Scene 4
Enter Florizell and Perdita.
FLORIZELL
line 1839These your unusual weeds to each part of you
line 1840Does give a life—no shepherdess, but Flora
line 1841Peering in April’s front. This your sheep-shearing
line 1842Is as a meeting of the petty gods,
5line 1843And you the queen on ’t.
line 1844PERDITASir, my gracious lord,
line 1845To chide at your extremes it not becomes me;
line 1846O, pardon that I name them! Your high self,
line 1847The gracious mark o’ th’ land, you have obscured
10line 1848With a swain’s wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,
line 1849Most goddesslike pranked up. But that our feasts
line 1850In every mess have folly, and the feeders
line 1851Digest it with a custom, I should blush
line 1852To see you so attired, swoon, I think,
15line 1853To show myself a glass.
line 1854FLORIZELLI bless the time
line 1855When my good falcon made her flight across
line 1856Thy father’s ground.
line 1857PERDITANow Jove afford you cause.
20line 1858To me the difference forges dread. Your greatness
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line 1859Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble
line 1860To think your father by some accident
line 1861Should pass this way as you did. O the Fates,
line 1862How would he look to see his work, so noble,
25line 1863Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how
line 1864Should I, in these my borrowed flaunts, behold
line 1865The sternness of his presence?
line 1866FLORIZELLApprehend
line 1867Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,
30line 1868Humbling their deities to love, have taken
line 1869The shapes of beasts upon them. Jupiter
line 1870Became a bull, and bellowed; the green Neptune
line 1871A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,
line 1872Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,
35line 1873As I seem now. Their transformations
line 1874Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,
line 1875Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires
line 1876Run not before mine honor, nor my lusts
line 1877Burn hotter than my faith.
40line 1878PERDITAO, but sir,
line 1879Your resolution cannot hold when ’tis
line 1880Opposed, as it must be, by th’ power of the King.
line 1881One of these two must be necessities,
line 1882Which then will speak: that you must change this
45line 1883purpose
line 1884Or I my life.
line 1885FLORIZELLThou dear’st Perdita,
line 1886With these forced thoughts I prithee darken not
line 1887The mirth o’ th’ feast. Or I’ll be thine, my fair,
50line 1888Or not my father’s. For I cannot be
line 1889Mine own, nor anything to any, if
line 1890I be not thine. To this I am most constant,
line 1891Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle.
line 1892Strangle such thoughts as these with anything
55line 1893That you behold the while. Your guests are coming.
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line 1894Lift up your countenance as it were the day
line 1895Of celebration of that nuptial which
line 1896We two have sworn shall come.
line 1897PERDITAO Lady Fortune,
60line 1898Stand you auspicious!
line 1899FLORIZELLSee, your guests approach.
line 1900Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,
line 1901And let’s be red with mirth.
Enter Shepherd, Shepherd’s Son, Mopsa, Dorcas, Shepherds and Shepherdesses, Servants, Musicians, and Polixenes and Camillo in disguise.
SHEPHERD
line 1902Fie, daughter, when my old wife lived, upon
65line 1903This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,
line 1904Both dame and servant; welcomed all; served all;
line 1905Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here
line 1906At upper end o’ th’ table, now i’ th’ middle;
line 1907On his shoulder, and his; her face afire
70line 1908With labor, and the thing she took to quench it
line 1909She would to each one sip. You are retired
line 1910As if you were a feasted one and not
line 1911The hostess of the meeting. Pray you bid
line 1912These unknown friends to ’s welcome, for it is
75line 1913A way to make us better friends, more known.
line 1914Come, quench your blushes and present yourself
line 1915That which you are, mistress o’ th’ feast. Come on,
line 1916And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,
line 1917As your good flock shall prosper.
80line 1918PERDITAto Polixenes Sir, welcome.
line 1919It is my father’s will I should take on me
line 1920The hostess-ship o’ th’ day. To Camillo. You’re
line 1921welcome, sir.—
line 1922Give me those flowers there, Dorcas.—Reverend
85line 1923sirs,
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line 1924For you there’s rosemary and rue. These keep
line 1925Seeming and savor all the winter long.
line 1926Grace and remembrance be to you both,
line 1927And welcome to our shearing.
90line 1928POLIXENESShepherdess—
line 1929A fair one are you—well you fit our ages
line 1930With flowers of winter.
line 1931PERDITASir, the year growing ancient,
line 1932Not yet on summer’s death nor on the birth
95line 1933Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o’ th’ season
line 1934Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
line 1935Which some call nature’s bastards. Of that kind
line 1936Our rustic garden’s barren, and I care not
line 1937To get slips of them.
100line 1938POLIXENESWherefore, gentle maiden,
line 1939Do you neglect them?
line 1940PERDITAFor I have heard it said
line 1941There is an art which in their piedness shares
line 1942With great creating nature.
105line 1943POLIXENESSay there be;
line 1944Yet nature is made better by no mean
line 1945But nature makes that mean. So, over that art
line 1946Which you say adds to nature is an art
line 1947That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
110line 1948A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
line 1949And make conceive a bark of baser kind
line 1950By bud of nobler race. This is an art
line 1951Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
line 1952The art itself is nature.
115line 1953PERDITASo it is.
POLIXENES
line 1954Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,
line 1955And do not call them bastards.
line 1956PERDITAI’ll not put
line 1957The dibble in earth to set one slip of them,
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120line 1958No more than, were I painted, I would wish
line 1959This youth should say ’twere well, and only
line 1960therefore
line 1961Desire to breed by me. Here’s flowers for you:
line 1962Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram,
125line 1963The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ th’ sun
line 1964And with him rises weeping. These are flowers
line 1965Of middle summer, and I think they are given
line 1966To men of middle age. You’re very welcome.
