"/></l><l>I was not much afeard; for once or twice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2288" ed="F1"/></l><l>I was about to speak and tell him plainly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2289" ed="F1"/></l><l>The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2290" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hides not his visage from our cottage but
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2291" ed="F1"/></l><l>Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone ?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2292" ed="F1"/></l><l>I told you what would come of this: beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2293" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2294" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2295" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But milk my ewes and weep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2296" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Why, how now, father!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2297" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Speak ere thou diest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2298" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><l part="F">I cannot speak, nor think,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2299" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2300" ed="F1"/></l><l>You have undone a man of fourscore three,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2301" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2302" ed="F1"/></l><l>To die upon the bed my father died,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2303" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lie close by his honest bones: but now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2304" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2305" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,
<lb n="470" ed="G"/><lb n="2306" ed="F1"/></l><l>That knew'st this was the prince, and wouldst adventure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2307" ed="F1"/></l><l>To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2308" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I might die within this hour, I have lived
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2309" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To die when I desire.
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2310" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Why look you so upon me?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2311" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2312" ed="F1"/></l><l>But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2313" ed="F1"/></l><l>More straining on for plucking back, not following
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2314" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My leash unwillingly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2315" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Gracious my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2316" ed="F1"/></l><l>You know your father's temper: at this time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2317" ed="F1"/></l><l>He will allow no speech, which I do guess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2318" ed="F1"/></l><l>You do not purpose to him; and as hardly
<lb n="481" ed="G"/><lb n="2319" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2320" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then, till the fury of his highness settle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2321" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Come not before him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2322" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I not purpose it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2323" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I think, Camillo?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2324" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Even he, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2325" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l>How often have I told you 'twould be thus!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2326" ed="F1"/></l><l>How often said, my dignity would last
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2327" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But till 'twere known!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2328" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">It cannot fail but by
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2329" ed="F1"/></l><l>The violation of my faith; and then
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2330" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2331" ed="F1"/></l><l>And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:
<lb n="491" ed="G"/><lb n="2332" ed="F1"/></l><l>From my succession wipe me, father; I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2333" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Am heir to my affection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2334" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Be advised.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2335" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>I am, and by my fancy: if my reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2336" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2337" ed="F1"/></l><l>If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2338" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Do bid it welcome.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2339" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">This is desperate, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2340" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2341" ed="F1"/></l><l>I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2342" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may
<lb n="500" ed="G"/><lb n="2343" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2344" ed="F1"/></l><l>The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2345" ed="F1"/></l><l>In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2346" ed="F1"/></l><l>To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2347" ed="F1"/></l><l>As you have ever been my father's honor'd friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2348" ed="F1"/></l><l>When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2349" ed="F1"/></l><l>To see him any more,--cast your good counsels
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2350" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon his passion: let myself and fortune
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2351" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tug for the time to come. This you may know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2352" ed="F1"/></l><l>And so deliver, I am put to sea
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2353" ed="F1"/></l><l>With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;
<lb n="511" ed="G"/><lb n="2354" ed="F1"/></l><l>And most opportune to our need I have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2355" ed="F1"/></l><l>A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2356" ed="F1"/></l><l>For this design. What course I mean to hold
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2357" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2358" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Concern me the reporting.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2359" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">O my lord!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2360" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would your spirit were easier for advice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2361" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or stronger for your need.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2362" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>Hark, Perdita. <stage>[Drawing her aside.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2363" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll hear you by and by.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2364" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">He's irremoveable,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2365" ed="F1"/></l><l>Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2366" ed="F1"/></l><l>His going I could frame to serve my turn,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2367" ed="F1"/></l><l>Save him from danger, do him love and honor,
<lb n="522" ed="G"/><lb n="2368" ed="F1"/></l><l>Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2369" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that unhappy king, my master, whom
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2370" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I so much thirst to see.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2371" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Now, good Camillo;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2372" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am so fraught with curious business that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2373" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I leave out ceremony.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2374" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, I think
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2375" ed="F1"/></l><l>You have heard of my poor services, i' the love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2376" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That I have borne your father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Very nobly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2378" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have you deserved: it is my father's music
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2379" ed="F1"/></l><l>To speak your deeds, not little of his care
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2380" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To have them recompensed as thought on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2381" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Well, my lord,
<lb n="532" ed="G"/><lb n="2382" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you may please to think I love the king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2383" ed="F1"/></l><l>And through him   what is nearest to him, which is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2384" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2385" ed="F1"/></l><l>If your more ponderous and settled project
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2386" ed="F1"/></l><l>May suffer alteration, on mine honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2387" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll point you where you shall have such receiving
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2388" ed="F1"/></l><l>As shall become your highness; where you may
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2389" ed="F1"/></l><l>Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2390" ed="F1"/></l><l>There's no disjunction to be made, but by--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2391" ed="F1"/></l><l>As heavens forfend!--your ruin; marry her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2392" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, with my best endeavours in your absence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2393" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your discontenting father strive to qualify
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2394" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And bring him up to liking.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2395" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">How, Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2396" ed="F1"/></l><l>May this, almost a miracle, be done?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2397" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I may call thee something more than man
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2398" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And after that trust to thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2399" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Have you thought on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2400" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A place whereto you'll go?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2401" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Not any yet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2402" ed="F1"/></l><l>But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2403" ed="F1"/></l><l>To what we wildly do, so we profess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2404" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2405" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of every wind that blows.

