The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare ~ Full Audiobook
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Act 1 of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. Act 1, Scene 1. Antechamber in Leontes' Palace. Enter Camillo and Archidamus. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.

I think this coming summer the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us. We will be justified in our loves, for indeed— Beseech you. Verily I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge. We cannot with such magnificence, in so rare, I know not what to say.

we will give you sleepy drinks that your senses unintelligent of our insufficience may though they cannot praise us as little accuse us you pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely believe me i speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance cecilia cannot show himself overkind to bohemia

they were trained together in their childhoods and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society their encounters though not personal have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts letters loving embassies though they have seemed to be together though absent

shook hands as over a vast and embraced as it were from the ends of opposed winds the heavens continue their loves i think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it you have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince mamilius it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note i very well agree with you in the hopes of him it is a gallant child

one that indeed physicks the subject makes old hearts fresh they that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man would they else be content to die yes if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live if the king had no son they would desire to live on crutches till he had one act one scene two a room of state in the same

and to leontes hermione mamillius polixenes camillo and attendants

nine changes of the watery star hath been the shepherd's note since we have left our throne without a burden time as long again would we find up my brother with our thanks and yet we should for perpetuity go hence in debt and therefore like a cipher yet standing in rich place i multiply with one we thank you many thousands more that go before it stay your thanks awhile and pay them when you part sir that's to-morrow

i am questioned by my fears of what may chance or breed upon our absence that may blow no sleeping winds at home to make us say this is put forth too truly besides i have staid to tire your royalty we are tougher brother than you can put us to it no longer stay one seven night longer very sooth to-morrow we'll part the time between us then and in that i'll no gainsaying press me not beseech you so

There is no tongue that moves, none, none in the world, so soon as yours could win me. So it should now, were there necessity in a request, although t'were needful I denied it. My affairs do even drag me homeward, which to hinder were in your love a whip to me. My stay to you a charge and trouble, to save both. Farewell, our brother.

Tongue-tied, our queen, speak you. I had thought, sir, to have held my peace Until you have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir, charge him too coldly. Tell him you are sure all in Bohemia's well. This satisfaction the bygone day proclaimed, Say this to him, he's beat from his best ward.

well said hermione to tell he longs to see his son were strong but let him say so then and let him go but let him swear so and he shall not stay will thwack him hence with distaffs yet of your royal presence i'll adventure the borrow of a week

when at bohemia you take my lord i'll give him my commission to let him there a month behind the jest prefix'd for his parting yet good deed leontes i love thee not a jar o the clock behind what lady she her lord you'll stay leontes no madam adr nay but you will leontes i may not verily

verily you put me off with limber vows but i though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths should yet say sir no going verily you shall not go a lady's verily's as potent as a lord's will you go yet

force me to keep you as a prisoner not like a guest so you shall pay your fees when you depart and save your thanks how say you my prisoner or my guest by your dread verily one of them you shall be your guest then madam to be your prisoner should import offending which is for me less easy to commit than you to punish not your jailer then but your kind hostess

Come, I'll question you of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys. You were pretty lordings then. We were, fair queen, two lads that thought there was no more behind, but such a day to-morrow as to-day, and to be boy eternal. Was not my lord the verier wag of the two? We were as twinned lambs that did frisky the sun and bleat the one at the other. What we changed was innocence for innocence.

We knew not the doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed that any did. Had we pursued that life, and our weak spirits ne'er had been higher reared with stronger blood, we should have answered heaven boldly, not guilty. The imposition cleared hereditary hours. By this we gather you have tripped since. O my most sacred lady!

temptations have since then been borne to us for in those unfledged days was my wife a girl your precious self had then not crossed the eyes of my young playfellow grace to boot of this make no conclusion lest you say your queen and i are devils yet go on the offences we have made you do we'll answer if you first sinned with us and that with us you did continue fault and that you slipped not with any but with us

is he won yet he'll stay my lord at my request he would not hermione my dearest thou never spokest to better purpose never never but once

What, have I twice said well? When wast before? I prithee, tell me. Crams with praise, and makes as fat as tame things. One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. You may rise with one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere with spur we beat an acre. But to the goal. My last good deed was to entreat his stay—

"'What was my first? It has an elder sister, or I mistake you. Oh, would her name were Grace!'

But once before I spoke to the purpose, when, Nay, let me have't I long. Why, that was when three crabbed months Had sour'd themselves to death, Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, And clap thyself my love. Then didst thou utter, I am yours for ever. 'Tis grace indeed! Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice.

the one for ever earned a royal husband the other for some while a friend too hot too hot to mingle friendship far is mingling bloods i have tremor cordis on me my heart dances but not for joy not joy this entertainment may a free face put on derive a liberty from heartiness from bounty fertile bosom and well become the agent

t may i grant but to be paddling palms and pinching fingers as now they are and making practised smiles as in a looking-glass and then to sigh as twere the mort o the deer oh that is entertainment my bosom likes not nor my brows mamillius art thou my boy hi my good lord if x why that's my bar cock what hast smutched thy nose they say it is a copy out of mine

come captain we must be neat not neat but cleanly captain and yet the steer the heifer and the calf are all call'd neat still virginaling upon his palm how now you wanton calf art thou my calf yes if you will my lord thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that i have to be full like me

yet they say we are almost as like as eggs women say so that will say anything but were they false as o'erdyed blacks as wind as waters false as dice are to be wished by one that fixes no morn twixt his and mine yet were it true to say this boy were like me come sir page look on me with your welkin eye sweet villain most dearest my collop can i damn may it be

affection thy intention stabs the centre thou dost make possible things not so held communicatest with dreams how can this be with what's unreal thou co-active art and fellowest nothing then tis very credent thou mayst cojoin with something and thou dost and that beyond commission and i find it and that to the infection of my brains and hardening of my brows

what means cecilia cecilia he something seems unsettled cecil how my lord what cheer how is't with you best brother cecilia you look as if you held a brow of much distraction are you moved my lord no in good earnest how sometimes nature will betray its folly its tenderness and make itself a pastime to harder bosoms

looking on the lines of my boy's face methoughts i did recoil twenty-three years and saw myself unbreached in my green velvet coat my dagger muzzled lest it should bite its master and so prove as ornaments oft do too dangerous how like methought i then was to this colonel this squash this gentleman

Mine honest friend, will you take eggs for money? No, my lord, I'll fight. You will? Why, happy man, be a stall! My brother, are you so fond of your young prince as we do seem to be of ours? If at home, sir, he's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter, now my sworn friend, and then mine enemy, my parasite, my soldier, statesman, all. He makes a July's day short as December, and with his varying childish cures in me thoughts that would thick my blood.

"'So stands this squire officed with me.'

we two will walk my lord and leave you to your graver steps hermione how thou lovest us show in our brother's welcome let what is dear in sicily be cheap next to thyself and my young rover he's a parent to my heart if you would seek us we are yours i the garden shall's attend you there to your own bents dispose you you'll be found be you beneath the sky

i am angling now though you perceive me not how i give line go to go to how she holds up the neb the bill to him and arms her with the boldness of a wife to her allowing husband exeunt polixenes hermione and attendants gone already inch thick knee deep o'er head and ears a forked one

go play boy play thy mother plays and i play too but so disgraced a part whose issue will hiss me to my grave contempt and clamour will be mine now go play boy play

there have been or i am much deceived cuckolds ere now and many a man there is even at this present now while i speak this holds his wife by the arm that little thinks she has been sluiced in absence and his pond fished by his next neighbour by sir smile his neighbour

nay there's comfort in it whiles other men have gates and those gates opened as mine against their will should all despair that have revolted wise the tenth of mankind would hang themselves

physic for it there is none it is a body planet that will strike where tis predominant and tis powerful think it from east west north and south be it concluded no barricado for a belly know it it will let in and out the enemy with bag and baggage many thousand on us have the disease and feel it not

how now boy i am like you they say why that's some comfort what camillo there ay my good lord go play mamillius thou art an honest man exit mamillius camillo this great sir will yet stay longer

you had much ado to make his anchor hold when you cast out it still came home didst note it he would not stay at your petitions made his business more material didst perceive it aside they're here with me already whispering rounding cecilia is a so forth tis far gone when i shall gust it last how came it camillo that he did stay

At the good queen's entreaty. At the queen's be it. Good should be pertinent, but so it is, it is not.

was this taken by any understanding pate but thine for thy conceit is soaking will draw in more than the common blocks not noted is it but of the finer natures by some severals of head-piece extraordinary lower messes perchance to this business purblind say business my lord i think most understand bohemia stays here longer

stays here longer ay but to satisfy your highness and the entreaties of our most gracious mistress satisfy the entreaties of your mistress satisfy let that suffice i have trusted thee camillo with all the nearest things to my heart as well my chamber counsels wherein priest-like thou hast cleansed my bosom i from thee departed thy penitent reformed

but we have been deceived in thy integrity deceived in that which seems so be it forbid my lord to bide upon it thou art not honest or if thou inclinest that way thou art a coward which hoxes honesty behind restraining from course required

or else thou must be counted a servant grafted in my serious trust and therein negligent or else a fool that seest a game played home the rich stake drawn and takest it all for jest my gracious lord i may be negligent foolish and fearful in every one of these no man is free

but that his negligence his folly fear among the infinite doings of the world sometime puts forth in your affairs my lord if ever i were a wilful negligent it was my folly

If industriously I played the fool, it was my negligence not weighing well the end. If ever fearful to do a thing were I the issue doubted where the execution did cry out against the non-performance, t'was a fear which oft infects the wisest. These, my lord, are allowed infirmities that honesty is never free of. But

Beseech your grace, be plainer with me. Let me know my trespass by its own visage. If I then deny it, tis none of mine. And not you seen, Camillo, but that's passed out you have, or your eyeglass is thicker than a cuckold's horn, or heard, for to a vision so apparent rumour cannot be mute, or thought, for cogitation resides not in that man that does not think, my wife is slippery?'

if thou wilt confess or else be impudently negative to have nor eyes nor ears nor thought then say my wife's a hobby-horse deserves a name as rank as any flax wench that puts to before her troth plight say it and justify it

i would not be a stander-by to hear my sov'reign mistress clouded so without my present vengeance taken shrew my heart you never spoke what did become you less than this which to reiterate were sin as deep as that though true is whispering nothing is leaning cheek to cheek is meeting noses kissing with inside lip

stopping the career of laughing with a sigh, a note infallible of breaking honesty, horsing foot on foot, skulking in corners, wishing clocks more swift, hours minutes, noon, midnight, and all eyes blind with the pin and web, but theirs, theirs only, that would unseen be wicked. Is this nothing?'

why then the world and all that's in it is nothing the covering sky is nothing bohemia nothing my wife is nothing nor nothing have these nothings if this be nothing adolph could my lord be cured of this diseased opinion and betimes for tis most dangerous adolph say it be tis true adolph no

no my lord it is you lie you lie i say thou liest camillo and i hate thee pronounce thee a gross lout a mindless slave or else a hovering temporizer that canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil inclining to them both were my wife's liver infected as her life she would not live the running of one glass

who does infect her why he that wears her like a medal hanging about his neck bohemia who if i had servants true about me that bare eyes to see alike mine honour as their prophets their own particular thrifts they would do that which should undo more doing

and thou his cup-bearer, whom I from meaner form have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven, how I am galled, mightst bespice a cup to give mine enemy a lasting wink.

Which draught to me were cordial. Sir, my lord, I could do this, And that with no rash poison, But with a lingering dram That should not work maliciously like poison. But I cannot believe this crack To be in my dread mistress So sovereignly being honourable.