CAMILLO
line 1967I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,
130line 1968And only live by gazing.
line 1969PERDITAOut, alas!
line 1970You’d be so lean that blasts of January
line 1971Would blow you through and through.
line 1972To Florizell. Now, my fair’st friend,
135line 1973I would I had some flowers o’ th’ spring, that might
line 1974Become your time of day, to the Shepherdesses
line 1975and yours, and yours,
line 1976That wear upon your virgin branches yet
line 1977Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina,
140line 1978For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let’st fall
line 1979From Dis’s wagon! Daffodils,
line 1980That come before the swallow dares, and take
line 1981The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
line 1982But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes
145line 1983Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses,
line 1984That die unmarried ere they can behold
line 1985Bright Phoebus in his strength—a malady
line 1986Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
line 1987The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
150line 1988The flower-de-luce being one—O, these I lack
line 1989To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
line 1990To strew him o’er and o’er.
line 1991FLORIZELLWhat, like a corse?
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PERDITA
line 1992No, like a bank for love to lie and play on,
155line 1993Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,
line 1994But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your
line 1995flowers.
line 1996Methinks I play as I have seen them do
line 1997In Whitsun pastorals. Sure this robe of mine
160line 1998Does change my disposition.
line 1999FLORIZELLWhat you do
line 2000Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet,
line 2001I’d have you do it ever. When you sing,
line 2002I’d have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
165line 2003Pray so; and for the ord’ring your affairs,
line 2004To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you
line 2005A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do
line 2006Nothing but that, move still, still so,
line 2007And own no other function. Each your doing,
170line 2008So singular in each particular,
line 2009Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,
line 2010That all your acts are queens.
line 2011PERDITAO Doricles,
line 2012Your praises are too large. But that your youth
175line 2013And the true blood which peeps fairly through ’t
line 2014Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd,
line 2015With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,
line 2016You wooed me the false way.
line 2017FLORIZELLI think you have
180line 2018As little skill to fear as I have purpose
line 2019To put you to ’t. But come, our dance, I pray.
line 2020Your hand, my Perdita. So turtles pair
line 2021That never mean to part.
line 2022PERDITAI’ll swear for ’em.
POLIXENESto Camillo
185line 2023This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever
line 2024Ran on the greensward. Nothing she does or seems
line 2025But smacks of something greater than herself,
line 2026Too noble for this place.
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line 2027CAMILLOHe tells her something
190line 2028That makes her blood look out. Good sooth, she is
line 2029The queen of curds and cream.
line 2030SHEPHERD’S SONto Musicians Come on, strike up.
DORCAS
line 2031Mopsa must be your mistress? Marry, garlic
line 2032To mend her kissing with.
195line 2033MOPSANow, in good time!
SHEPHERD’S SON
line 2034Not a word, a word. We stand upon our manners.—
line 2035Come, strike up. Music begins.
Here a Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses.
POLIXENES
line 2036Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this
line 2037Which dances with your daughter?
SHEPHERD
200line 2038They call him Doricles, and boasts himself
line 2039To have a worthy feeding. But I have it
line 2040Upon his own report, and I believe it.
line 2041He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter.
line 2042I think so too, for never gazed the moon
205line 2043Upon the water as he’ll stand and read,
line 2044As ’twere, my daughter’s eyes. And, to be plain,
line 2045I think there is not half a kiss to choose
line 2046Who loves another best.
line 2047POLIXENESShe dances featly.
SHEPHERD
210line 2048So she does anything, though I report it
line 2049That should be silent. If young Doricles
line 2050Do light upon her, she shall bring him that
line 2051Which he not dreams of.
Enter a Servant.
line 2052SERVANTO, master, if you did but hear the peddler at
215line 2053the door, you would never dance again after a tabor
line 2054and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you. He
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line 2055sings several tunes faster than you’ll tell money. He
line 2056utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men’s
line 2057ears grew to his tunes.
220line 2058SHEPHERD’S SONHe could never come better. He shall
line 2059come in. I love a ballad but even too well if it be
line 2060doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant
line 2061thing indeed and sung lamentably.
line 2062SERVANTHe hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes.
225line 2063No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. He
line 2064has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without
line 2065bawdry, which is strange, with such delicate burdens
line 2066of dildos and fadings, “Jump her and thump
line 2067her.” And where some stretch-mouthed rascal
230line 2068would, as it were, mean mischief and break a foul
line 2069gap into the matter, he makes the maid to answer
line 2070“Whoop, do me no harm, good man”; puts him off,
line 2071slights him, with “Whoop, do me no harm, good
line 2072man.”
235line 2073POLIXENESThis is a brave fellow.
line 2074SHEPHERD’S SONBelieve me, thou talkest of an admirable
line 2075conceited fellow. Has he any unbraided
line 2076wares?
line 2077SERVANTHe hath ribbons of all the colors i’ th’ rainbow;
240line 2078points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia
line 2079can learnedly handle, though they come to him by
line 2080th’ gross; inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns—why,
line 2081he sings ’em over as they were gods or goddesses.
line 2082You would think a smock were a she-angel, he so
245line 2083chants to the sleeve-hand and the work about the
line 2084square on ’t.
line 2085SHEPHERD’S SONPrithee bring him in, and let him
line 2086approach singing.
line 2087PERDITAForewarn him that he use no scurrilous words
250line 2088in ’s tunes.Servant exits.
line 2089SHEPHERD’S SONYou have of these peddlers that have
line 2090more in them than you’d think, sister.
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line 2091PERDITAAy, good brother, or go about to think.
Enter Autolycus, wearing a false beard, singing.
AUTOLYCUS
line 2092Lawn as white as driven snow,
255line 2093Cypress black as e’er was crow,
line 2094Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
line 2095Masks for faces and for noses,
line 2096Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
line 2097Perfume for a lady’s chamber,
260line 2098Golden coifs and stomachers
line 2099For my lads to give their dears,
line 2100Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
line 2101What maids lack from head to heel,
line 2102Come buy of me, come. Come buy, come buy.