<lb n="552" ed="G"/><lb n="2406" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Then list to me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2407" ed="F1"/></l><l>This follows, if you will not change your purpose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2408" ed="F1"/></l><l>But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2409" ed="F1"/></l><l>And there present yourself and your fair princess,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2410" ed="F1"/></l><l>For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2411" ed="F1"/></l><l>She shall be habited as it becomes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2412" ed="F1"/></l><l>The partner of your bed. Methinks I see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2413" ed="F1"/></l><l>Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2414" ed="F1"/></l><l>His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness,
<lb n="561" ed="G"/><lb n="2415" ed="F1"/></l><l>As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2416" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2417" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2418" ed="F1"/></l><l>He chides to hell and bids the other grow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2419" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Faster than thought or time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2420" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Worthy Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2421" ed="F1"/></l><l>What color for my visitation shall I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2422" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Hold up before him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2423" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Sent by the king your father
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2424" ed="F1"/></l><l>To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2425" ed="F1"/></l><l>The manner of your bearing towards him, with
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2426" ed="F1"/></l><l>What you as from your father shall deliver,
<lb n="571" ed="G"/><lb n="2427" ed="F1"/></l><l>Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2428" ed="F1"/></l><l>The which shall point you forth at every sitting
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2429" ed="F1"/></l><l>What you must say; that he shall not perceive
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2430" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that you have your father's bosom there
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2431" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And speak his very heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2432" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">I am bound to you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2433" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">There is some sap in this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2434" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">A course more promising
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2435" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than a wild dedication of yourselves
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2436" ed="F1"/></l><l>To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2437" ed="F1"/></l><l>To miseries enough; no hope to help you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2438" ed="F1"/></l><l>But as you shake off one to take another;
<lb n="581" ed="G"/><lb n="2439" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing so certain as your anchors, who
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2440" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do their best office, if they can but stay you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2441" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2442" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prosperity's the very bond of love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2443" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2444" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Affliction alters.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2445" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">One of these is true:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2446" ed="F1"/></l><l>I think affliction may subdue the cheek,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2447" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But not take in the mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2448" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Yea, say you so?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2449" ed="F1"/></l><l>There shall not at your father's house these seven years
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2450" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Be born another such.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2451" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">My good Camillo,
<lb n="591" ed="G"/><lb n="2452" ed="F1"/></l><l>She is as forward of her breeding as
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2453" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She is i' the rear our birth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2454" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">I cannot say 'tis pity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2455" ed="F1"/></l><l>She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2456" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To most that teach.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2457" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Your pardon, sir; for this
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2458" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll blush you thanks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2459" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">My prettiest Perdita!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2460" ed="F1"/></l><l>But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2461" ed="F1"/></l><l>Preserver of my father, now of me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2462" ed="F1"/></l><l>The medicine of our house, how shall we do?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2463" ed="F1"/></l><l>We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's sop,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2464" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Nor shall appear in Sicilia.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2465" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">My lord,
<lb n="601" ed="G"/><lb n="2466" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2467" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do all lie there: it shall be so my care
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2468" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have you royally appointed as if
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2469" ed="F1"/></l><l>The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2470" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you may know you shall not want, one word.
<stage>[They talk aside.</stage>
<lb n="2471" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">             Re-enter AUTOLYCUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2472" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and
<lb ed="G"/>Trust, his <lb n="2473" ed="F1"/>sworn brother, a very simple gentleman!
<lb ed="G"/>I have sold <lb n="2474" ed="F1"/>all my trumpery; not
<lb ed="G"/>a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, <lb n="2475" ed="F1"/>glass, pomander,
<lb ed="G"/>brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, <lb n="2476" ed="F1"/>tape,
<lb ed="G"/>glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep <lb n="2477" ed="F1"/>my
<lb ed="G"/>pack from fasting: they throng who should
<lb ed="G"/>buy first, <lb n="2478" ed="F1"/>as if my trinkets had been hallowed
<lb ed="G"/>and brought a benediction <lb n="2479" ed="F1"/>to the buyer: by
<lb ed="G"/>which means I saw whose <lb n="2480" ed="F1"/>purse was best in
<lb ed="G"/>picture; and what I saw, to my good <lb n="2481" ed="F1"/>use I remembered.