I have loved thee. Make that thy question, and go rot. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled, to appoint myself in this vexation? Sully the purity and whiteness of my sheets, which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps? Give scandal to the blood of the prince, my son, who I do think is mine, and love as mine, without ripe moving to it?

would i do this could man so blench sir i must believe you sir i do and will fetch off bohemia for't provided that when he's removed your highness will take again your queen as yours at first even for your son's sake

and thereby for sealing the injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms known and allied to yours lord there dost advise me even so as i mine own course have set down i'll give no blemish to her honour none adolph my lord go then

and with a countenance as clear as friendship wears at feasts keep with bohemia and with your queen i am his cup-bearer if from me he have wholesome beverage account me not your servant this is all do it and thou hast the one half of my heart do it not thou split'st thine own i'll do it my lord i will seem friendly as thou hast advised me exit

Oh, miserable lady! But for me, what case stand I in? I must be the poisoner of good Polixenes, and my ground to do it is the obedience to a master, one who in rebellion with himself will have all that are his so too. To do this deed, promotion follows. If I could find example of thousands that had struck anointed kings and flourished after, I'd not do it.

but since nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one let villany itself forswear it i must forsake the court to do it or no is certain to me a breakneck oh happy star reign now here comes bohemia re-enter polixenes this is strange methinks my favor here begins to warp not speak good day camillo

Most royal, sir. What is the news of the court? None rare, my lord. The king hath on him such a countenance, as he had lost some province, and a region loved as he loves himself. Even now I met him with customary compliment, when he, wafting his eyes to the contrary, and falling a lip of much contempt, speeds from me, and so leaves me to consider what is breeding that changeth thus his manners. I do.

dare not know my lord how dare not do not do you know and dare not be intelligent to me that is thereabouts for to yourself what you do know you must and cannot say you dare not

Good Camillo, your changed complexions are to me a mirror which shows me mine changed too, for I must be a party in this alteration, finding myself thus altered with it. There is a sickness which puts some of us in distemper, but I cannot name the disease. And it is caught of you that yet are well. How? Caught of me? Make me not sighted like the basilisk. I have looked on thousands who have sped the better by my regard, but killed none so. Camillo—

as you are certainly a gentleman thereto clerk-like experienced which no less adorns our gentry than our parents noble names in whose success we are gentle i beseech you if you know aught which does behove my knowledge thereof to be informed imprison not in ignorant concealment

may not answer. A sickness caught of me, and yet I well. I must be answered. Dost thou hear, Camillo? I conjure thee, by all the parts of man which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least is not this suit of mine, that thou declare what incidency thou dost guess of harm is creeping toward me, how far off, how near, which way to be prevented, if to be, if not, how best to bear it. Sir, I will tell you.

since i am charged in honor and by him that i think honorable therefore mark my counsel which must be even as swiftly followed as i mean to utter it or both yourself and me cry lost and so good night on good camillo i am appointed him to murder you by whom camillo by the king for what he thinks

nay with all confidence he swears as he had seen't or being an instrument devise you to it that you have touch'd his queen forbiddenly king oh then my best blood turn to an infected jelly and my name be yoked with his that did betray the best

turn then my freshest reputation to a savour that may strike the dullest nostril where i arrive and my approach be shunned nay hated too worse than the greatest infection that e'er was heard or read swear his thought over by each particular star in heaven and by all their influences you may as well forbid the sea for to obey the moon as or by oath remove or counsel shake the fabric of his folly

whose foundation is piled upon his faith and will continue the standing of his body. How should this grow?

i know not but i am sure tis safer to avoid what's grown than question how tis born if therefore you dare trust my honesty that lies enclosed in this trunk which you shall bear along in pond away to-night your followers i will whisper to the business and will by twos and threes at several posterns clear them of the city for myself i'll put my fortunes to your service which are here by this discovery lost

but not uncertain for by the honour of my parents i have uttered truth which if you seek to prove i dare not stand by nor shall you be safer than one condemned by the king's own mouth thereon his execution sworn i do believe thee i saw his heart in's face give me thy hand be pilot to me and thy places shall still neighbour mine my ships are ready and my people did expect my hand's departure two days ago

this jealousy is for a precious creature as she's rare must it be great and as his person's mighty must it be violent and as he does conceive he is dishonoured by a man which ever profess'd to him why his revenges must in that be made more bitter fear o shades me good expedition be my friend and comfort the gracious queen part of his theme but nothing of his ill-tayn'd suspicion

come camillo i will respect thee as a father if thou bear'st my life off hence let us avoid cam it is in mine authority to command the keys of all the posterns please your highness to take the urgent hour come sir away exeunt act

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ACT II. SCENE I. A ROMAN LEONTE'S PALACE. Enter Hermione, Mimilius, and Laedice.

Take the boy to you, he so troubles me, 'tis past enduring. Come, my gracious lord, shall I be your playfellow? No, I'll none of you. Why, my sweet lord? You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if I were a baby still. I love you better. And why so, my lord? Not for because your brows are blacker; Yet black brows, they say, become some women best.

so that there be not too much hair there but in a semi-circle or a half-moon made with a pen who taught you this i learnt it out of women's faces pray now what colour are your eyebrows blue my lord nay that's a mock i have seen a lady's nose that has been blue but not her eyebrows hark ye the queen your mother rounds apace we shall present our services to a fine new prince one of these days

and then you'd wanton with us if we would have you she is spread of late into a goodly baulk good times encounter her what wisdom stirs amongst you come sir now i am for you again pray you sit by us and tell us a tale

Merry or sad shalt be? As merry as you will. A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins. Let's have that, good sir. Come on, sit down. Come on and do your best to fright me with your sprites. You're powerful at it. There was a man. Nay, come, sit down, then on. Dwelt by a churchyard. I will tell it softly. Yond crickets shall not hear it.

Come on, then, and give to me in mine ear. Enter Leontes, with Antigonus, lords, and others.

Was he met there, his train, Camillo with him? Behind the tuft of pines I met them. Never saw I men scour so on their way. I eyed them, even to their ships. How blessed am I in my just censure, in my true opinion! A lack for lesser knowledge! How accursed in being so blessed! There may be in the cup a spider steeped,

and one may drink depart and yet partake no venom for his knowledge is not infected but if one present the abhorred ingredient to his eye make known how he hath drunk he cracks his gorge his sides with violent hefts i have drunk and seen the spider camillo was his help in this his pander there is a plot against my life my crown

all's true that is mistrusted that false villain whom i employed was pre employed by him he has discovered my design and i remain a pinched thing yea a very trick for them to play at will

how came the posterns so easily open by his great authority which often hath no less prevailed than so on your command i know it too well give me the boy i am glad you did not nurse him though he does bear some signs of me yet you have too much blood in him what is this sport bear the boy hence he shall not come about her away with him and let her sport herself with that she's big with

for tis polixenes has made thee swell thus but i'll say he had not and i'll be sworn you would believe my saying howe'er you lean to the nay word you my lords look on her mark her well be but about to say she is a goodly lady and the justice of your hearts will thereto add tis pity she's not honest honourable

praise her but for this her without door form which on my faith deserves high speech and straight the shrug the hum or ha these petty brands that calumny doth use oh i am out that mercy does for calumny will sear virtue itself these shrugs these hums and ha's when you have said she's goodly come between ere you can say she's honest

but be it known from him that has most cause to grieve it should be she's an adulteress she should a villain say so the most replenished villain in the world he were as much more villain you my lord do but mistake you have mistook my lady polixenes for leontes o thou thing

which i'll not call a creature of thy place lest barbarism making me the precedent should a like language use to all degrees and mannerly distinguishment leave out betwixt the prince and beggar

I have said she's an adulteress. I have said with whom. More, she's a traitor, and Camillo is a federary with her, and one that knows what she should shame to know herself, but with her most vile principle, that she's a bedswerver. Even as bad as those that vulgars give boldest titles, I, and privy to this their late escape. No, by my life!

"'Privy to none of this! "'How will this grieve you, "'when you shall come to clearer knowledge "'that you thus have published me?'

Gentle, my lord, you scarce can right me throughly than to say you did mistake. No, if I mistake, in those foundations which I build upon, the centre is not big enough to bear a schoolboy's top. Away with her, to prison. He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty but that he speaks. There some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect more favourable.

Good my lords, I am not prone to weeping, as our sex commonly are, the want of which vain Jew perchance shall draw your pities. But I have that honourable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown. Beseech you all, my lords, with thoughts so qualified as your charity shall best instruct you, measure me, and so the king's will be performed. Shall I be heard? Who is't that goes with me?

beseech your highness my women may be with me for you see my plight requires it do not weep good fools there is no cause when you shall know your mistress has deserved prison then abound in tears as i come out this action i now go on is for my better grace adieu my lord i never wished to see you sorry now i trust i shall

my women come you have leave go do our bidding hence exit hermione guarded with ladies beseech your highness call the queen again be certain what you do sir lest your justice prove violence

in the which three great ones suffer yourself your queen your son for her my lord i dare my life lay down and will do it sir please you to accept it that the queen is spotless in the eyes of heaven and to you i mean in this which you accuse her if it prove she's otherwise i'll keep my stables where i lodge my wife i'll go in couples with her then when i feel and see her no farther trust her

For every inch of woman in the world, eh, every dram of woman's flesh is false, if she be. Hold your pieces. Good, my lord. It is for you we speak, not for ourselves. You are abused, and by some put her on. That will be damned for it. Would I knew the villain, I would landam him. Be sure, honoured, flawed. I have three daughters, the eldest is eleven, the second and the third nine, and some five.

If this prove true, they'll pay for it by mine honour. Our gildom, all, fourteen they shall not see.

To bring false generations, they are coheres, and I had rather glib myself than they should not produce fair issue. Cease, no more. You smell this business with a sense as cold as is a dead man's nose, but I do see it and feel it as you feel doing thus, and see with all the instruments that feel. If it be so, we need no grave to bury honesty. There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten.

of the whole dungy earth. What, lack I credit? I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, upon this ground; and more it would content me to have her honour true than your suspicion, be blamed for't how you might. Why, what need we commune with you of this, but rather follow our forceful instigation? Our prerogative calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness imparts this.

which if you or stupefied or seeming so in skill cannot or will not relish a truth like us inform yourselves we need no more of your advice the matter the loss the gain the ordering on it is all properly ours and i wish my liege you had only in your silent judgment tried it

without more overture. How could that be? Either thou art most ignorant by age, or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight added to their familiarity, which was as gross as ever touched conjecture, that lacked sight only, not for approbation, but only seeing. All other circumstances made up to the deed doth push on this proceeding.'

yet for a greater confirmation for in an act of this importance to our most piteous to be wild i have dispatched in post to sacred delphos to apollo's temple cleomenes and dion whom you know of stuffed sufficiency now from the oracle they will bring all whose spiritual counsel had shall stop or spur me have i done well well done my lord

Though I am satisfied and need no more than what I know, yet shall the oracle give rest to the minds of others, such as he whose ignorant credulity will not come up to the truth. So have we thought it good from our free person she should be confined, lest that the treachery of the two fled hence be left her to perform. Come, follow us. We are to speak in public, for this business will raise us all. Aside

till after as i take it if the good truth were known act two scene two a prison enter paulina a gentleman and attendants the keeper of the prison call to him let him have knowledge who i am exit gentlemen good lady no court in europe is too good for thee what dost thou then in prison re-enter gentleman with the jailer

now good sir you know me do you not for a worthy lady and one whom much i honour pray you then conduct me to the queen i may not madam to the contrary i have express commandment here's ado to lock up honesty and honour from the access of gentle visitors

Is't lawful, I pray you, to see her women, any of them? Amelia? So please you, madam, to put apart these your attendants. I shall bring Amelia forth. I pray you now call her. Withdraw yourselves. Exeunt gentlemen and attendants. And, madam?