265line 2103Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry.
line 2104Come buy.
line 2105SHEPHERD’S SONIf I were not in love with Mopsa, thou
line 2106shouldst take no money of me; but being enthralled
line 2107as I am, it will also be the bondage of certain
270line 2108ribbons and gloves.
line 2109MOPSAI was promised them against the feast, but they
line 2110come not too late now.
line 2111DORCASHe hath promised you more than that, or there
line 2112be liars.
275line 2113MOPSAHe hath paid you all he promised you. Maybe
line 2114he has paid you more, which will shame you to give
line 2115him again.
line 2116SHEPHERD’S SONIs there no manners left among
line 2117maids? Will they wear their plackets where they
280line 2118should bear their faces? Is there not milking time,
line 2119when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle
line 2120of these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling
line 2121before all our guests? ’Tis well they are whisp’ring.
line 2122Clamor your tongues, and not a word more.
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285line 2123MOPSAI have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry
line 2124lace and a pair of sweet gloves.
line 2125SHEPHERD’S SONHave I not told thee how I was cozened
line 2126by the way and lost all my money?
line 2127AUTOLYCUSAnd indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;
290line 2128therefore it behooves men to be wary.
line 2129SHEPHERD’S SONFear not thou, man. Thou shalt lose
line 2130nothing here.
line 2131AUTOLYCUSI hope so, sir, for I have about me many
line 2132parcels of charge.
295line 2133SHEPHERD’S SONWhat hast here? Ballads?
line 2134MOPSAPray now, buy some. I love a ballad in print
line 2135alife, for then we are sure they are true.
line 2136AUTOLYCUSHere’s one to a very doleful tune, how a
line 2137usurer’s wife was brought to bed of twenty moneybags
300line 2138at a burden, and how she longed to eat adders’
line 2139heads and toads carbonadoed.
line 2140MOPSAIs it true, think you?
line 2141AUTOLYCUSVery true, and but a month old.
line 2142DORCASBless me from marrying a usurer!
305line 2143AUTOLYCUSHere’s the midwife’s name to ’t, one Mistress
line 2144Taleporter, and five or six honest wives that
line 2145were present. Why should I carry lies abroad?
line 2146MOPSAto Shepherd’s Son Pray you now, buy it.
line 2147SHEPHERD’S SONto Autolycus Come on, lay it by, and
310line 2148let’s first see more ballads. We’ll buy the other
line 2149things anon.
line 2150AUTOLYCUSHere’s another ballad, of a fish that appeared
line 2151upon the coast on Wednesday the fourscore
line 2152of April, forty thousand fathom above water, and
315line 2153sung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids. It
line 2154was thought she was a woman, and was turned into
line 2155a cold fish for she would not exchange flesh with
line 2156one that loved her. The ballad is very pitiful, and as
line 2157true.
320line 2158DORCASIs it true too, think you?
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line 2159AUTOLYCUSFive justices’ hands at it, and witnesses
line 2160more than my pack will hold.
line 2161SHEPHERD’S SONLay it by too. Another.
line 2162AUTOLYCUSThis is a merry ballad, but a very pretty
325line 2163one.
line 2164MOPSALet’s have some merry ones.
line 2165AUTOLYCUSWhy, this is a passing merry one and goes
line 2166to the tune of “Two Maids Wooing a Man.” There’s
line 2167scarce a maid westward but she sings it. ’Tis in
330line 2168request, I can tell you.
line 2169MOPSAWe can both sing it. If thou ’lt bear a part, thou
line 2170shalt hear; ’tis in three parts.
line 2171DORCASWe had the tune on ’t a month ago.
line 2172AUTOLYCUSI can bear my part. You must know ’tis my
335line 2173occupation. Have at it with you.
Song.
line 2174AUTOLYCUSGet you hence, for I must go
line 2175Where it fits not you to know.
line 2176DORCASWhither?
line 2177MOPSAO, whither?
340line 2178DORCASWhither?
line 2179MOPSAIt becomes thy oath full well
line 2180Thou to me thy secrets tell.
line 2181DORCASMe too. Let me go thither.
line 2182MOPSAOr thou goest to th’ grange or mill.
345line 2183DORCASIf to either, thou dost ill.
line 2184AUTOLYCUSNeither.
line 2185DORCASWhat, neither?
line 2186AUTOLYCUSNeither.
line 2187DORCASThou hast sworn my love to be.
350line 2188MOPSAThou hast sworn it more to me.
line 2189Then whither goest? Say whither.
line 2190SHEPHERD’S SONWe’ll have this song out anon by
line 2191ourselves. My father and the gentlemen are in sad
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line 2192talk, and we’ll not trouble them. Come, bring away
355line 2193thy pack after me.—Wenches, I’ll buy for you
line 2194both.—Peddler, let’s have the first choice.—Follow
line 2195me, girls.
He exits with Mopsa, Dorcas, Shepherds and Shepherdesses.
line 2196AUTOLYCUSAnd you shall pay well for ’em.
Song.
line 2197Will you buy any tape,
360line 2198Or lace for your cape,
line 2199My dainty duck, my dear-a?
line 2200Any silk, any thread,
line 2201Any toys for your head,
line 2202Of the new’st and fin’st, fin’st wear-a?
365line 2203Come to the peddler.
line 2204Money’s a meddler
line 2205That doth utter all men’s ware-a.
He exits.
Enter a Servant.
line 2206SERVANTto Shepherd Master, there is three carters,
line 2207three shepherds, three neatherds, three swineherds,
370line 2208that have made themselves all men of hair.
line 2209They call themselves saultiers, and they have a
line 2210dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of
line 2211gambols, because they are not in ’t, but they themselves
line 2212are o’ th’ mind, if it be not too rough for
375line 2213some that know little but bowling, it will please
line 2214plentifully.
line 2215SHEPHERDAway! We’ll none on ’t. Here has been too
line 2216much homely foolery already.—I know, sir, we
line 2217weary you.