<lb ed="G"/>My clown, who wants but something
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2482" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>to be a reasonable man, grew so in
<lb ed="G"/>love with the <lb n="2483" ed="F1"/>wenches' song, that he would
<lb ed="G"/>not stir his pettitoes <lb n="2484" ed="F1"/>till he had both tune and
<lb ed="G"/>words; which so drew the rest <lb n="2485" ed="F1"/>of the herd to
<lb ed="G"/>me that all their other senses stuck in <lb n="2486" ed="F1"/>ears:
<lb ed="G"/>you might have pinched a placket, it was
<lb ed="G"/>senseless; <lb n="2487" ed="F1"/>'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of
<lb ed="G"/>a purse; I <lb n="2488" ed="F1"/>could have filed keys off that hung
<lb ed="G"/>in chains: no <lb n="2489" ed="F1"/>hearing, no feeling, but my sir's
<lb ed="G"/>song, and admiring the <lb n="2490" ed="F1"/>nothing of it.   So that
<lb ed="G"/>in this time of lethargy I picked <lb n="2491" ed="F1"/>and cut most
<lb ed="G"/>of their festival purses; and had not the <lb n="2492" ed="F1"/>old
<lb ed="G"/>man come in with a whoo-bub against his
<lb ed="G"/>daughter <lb n="2493" ed="F1"/>and the king's son and scared my
<lb ed="G"/>choughs from <lb n="2494" ed="F1"/>the chaff, I had not left a purse
<lb ed="G"/>alive in the whole <lb n="2495" ed="F1"/>army.
<stage>[Camillo, Florizel, and Perdita come forward.</stage>

<lb n="632" ed="G"/><lb n="2496" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2497" ed="F1"/></l><l>So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2498" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2499" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="I">Shall satisfy your father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2500" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">Happy be you!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2501" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">All that you speak shows fair.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2502" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Who have we here?
<stage>[Seeing Autolycus.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2503" ed="F1"/></l><l>We'll make an instrument of this, omit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2504" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing may give us aid.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2505" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>If they have overheard me now, why,
<lb ed="G"/>hanging.

<lb n="641" ed="G"/><lb n="2506" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>How now, good fellow! <lb n="2507" ed="F1"/>why shakest
<lb ed="G"/>thou so?   Fear not, man; <lb n="2508" ed="F1"/>here's no harm intended
<lb ed="G"/>to thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2509" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I am a poor fellow, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2510" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Why, be so still; here's nobody will
<lb ed="G"/>steal that <lb n="2511" ed="F1"/>from thee: yet for the outside of thy
<lb ed="G"/>poverty we must <lb n="2512" ed="F1"/>make an exchange; therefore
<lb ed="G"/>discase thee instantly,--thou <lb n="2513" ed="F1"/>must think
<lb ed="G"/>there's a necessity in't,--and change garments
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2514" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>with this gentleman: though the pennyworth
<lb ed="G"/>on his side <lb n="2515" ed="F1"/>be the worst, yet hold thee, there's
<lb ed="G"/>some boot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2516" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I am a poor fellow, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Aside]</stage> I know ye well <lb n="2517" ed="F1"/>enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2518" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>is half <lb n="2519" ed="F1"/>flayed already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2520" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Are you in earnest, sir?
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Aside]</stage> I smell the trick on't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2521" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><p>Dispatch, I prithee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2522" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Indeed, I have had earnest; but I
<lb n="660" ed="G"/>cannot with <lb n="2523" ed="F1"/>conscience take it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2524" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><p>Unbuckle, unbuckle.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Florizel and Autolycus exchange garments.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2525" ed="F1"/></p><l>Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2526" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2527" ed="F1"/></l><l>Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2528" ed="F1"/></l><l>And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2529" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2530" ed="F1"/></l><l>The truth of your own seeming; that you may--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2531" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2532" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Get undescried.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2533" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="per."><speaker>Per.</speaker><l part="F">I see the play so lies
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2534" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That I must bear a part.

<lb n="670" ed="G"/><lb n="2535" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">No remedy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2536" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Have you done there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2537" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Should I now meet my father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2538" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He would not call me son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2539" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, you shall have no hat.
<stage>[Giving it to Perdita.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2540" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2541" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><l part="F">Adieu, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2542" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2543" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pray you, a word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2544" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l><stage>[Aside]</stage> What I do next, shall be to tell the king
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2545" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of this escape and whither they are bound;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2546" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2547" ed="F1"/></l><l>To force him after: in whose company
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2548" ed="F1"/></l><l>I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2549" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I have a woman's longing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2550" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Fortune speed us!
<lb n="682" ed="G"/><lb n="2551" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2552" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cam."><speaker>Cam.</speaker><l>The swifter speed the better.