i must be present at your conference lady utterword well be't so prithee exit jailer lady utterword here's such ado to make no stain a stain as passes colouring

we enter jailor with amelia amelia dear gentlewoman how fares our gracious lady as well as one so great and so forlorn may hold together on her frights and griefs which never tender lady hath borne greater she is something before her time delivered amelia a boy a daughter and a goodly babe lusty and like to live

the queen receives much comfort in it says my poor prisoner i am innocent as you i dare be sworn these dangerous unsafe loons o the king beshrew them he must be told on't and he shall the office becomes a woman best i'll take't pon me if i prove honey mouth'd let my tongue blister and never to my red-look'd anger be the trumpet any more

pray you amelia commend my best obedience to the queen if she dares trust me with her little babe i'll show it to the king and undertake to be her advocate to the loudest we do not know how he may soften at the sight of the child the silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails most worthy madam your honor and your goodness is so evident that your free undertaking cannot miss a thriving issue there is no lady living so meet for this great errand

please your ladyship to visit the next room i'll presently acquaint the queen of your most noble offer who but to-day hammered of this design but durst not tempt a minister of honour lest she should be denied tell her amelia i'll use that tongue i have if wit flow frumped as boldness from my bosom let it not be doubted i shall do good now be you blest for it i'll to the queen please you come something nearer madam

if it please the queen to send the babe i know not what i shall incur to pass it having no warrant you need not fear it sir this child was prisoner to the womb and is by law and process of great nature thence freed and enfranchised not a party to the anger of the king nor guilty of if any be the trespass of the queen

i do believe it leontes do not you fear upon mine honour i will stand betwixt you and danger act two scene three a room in leontes palace enter leontes antigonus lords and servants nor night nor day no rest it is but weakness to bear the matter thus mere weakness

if the cause were not in being part of the cause she the adulteress for the harlot king is quite beyond mine arm out of the blank and level of my brain plot proof but she i can hook to me say that she were gone given to the fire a moiety of my rest might come to me again

Who's there? My lord. How does the boy? He took good rest tonight. Tis hoped his sickness is discharged. To see his nobleness. Conceiving the dishonor of his mother, he straight declined, drooped, took it deeply, fastened and fixed the shame on it in himself, threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep, and downright languished.

leave me solely go see how he fares exit servant fie fie no thought of him the thought of my revenge is that way recoil upon me in himself too mighty and in his parties his alliance let him be until a time may serve for present vengeance take it on her

Camillo and Polixenes laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow.

They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor shall she within my power. Enter Paulina with a child. You must not enter. Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me. Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, than the queen's life? A gracious innocent soul more free than he is jealous. That's enough. Madam, he hath not slept to-night.

What noise there, ho? No noise.

No noise, my lord, but needful conference about some gossips for your highness. How? Away with that audacious lady. Antigonus, I charged thee that she should not come about me. I knew she would. I told her so, my lord. On your displeasure's peril, and on mine, she should not visit you.

what canst not rule her from all dishonesty he can in this unless he take the course that you have done commit me for committing honour trust it he shall not rule me la you know you hear when she will take the rein i let her run but shall not stumble good my liege i come and i beseech you hear me who profess myself your loyal servant your physician your most obedient counsellor

yet that dare less appear so in comforting your evils than such as most seem yours i say i come from your good queen good queen good queen my lord good queen i say good queen and would by combat make her good so were i a man the worst about you force her hence let him that makes but trifles of his eyes first-hand me on mine own accord i'll off

But first I'll do my errand. The good queen, for she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter.

here tis commends it to your blessing laying down the child out a mankind which hence with her out o'do'er a most intelligencing bod not so i am as ignorant in that as you in so entitling me and no less honest than you are mad which is enough i'll warrant as this world goes to pass for honest

He dreads his wife.

So I would you did. Then, for past all doubt, you'd call your children yours. A nest of traitors! I am none but this good light. Nor I, nor any but one that's here, and that's himself, for he the sacred honor of himself, his queens, his hopeful sons, his babes, betrays to slander, whose sting is sharper than the sword's, and will not.

"'For as the case now stands, it is a curse, he cannot be compelled to it, once removed the root of his opinion, which is as rotten as ever oak or stone was sound.'

a callet of boundless tongue who late hath beat her husband and now baits me this brat is none of mine it is the issue of polixenes hence with it and together with the dam commit them to the fire it is yours and might we lay the old proverb to your charge so like you tis the worse

behold my lords although the print be little the whole matter and copy of the father ay nose lip the trick of sfrown his forehead nay the valley the pretty dimples of his chin and cheek his smiles the very mould and frame of hand nail finger

and thou good goddess nature which hast made it so like to him that got it if thou hast the ordering of the mind too amongst all colours no yellow int lest she suspect as he does her children not her husbands a gross hag and lozel thou art worthy to be hanged that wilt not stay her tongue hang all the husbands that cannot do that feat you'll leave yourself hardly one subject

once more take her hence a most unworthy and unnatural lord can do no more i'll have e burnt i care not it is an heretic that makes the fire not she which burns

i'll not call you tyrant but this most cruel usage of your queen not able to produce more accusation than your own weak hinged fancy something savours of tyranny and will ignoble make you yea scandalous to the world on your allegiance out of the chamber with her were i a tyrant where were her life she durst not call me so if she did know me one away with her i pray you do not push me i'll be gone

look to your babe my lord tis yours jove send her a better guiding spirit what needs these hands you that are thus so tender o'er his follies will never do him good not one of you so so farewell we are gone

thou traitor hast set on thy wife to this my child away with it even thou that hast a heart so tender o'er it take it hence and see it instantly consumed with fire even thou and none but thou take it up straight

within this hour bring me word tis done and by good testimony or i'll seize thy life with what thou else callest thine if thou refuse and wilt encounter with my wrath say so the bastard brains with these my proper hands shall i dash out go take it to the fire for thou settest on thy wife i did not sir these lords my noble fellows if they please can clear me in it

we can my royal liege he is not guilty of her coming hither your liars all beseech your highness give us better credit we have always truly served you and beseech you so to esteem of us and on our knees we beg as recompense of our dear services past and to come that you do change this purpose

which being so horrible so bloody must lead on to some foul issue we all kneel i am a feather for each wind that blows shall i live on to see this bastard kneel and call me father better burn it now than curse it then but be it let it live it shall not neither hugh sir come you hither

you that have been so tenderly officious with lady margery your midwife there to save this bastard's life for tis a bastard as sure as this beard's grey what will you adventure to save this brat's life anything my lord that my ability may undergo and nobleness impose at least thus much i'll pawn the little blood which i have left to save the innocent

anything possible it shall be possible swear by this sword thou wilt perform my bidding i will my lord mark and perform it seest thou for the fail of any point in it shall not only be death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife whom for this time we pardon

we enjoin thee as thou art liege-man to us that thou carry this female bastard hence and that thou bear it to some remote and desert place quite out of our dominions and that there thou leave it without more mercy to its own protection and favour of the climate

as by strange fortune it came to us i do in justice charge thee on thy soul's peril and thy body's torture that thou commend it strangely to some place where chance may nurse or end it take it up i swear to do this

though a present death had been more merciful come on poor babe some powerful spirit instructs the kites and ravens to be thy nurses wolves and bears they say casting their savageness aside have done like officers of pity

sir be prosperous in more than this deed does require and blessing against this cruelty fight on thy side poor thing condemn'd to loss exit with the child sir peter now i'll not rear another's issue enter a servant

please your highness posts from those you sent to the oracle are come an hour since cleomenes and dion being well arrived from delphos are both landed hastening to the court cleomenes so please you sir their speed hath been beyond account twenty-three days they have been absent tis good speed foretells the great apollo suddenly will have the truth of this appear

prepare you lords summon a session that we may arraign our most disloyal lady for as she hath been publicly accused so shall she have a just and open trial while she lives my heart will be a burthen to me leave me and think upon my bidding

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The Clamates Delicate

the air most sweet fertile the isle the temple much surpassing the common praise it bears i shall report for most it caught me the celestial habits methinks i should so term them and the reverence of the grave wearer so the sacrifice how ceremonious solemn and unearthly it was in the offering but of all the burst

and the ear deafening voice of the oracle keen to judge thunder so surprised my sense that i was nothing if the event of the journey prove as successful to the queen albeit so

as it hath been to us rare pleasant speedy the time is worth the use on't great apollo turn now to the best these proclamations so forcing foats upon hermione i little like the violent carriage of it will clear or end the business when the oracle thus by apollo's great divine sealed up shall the contents discover something rare even then will rush to knowledge

go fresh horses and gracious be the issue act three scene two a court of justice enter leontes lords and officers this session to our great grief we pronounce even pushes gainst our heart the part he tried the daughter of a king our wife and one of us too much beloved

let us be cleared of being tyrannous since we so openly proceed in justice which shall have due course even to the guilt or the purgation

Produce the prisoner. It is His Highness' pleasure that the Queen appear in person here in court. Silence! Enter Hermione, guarded, Paulina, and ladies attending. Read the indictment. Reads. Hermione, Queen to the worthy Lentes, King of...

Cecilia, thou art here accused and arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery with Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring with Camillo,

to take away the life of our sovereign lord the king, thy royal husband, the pretense whereof being, by circumstances partly laid open, thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for their better safety, to fly away by night."

since what i am to say must be but that which contradicts my accusation and the testimony on my part no other but what comes from myself it shall scarce boot me to say not guilty

mine integrity being counted falsehood shall as i express it be so receiv'd but thus if powers divine behold our human actions as they do i doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush and tyranny tremble at patience

you my lord best know who least will seem to do so my past life hath been as continent as chaste as true as i am now unhappy which is more than history can pattern though devised and played to take spectators for behold me

a fellow of the royal bed which owe a moiety of the throne a great king's daughter the mother to a hopeful prince here standing to prate and talk for life and honor for who please to come and hear for life i prize it as i weigh grief which i would spare for honor tis a derivative from me to mine and only that i stand for

i appeal to your own conscience sir before polixenes came to your court how i was in your grace how merited to be so since he came with what encounter so uncurrent i have strained to appear thus if one jot beyond the bound of honor or in act or will that way inclining harden'd be the hearts of all that hear me and my nearest of kin cry fie upon my grave

i ne'er heard yet that any of these bolder vices wanted less impudence to gainsay what they did than to perform it first that's true enough though tis a saying sir not due to me you will not own it more than mistress of which comes to me in name of fault i must not at all acknowledge

"'For Polixenes, with whom I am accused, "'I do confess I loved him as in honour he required, "'with such a kind of love as might become a lady like me, "'with a love even such so and no other as yourself commanded, "'which not to have done I think had been in me both disobedience and ingratitude "'to you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke, "'even since it could speak from an infant freely that it was yours.'

Now, for conspiracy I know not how it tastes, though it be dished for me to try how. All I know of it is that Camillo was an honest man, and why he left your court, the gods themselves, watching no more than I, are ignorant. You knew of his departure, as you know what you have entertained to do in his absence. Sir—

You speak a language that I understand not. My life stands in the level of your dreams which I'll lay down.'

your actions are my dreams you had a bastard by polixenes and i but dreamed it as you were past all shame those of your fact are so so past all truth which to deny concerns more than avails for as thy brat hath been cast out like to itself no father owning it which is indeed more criminal in thee than it

so thou shalt feel our justice in whose easiest passage look for no less than death sir spare your threats the bug which you would fright me with i seek to me can life be no commodity the crown and comfort of my life your favour i do give lost for i do feel it gone but know not how it went

my second joy and first-fruits of my body from his presence i am barred like one infectious my third comfort starred most unluckily is from my breast the innocent milk in its most innocent mouth hailed out to murder myself on every post proclaimed a strumpet with immodest hatred the child-bed privilege denied which longs to women of all fashion

lastly hurried here to this place i the open air before i have got strength of limit now my liege tell me what blessings i have here alive that i should fear to die therefore proceed but yet hear this mistake me not

no life i prize it not a straw but for mine honor which i would free if i shall be condemn'd upon surmises all proofs sleeping else but what your jealousies awake i tell you tis rigor and not law your honor's all i do refer me to the oracle apollo be my judge

this your request is altogether just therefore bring forth and in apollo's name his oracle exeunt certain officers the emperor of russia was my father oh that he were alive and here beholding his daughter's trial that he did but see the flatness of my misery yet with eyes of pity not revenge

Re-enter, officers, with Cleomenes and Dion. You here shall swear upon this sword of justice that you, Cleomenes and Dion, have been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought the sealed-up oracle by the hand delivered of great Apollo's priest, and that since then you have not dared to break the holy seal, nor read the secrets in it. With Dion. All these we swear.