380line 2218POLIXENESYou weary those that refresh us. Pray, let’s
line 2219see these four threes of herdsmen.
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line 2220SERVANTOne three of them, by their own report, sir,
line 2221hath danced before the King, and not the worst of
line 2222the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by th’
385line 2223square.
line 2224SHEPHERDLeave your prating. Since these good men
line 2225are pleased, let them come in—but quickly now.
line 2226SERVANTWhy, they stay at door, sir.
He admits the herdsmen.
Here a Dance of twelve herdsmen, dressed as Satyrs.
Herdsmen, Musicians, and Servants exit.
POLIXENESto Shepherd
line 2227O father, you’ll know more of that hereafter.
390line 2228Aside to Camillo. Is it not too far gone? ’Tis time to
line 2229part them.
line 2230He’s simple, and tells much. To Florizell. How now,
line 2231fair shepherd?
line 2232Your heart is full of something that does take
395line 2233Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young
line 2234And handed love, as you do, I was wont
line 2235To load my she with knacks. I would have ransacked
line 2236The peddler’s silken treasury and have poured it
line 2237To her acceptance. You have let him go
400line 2238And nothing marted with him. If your lass
line 2239Interpretation should abuse and call this
line 2240Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited
line 2241For a reply, at least if you make a care
line 2242Of happy holding her.
405line 2243FLORIZELLOld sir, I know
line 2244She prizes not such trifles as these are.
line 2245The gifts she looks from me are packed and locked
line 2246Up in my heart, which I have given already,
line 2247But not delivered. To Perdita. O, hear me breathe
410line 2248my life
line 2249Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
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line 2250Hath sometime loved. I take thy hand, this hand
line 2251As soft as dove’s down and as white as it,
line 2252Or Ethiopian’s tooth, or the fanned snow that’s
415line 2253bolted
line 2254By th’ northern blasts twice o’er.
line 2255POLIXENESWhat follows this?—
line 2256How prettily th’ young swain seems to wash
line 2257The hand was fair before.—I have put you out.
420line 2258But to your protestation. Let me hear
line 2259What you profess.
line 2260FLORIZELLDo, and be witness to ’t.
POLIXENES
line 2261And this my neighbor too?
line 2262FLORIZELLAnd he, and more
425line 2263Than he, and men—the Earth, the heavens, and
line 2264all—
line 2265That were I crowned the most imperial monarch,
line 2266Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth
line 2267That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge
430line 2268More than was ever man’s, I would not prize them
line 2269Without her love; for her employ them all,
line 2270Commend them and condemn them to her service
line 2271Or to their own perdition.
line 2272POLIXENESFairly offered.
CAMILLO
435line 2273This shows a sound affection.
line 2274SHEPHERDBut my daughter,
line 2275Say you the like to him?
line 2276PERDITAI cannot speak
line 2277So well, nothing so well, no, nor mean better.
440line 2278By th’ pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
line 2279The purity of his.
line 2280SHEPHERDTake hands, a bargain.—
line 2281And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to ’t:
line 2282I give my daughter to him and will make
445line 2283Her portion equal his.
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line 2284FLORIZELLO, that must be
line 2285I’ th’ virtue of your daughter. One being dead,
line 2286I shall have more than you can dream of yet,
line 2287Enough then for your wonder. But come on,
450line 2288Contract us fore these witnesses.
line 2289SHEPHERDCome, your hand—
line 2290And daughter, yours.
line 2291POLIXENESTo Florizell Soft, swain, awhile, beseech
line 2292you.
455line 2293Have you a father?
line 2294FLORIZELLI have, but what of him?
POLIXENES
line 2295Knows he of this?
line 2296FLORIZELLHe neither does nor shall.
line 2297POLIXENESMethinks a father
460line 2298Is at the nuptial of his son a guest
line 2299That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,
line 2300Is not your father grown incapable
line 2301Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
line 2302With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
465line 2303Know man from man? Dispute his own estate?
line 2304Lies he not bedrid, and again does nothing
line 2305But what he did being childish?
line 2306FLORIZELLNo, good sir.
line 2307He has his health and ampler strength indeed
470line 2308Than most have of his age.
line 2309POLIXENESBy my white beard,
line 2310You offer him, if this be so, a wrong
line 2311Something unfilial. Reason my son
line 2312Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
475line 2313The father, all whose joy is nothing else
line 2314But fair posterity, should hold some counsel
line 2315In such a business.
line 2316FLORIZELLI yield all this;
line 2317But for some other reasons, my grave sir,
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480line 2318Which ’tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
line 2319My father of this business.
line 2320POLIXENESLet him know ’t.
FLORIZELL
line 2321He shall not.
line 2322POLIXENESPrithee let him.
485line 2323FLORIZELLNo, he must not.
SHEPHERD
line 2324Let him, my son. He shall not need to grieve
line 2325At knowing of thy choice.
line 2326FLORIZELLCome, come, he must not.
line 2327Mark our contract.
490line 2328POLIXENESremoving his disguise Mark your divorce,
line 2329young sir,
line 2330Whom son I dare not call. Thou art too base
line 2331To be acknowledged. Thou a scepter’s heir
line 2332That thus affects a sheep-hook!—Thou, old traitor,
495line 2333I am sorry that by hanging thee I can
line 2334But shorten thy life one week.—And thou, fresh
line 2335piece
line 2336Of excellent witchcraft, whom of force must know
line 2337The royal fool thou cop’st with—
500line 2338SHEPHERDO, my heart!