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Florizel, Perdita, and Camillo.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2553" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I understand the business, I hear it:
<lb ed="G"/>to have an <lb n="2554" ed="F1"/>open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble
<lb ed="G"/>hand, is necessary for <lb n="2555" ed="F1"/>a cut-purse; a good
<lb ed="G"/>nose is requisite also, to smell out <lb n="2556" ed="F1"/>work for
<lb ed="G"/>the other senses. I see this is the time that
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2557" ed="F1"/>unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange
<lb ed="G"/>had this been <lb n="2558" ed="F1"/>without boot!   What a
<lb ed="G"/>boot is here with this exchange! <lb n="2559" ed="F1"/>Sure the
<lb ed="G"/>gods do this year connive at us, and we may
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2560" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>do any thing extempore. The prince himself
<lb ed="G"/>is about <lb n="2561" ed="F1"/>a piece of iniquity, stealing away
<lb ed="G"/>from his father with <lb n="2562" ed="F1"/>his clog at his heels: if
<lb ed="G"/>I thought it were a piece of honesty <lb n="2563" ed="F1"/>to acquaint
<lb ed="G"/>the king withal, I would not do't: I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2564" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and
<lb ed="G"/>therein am <lb n="2565" ed="F1"/>I constant to my profession.
<lb n="2566" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter Clown and Shepherd. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2567" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot
<lb ed="G"/>brain: every <lb n="2568" ed="F1"/>lane's end, every shop, church,
<lb ed="G"/>session, hanging, yields <lb n="2569" ed="F1"/>a careful man work.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2570" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>See, see; what a man you are now!
<lb ed="G"/>There is no <lb n="2571" ed="F1"/>other way but to tell the king
<lb ed="G"/>she's a changeling and <lb n="2572" ed="F1"/>none of your flesh and
<lb ed="G"/>blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2573" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Nay, but hear me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2574" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Nay, but hear me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2575" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Go to, then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2576" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>She being none of your flesh and
<lb n="711" ed="G"/>blood, your <lb n="2577" ed="F1"/>flesh and blood has not offended
<lb ed="G"/>the king; and so your <lb n="2578" ed="F1"/>flesh and blood is not
<lb ed="G"/>to be punished by him. Show those <lb n="2579" ed="F1"/>things you
<lb ed="G"/>found about her, those secret things, all but
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2580" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>what she has with her: this being done, let
<lb ed="G"/>the law go <lb n="2581" ed="F1"/>whistle: I warrant you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2582" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>I will tell the king all, every word,
<lb ed="G"/>yea, and his <lb n="2583" ed="F1"/>son's pranks too; who, I may
<lb ed="G"/>say, is no honest man, <lb n="2584" ed="F1"/>neither to his father
<lb ed="G"/>nor to me, to go about to make me <lb n="2585" ed="F1"/>the king's
<lb n="721" ed="G"/>brother-in-law.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2586" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest
<lb ed="G"/>off you <lb n="2587" ed="F1"/>could have been to him and then
<lb ed="G"/>your blood had been <lb n="2588" ed="F1"/>the dearer by I know
<lb ed="G"/>how much an ounce.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2589" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside]</stage> Very wisely, puppies!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2590" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Well, let us to the king: there is
<lb ed="G"/>that in this <lb n="2591" ed="F1"/>fardel will make him scratch his beard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2592" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p><stage>[Aside]</stage> I know not what impediment
<lb ed="G"/>this complaint <lb n="2593" ed="F1"/>may be to the flight of my master.

<lb n="731" ed="G"/><lb n="2594" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Pray heartily he be at palace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2595" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p> <stage>[Aside]</stage> Though I am not naturally
<lb ed="G"/>honest, I am so sometimes <lb n="2596" ed="F1"/>by chance: let me
<lb ed="G"/>pocket up my pedlar's excrement. <stage>[Takes off
<lb ed="G"/>his false beard.]</stage> <lb n="2597" ed="F1"/>How now, rustics! whither
<lb ed="G"/>are you bound?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2598" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>To the palace, an it like your worship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2599" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Your affairs there, what, with whom,
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2600" ed="F1"/>condition of that fardel, the place of your
<lb ed="G"/>dwelling, <lb n="2601" ed="F1"/>your names, your ages, of what having,
<lb ed="G"/>breeding, and <lb n="2602" ed="F1"/>any thing that is fitting to
<lb ed="G"/>be known, discover.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2603" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>We are but plain fellows, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2604" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let
<lb ed="G"/>me have <lb n="2605" ed="F1"/>no lying: it becomes none but tradesmen,
<lb ed="G"/>and they often <lb n="2606" ed="F1"/>give us soldiers the lie:
<lb ed="G"/>but we pay them for it <lb n="2607" ed="F1"/>with stamped coin,
<lb ed="G"/>not stabbing steel; therefore they <lb n="2608" ed="F1"/>do not give
<lb ed="G"/>us the lie.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2609" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Your worship had like to have given
<lb ed="G"/>us one, if <lb n="2610" ed="F1"/>you had not taken yourself with the
<lb ed="G"/>manner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2611" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2612" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Whether it like me or no, I am a
<lb ed="G"/>courtier. Seest <lb n="2613" ed="F1"/>thou not the air of the court
<lb ed="G"/>in these enfoldings? hath <lb n="2614" ed="F1"/>not my gait in it
<lb ed="G"/>the measure of the court? receives not <lb n="2615" ed="F1"/>thy
<lb ed="G"/>nose court-odor from me? reflect I not on thy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2616" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou, for