"'Break up the seals and read.' "'Reads.' "'Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten, and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found. "'Now blessed be the great Apollo!'

Praised. Has thou read truth? Ay, my lord, even so, as it is here set down. There is no truth at all in the oracle. The sessions shall proceed. This is mere falsehood. Enter servant. My lord, the king, the king! What is the business? O sir, I shall be hated to report it. The prince, your son, with mere conceit and fear of the queen's speed, is gone.

how gone is dead apollo's angry and the heavens themselves do strike at my injustice hermione swoons how now there this news is mortal to the queen look down and see what death is doing take her hence her heart is but o'ercharged she will recover

i have too much believed mine own suspicion beseech you tenderly apply to her some remedies for life exeunt paulina and ladies with hermione apollo pardon my great profaneness gainst thine oracle how reckon thou me to polixenes new woo my queen recall the good camillo whom i proclaim a man of truth of mercy

for being transported by my jealousies to bloody thoughts and to revenge i chose camillo for the minister to poison my friend polixenes which had been done but that the good mind of camillo tardied my swift command

though i with death and with reward did threaten and encourage him not doing it and being done he most humane and filled with honor to my kingly guest unclasped my practice quit his fortunes here which you knew great and to the hazard of all uncertainties himself commended no richer than his honor

how he glisters thro my rust and how his pity does my deeds make the blacker re-enter paulina paulina woe the while oh cut my lace lest my heart cracking it break too paulina what fit is this good lady

what studied torments tyrant hast for me what weals racks fires what flaying boiling in leads or oils what old or newer torture must i receive whose every word deserves to taste of thy most worst

thy tyranny together working with thy jealousies fancies too weak for boys too green and idle for girls of nine oh think what they have done and then run mad indeed stark mad for all thy bygone fooleries were but spices of it that thou betray'dst polixen east was nothing that did but shew thee of a fool inconstant and damnable and grateful

Nor wast much that thou wouldst have poisoned good Camillo's honour, to have him kill a king. Poor trespasses, more monstrous standing by! Whereof I reckon the casting forth to crows thy baby daughter to be none or little, though a devil would have shed water out of fire ere done it. Nor is directly laid to thee the death of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts, thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart that could conceive a gross and foolish sire, blemished his gracious dam.

this is not no laid to thy answer but the last o lords when i have said cry woe the queen the queen the sweetest dearest creature's dead and vengeance for it not dropp'd down yet king the higher powers forbid

i say she's dead i'll swear it if word nor oath prevail not go and see if you can bring tincture or lustre in her lip her eye heat outwardly your breath within i'll serve you as i would do the gods

But, O thou tyrant, do not repent these things, for they are heavier than all thy woes can stir. Therefore betake thee to nothing but despair. A thousand knees, ten thousand years together, naked, fasting upon a barren mountain, and still winter in storm perpetual, could not move the gods to look that way thou wert. Go on, go on, thou canst not speak too much.

I have deserved all tongues to talk their bitterest. Say no more. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault in the boldness of your speech. Oh, I am sorry for't. All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, I do repent. Alas, I have showed too much the rashness of a woman. He is touched to the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. Do not receive affliction at my petition.

I beseech you rather let me be punished, that have minded you of what you should forget.

now good my liege sir royal sir forgive a foolish woman the love i bore your queen lo fool again i'll speak of her no more nor of your children i'll not remember you of my own lord who is lost too take your patience to you and i'll say nothing king thou didst speak but well when most the truth which i receive much better than to be pitied of thee

privy bring me to the dead bodies of my queen and son one grave shall be for both upon them shall the causes of their death appear unto our shame perpetual once a day i'll visit the chapel where they lie and tears shed there shall be my recreation so long as nature will bear up with this exercise so long i daily vow to use it

come and lead me unto these sorrows act three scene three bohemia a desert country near the sea enter antigonus with a child and a mariner ant thou art perfect then our ship hath touched upon the deserts of bohemia

ay my lord in fear we have landed in ill time the skies look grimly and threaten present blusters in my conscience the heavens with that we have in hand are angry and frown uponst their sacred wills be done go get aboard look to thy bark or not be long before i call upon thee

make your best haste and go not too far in the land tis like to be loud weather besides this place is famous for the creatures of prey that keep on't go thou away i'll follow instantly i am glad at heart to be so rid of the business come poor babe i have heard but not believed the spirits o'er the dead may walk again if such things be thy mother appeared to me last night

for ne'er was a dream so like a waking to me comes a creature sometimes her head on one side some another i never saw a vessel of like sorrow so filled and so becoming in pure white robes like very sanctity she did approach my cabin where i lay

thrice bow'd before me and gasping to begin some speech her eyes became two spouts the fury spent anon did this break from her good antigonus since fate against thy better disposition hath made thy person for the thrower out of my poor babe according to thine oath places remote enough are in bohemia there weep and leave it crying

and for the babe is counted lost for ever perdita i prithee call it for this ungentle business put on thee by my lord thou ne'er shalt see thy wife paulina more and so with shrieks she melted into air affrighted much i did in time collect myself and thought this was so and no slumber dreams are toys yet

for this once yea superstitiously i would be squared by this i do believe hermione hath suffered death and that apollo would this being indeed the issue of king poloxenes it should here be laid either for life or death upon the earth of its right father blossoms speed thee well there lie and there thy character

there these which may if fortune please both breed thee pretty and still rest thine the storm begins poor wretch that for thy mother's fault art thus exposed to loss and what may follow weep i cannot but my heart bleeds and most accursed am i to be by oath enjoined to this farewell the day frowns more and more like to have a lullaby too rough

i never saw the heaven so dim by day a savage clamour well may i get aboard this is the chase i am gone for ever exit pursued by a bear enter a shepherd i would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty or that youth would slip out the rest for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with childe wronging the ancientry stealing fighting

hark you now would any but these bold brains of nineteen and two and twenty hunt this weather they have scared away two of my best sheep which i fear the wolf will sooner find than the master if anywhere i have them it is by the sea-side browsing of ivy good luck and be thy will what have we here marcy yonnes a bairn a very pretty bairn a boy or a child i wonder a pretty one

a very pretty one sure some scape though i am not bookish yet i can read waiting gentlewoman in the scape this has been some stairwork some trunk work some behind door work they were vermin that got this then the poor thing is here i'll take it up for pity yet i'll tarry till my son come he hallooed but even now hua hua hua enter clown

What are so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk on, When thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What ails thou, man?

i have seen two such sights by sea and by land but i am not to say it is a sea for it is now the sky betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point why boy how is it i would you did but see how it chafes how it rages how it takes up the shore but that's not the point

the most piteous cry of the poor souls sometimes to see him and not to see him now the ship boring the moon with her main mast

none swallowed with yest and froth as you thrust a cork into a hogshead and then for the land service to see how the bear tore out his shoulder bone and how he cried to me for help and said his name was antigonus a nobleman but to make an end of the ship to see how the sea flap dragoned it

but first how the poor souls roared and the sea mocked them and how the poor gentleman roared and the bear mocked him both roaring louder than the sea or weather borkman name of mercy when was this boy borkman now

now i have not winked since i saw these sights the men are not yet cold under water nor the bear half dined on the gentleman he's at it now would i had been by to have helped the old man i would you had been by the ship's side to have helped her there your charity would have lacked footing heavy matters heavy matters but look thee here boy

now bless thyself thou mattest with things dying i with things new-born here's a sight for thee look thee a bearing cloth for a squire's child look thee here take up take up boy so let us see it was told me i should be rich by the fairies this is some changeling open it what is within boy

you're a made old man if the sins of your youth are forgiven you you're well to live gold all gold this is fairy gold boy and it'll prove so up with it keep it close home home the next way we're lucky boy and to be so still requires nothing but secrecy let my ship go

Come, good boy, the next way home. Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see if the bear be gone from the gentleman, and how much he hath eaten. They are never cursed but when they are hungry. If there be any of him left, I'll bury it. That is a good deed.

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ACT IV. SCENE I. CHORUS AS TIME SPEAKS. ENTERED TIME, THE CHORUS.

i that please some try all both joy and terror of good and bad that makes and unfolds error now take upon me in the name of time to use my wings

impute it not a crime to me or my swift passage that i slide o'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried of that wide gap since it is in my power to o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour to plant and o'erwhelm custom let me pass the same i am ere ancient order was or what is now received eyewitness to the times that brought them in

so shall i do to the freshest things now reigning and make stale the glistering of this present as my tale now seems to it your patience this allowing i turn my glass and give my scene such growing as you had slept between leontes leaving the effect of his fond jealousies so grieving that he shuts up himself

imagine me gentle spectators that i now may be in fair bohemia and remember well i mentioned a son o the king's which florizel i now name to you and with speed so pace to speak of perdita now grown in grace equal with wondering what of her ensues i list not prophesy but let time's news be known when tis brought forth

A shepherd's daughter, and what to her adheres, Which follows after, is the argument of time. Of this allow, if ever you have spent time worse ere now. If never, yet that time himself doth say, He wishes earnestly, you never may. Exit. Act IV, Scene II. Bohemia. The Palace of Polixenes. Enter Polixenes and Camillo.

I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate. Tis a sickness denying thee anything, a death to grant this. It is teen years since I saw my country. Though I have for the most part been abroad, I desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent king my master hath sent for me, to whose feeling sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to think so.

Which is another spur to my departure. As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of thy services by leaving me now. The need I have of thee thine own goodness hath made, better not to have had thee than thus to want thee. Thou, having made me businesses which none without thee can sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute them thyself, or take away with thee the very services thou hast done, which if I have not enough considered as too much I cannot,

to be more thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal country, Cecilia, prithee, speak no more, whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance of that penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king, my brother, whose loss of his most precious queen and children are even now to be afresh lamented.

say to me when sawest thou the prince florizel my son kings are no less unhappy their issue not being gracious than they are in losing them when they have approved their virtues phaedrus sir it is three days since i saw the prince what his happier affairs may be are to me unknown

but i have missingly noted he is of late much retired from court and is less frequent to his princely exercises than formerly he hath appeared i have considered so much camillo and with some care so far that i have eyes under my service which look upon his removedness from whom i have this intelligence that he is seldom from the house of a most homely shepherd a man they say that from very nothing and beyond the imagination of his neighbours is grown into an unspeakable estate

i have heard sir of such a man who hath a daughter of most rare note the report of her is extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage that's likewise part of my intelligence but i fear the angle that plucks our son thither thou shalt accompany us to that place where we will not appearing what we are have some question with the shepherd from whose simplicity i think it not uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither

Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and lay aside the thoughts of Cecilia. I willingly obey your command. My best, Camillo. We must disguise ourselves. Exeunt. Act 4, Scene 3. A Road Near the Shepherd's Cottage. Enter Autoluchus, singing. When daffodils begin to pay, We lay the doxy over the day.