POLIXENES
line 2339I’ll have thy beauty scratched with briers and made
line 2340More homely than thy state.—For thee, fond boy,
line 2341If I may ever know thou dost but sigh
line 2342That thou no more shalt see this knack—as never
505line 2343I mean thou shalt—we’ll bar thee from succession,
line 2344Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,
line 2345Far’r than Deucalion off. Mark thou my words.
line 2346Follow us to the court. To Shepherd. Thou, churl,
line 2347for this time,
510line 2348Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee
line 2349From the dead blow of it.—And you, enchantment,
line 2350Worthy enough a herdsman—yea, him too,
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line 2351That makes himself, but for our honor therein,
line 2352Unworthy thee—if ever henceforth thou
515line 2353These rural latches to his entrance open,
line 2354Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,
line 2355I will devise a death as cruel for thee
line 2356As thou art tender to ’t.He exits.
line 2357PERDITAEven here undone.
520line 2358I was not much afeard, for once or twice
line 2359I was about to speak and tell him plainly
line 2360The selfsame sun that shines upon his court
line 2361Hides not his visage from our cottage but
line 2362Looks on alike. To Florizell. Will ’t please you, sir,
525line 2363be gone?
line 2364I told you what would come of this. Beseech you,
line 2365Of your own state take care. This dream of mine—
line 2366Being now awake, I’ll queen it no inch farther,
line 2367But milk my ewes and weep.
530line 2368CAMILLOto Shepherd Why, how now, father?
line 2369Speak ere thou diest.
line 2370SHEPHERDI cannot speak, nor think,
line 2371Nor dare to know that which I know. To Florizell.
line 2372O sir,
535line 2373You have undone a man of fourscore three,
line 2374That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,
line 2375To die upon the bed my father died,
line 2376To lie close by his honest bones; but now
line 2377Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me
540line 2378Where no priest shovels in dust. To Perdita. O
line 2379cursèd wretch,
line 2380That knew’st this was the Prince, and wouldst
line 2381adventure
line 2382To mingle faith with him!—Undone, undone!
545line 2383If I might die within this hour, I have lived
line 2384To die when I desire.He exits.
line 2385FLORIZELLto Perdita Why look you so upon me?
line 2386I am but sorry, not afeard; delayed,
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line 2387But nothing altered. What I was, I am,
550line 2388More straining on for plucking back, not following
line 2389My leash unwillingly.
line 2390CAMILLOGracious my lord,
line 2391You know your father’s temper. At this time
line 2392He will allow no speech, which I do guess
555line 2393You do not purpose to him; and as hardly
line 2394Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear.
line 2395Then, till the fury of his Highness settle,
line 2396Come not before him.
line 2397FLORIZELLI not purpose it.
560line 2398I think Camillo?
line 2399CAMILLOremoving his disguise Even he, my lord.
PERDITAto Florizell
line 2400How often have I told you ’twould be thus?
line 2401How often said my dignity would last
line 2402But till ’twere known?
565line 2403FLORIZELLIt cannot fail but by
line 2404The violation of my faith; and then
line 2405Let nature crush the sides o’ th’ Earth together
line 2406And mar the seeds within. Lift up thy looks.
line 2407From my succession wipe me, father. I
570line 2408Am heir to my affection.
line 2409CAMILLOBe advised.
FLORIZELL
line 2410I am, and by my fancy. If my reason
line 2411Will thereto be obedient, I have reason.
line 2412If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
575line 2413Do bid it welcome.
line 2414CAMILLOThis is desperate, sir.
FLORIZELL
line 2415So call it; but it does fulfill my vow.
line 2416I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,
line 2417Not for Bohemia nor the pomp that may
580line 2418Be thereat gleaned, for all the sun sees or
line 2419The close earth wombs or the profound seas hides
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line 2420In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath
line 2421To this my fair beloved. Therefore, I pray you,
line 2422As you have ever been my father’s honored friend,
585line 2423When he shall miss me, as in faith I mean not
line 2424To see him anymore, cast your good counsels
line 2425Upon his passion. Let myself and fortune
line 2426Tug for the time to come. This you may know
line 2427And so deliver: I am put to sea
590line 2428With her who here I cannot hold on shore.
line 2429And most opportune to our need I have
line 2430A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared
line 2431For this design. What course I mean to hold
line 2432Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
595line 2433Concern me the reporting.
line 2434CAMILLOO my lord,
line 2435I would your spirit were easier for advice
line 2436Or stronger for your need.
line 2437FLORIZELLHark, Perdita.—
600line 2438I’ll hear you by and by.
Florizell and Perdita walk aside.
line 2439CAMILLOHe’s irremovable,
line 2440Resolved for flight. Now were I happy if
line 2441His going I could frame to serve my turn,
line 2442Save him from danger, do him love and honor,
605line 2443Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
line 2444And that unhappy king, my master, whom
line 2445I so much thirst to see.
line 2446FLORIZELLcoming forward Now, good Camillo,
line 2447I am so fraught with curious business that
610line 2448I leave out ceremony.
line 2449CAMILLOSir, I think
line 2450You have heard of my poor services i’ th’ love
line 2451That I have borne your father?
line 2452FLORIZELLVery nobly
615line 2453Have you deserved. It is my father’s music
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line 2454To speak your deeds, not little of his care
line 2455To have them recompensed as thought on.
line 2456CAMILLOWell, my
line 2457lord,
620line 2458If you may please to think I love the King
line 2459And, through him, what’s nearest to him, which is
line 2460Your gracious self, embrace but my direction,
line 2461If your more ponderous and settled project
line 2462May suffer alteration. On mine honor,
625line 2463I’ll point you where you shall have such receiving
line 2464As shall become your Highness, where you may
line 2465Enjoy your mistress—from the whom I see
line 2466There’s no disjunction to be made but by,
line 2467As heavens forfend, your ruin—marry her,
630line 2468And with my best endeavors in your absence,
line 2469Your discontenting father strive to qualify
line 2470And bring him up to liking.
line 2471FLORIZELLHow, Camillo,
line 2472May this, almost a miracle, be done,
635line 2473That I may call thee something more than man,
line 2474And after that trust to thee?
line 2475CAMILLOHave you thought on
line 2476A place whereto you’ll go?
line 2477FLORIZELLNot any yet.