<lb ed="G"/>that I <lb n="2617" ed="F1"/>insinuate, or toaze from thee thy
<lb ed="G"/>business, I am therefore <lb n="2618" ed="F1"/>no courtier?   I am
<lb ed="G"/>courtier cap-a-pe; and one that <lb n="2619" ed="F1"/>will either
<lb ed="G"/>push on or pluck back thy business there:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2620" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>whereupon I command thee to open thy affair.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2621" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>My business, sir, is to the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2622" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>What advocate hast thou to him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2623" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>I know not, an't like you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2624" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant:
<lb ed="G"/>say <lb n="2625" ed="F1"/>you have none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2626" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock
<lb n="771" ed="G"/>nor hen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2627" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><l>How blessed are we that are not simple men!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2628" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet nature might have made me as these are,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2629" ed="F1"/></l><l>Therefore I will not disdain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2630" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>This cannot be but a great courtier.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2631" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>His garments are rich, but he wears
<lb ed="G"/>them not <lb n="2632" ed="F1"/>handsomely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2633" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>He seems to be the more noble in being
<lb ed="G"/>fantastical: <lb n="2634" ed="F1"/>a great man, I'll warrant; I
<lb n="780" ed="G"/>know by the picking <lb n="2635" ed="F1"/>on's teeth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2636" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><l>The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2637" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherefore that box?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2638" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Sir, there lies such secrets in this
<lb ed="G"/>fardel and <lb n="2639" ed="F1"/>box, which none must know but
<lb ed="G"/>the king; and which he <lb n="2640" ed="F1"/>shall know within
<lb ed="G"/>this hour, if I may come to the speech <lb n="2641" ed="F1"/>of him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2642" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Age, thou hast lost thy labor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2643" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Why, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2644" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>The king is not at the palace; he is
<lb ed="G"/>gone aboard <lb n="2645" ed="F1"/>a new ship to purge melancholy
<lb ed="G"/>and air himself: for, <lb n="2646" ed="F1"/>if thou beest capable of
<lb ed="G"/>things serious, thou must know <lb n="2647" ed="F1"/>the king is
<lb ed="G"/>full of grief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2648" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that
<lb ed="G"/>should <lb n="2649" ed="F1"/>have married a shepherd's daughter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2650" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>If that shepherd be not in hand-fast,
<lb ed="G"/>let him <lb n="2651" ed="F1"/>fly: the curses he shall have, the tortures
<lb ed="G"/>he shall feel, <lb n="2652" ed="F1"/>will break the back of man,
<lb ed="G"/>the heart of monster.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2653" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Think you so, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2654" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Not he alone shall suffer what wit
<lb n="801" ed="G"/>can make <lb n="2655" ed="F1"/>heavy and vengeance bitter; but
<lb ed="G"/>those that are germane <lb n="2656" ed="F1"/>to him, though removed
<lb ed="G"/>fifty times, shall all come under <lb n="2657" ed="F1"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>hangman: which though it be great pity, yet
<lb ed="G"/>it is <lb n="2658" ed="F1"/>necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue,
<lb ed="G"/>a ram-tender, <lb n="2659" ed="F1"/>to offer to have his daughter
<lb ed="G"/>come into grace! Some <lb n="2660" ed="F1"/>say he shall be stoned;
<lb ed="G"/>but that death is too soft for him, <lb n="2661" ed="F1"/>say I: draw
<lb ed="G"/>our throne into a sheep-cote! all deaths <lb n="2662" ed="F1"/>are
<lb ed="G"/>too few, the sharpest too easy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2663" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do
<lb n="811" ed="G"/>you hear, <lb n="2664" ed="F1"/>an't like you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2665" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>He has a son, who shall be flayed
<lb ed="G"/>alive; then <lb n="2666" ed="F1"/>'nointed over with honey, set on
<lb ed="G"/>the head of a wasp's <lb n="2667" ed="F1"/>nest; then stand till he
<lb ed="G"/>be three quarters and a dram dead; <lb n="2668" ed="F1"/>then recovered
<lb ed="G"/>again with aqua-vitae or some other
<lb ed="G"/>hot <lb n="2669" ed="F1"/>infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the
<lb ed="G"/>hottest day prognostication <lb n="2670" ed="F1"/>proclaims, shall
<lb ed="G"/>he be set against a brick-wall, <lb n="2671" ed="F1"/>the sun looking
<lb ed="G"/>with a southward eye upon him, <lb n="2672" ed="F1"/>where
<lb ed="G"/>he is to behold him with flies blown to death.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2673" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>But what talk we of these traitorly rascals,
<lb ed="G"/>whose miseries <lb n="2674" ed="F1"/>are to be smiled at, their offences
<lb ed="G"/>being so capital? <lb n="2675" ed="F1"/>Tell me, for you seem
<lb ed="G"/>to be honest plain men, what <lb n="2676" ed="F1"/>you have to
<lb ed="G"/>the king: being something gently considered,
<lb ed="G"/>I'll <lb n="2677" ed="F1"/>bring you where he is aboard, tender your
<lb ed="G"/>persons to his <lb n="2678" ed="F1"/>presence, whisper him in your
<lb ed="G"/>behalfs; and if it be in <lb n="2679" ed="F1"/>man besides the king
<lb n="829" ed="G"/>to effect your suits, here is man <lb n="2680" ed="F1"/>shall do it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2681" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>He seems to be of great authority:
<lb ed="G"/>close with <lb n="2682" ed="F1"/>him, give him gold; and though