then comes in the sweet of the year for the red blood rains in the winter's pale the white sheet bleaching on the hedge the sweet birds oh how they sing doth set my pugging tooth on edge for a quart of ale is a dish for a king

lark the tyr a little chance with thee with thee the thrush and the jay are summer songs for me and my aunt while we lie tumbling in the hay i have served prince florizel and in my time wore three pile but now i'm out of service but shall i go mourn for that my dear

the pale moon shines by night and when i wander here and there i then do most go right if tinkers may have leave to live and bear the sowskin budget then my account i well may give and in the stocks avouch it my traffic is sheets when the kite builds look to the lesser linen my father named me

who being as i am littered under mercury was likewise a snapper up of unconsidered trifles with die and drab i purchased this comparison and my revenue is the silly cheat gallows and dock are too powerful on the highway beating and anging are terrors to me for the life to come i sleep out the thought of it a prize a prize

enter clown let me see every leaven weather tods every tod yields pound and odd shilling fifteen hundred shorn what comes the wool to aside if the spring's old the cock's mine i cannot do it without counters let me see what am i to buy for our sheep-shearing feast

three pounds of sugar five pounds of currants rice what will this sister of mine do with rice but my father have made her mistress of the feast and she lays it on

she hath made me four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers three men song men all and very good ones but they are most of them means and bases but one puritan amongst them and he sings psalms to hornpipes

i must have saffron to colour the warden pies mace dates none that's out of my note nutmegs seven a race or two of ginger but that i may beg four pounds of prunes and as many of raisins of the sun oh that ever i was born grovelling on the ground in the name of me

oh help me help me pluck but off these rags and then death death alack poor soul thou hast need of more rags to lay on thee rather than have these off oh sir the loathsomeness of them offends me more than the stripes i have received which are mighty ones and millions alas poor man a million of beating may come to a great matter

i am rubbed sir and beaten my money and apparel tain from me and these detestable things put upon me by a horseman or a footman a footman sweet sir a footman indeed he should be a footman by the garments he has left with thee if this be a horseman's coat it hath seen very hot service

Lend me thy hand, I'll help thee. Come, lend me thy hand. Oh, good sir, tenderly. Oh. Alas, poor soul. Oh, good sir, softly, good sir. I fear, sir, my shoulder blade is out. How now? Can't stand? Picking his pocket. Softly, dear sir, good sir, softly. You have done me a charitable office.

dost lack any money i have a little money for thee no good sweet sir no i beseech you sir i have a kinsman not past three-quarters of a mile hence under whom i was going i shall there have money or anything i want offer me no money i pray you that kills my art what manner of fellow was he that robbed you

A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with troll my dame. I knew him once, a servant of the prince.

I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. His vices, you would say, there's no virtue whipped out of the court. They cherish it to make it stay there, and yet it will no more but abide. Vices, I would say, sir, I know this man well. He hath been since an ape-bearer, then a process-server, a bailiff,

Then he compassed a motion of the prodigal son, and married a tinker's wife within a mile of where my land and living lies. And, having flown over many knavish professions, he settled only in rogue. Some call him Autolicus.

out upon him prig for my life prig he haunts wakes fares and bear-baitings very true sir he sir he that's the rogue that put me into this apparel not a more cowardly rogue in all bohemia if you had but looked big and spit at him he'd have run i must confess to you sir i am no fighter

I am false of heart that way, and that he knew, I warrant him. How do you know? Sweet sir, much better than I was. I can stand and walk. I will even take my leave of you and pace softly towards my kinsmans.

shall i bring thee on the way no good-faced sir no sweet sir then fare thee well i must go buy spices for our sheep-shearing prosper you sweet sir your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice i'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too and if i make not this cheap bring out another and the shearers prove it

let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue jog on jog on the footpath way and merrily hint the stile lay a merry heart goes all the day your sad tires in a mile exit act four scene four the shepherd's cottage

enter florizel and perdita these your unusual weeds to each part of you do give a life no shepherdess but flora peering in april's front this your sheep-shearing is as a meeting of the petty gods and you the queen on it

"'Sir, my gracious lord, to chide at your extremes it not becomes me, pardon that I name them. Your high self, the gracious mark of the land you have obscured with a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, most goddess-like pranked up. But that our feasts in every mess have folly, and the feeders digest it with a custom, I should blush to see you so attired, sworn, I think, to show myself a glass.'

i blessed the time when my good falcon made her flight across thy father's ground now jove afford you cause to me the difference forges dread your greatness hath not been used to fear even now i tremble to think your father by some accident should pass this way as you did

O the fates! How would he look to see his work so noble vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how should I, in these my borrowed flaunts, behold the sternness of his presence?

apprehend nothing but jollity the gods themselves humbling their deities to love have taken the shape of beasts upon them jupiter became a bull and bellowed the green neptune a ram and bleated and the fire-robed god golden apollo a poor humble swain as i seem now

their transformations were never for a piece of beauty rarer nor in a way so chaste since my desires run not before mine honour nor my lusts burn hotter than my faith

O but, sir, your resolution cannot hold when 'tis opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king. One of these two must be necessities, which then will speak that you must change this purpose, or I my life. Thou dearest Perdita, with these forced thoughts I prithee, darken not the mirth of the feast, or I'll be thine, my fair, or not my father's; for I cannot be mine own, nor anything to any, if I be not thine.

To this I am most constant, though destinies say no. Be merry, gentle. Strangle such thoughts as these with anything that you behold the while. Your guests are coming. Lift up your countenance, as it were the day of celebration of that nuptial which we too have sworn shall come. O Lady Fortune, stand you auspicious. See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, and let's be red with mirth.

and her shepherd clown mopsa dorcas and others with polixenes and camillo disguised fie daughter when my old wife lived upon these days she was both pentler butler cook both dame and servant welcomed all served all would sing her song and dance her turn now here at upper and odd table now in the middle on his shoulder and his her face of fire

with labour and the things he took to quench it see you to each one's seat you are retired as if you were a fisted one and not the hostess of the meeting pray you bid these unknown friends to us welcome for it is a way to make us better friends more known come quench your blushes and present yourself that which you are mistress of the feast come on and bid us welcome to your ship-shearing as your good flock shall prosper

To Polixenes. Sir, welcome. It is my father's will that I should take on me the hostesship of the day. To Camillo. You're welcome, sir. Give me those flowers here, Dorcas. Reverend says, for you there's rosemary and rue. These keep seeming and savour all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you both, and welcome to our shearing. Shepherdess, a fair one are you. Well you fit our ages with flowers of winter.

sir the year growing ancient not yet on summer's death nor on the birth of trembling winter the fairest flowers of the season are our carnations and streaked guilevores which some call nature's bastards of that kind are rustic gardens barren and i care not to get slips of em wherefore gentle maiden do you neglect them for i have heard it said there is an art which in their piredness shares with great creating nature

Say there be, yet nature is made better by no mean, but nature makes that mean. So over that art which you say adds to nature, is an art that nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry a gentler scion to the wildest stock, and make conceive a bark of baser kind by bud of nobler race. This is an art which does mend nature, change it rather, but the art itself is nature. So it is.

then make your garden rich in guilevores and do not call them bastards i'll not put the dibble in the earth to set one slip of them no more than were i painted i would wish this youth should say twere well and only therefore desire to breed by me

Here's flowers for you. Hot lavender, mince, savory, marjoram, the marigold that goes to bed with the sun and with him rises weeping. These are flowers of middle summer, and I think they are given to men of middle age. You're very welcome. I should leave grazing, where I of your flock can only live by gazing. Out, alas! You

you'd be so lean that blasts of january would blow you through and through now my fairest friend i would i had some flowers o the spring that might become your time of day and yours and yours that were upon your virgin branches yet your maidenheads growing

O Proserpina, for the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall from Dis's wagon, daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty, violets dim but sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes or Cytheria's breath, pale primroses that Diane married ere they can behold bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady most incident to maids, bold ox-lips, and the crown imperial, lilies of all kinds, the flower de Luce being one.

O, these I lack to make you garlands of, And my sweet friend to strew him o'er and o'er. What, like a course? No, like a bank for love to lie and play on, Not like a corpse, or if not to be buried, But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers. Methinks I play as I have seen them do In wits and pastorals. Sure this robe of mine does change my disposition. What you do still better's what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'll have you do it ever,

when you sing i'll have you buy and sell so so give alms pray so and for the ordering your affairs to sing them too when you do dance i wish you a wave of the sea that you might ever do nothing but that

Move still, still so, and owe no other function. Each your doing, so singular in each particular, crowns what you are doing in the present deed, that all your acts are queens. O Doricles, your praises are too large, but that your youth and the true blood which peepeth fairly through it do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd. With wisdom, I fear, my Doricles, you wooed me the false way."

i think you have as little skill to fear as i have purpose to put you to it but come our dance i pray

your hand my perdita so turtles pair that never mean to part i'll swear for em this is the prettiest lobe-worn lass that ever ran on the greensward nothing she does or seems but smacks of something greater than herself too noble for this place he tells her something that makes her blood look out good sooth she is the queen of curds and cream come on strike up mopsa must be your mistress

marry garlic to mend her kissing with now in good time not a word a word we stand upon our manners

come strike up music hear a dance of shepherds and shepherdesses shep pray good shepherd what fair swain is this which dances with your daughter they call him doricles and boasts himself to have a worthy fairy but i have it upon his own report and i believe it it looks like sood he says he loves my daughter

i think so too for never gaze the moon upon the water as he will stand and read as it were my daughter's eyes and to be plain i think there is not half a kiss to choose who loves zanna the best she dances featly so she does anything though i report it that should be silent if young doricles do light upon her she shall bring him that which he not dreams of enter servant

oh master if you did but hear the pedlar at the door you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe no the bagpipe could not move you he sings several tunes faster than you'll tell money he utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's ears grew to his tunes

He could never come better. He shall come in. I love a ballad, but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. He hath songs for man or woman of all sizes. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. He has the prettiest love-songs for maids.

This is a brave fellow.

Believe me, thou talk'st of an admirable conceited fellow. Has he any unbraided wares? He hath ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow, Points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, Though they come to him by the gross. Inkels, caddices, cambric, lawns, why, he sings them over as if they were gods or goddesses.

you would think a smock were a she-angel he so chanced to the sleeve hand in the work about the square aunt prithee bring him in and let him approach singing forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in his tunes exit servant

you have of these peddlers that have more in them than you'd think sister i good brother or go about to think enter artulochus singing lawn as white as driven snow cypress black as air was crowed gloves as sweet as damask roses masks for faces and for noses

Bugle bracelet, necklace, hammer, Perfume for a lady's chamber. Golden coifs and stomachers For my lads to give their dear. Pins and poking sticks of steel What mates lack from head to heel. Come by, O me, come, come by, come,

buy lads or else your lasses cry come if i were not in love with mopsa thou shouldst take no money of me but being enthralled as i am it will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves i was promised them against a feast but they come not too late now

He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars. He hath paid you all he promised you.

Maybe he has paid you more, which will shame you to give him again. Is there no manners left among maids? Will they wear their plackets where they should bare their faces? Is there not milking time when you are going to bed or kiln-hall to whistle off these secrets? But you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests. 'Tis well they are whispering.

clamour your tongues and not a word more i have done come you promised me a tawdry lace and a pair of sweet gloves have i not told thee how i was cozened by the way and lost all my money and indeed sir there are cozeners abroad

therefore it behoves men to be wary fear not thou man thou shalt lose nothing here i hope so sir for i have about me many parcels of chaff

What hast here? Ballads? Pray now, buy some. I love a ballad in printer life, for then we are sure they are true. Here's one to a very joyful tune. How a usurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden, and how she longed to eat adder's heads and toad's carbonado. Is it true, think you? Very true, and but a month old.

Bless me for marrying a usurer. Here's the midwife's name toot, one mistress tail-poor, and in five or six honest wives that were present. Why should I carry lies abroad? Pray you now, buy it. Come on, lay it by, and let's first see more ballads. We'll buy the other things anon. Here's another ballad of a fish that appeared upon the coast on Wednesday, the fourscore of April.

forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids.