640line 2478But as th’ unthought-on accident is guilty
line 2479To what we wildly do, so we profess
line 2480Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
line 2481Of every wind that blows.
line 2482CAMILLOThen list to me.
645line 2483This follows: if you will not change your purpose
line 2484But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,
line 2485And there present yourself and your fair princess,
line 2486For so I see she must be, ’fore Leontes.
line 2487She shall be habited as it becomes
650line 2488The partner of your bed. Methinks I see
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line 2489Leontes opening his free arms and weeping
line 2490His welcomes forth, asks thee, the son, forgiveness,
line 2491As ’twere i’ th’ father’s person; kisses the hands
line 2492Of your fresh princess; o’er and o’er divides him
655line 2493’Twixt his unkindness and his kindness. Th’ one
line 2494He chides to hell and bids the other grow
line 2495Faster than thought or time.
line 2496FLORIZELLWorthy Camillo,
line 2497What color for my visitation shall I
660line 2498Hold up before him?
line 2499CAMILLOSent by the King your father
line 2500To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
line 2501The manner of your bearing towards him, with
line 2502What you, as from your father, shall deliver,
665line 2503Things known betwixt us three, I’ll write you down,
line 2504The which shall point you forth at every sitting
line 2505What you must say, that he shall not perceive
line 2506But that you have your father’s bosom there
line 2507And speak his very heart.
670line 2508FLORIZELLI am bound to you.
line 2509There is some sap in this.
line 2510CAMILLOA course more promising
line 2511Than a wild dedication of yourselves
line 2512To unpathed waters, undreamed shores, most
675line 2513certain
line 2514To miseries enough; no hope to help you,
line 2515But as you shake off one to take another;
line 2516Nothing so certain as your anchors, who
line 2517Do their best office if they can but stay you
680line 2518Where you’ll be loath to be. Besides, you know
line 2519Prosperity’s the very bond of love,
line 2520Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
line 2521Affliction alters.
line 2522PERDITAOne of these is true.
685line 2523I think affliction may subdue the cheek
line 2524But not take in the mind.
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line 2525CAMILLOYea, say you so?
line 2526There shall not at your father’s house these seven
line 2527years
690line 2528Be born another such.
line 2529FLORIZELLMy good Camillo,
line 2530She’s as forward of her breeding as she is
line 2531I’ th’ rear our birth.
line 2532CAMILLOI cannot say ’tis pity
695line 2533She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress
line 2534To most that teach.
line 2535PERDITAYour pardon, sir. For this
line 2536I’ll blush you thanks.
line 2537FLORIZELLMy prettiest Perdita.
700line 2538But O, the thorns we stand upon!—Camillo,
line 2539Preserver of my father, now of me,
line 2540The medicine of our house, how shall we do?
line 2541We are not furnished like Bohemia’s son,
line 2542Nor shall appear in Sicilia.
705line 2543CAMILLOMy lord,
line 2544Fear none of this. I think you know my fortunes
line 2545Do all lie there. It shall be so my care
line 2546To have you royally appointed as if
line 2547The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,
710line 2548That you may know you shall not want, one word.
They step aside and talk.
Enter Autolycus.
line 2549AUTOLYCUSHa, ha, what a fool Honesty is! And Trust,
line 2550his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have
line 2551sold all my trumpery. Not a counterfeit stone, not a
line 2552ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table book, ballad,
715line 2553knife, tape, glove, shoe tie, bracelet, horn ring,
line 2554to keep my pack from fasting. They throng who
line 2555should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed
line 2556and brought a benediction to the buyer; by which
line 2557means I saw whose purse was best in picture, and
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720line 2558what I saw, to my good use I remembered. My
line 2559clown, who wants but something to be a reasonable
line 2560man, grew so in love with the wenches’ song that he
line 2561would not stir his pettitoes till he had both tune and
line 2562words, which so drew the rest of the herd to me that
725line 2563all their other senses stuck in ears. You might have
line 2564pinched a placket, it was senseless; ’twas nothing to
line 2565geld a codpiece of a purse. I could have filed
line 2566keys off that hung in chains. No hearing, no feeling,
line 2567but my sir’s song and admiring the nothing of it. So
730line 2568that in this time of lethargy I picked and cut most of
line 2569their festival purses. And had not the old man come
line 2570in with a hubbub against his daughter and the
line 2571King’s son, and scared my choughs from the chaff, I
line 2572had not left a purse alive in the whole army.
Camillo, Florizell, and Perdita come forward.
CAMILLOto Florizell
735line 2573Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
line 2574So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.
FLORIZELL
line 2575And those that you’ll procure from King Leontes—
CAMILLO
line 2576Shall satisfy your father.
line 2577PERDITAHappy be you!
740line 2578All that you speak shows fair.
line 2579CAMILLOnoticing Autolycus Who have we here?
line 2580We’ll make an instrument of this, omit
line 2581Nothing may give us aid.
AUTOLYCUSaside
line 2582If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.
745line 2583CAMILLOHow now, good fellow? Why shak’st thou so?
line 2584Fear not, man. Here’s no harm intended to thee.
line 2585AUTOLYCUSI am a poor fellow, sir.
line 2586CAMILLOWhy, be so still. Here’s nobody will steal that
line 2587from thee. Yet for the outside of thy poverty we
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750line 2588must make an exchange. Therefore discase thee
line 2589instantly—thou must think there’s a necessity in
line 2590’t—and change garments with this gentleman.
line 2591Though the pennyworth on his side be the worst,
line 2592yet hold thee, there’s some boot.