<lb ed="G"/>authority be a stubborn <lb n="2683" ed="F1"/>bear, yet he is oft led
<lb ed="G"/>by the nose with gold: <lb n="2684" ed="F1"/>show the inside of
<lb ed="G"/>your purse to the outside of his <lb n="2685" ed="F1"/>hand, and no
<lb ed="G"/>more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed <lb n="2686" ed="F1"/>alive.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2687" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>An't please you, sir, to undertake
<lb ed="G"/>the business <lb n="2688" ed="F1"/>for us, here is that gold I have:
<lb ed="G"/>I'll make it as much <lb n="2689" ed="F1"/>more and leave this
<lb ed="G"/>young man in pawn till I bring it <lb n="2690" ed="F1"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2691" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>After I have done what I promised?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2692" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Ay, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2693" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>Well, give me the moiety. Are you
<lb ed="G"/>a party in this <lb n="2694" ed="F1"/>business?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2695" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>In some sort, sir: but though my case
<lb ed="G"/>be a pitiful <lb n="2696" ed="F1"/>one, I hope I shall not be flayed
<lb ed="G"/>out of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2697" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>O, that's the case of the shepherd's
<lb ed="G"/>son: <lb n="2698" ed="F1"/>hang him, he'll be made an example.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2699" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Comfort, good comfort!   We must to
<lb ed="G"/>the king <lb n="2700" ed="F1"/>and show our strange sights: he must
<lb ed="G"/>know 'tis none of <lb n="2701" ed="F1"/>your daughter nor my sister;
<lb ed="G"/>we are gone else. Sir, I <lb n="2702" ed="F1"/>will give you
<lb ed="G"/>as much as this old man does when the business
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2703" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>is performed, and remain, as he says,
<lb ed="G"/>your pawn <lb n="2704" ed="F1"/>till it be brought you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2705" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>I will trust you. Walk before toward
<lb ed="G"/>the sea-side; <lb n="2706" ed="F1"/>go on the right hand: I will but
<lb ed="G"/>look upon the <lb n="2707" ed="F1"/>hedge and follow you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2708" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>We are blest in this man, as I may
<lb ed="G"/>say, even <lb n="2709" ed="F1"/>blest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2710" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="shep."><speaker>Shep.</speaker><p>Let's before as he bids us: he was
<lb ed="G"/>provided to <lb n="2711" ed="F1"/>do us good.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Shepherd and Clown.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2712" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aut."><speaker>Aut.</speaker><p>If I had a mind to be honest, I see
<lb ed="G"/>Fortune would <lb n="2713" ed="F1"/>not suffer me: she drops
<lb ed="G"/>booties in my mouth. I am <lb n="2714" ed="F1"/>courted now with
<lb ed="G"/>a double occasion, gold and a means <lb n="2715" ed="F1"/>to do
<lb ed="G"/>the prince my master good; which who knows
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2716" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>how that may turn back to my advancement?
<lb ed="G"/>I will <lb n="2717" ed="F1"/>bring these two moles, these blind ones,
<lb ed="G"/>aboard him: if <lb n="2718" ed="F1"/>he think it fit to shore them
<lb ed="G"/>again and that the complaint <lb n="2719" ed="F1"/>they have to the
<lb ed="G"/>king concerns him nothing, let <lb n="2720" ed="F1"/>him call me
<lb ed="G"/>rogue for being so far officious; for I am
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2721" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>proof against that title and what shame else
<lb ed="G"/>belongs <lb n="2722" ed="F1"/>to't. To him will I present them:
<lb ed="G"/>there may be matter in <lb n="2723" ed="F1"/>it. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage></p></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
<div1 n="5" type="act">
  <head>ACT V</head><lb n="2724" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A room in LEONTES' palace.</stage>
<lb n="2725" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants.</stage>
<lb n="2726" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2727" ed="F1"/><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l>Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2728" ed="F1"/></l><l>A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2729" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2730" ed="F1"/></l><l>More penitence than done trespass: at the last,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2731" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2732" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With them forgive yourself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2733" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Whilst I remember
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2734" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her and her virtues, I cannot forget
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2735" ed="F1"/></l><l>My blemishes in them, and so still think of
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2736" ed="F1"/></l><l>The wrong I did myself; which was so much,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2737" ed="F1"/></l><l>That heirless it hath made my kingdom and
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2738" ed="F1"/></l><l>Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2739" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Bred his hopes out of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2740" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">True, too true, my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2741" ed="F1"/></l><l>If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2742" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or from the all that are took something good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2743" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2744" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Would be unparallel'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2745" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">I think so. Kill'd!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2746" ed="F1"/></l><l>She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2747" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2748" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2749" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Say so but seldom.