It was thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold fish, for she would not exchange fresh with one that loved her. The ballad is very pitiful and as true. Is it true too, think you? Five justices hands at it, and witnesses more than my pack will hold. Lay it by two, another. This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. Let's have some merry ones.

Why, this is a passing merry one, and goes to the tune of Two maids wooing a man. The scarce a maid westward, but she sings it. Tis in request, I can tell you. We can both sing it. If thou'lt bear a part, thou shalt hear. Tis in three parts. We had the tune on't a month ago. I can bear my part.

you must know tis my occupation have at it with you song get you hence for i must go where it fits not you to know whither oh whither whither it becomes thy oath full well though to me thy secrets tell me too let me go thither or thou goest to the orange or mill if to either thou dost ill neither what neither

Neither. Thou hast sworn my love to be. Thou hast sworn it more to me than whither goest. Say, whither? We'll have this song out anon by ourselves. My father and the gentlemen are in sad talk and we'll not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Peddler, let's have the first choice. Follow me, girls.

exit with dorcas and mopsa and you shall pay well for em follow singing will you buy any tape or lace for your care my dainty duck my dear ay any silk any thread

exit re-enter servant

master there is three carters three shepherds three neat herds three swine herds that have made themselves all men of hair they call themselves saltiers and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols because they are not in it but they themselves are o the mind if it be not too rough for some that know little but bowling it will please plentifully away we will none on it here has been too much homely foolery already

I know, sir, we weary you. You weary those that refresh us. Pray let's see these four threes of herdsmen. One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danced before the king, and not the worst of the three, but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squire. Leave your prating, since these good men are pleased. Let them come in, but quickly now.

they stay at the door sir exit here a dance of twelve satyrs oh father you'll know more of that hereafter to camillo is it not too far gone tis time to part them he's simple and tells much

"'To Florizel.' "'How now, fair shepherd! Your heart is full of something that does take your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young and handed love as you do, I was wont to load my she with knacks. I would have ransacked the peddler's silken treasury and have poured it to her acceptance. You have let him go, and nothing marted with him. If your lass' interpretation should abuse and call this your lack of love or bounty, you were straighted for a reply, or at least if you make a care of happy holding her.'

Old sir, I know she prizes not such trifles as these are. The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked up in my heart, which I have given already, but not delivered.

O, hear me breathe my life before this ancient sir, who it should seem hath sometime loved. I take thy hand, this hand, as soft as doves down and as white as it, or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow that's bolted by the northern blast twice o'er. What follows this? How prettily the young swain seems to wash the hand was fair before. I have put you out.

But to your protestation, let me hear what you profess. Do, and be a witness to it. And this my neighbour too?

and he and more than he and men the earth the heavens and all that were i crowned the most imperial monarch thereof most worthy were i the fairest youth that ever made eye swerve had force and knowledge more than was ever man's i would not prize them without her love as her employ them all commend them and condemn them to her service or to their own perdition

Fairly offered. This shows a sound affection. But my daughter, say you'd alike to him. I cannot speak so well, nothing so well, know nor mean better. By the pattern of my own thoughts I cut out the purity of his. Take hence, a bargain, and friends unknown you shall be witness to it. I give my daughter to him, and will make her portion equal his.

O, that must be in the virtue of your daughter. One being dead, I shall have more than you can dream of yet. Enough then for your wonder. But come on, contract us for these witnesses. Come, your hand, and daughter, yours.

soft twain awhile beseech you have you a father i have but what of him knows he of this he neither does nor shall methinks a father is at the nuptial of his son a guest that best becomes the table

pray you once more is not your father grown incapable of reasonable affairs is he not stupid with age and altering rooms can he speak hear know man from man dispute his own estate lies he not bed-rid and again does nothing but what he did being childish no good sir he has his health and ampler strength indeed than most have of his age

by my white beard you offer him if this be so a wrong something unfilial reason my son should choose himself a wife but as good reason the father all whose joy is nothing else but fair posterity should hold some counsel in such a business i yield all this but for some other reasons my grave sir which tis not fit you know i not acquaint my father of this business let him note he shall not

Prithee, let him. No, he must not. Let him, my son. He shall not need to grieve at knowing of thy choice. Come, come, he must not. Mark our contract. Mark your divorce, young sir. Whom, son, I dare not call, thou art too base to be acknowledged. Thou a scepter's heir that thus affects to sheep-hook.

thou old traitor i am sorry that by hanging thee i can but shorten thy life one week and thou fresh piece of excellent witchcraft who a force must know the royal fool thou copest with oh my heart

I'll have thy beauty scratched with briars, and made more homely than thy state, for thee, fond boy. If I may ever know, thou dost but sigh, that no more shalt see this knack, as never I mean thou shalt. We'll bar thee from succession, not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin, far than Ducalion off. Mark thou my words."

Follow us to the court. Thou, churl, for this time, though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee from the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment, worthy enough a herdsman, yea, him too that makes himself, but for our honor therein, unworthy thee, if ever henceforth thou these rural latches to his entrance open, or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee as thou art tender to it. X.

EXIT Even here undone, I was not much afeard. For once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly the selfsame sun that shines upon his court hides not its visage from our cottage, but looks on alike. Would please you, sir, be gone. I told you what would come of this. Beseech you of your own state take care. This dream of mine, being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, but milk my ewes and weep.

why how now father speak ere thou diest i cannot speak nor think nor dare to know that which i know o sir you have undone a man of fourscore three that thought to fill his grave in quiet yet to die upon the bed my father died to lie close by his honest bones but now some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me where no priest shovels in dust

Oh, Custerach, that knewest this was the Prince?

and ought to adventure to mingle fate with him undone undone if i might die within this hour i have lived to die when i desire exit why look you so upon me i am but sorry not afeard delayed but nothing altered what i was i am more straining on for plucking back not following my leash unwillingly edg gracious my lord you know your father's temper

at this time he will allow no speech which i do guess you do not propose to him and as hardly will he endure your sight as yet i fear then till the fury of his highness settle not before him i not purpose it i think camillo even he my lord how often have i told you twould be thus how often said my dignity would last but till twere known

"'It cannot fail but by the violation of my faith. "'And then let nature crush the sides of the earth together "'and mar the seeds within. "'Lift up thy looks. "'From my succession wipe me, father. "'I am heir to my affection.' "'Be advised.' "'I am. "'And by my fancy, if my reason will thereto be obedient, "'I have reason. "'If not, my senses, better pleased with madness, "'do bid it welcome.'

This is desperate, sir. So call it. But it does fulfil my vow. I needs must think it honesty.

"'Camillo, not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may be thereat gleaned, for all the sun's seas or the close earth's wombs or the profound sea hides and unknown fathoms, will I break my oath to this my fair beloved. Therefore I pray you, as you have ever been my father's honored friend, when he shall miss me, as, in faith, I mean not to see him any more.'

"'Cast your good counsels upon his passion. "'Let myself and fortune tug for the time to come.'

this you may know and so deliver i am put to sea with her whom here i cannot hold on shore and most opportune to our need i have a vessel rides fast by but not prepared for this design what course i mean to hold shall nothing benefit your knowledge nor concern me the reporting o my lord i would your spirit were easier for advice or stronger for your need hark perdita drawing her aside

I'll hear you by and by. He's irremovable, resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if his going I could frame to serve my turn. Save him from danger, do him love and honor. Purchase the sight again of dear Cecilia and that unhappy king my master, whom I so much thirst to see.

Now, good Camillo, I am so fraught with curious business that I leave out ceremony. Sir, I think you have heard of my poor services and the love that I have borne your father. Very nobly have you deserved. It is my father's music to speak your deeds. Not little of his care to have them recompensed as thought on. Well, my lord, if you may please to think I love the king, and through him what is nearest to him—

which is your gracious self embrace but my direction if your more ponderous and settled project may suffer alteration on mine honour i'll point you where you shall have such receiving as shall become your highness where you may enjoy your mistress from whom i see there's no disjunction to be made but by

as heavens forfend your ruin marry her and with my best endeavours in your absence your discontenting father strive to qualify and bring him up to liking cam how camillo may this almost a miracle be done

that I may call thee something more than man, and after that trust to thee. Have you thought on a place whereto you'll go? Not any yet, but as the unthought-on accident is guilty to what we wildly do, so we profess ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies of every wind that blows. Then list to me. This follows. If you will not change your purpose but undergo this flight, make for Sicilia.'

and there present yourself and your fair princess for so i see she must be for leontes she shall be habited as it becomes the partner of your bed methinks i see leontes opening his free arms and weeping his welcomes forth asks thee the son forgiveness as twere in the father's person kisses the hands of your fresh princess

o'er and o'er divides him twixt his unkindness and his kindness the one he chides to hell and bids the other grow faster than thought or time worthy camillo what colour for my visitation shall i hold up before him sent by the king your father to greet him and to give him comforts sir the manner of your bearing towards him with what you as from your father shall deliver

things known betwixt us three i'll write you down the which shall point you forth at every sitting what you must say that he shall not perceive but that you have your father's bosom there and speak his very heart

i am bound to you there is some sap in this a cause more promising than a wild dedication of yourselves to unpathed waters undreamed shores most certain to miseries enough no hope to help you but as you shake off one to take another nothing so certain as your anchors who do their best office if they can but stay you where you'll be loath to be

besides you know prosperity is the very bond of love whose fresh complexion and whose heart together affliction alters lady utterword one of these is true i think affliction may subdue the cheek but not take in the mind captain jack yea say you so there shall not at your father's house these seven years be borne another such

my good camillo she is as forward of her breeding as she is in the rear our birth i cannot say tis pity she lacks instructions for she seems a mistress to most that teach your pardon sir for this i'll blush you thanks my prettiest perdita oh but oh the thorns we stand upon camillo preserver of my father now of me the medicine of our house how shall we do

We are not furnished like Bohemia's sun, nor shall appear in Sicilia. My lord, fear none of this. I think you know my fortunes do all lie there. It shall be so my care to have you royally appointed as if the scene you play were mine. For instance, sir, that you may know you shall not want. One word. They talk aside. Re-enter Artulicus.

What a full honesty is, and trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman. I have sold all my trumpery, not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe tie, bracelet, horn ring, to keep my pack from fasting.

They thronged who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer, by which means I saw whose purse was best in picture, and what I saw, for my good use, I remembered. My clown, who wants but something to be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the wench's song that he would not stir his petty toes until he had both tune and words.

which so drew the rest of the herd to me that their other senses stuck in ears you might have pinched a placket it was senseless twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a purse i could have filed keys off that hung in chain no earring no feeling but my sir's song and admiring the nothing of it so that in this time of lethargy i picked and cut most of their festival purses

And had not the old man come in with a hoo-bub against his daughter and the king's son, and scared my chuffs from the chaff, I had not left a purse alive in the whole army.

Camillo, Florizel, and Perdita come forward. Camillus. Nay, but my letters, by this means being there so soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. Camillus. And those that you'll procure from King Leontes? Camillus. Shall satisfy your father. Leontes. Happy be you! All that you speak shows fair. Camillus. Who have we here? Leontes. Seeing Artulicus. Camillus. We'll make an instrument of this.

omit nothing may give us aid. If they have overheard me now, why, hanging? How now, good fellow, why shakest thou so? Fear not, man, here's no harm intended to thee. I am a poor fellow, sir. Why, be so still, there's nobody will steal that from thee. Yet for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange. Therefore, discase thee instantly. Thou must think there's a necessity in it.