He hands Autolycus money.
755line 2593AUTOLYCUSI am a poor fellow, sir. Aside. I know you
line 2594well enough.
line 2595CAMILLONay, prithee, dispatch. The gentleman is half
line 2596flayed already.
line 2597AUTOLYCUSAre you in earnest, sir? Aside. I smell the
760line 2598trick on ’t.
line 2599FLORIZELLDispatch, I prithee.
line 2600AUTOLYCUSIndeed, I have had earnest, but I cannot
line 2601with conscience take it.
line 2602CAMILLOUnbuckle, unbuckle.
Florizell and Autolycus exchange garments.
765line 2603Fortunate mistress—let my prophecy
line 2604Come home to you!—you must retire yourself
line 2605Into some covert. Take your sweetheart’s hat
line 2606And pluck it o’er your brows, muffle your face,
line 2607Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
770line 2608The truth of your own seeming, that you may—
line 2609For I do fear eyes over—to shipboard
line 2610Get undescried.
line 2611PERDITAI see the play so lies
line 2612That I must bear a part.
775line 2613CAMILLONo remedy.—
line 2614Have you done there?
line 2615FLORIZELLShould I now meet my father,
line 2616He would not call me son.
line 2617CAMILLONay, you shall have no hat.
He gives Florizell’s hat to Perdita.
780line 2618Come, lady, come.—Farewell, my friend.
line 2619AUTOLYCUSAdieu, sir.
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FLORIZELL
line 2620O Perdita, what have we twain forgot?
line 2621Pray you, a word.They talk aside.
CAMILLOaside
line 2622What I do next shall be to tell the King
785line 2623Of this escape, and whither they are bound;
line 2624Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail
line 2625To force him after, in whose company
line 2626I shall re-view Sicilia, for whose sight
line 2627I have a woman’s longing.
790line 2628FLORIZELLFortune speed us!—
line 2629Thus we set on, Camillo, to th’ seaside.
line 2630CAMILLOThe swifter speed the better.
Camillo, Florizell, and Perdita exit.
line 2631AUTOLYCUSI understand the business; I hear it. To have
line 2632an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand is
795line 2633necessary for a cutpurse; a good nose is requisite
line 2634also, to smell out work for th’ other senses. I see this
line 2635is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an
line 2636exchange had this been without boot! What a boot
line 2637is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do this
800line 2638year connive at us, and we may do anything extempore.
line 2639The Prince himself is about a piece of iniquity,
line 2640stealing away from his father with his clog at his
line 2641heels. If I thought it were a piece of honesty to
line 2642acquaint the King withal, I would not do ’t. I hold it
805line 2643the more knavery to conceal it, and therein am I
line 2644constant to my profession.
Enter Shepherd’s Son and Shepherd, carrying the bundle and the box.
line 2645Aside, aside! Here is more matter for a hot brain.
line 2646Every lane’s end, every shop, church, session, hanging,
line 2647yields a careful man work.He moves aside.
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810line 2648SHEPHERD’S SONto Shepherd See, see, what a man
line 2649you are now! There is no other way but to tell the
line 2650King she’s a changeling and none of your flesh and
line 2651blood.
line 2652SHEPHERDNay, but hear me.
815line 2653SHEPHERD’S SONNay, but hear me!
line 2654SHEPHERDGo to, then.
line 2655SHEPHERD’S SONShe being none of your flesh and
line 2656blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the
line 2657King, and so your flesh and blood is not to be
820line 2658punished by him. Show those things you found
line 2659about her, those secret things, all but what she has
line 2660with her. This being done, let the law go whistle, I
line 2661warrant you.
line 2662SHEPHERDI will tell the King all, every word, yea, and
825line 2663his son’s pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest
line 2664man, neither to his father nor to me, to go about to
line 2665make me the King’s brother-in-law.
line 2666SHEPHERD’S SONIndeed, brother-in-law was the farthest
line 2667off you could have been to him, and then your
830line 2668blood had been the dearer by I know how much an
line 2669ounce.
line 2670AUTOLYCUSaside Very wisely, puppies.
line 2671SHEPHERDWell, let us to the King. There is that in this
line 2672fardel will make him scratch his beard.
835line 2673AUTOLYCUSaside I know not what impediment this
line 2674complaint may be to the flight of my master.
line 2675SHEPHERD’S SONPray heartily he be at’ palace.
line 2676AUTOLYCUSaside Though I am not naturally honest,
line 2677I am so sometimes by chance. Let me pocket up my
840line 2678peddler’s excrement. He removes his false beard.
line 2679How now, rustics, whither are you bound?
line 2680SHEPHERDTo th’ palace, an it like your Worship.
line 2681AUTOLYCUSYour affairs there? What, with whom, the
line 2682condition of that fardel, the place of your dwelling,
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845line 2683your names, your ages, of what having, breeding,
line 2684and anything that is fitting to be known, discover!
line 2685SHEPHERD’S SONWe are but plain fellows, sir.
line 2686AUTOLYCUSA lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have
line 2687no lying. It becomes none but tradesmen, and they
850line 2688often give us soldiers the lie, but we pay them for it
line 2689with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore
line 2690they do not give us the lie.
line 2691SHEPHERD’S SONYour Worship had like to have given
line 2692us one, if you had not taken yourself with the
855line 2693manner.
line 2694SHEPHERDAre you a courtier, an ’t like you, sir?
line 2695AUTOLYCUSWhether it like me or no, I am a courtier.
line 2696Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?
line 2697Hath not my gait in it the measure of the
860line 2698court? Receives not thy nose court odor from me?
line 2699Reflect I not on thy baseness court contempt?
line 2700Think’st thou, for that I insinuate and toze from
line 2701thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I am
line 2702courtier cap-a-pie; and one that will either push on
865line 2703or pluck back thy business there. Whereupon I
line 2704command thee to open thy affair.
line 2705SHEPHERDMy business, sir, is to the King.
line 2706AUTOLYCUSWhat advocate hast thou to him?
line 2707SHEPHERDI know not, an ’t like you.