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="2750" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l part="F">Not at all, good lady:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2751" ed="F1"/></l><l>You might have spoken a thousand things that would
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2752" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have done the time more benefit and graced
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2753" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Your kindness better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2754" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">You are one of those
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2755" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Would have him wed again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2756" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="dion."><speaker>Dion.</speaker><l part="F">If you would not so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2757" ed="F1"/></l><l>You pity not the state, nor the remembrance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2758" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of his most sovereign name; consider little
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2759" ed="F1"/></l><l>What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2760" ed="F1"/></l><l>May drop upon his kingdom and devour
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2761" ed="F1"/></l><l>Incertain lookers on. What were more holy
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="2762" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than to rejoice the former queen is well?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2763" ed="F1"/></l><l>What holier than, for royalty's repair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2764" ed="F1"/></l><l>For present comfort and for future good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2765" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bless the bed of majesty again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2766" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With a sweet fellow to't?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2767" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">There is none worthy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2768" ed="F1"/></l><l>Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2769" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2770" ed="F1"/></l><l>For has not the divine Apollo said,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2771" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is't not the tenor of his oracle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2772" ed="F1"/></l><l>That King Leontes shall not have an heir
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2773" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,
<lb n="41" ed="G"/><lb n="2774" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is all as monstrous to our human reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2775" ed="F1"/></l><l>As my Antigonus to break his grave
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2776" ed="F1"/></l><l>And come again to me; who, on my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2777" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2778" ed="F1"/></l><l>My lord should to the heavens be contrary,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2779" ed="F1"/></l><l>Oppose against their wills. <stage>[To Leontes.]</stage> Care not for issue;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2780" ed="F1"/></l><l>The crown will find an heir: great Alexander
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2781" ed="F1"/></l><l>Left his to the worthiest; so his successor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2782" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Was like to be the best.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2783" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Good Paulina,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2784" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who hast the memory of Hermione,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2785" ed="F1"/></l><l>I know, in honor, O, that ever I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2786" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had squared me to thy counsel then, even now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2787" ed="F1"/></l><l>I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2788" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Have taken treasure from her lips--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2789" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">And left them
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2790" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">More rich for what they yielded.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2791" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Thou speak'st truth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2792" ed="F1"/></l><l>No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2793" ed="F1"/></l><l>And better used, would make her sainted spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2794" ed="F1"/></l><l>Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2795" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2796" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And begin, 'Why to me?'

<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2797" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Had she such power,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2798" ed="F1"/></l><l>She had just cause.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2799" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>She had; and would incense me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2800" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To murder her I married.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2801" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">I should so.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2802" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2803" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2804" ed="F1"/></l><l>You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2805" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2806" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Should be 'Remember mine.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2807" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Stars, stars,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2808" ed="F1"/></l><l>And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2809" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll have no wife, Paulina.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2810" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Will you swear
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2811" ed="F1"/></l><l>Never to marry but by my free leave?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2812" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2813" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l>Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2814" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l part="I">You tempt him over-much.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2815" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Unless another,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2816" ed="F1"/></l><l>As like Hermione as is her picture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2817" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Affronts his eye.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2818" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cleo."><speaker>Cleo.</speaker><l part="Y">Good madam,--
</l></sp>
<sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker>
<l part="F">I have done.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2819" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2820" ed="F1"/></l><l>No remedy, but you will,--give me the office
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2821" ed="F1"/></l><l>To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2822" ed="F1"/></l><l>As was your former; but she shall be such
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2823" ed="F1"/></l><l>As, walk'd your first queen's ghost, it should take joy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2824" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To see her in your arms.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2825" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">My true Paulina,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2826" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">We shall not marry till thou bid'st us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2827" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">That
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2828" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall be when your first queen's again in breath;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2829" ed="F1"/></l><l>Never till then.