And change garments with this gentleman, though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee there some boot. I am a poor fellow, sir. Aside. I know ye well enough. Nay, prithee, dispatch, the gentleman is half flayed already. Are you in earnest, sir? Aside. I smell a trick on't. Dispatch, I prithee. Indeed, I have had earnest.

but i cannot with conscience take it unbuckle unbuckle florizel and autolycus exchange garments fortunate mistress let my prophecy come home to ye you must retire yourself into some covert take your sweetheart's hat and pluck it o'er your brows and muffle your face dismantle you and as you can disliken the truth of your own seeming that you may for i do fear eyes over

To shipboard get undescriíd. I see the place so lies That I must bear a part. No remedy. Have you done there? Should I now meet my father, He would not call me son. Nay, you shall have no hat. GIVING IT TO PERDITA. Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend. Adieu, sir. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot? Pray you a word.

aside what i do next shall be to tell the king of this escape and whither they are bound wherein my hope is i shall so prevail to force him after in whose company i shall re-view cecilia for whose sight i have a woman's longing fortune speed us

Thus we set on, Camillo, to the seaside. The swifter speed, the better. I understand the business, I hear you. To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand is necessary for a cut purse. A good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.

what an exchange had this been without boot what a boot is here with this exchange sure the gods do this year connive at us and we may do anything extempore the prince himself is about a piece of iniquity stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels if i thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal i would not do

I hold it the more knavery to conceal it, and therein am I constant to my profession. Re-enter clown and shepherd. Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot brain. Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work.

see see what a man you are now there is no other way but to tell the king she is a changeling and none of your flesh and blood king nay but hear me go to them

She, being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the king, and so your flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show those things you found about her, those secret things, all but what she has with her. This being done, let the law go whistle. I warrant you. I will tell the king all, every word, yes, and his son's prax too.

Who, I may say, is no honest man, neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make me the king's brother-in-law. Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him, and then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce. Aside. Very wisely, puppies. Well, let us to the king.

there is that in this foddle will make him scratch his beard i know not what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my master pray heartily he be at pallas though i am not naturally honest i am so sometimes by chance let me pocket up my peddler's excrement

Takes off his false beard. RUSTICS. How now, Rustics, whither are you bound? RUSTICS. To the palace, and it like your warship. RUSTICS. Your affair there, what, with whom, the condition of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and anything that is fitting to be known, discover? RUSTICS. We are but plain fellows, sir. RUSTICS. A lie! You are rough and hairy.

let me have no lying it becomes none but tradesmen and they often give us soldiers the lie but we pay them for it with stamped coin not stabbing steel therefore they do not give us the lie your worship had like to have given us one if you had not taken yourself with the manner i recote ye and like you sir whether it like me or no i am a courtier

Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? Receiv'st not thy nose court odour from me? Reflect I not on thy baseness court contempt? Think'st thou for that I insinuate, or tose from thee thy business? I am therefore no courtier; I am courtier cap-a-pay, and one that will either push on or pluck back thy business there.

Whereupon I command thee to open thy affair. My business, sir, is to the king. What advocate hast thou to him? I know not, and like you. Advocate's the court word for a pheasant. Say you have none. None, sir, I have no pheasant cock nor hand. How blessed are we that are not simple men! Yet nature might have made me as these are. Therefore I will not disdain.

this cannot be but a great courtier his garments are rich but he wears them not handsomely he seems to be the more noble in being fantastical a great man i'll warrant i know by the picking on teeth the fardel there what's in the fardel wherefore that box

sir there lies such secret in this fraudulent box which none must know but the king and which he shall know within this hour if i may come to the speech of him age thou hast lost thy labour why sir the king is not at the palace he is gone aboard a new ship to purge melancholy and air himself

For if thou be'st capable of things serious, Thou must know the king is full of grief. So it is said, sir, about his son, That should have married a sephard's daughter. If that shepherd be not in handfast, let him fly. The curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, Will break the back of man, the heart of monster.

think you so sir not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy and vengeance bitter but those that are germane to him though removed fifty times shall all come under the hangman which though it be great pity yet it is necessary an old sheep whistling rogue a ram tender to offer to have his daughter come into grace some say he shall be stone but that death is too soft for him say i

Draw our throne into a sheep-coat? All deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy. Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, and like you, sir? He has a son, who shall be flayed alive, then nointed over with honey, sit on the head of a wasp's nest, then stand till he be three-quarters and a dram dead.

then recovered again with aqua vitae or some other hot infusion then raw as he is and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims shall be set against a brick wall the sun looking with a southward eye upon him where he is to behold him with flies blown to death but what talk we of these traitally rascals whose miseries are to be smiled at their offences being so capital

Tell me, for you seem to be honest, plain men, what have you to the king? Being something gently considered, I'll bring you where he is aboard. Tend your persons to his presence, whisper him in your behalf. And, if it be in man, besides the king, to affect your suits, here is man shall do it.

he seems to be of great authority close with him give him gold and though authority be a stubborn bear yet he is oft led by the nose with gold show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand and no more ado

remember stoned and flayed alive and please you sir to undertake the business for us here is that gold i have i will make it as much more and leave this young man in pawn till i bring it to you after i have done what i promised aye sir well give me the moiety are you a party in this business

in some sort sir but though my case be a pitiful one i hope i shall not be flayed out of it oh that's the case of the shepherd's son hang him he shall be made an example comfort good comfort we must to the king and show our strange sights he must know tis none of your daughter nor my sister we are gone else

Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does when the business is performed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it be brought you. I will trust you. Walk before toward the seaside. Go on the right hand. I will but look upon the hedge and follow you. We are blessed in this man, as I may say, even blessed.

That is before as he beats us. He was provided to do us good. Exeunt, Shepherd, and Clown If I had a mind to be honest, I see fortune would not suffer me. She drops booties in my mouth. I am caught now with a double occasion. Gold and a means to the prince, my master, good. Which, who knows, how that may turn back to my advancement.

I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him. If he think it fit to shore them again, and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far officious, for I am proof against that title, and what shame belongs to it. To him will I present them. There may be matter in it. Exit. End of Act 4

ACT V. SCENE I. A ROOM IN LIANTE'S PALACE. ENTER LIANTES, CLIOMENES, DION, PAULINA, AND SERVANTS.

Sir, you have done enough, and have performed a saint-like sorrow no fault could you make, which you have not redempt, indeed, paid down, more penitence than done trespass. At last, do as the heavens have done, forget your evil, with them forgive yourself.

whilst i remember her and her virtues i cannot forget my blemishes in them and so still think of the wrong i did myself which was so much that e'erless it hath made my kingdom and destroyed the sweetest companion that e'er man bred his hopes out of true too true my lord

if one by one you wedded all the world or from the all that are took something good to make a perfect woman she you killed would be unparalleled i think so killed she i killed i did so but thou strikest me sorely to say i did it is as bitter upon thy tongue as in my thought now good now say so but seldom

not at all good lady you might have spoken a thousand things that would have done the time more benefit and graced your kindness better lady arthur you are one of those would have him wed again if you were not so you pity not the state nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name consider little what dangers by his highness fail of issue may drop upon his kingdom and devour in certain lookers on what were more holy than to rejoice the former queen is well

What holier than for royalty's repair, for present comfort, and for future good, to bless the bed of majesty again with a sweet fellow to it? There is none worthy respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods would have fulfilled their secret purposes. For has not the divine Apollo said, is not the tenor of his oracle, that King Leontes shall not have an heir till his lost child be found?—

which that it shall is all as monstrous to our human reason as my antigonus to break his grave and come again to me who on my life did perish with the infant tis your counsel my lord should to the heavens be contrary oppose against their wills julian care not for issue the crown will find an heir

Great Alexander left his to the worthiest, so his successor was like to be the best. Good Paulina, who hast the memory of Hermione, I know, in honour, O, that ever I had squared me to thy counsel, then even now I might have looked upon my queen's full eyes, have taken treasure from her lips.

and left them more rich for what they yielded. Thou speakest truth, no more such wives, therefore no wife.

one worse and better us'd would make her sainted spirit again possess her corpse and on this stage where we're offenders now appear sole vex'd and begin why to me had she such power she had just cause she had and would incense me to murder her i married i should so

were i the ghost that walk'd i'd bid you mark her eye and tell me for what dull partent you chose her then i'd shriek that ev'n your ears should rift to hear me and the words that follow'd should be remember mine stars stars and all eyes else dead coals

Fear thou no wife, I'll have no wife, Paulina. Will you swear never to marry but by my free leave? Never, Paulina, so be blessed my spirit. Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath. You tempt him overmuch. Unless another, as like Hermione as is her picture, affront his eye. Good, madame. I have done.

yet if my lord will marry if you will sir no remedy but you will give me the office to choose you a queen she shall not be so young as was your former but she shall be such as walked your first queen's ghost it should take joy to see her in your arms my true paulina we shall not marry till thou biddest us that shall be when your first queen's again in breath never till then

enter a gentleman one that gives out himself prince florizel son of polixenes with his princess she the fairest i have yet beheld desires access to your high presence what with him he comes not like to his father's greatness his approach so out of circumstance and sudden tells us tis not a visitation framed but forced by need and accident what train

but few and those but mean hermione his princess say you with him hermione ay the most peerless piece of earth i think that e'er the sun shone bright on o hermione as every present time doth boast itself above a better gone so must thy grave give way to what's seen now

Sir, you yourself have said and writ so, but your writing now is colder than that theme. She had not been nor was not to be equalled. Thus your verse flowed with her beauty once. Tis shrewdly ebbed to say you have seen a better. Pardon, madam, the one I have almost forgot. Your pardon. The other, when she has obtained your eye, will have your tongue, too.

this is a creature would she begin a sect might quench the zeal of all professors else make proselytes of whom she but bid follow how not women women will love her that she is a woman more worth than any man

Men, that she is the rarest of all women. Go, Cleomenes, yourself assisted with your honored friends. Bring them to our embracement. Exeunt Cleomenes and others. Still, tis strange he thus should steal upon us. Had our prince, jewel of children, seen this hour, he had paired well with this lord. There was not full a month between their births. Prithee, no more. Cease.

thou knowest he dies to me again when talked of sure when i shall see this gentleman thy speeches will bring me to consider that which may unfurnish me of reason they are come re-enter cleomenes and others with florizel and perdita your mother was most true to wedlock prince for she did print your royal father off conceiving you

were i but twenty-one your father's image is so hit in you his very air that i should call you brother as i did him and speak of something wildly by us performed before most dearly welcome and your fair princess goddess oh alas i lost a couple that twixt heaven and earth might thus have stood begetting wonder as you gracious couple do

and then i lost all mine own folly the society amity too of your brave father whom though bearing misery i desire my life once more to look on him by his command have i here touched cecilia and from him give you all greetings that a king at friend can send his brother

and but infirmity which waits upon worn times hath something seized his wished ability he had himself the lands and waters twixt your throne and his measured to look upon you whom he loves he bade me say so

more than all the scepters and those that bear them living oh my brother good gentleman the wrongs i have done thee stir afresh within me and these thy offices so rarely kind are as interpreters of my behind-hand slackness welcome hither as is the spring to the earth

and hath he too expos'd this paragon to the fearful usage at least ungentle of the dreadful neptune to greet a man not worth her pains much less the adventure of her person good my lord she came from libya where the warlike smallest that noble honour'd lord is fear'd and loved most royal sir from thence from him whose daughter his tears proclaim'd his parting with her

Thence, a prosperous south wind friendly we have crossed to execute the charge my father gave me for visiting your highness. My best train I have from your Sicilian shores dismissed.

who for bohemia bend to signify not only my success in libya sir but my arrival and my wife's in safety here where we are the blessed gods purge all infection from our air whilst you do climate here you have a holy father a graceful gentleman against whose person so sacred as it is i have done sin for which the heavens taking angry note have left me issueless

and your father's blessed as he from heaven merits it with you worthy his goodness what might i have been might i a son and daughter now have looked on such goodly things as you enter our lord most noble sir that which i shall report will bear no credit were not the proof so nigh please you great sir bohemia greets you from himself by me

desires you to attach his son who has his dignity and duty both cast off fled from his father from his hopes and with a shepherd's daughter where's bohemia speak here in your city i now came from him i speak amazedly and it becomes my marvel and my message

Hm.