870line 2708SHEPHERD’S SONaside to Shepherd Advocate’s the
line 2709court word for a pheasant. Say you have none.
line 2710SHEPHERDto Autolycus None, sir. I have no pheasant,
line 2711cock nor hen.
AUTOLYCUS
line 2712How blest are we that are not simple men!
875line 2713Yet Nature might have made me as these are.
line 2714Therefore I will not disdain.
line 2715SHEPHERD’S SONto Shepherd This cannot be but a
line 2716great courtier.
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line 2717SHEPHERDHis garments are rich, but he wears them
880line 2718not handsomely.
line 2719SHEPHERD’S SONHe seems to be the more noble in
line 2720being fantastical. A great man, I’ll warrant. I know
line 2721by the picking on ’s teeth.
line 2722AUTOLYCUSThe fardel there. What’s i’ th’ fardel?
885line 2723Wherefore that box?
line 2724SHEPHERDSir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and
line 2725box which none must know but the King, and
line 2726which he shall know within this hour if I may come
line 2727to th’ speech of him.
890line 2728AUTOLYCUSAge, thou hast lost thy labor.
line 2729SHEPHERDWhy, sir?
line 2730AUTOLYCUSThe King is not at the palace. He is gone
line 2731aboard a new ship to purge melancholy and air
line 2732himself, for, if thou beest capable of things serious,
895line 2733thou must know the King is full of grief.
line 2734SHEPHERDSo ’tis said, sir—about his son, that should
line 2735have married a shepherd’s daughter.
line 2736AUTOLYCUSIf that shepherd be not in handfast, let him
line 2737fly. The curses he shall have, the tortures he shall
900line 2738feel, will break the back of man, the heart of
line 2739monster.
line 2740SHEPHERD’S SONThink you so, sir?
line 2741AUTOLYCUSNot he alone shall suffer what wit can
line 2742make heavy and vengeance bitter; but those that are
905line 2743germane to him, though removed fifty times, shall
line 2744all come under the hangman—which, though it be
line 2745great pity, yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling
line 2746rogue, a ram tender, to offer to have his daughter
line 2747come into grace! Some say he shall be stoned, but
910line 2748that death is too soft for him, say I. Draw our throne
line 2749into a sheepcote? All deaths are too few, the sharpest
line 2750too easy.
line 2751SHEPHERD’S SONHas the old man e’er a son, sir, do you
line 2752hear, an ’t like you, sir?
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915line 2753AUTOLYCUSHe has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then
line 2754’nointed over with honey, set on the head of a
line 2755wasps’-nest; then stand till he be three-quarters and
line 2756a dram dead, then recovered again with aqua vitae
line 2757or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and
920line 2758in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall
line 2759he be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a
line 2760southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him
line 2761with flies blown to death. But what talk we of these
line 2762traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at,
925line 2763their offenses being so capital? Tell me—for you
line 2764seem to be honest plain men—what you have to the
line 2765King. Being something gently considered, I’ll bring
line 2766you where he is aboard, tender your persons to his
line 2767presence, whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be
930line 2768in man besides the King to effect your suits, here is
line 2769man shall do it.
line 2770SHEPHERD’S SONto Shepherd He seems to be of
line 2771great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and
line 2772though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft
935line 2773led by the nose with gold. Show the inside of your
line 2774purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado.
line 2775Remember: “stoned,” and “flayed alive.”
line 2776SHEPHERDto Autolycus An ’t please you, sir, to
line 2777undertake the business for us, here is that gold I
940line 2778have. I’ll make it as much more, and leave this
line 2779young man in pawn till I bring it you.
line 2780AUTOLYCUSAfter I have done what I promised?
line 2781SHEPHERDAy, sir.
line 2782AUTOLYCUSWell, give me the moiety. Shepherd hands him money.
945line 2783Are you a party in this business?
line 2784SHEPHERD’S SONIn some sort, sir; but though my case
line 2785be a pitiful one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.
line 2786AUTOLYCUSO, that’s the case of the shepherd’s son!
line 2787Hang him, he’ll be made an example.
950line 2788SHEPHERD’S SONto Shepherd Comfort, good comfort.
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line 2789We must to the King, and show our strange
line 2790sights. He must know ’tis none of your daughter nor
line 2791my sister. We are gone else.—Sir, I will give you as
line 2792much as this old man does when the business is
955line 2793performed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it
line 2794be brought you.
line 2795AUTOLYCUSI will trust you. Walk before toward the
line 2796seaside. Go on the right hand. I will but look upon
line 2797the hedge, and follow you.
960line 2798SHEPHERD’S SONto Shepherd We are blessed in this
line 2799man, as I may say, even blessed.
line 2800SHEPHERDLet’s before, as he bids us. He was provided
line 2801to do us good.Shepherd and his son exit.
line 2802AUTOLYCUSIf I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune
965line 2803would not suffer me. She drops booties in my
line 2804mouth. I am courted now with a double occasion:
line 2805gold, and a means to do the Prince my master good;
line 2806which who knows how that may turn back to my
line 2807advancement? I will bring these two moles, these
970line 2808blind ones, aboard him. If he think it fit to shore
line 2809them again and that the complaint they have to the
line 2810King concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue
line 2811for being so far officious, for I am proof against that
line 2812title and what shame else belongs to ’t. To him will I
975line 2813present them. There may be matter in it.
He exits.