<lb n="2830" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter a Gentleman.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2831" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l>One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2832" ed="F1"/></l><l>Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2833" ed="F1"/></l><l>The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2834" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To your high presence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2835" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">What with him? he comes not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2836" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like to his father's greatness: his approach,
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="2837" ed="F1"/></l><l>So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2838" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2839" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">By need and accident. What train?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2840" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l part="F">But few,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2841" ed="F1"/></l><l>And those but mean.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2842" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>His princess, say you, with him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2843" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l>Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2844" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That e'er the sun shone bright on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2845" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">O Hermione,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2846" ed="F1"/></l><l>As every present time doth boast itself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2847" ed="F1"/></l><l>Above a better gone, so must thy grave
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2848" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2849" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have said and writ so, but your writing now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2850" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2851" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2852" ed="F1"/></l><l>Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2853" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To say you have seen a better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2854" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l part="F">Pardon, madam:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2855" ed="F1"/></l><l>The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2856" ed="F1"/></l><l>The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2857" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2858" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2859" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of all professors else, make proselytes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2860" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of who she but bid follow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2861" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">How! not women?

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="2862" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l>Women will love her, that she is a woman
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2863" ed="F1"/></l><l>More worth than any man; men, that she is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2864" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The rarest of all women.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2865" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Go, Cleomenes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2866" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yourself, assisted with your honor'd friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2867" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Cleomenes and others. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2868" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He thus should steal upon us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2869" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="paul."><speaker>Paul.</speaker><l part="F">Had our prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2870" ed="F1"/></l><l>Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2871" ed="F1"/></l><l>Well with this lord: there was not full a month
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2872" ed="F1"/></l><l>Between their births.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2873" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2874" ed="F1"/></l><l>He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2875" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2876" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will bring me to consider that which may
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2877" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.
<lb n="2878" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">    Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2879" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2880" ed="F1"/></l><l>For she did print your royal father off,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2881" ed="F1"/></l><l>Conceiving you: were I but twenty one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2882" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your father's image is so hit in you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2883" ed="F1"/></l><l>His very air, that I should call you brother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2884" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I did him, and speak of something wildly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2885" ed="F1"/></l><l>By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2886" ed="F1"/></l><l>And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2887" ed="F1"/></l><l>I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2888" ed="F1"/></l><l>Might thus have stood begetting wonder as
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2889" ed="F1"/></l><l>You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2890" ed="F1"/></l><l>All mine own folly--the society,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2891" ed="F1"/></l><l>Amity too, of your brave father, whom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2892" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though bearing misery, I desire my life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2893" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Once more to look on him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2894" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">By his command
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2895" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2896" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,
<lb n="141" ed="G"/><lb n="2897" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can send his brother: and, but infirmity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2898" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which waits upon worn times hath something seized
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2899" ed="F1"/></l><l>His wish'd ability, he had himself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2900" ed="F1"/></l><l>The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2901" ed="F1"/></l><l>Measured to look upon you; whom he loves--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2902" ed="F1"/></l><l>He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2903" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And those that bear them living.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2904" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">O my brother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2905" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2906" ed="F1"/></l><l>Afresh within me, and these thy offices,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="2907" ed="F1"/></l><l>So rarely kind, are as interpreters
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2908" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2909" ed="F1"/></l><l>As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2910" ed="F1"/></l><l>Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2911" ed="F1"/></l><l>At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2912" ed="F1"/></l><l>To greet a man not worth her pains, much less
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2913" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The adventure of her person?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2914" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l part="F">Good my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2915" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She came from Libya.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2916" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Where the warlike Smalus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2917" ed="F1"/></l><l>That noble honor'd lord, is fear'd and loved?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2918" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="flo."><speaker>Flo.</speaker><l>Most royal sir, <lb n="2919" ed="F1"/>from thence; from him, whose daughter
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="2920" ed="F1"/></l><l>His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2921" ed="F1"/></l><l>A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2922" ed="F1"/></l><l>To execute the charge my father gave me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2923" ed="F1"/></l><l>For visiting your highness: my best train
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2924" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2925" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who for Bohemia bend, to signify
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2926" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not only my success in Libya, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2927" ed="F1"/></l><l>But my arrival and my wife's in safety
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2928" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Here where we are.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2929" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">The blessed gods
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2930" ed="F1"/></l><l>Purge all infection from our air whilst you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2931" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do climate here!   You have a holy father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2932" ed="F1"/></l><l>A graceful gentleman; against whose person,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2933" ed="F1"/></l><l>So sacred as it is, I have done sin:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2934" ed="F1"/></l><l>For which the heavens, taking angry note,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2935" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have left me issueless; and your father's blest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2936" ed="F1"/></l><l>As he from heaven merits it, with you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2937" ed="F1"/></l><l>Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2938" ed="F1"/></l><l>Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2939" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Such goodly things as you!
<lb n="2940" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter a Lord.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2941" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lord."><speaker>Lord.</speaker><l part="F">Most noble sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2942" ed="F1"/></l><l>That which I shall report will bear no credit,
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="2943" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were not the proof so nigh.   Please you, great sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2944" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bohemia greets you from himself by me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2945" ed="F1"/></l><l>Desires you to attach his son, who has--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2946" ed="F1"/></l><l>His dignity and duty both cast off--