Who, Camillo? Camillo, sir, I spake with him, who now has these poor men in question. Never saw I a wretch as so quake. They kneel, they kiss the earth, forswear themselves as often as they speak. Bohemia stops his ears and threatens them with diverse deaths in death. O my poor father, the heavens set spies upon us, will not have our contract celebrated. You are married? We are not, sir, nor are we like to be.

the stars i see will kiss the valleys first the odds for high and lows alike my lord is this the daughter of a king she is when once she is my wife that once i see by your good father's speed will come on very slowly i am sorry most sorry you have broken from his liking where you were tied in duty and as sorry your choice is not so rich in worth

as beauty that you might well enjoy her dear look up though fortune visible an enemy should chase us with my father power no jot hath she to change our loves beseech you sir remember since you owed no more to time than i do now with thought of such affections step forth mine advocate

at your request my father will grant precious things as trifles would he do so i'd beg your precious mistress which he counts but a trifle sir my liege your eye hath too much youth in't not a month for your queen died she was more worth such gazes than what you look on now i thought of her even in these looks i made

To Florizel. But your petition is yet unanswered. I will to your father. Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires, I am friend to them, and you. Upon which errand I now go toward him. Therefore follow me, and mark what way I make. Come, good my lord. Exeunt. Act V. Scene II. Before Leontes' Palace. Enter Artulicus and a gentleman.

Beseech you, sir, were ye present at this relation? I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old shepherd deliver the manner how he found it, whereupon after a little amatedness we were all commanded out of the chamber. Only this methought I heard the shepherd say, he found the child. I would most gladly know the issue of it.

I make a broken delivery of the business, but the changes I perceived in the King and Camilla were very notes of admiration. They seemed almost with staring on one another to tear the cases of their eyes. There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. They looked as if they had heard of a world ransomed or one destroyed.

A notable passion of wonder appeared in them, but the wisest beholder that knew no more but seeing could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow. But in the extremity of the one it must needs be. Enter another gentleman. Here comes a gentleman that happily knows more. The news, Rohero? Nothing but bonfires. The oracle is fulfilled. The king's daughter is found.

such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it enter a third gentleman here comes the lady paulina's steward he can deliver you more how goes it now sir

This news which is called true is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. Has the king found his heir? Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance. That which you hear, you'll swear you see, there is such unity in the proofs.

the mantle of queen hermione's her jewel about the neck of it the letters of antigonus found with it which they know to be his character the majesty of the creature in resemblance of the mother the affection of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding and many other evidences proclaim her with all certainty to be the king's daughter did you see the meeting of the two kings no then you have lost a sight which was to be seen cannot be spoken of

there might you have beheld one joy crown another so and in such manner that it seems sorrow wept to take leave of them for their joy waited in tears there was casting up of eyes holding up of hands with countenances of such distraction that they were to be known by garment not by favour

Our king, being ready to leap out of himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that joy were now become a loss, cries, "O thy mother, thy mother!" Then asks Bohemia forgiveness, then embraces his son-in-law, then again worries he his daughter with clipping her. Now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns.

i never heard of such another encounter which lames report to follow it and undoes description to do it what pray you became of antigonus that carried hence the child like an old tale still which will have matter to rehearse though credit be asleep and not an ear open

he was torn to pieces with a bear this avouches the shepherd's son who has not only his innocence which seems much to justify him but a handkerchief and rings of his that pelyna knows what became of his bark and his followers wrecked the same instant of their master's death and in the view of the shepherd so that all the instruments which aided to expose the child were even then lost when it was found

but oh the noble combat that twixt joy and sorrow was fought in pelyna she had one eye declined for the loss of her husband another elevated that the oracle was fulfilled she lifted the princess from the earth and so locks her in embracing as if she would pin her to her heart that she might no more be in danger of losing

the dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and princes for by such was it acted one of the prettiest touches of all and that which angled for mine eyes caught the water though not the fish was when at the relation of the queen's death with the manner how she came to it bravely confessed and lamented by the king how attentiveness wounded his daughter

till from one sign of dollar to another she did with an alas i would fain say bleed tears for i am sure my heart wept blood

Who was most marble there changed colour. Some swooned, all sorrowed. If all the world could have seen it, the woe had been universal. Are they returned to the court? No. The princess hearing of her mother's statue, which is in the keeping of Polina, a piece many years in doing and now newly performed by that rare Italian master, Giulio Romano, who had he himself eternity and could put breath into his work.

would beguile nature of her custom so perfectly he is her ape he so near to hermione hath done hermione that they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of answer thither with all greediness of affection are they gone and there they intend to sup i thought she had some great matter there in hand

for she hath privately twice or thrice a day ever since the death of hermione visited that removed house shall we thither and with our company peace the rejoicing who would be thence that has the benefit of access every wink of an eye some new grace will be born

our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge let's along now had i not the dash of my former life in me would preferment drop on my head i brought the old man and his son aboard the prince told him i heard them talk of a fardel and i know not what but he at that time over-fond of the shepherd's daughter

So he then took her to be, who began to be much seasick, and himself little better. Extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remained undiscovered, but tis all one to me, for had I been to find her out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits. Enter Shepherd and Clown. Here come those I have done good to against my will.

and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune. Come boy, I am passed more children.

but thy sons and daughters will be all gentlemen born you are well met sir you denied to fight with me this other day because i was no gentleman born see you these clothes say you see them not and think me still no gentleman born you were best say these robes are not gentlemen born give me the lie do and try whether i am not now a gentleman born

I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born. Aye, and have been so any time these four hours. And so have I, boy.

So you have, but I was a gentleman born before my father, for the king's son took me by the hand and called me brother, and then the two kings called my father brother, and then the prince my brother and the princess my sister called my father father, and so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed. We believe, sons.

to shed many more. Aye, or else to a hard luck, being in so preposterous a state as we are. I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon all the faults I have committed to your worship, and to give me your good report to the prince, my master. Pretty, sir, do, for we must be gentle. Now, your gentleman. Thou wilt amend thy life? Aye, and it like your good worship.

Give me thy hand. I will swear to the prince thou art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia. You may say it, but not swear it. Not swear it? Now I am a gentleman. Let Boaz and Franklin say it. I'll swear it. How if it be false, son?

if it be ne'er so false a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his friend and i'll swear to the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt not be drunk but i know thou art no tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be drunk but i'll swear it and i would thou wouldst be a tall fellow of thy hands i will prove so sir to my power

I by any means prove a tall fellow, if I do not wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not being a tall fellow. Trust me not. Hark, the kings and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the queen's picture. Come, follow us. We'll be thy good masters. Exeunt. Act 5, Scene 3. A Chapel in Paulina's House.

enter leontes polygsynes florizel perdita camillo paulina lords and attendants o grave and good paulina the great comfort that i have had of thee

what sovereign sir i did not well i meant well all my services you have paid home but that you have vouchsafed with your crown'd brother and these your contracted heirs of your kingdoms my poor house to visit it is a surplus of your grace which never my life may last to answer

o paulina we honour you with trouble but we came to see the statue of our queen your gallery have we passed through not without much content in many singularities but we saw not that which my daughter came to look upon the statue of her mother as she lived peerless so her dead likeness i do well believe excels whatever yet you looked upon or hand of man hath done

therefore i keep it lonely apart but here it is prepare to see the life as lively mocked as ever still sleep mocked death behold and say tis well paulina draws a curtain and discovers hermione standing like a statue i like your silence it the more shows off your wonder but yet speak

first you my liege comes it not something neer her natural posture chide me dear stone that i may say indeed thou art hermione or rather thou art she in thy not chiding for she was as tender as infancy and grace

but yet paulina hermione was not so much wrinkled nothing so aged as this seems oh not by much so much the more our carver's excellence which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her as she lived now as now she might have done so much to my good comfort as it is now piercing to my soul

oh thus she stood even with such life of majesty warm life as now it coldly stands when first i wooed her i am ashamed does not the stone rebuke me for being more stone than it

O royal peace, there's magic in thy majesty, which has my evils conjured to remembrance, and from thy admiring daughter took the spirits, standing like stone with thee. And give me leave, and do not say to superstition that I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady, dear queen that ended when I but began, give me that hand of yours to kiss.

patience the statue is but newly fix'd the colours not dry my lord your sorrow was too sore laid on which sixteen winters cannot blow away so many summers dry scarce any joy did ever so long live

No sorrow, but killed itself much sooner. Dear my brother, let him that was the cause of this have power to take off so much grief from you as he will peace up in himself. Indeed, my lord, if I had thought the sight of my poor image would thus have wrought you, for the stone is mine, I'd not have showed it. Do not draw the curtain. No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy may think anon it moves. Let be, let be, let be.

Would I were dead, but that methinks already, what was he that did make it? See, my lord, would you not deem it breathed?

and that those veins did verily bear blood masterly done the very life seems warm upon her lip the fixture of her eye has motion in it as we are mocked with art i'll draw the curtain my lord's almost so far transported that he'll think anon it lives o sweet paulina make me to think so twenty years together no settled senses of the world can match the pleasure of that madness

let it alone i am sorry sir i have thus far stirred you but i could afflict you farther do paulina for this affliction has a taste as sweet as any cordial comfort still methinks there is an air comes from her what fine chisel could ever yet cut breath

let no man mock me for i will kiss her could my lord forbear the ruddiness upon her lip is wet you'll mar it if you kiss it stain your own with oily painting shall i draw the curtain no not these twenty years so long could i stand by a looker-on either forbear quit presently the chapel or resolve you for more amazement

if you can behold it i'll make the statue move indeed descend and take you by the hand but then you'll think which i protest against i am assisted by wicked powers what you can make her do i am content to look on what to speak i am content to hear for tis as easy to make her speak as move it is required you do awake your faith then all stand still

On. Those that think it is unlawful business I am about, let them depart. Proceed. No foot shall stir. Music. Awaker. Strike. Music. Tis time. Descend. Be stone no more. Approach. Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come. I'll fill your grave up.

nay stir come away bequeath to death your numbness for from him dear life redeems you you perceive she stirs hermione comes down start not her actions shall be holy as you hear my spell is lawful do not shun her until you see her die again for then you kill her double nay present your hand when she was young you wooed her

now in age is she become the suitor hermes oh she's warm if this be magic let it be an art lawful as eating hermes she embraces him hermes she hangs about his neck if she pertain to life let her speak too hermes ay and mak't manifest where she has lived or how stolen from the dead hermes that she is living were it but told you should be hooted at like an old tale

but it appears she lives though yet she speak not mark a little while please you to interpose fair madam kneel and pray your mother's blessing turn good lady our perdita is found you gods look down and from your sacred vials pour your graces upon my daughter's head

tell me mine own where hast thou been preserved where lived how found thy father's court for thou shalt hear that i knowing by paulina that the oracle gave hope thou wast in being have preserved myself to see the issue there's time enough for that lest they desire upon this push to trouble your joys with like relation

go together you precious winners all your exultation partake to every one i an old turtle will wing me to some withered bough

and there my mate that's never to be found again lament till i am lost o peace paulina thou shouldst a husband take by my consent as i by thine a wife this is a match and made between us by vows thou hast found mine but how is to be questioned for i saw her as i thought dead and have in vain said many a prayer upon her grave

I'll not seek far, for him I partly know his mind, to find thee an honorable husband. Come, Camillo, and take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty is richly noted and here justified by us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place. What? Look upon my brother, both your pardons, that e'er I put between your holy looks my ill suspicion.'

This is your son-in-law, and son unto the king, who, heaven's directing, is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina, lead us from hence, where we may leisurely each one demand an answer to his part performed in this wide gap of time, since first we were dissevered. Hastily lead away. Exeunt. End of Act 5

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