3 Gent. One of the prett est 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 dolor 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 color; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world could have seen it, the woe had been universal. 1 Gent. Are they returned to the court? 3 Gent. No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue, which is in the keeping of Paulina.-a piece nany years in doing, and now nearly performed by that rare Italian master, Julio Romano; who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile nature of her custom, so perfectly is he 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. 2 Gent. I thought, she had some great matter there in hand; for, she hath privately, twice or thrice a day, ever since the death of Hermione, visited that removed house. Shall we thither, and with our company piece the rejoicing? 1 Gent. Who would be thence, that has the bene. fit of access? every wink of an eye, some new grace will be born: our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge. Let's along. I [Exeunt Gentlemen. Aut. Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, would preferment drop on my head. brought the old man and his son aboard the prince; told him I heard him 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 sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remained undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me: for had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits. Enter Shepherd and Clown. Here come those I have done good to against my will, and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune. Shep. Come, boy; I am past more children; but thy sons and daughters will be all gentlemen born. Clo. 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. Aut. I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born. Clo. Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. Shep. And so have I, boy. Clo. 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. Shep. We may live, son, to shed many more. Clo. Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so preposterous estate as we are. Aut. I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worship, and to give me your good report to the prince my master. Shep. Prythee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen. Clo. Thou wilt amend thy life? Ant. Ay, an it like your good worship. Clo. Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia. Shep. How if it be false, son? Clo. If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman but swear it in the behalf of his friend:-Ant P'T swear to the prince, thou art a tall fellow of ty hands, and that thou wilt not be drunk; but know, thou art no tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunk; but I'll swear it: and would, thou wouldst be a tall fellow of thy hands Aul. I will prove so, sir, to my power. Clo. Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if ! do not wonder, how thou darest venture to drunk, not being a tall fellow, trust me not.—Hars' the kings and the princes, our kindred, are gong to see the queen's picture. Come, follow us: wo be thy good masters. [Exeunt. SCENE III-A Room in Paulina's House. Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA What, sovereign sir, Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visil, O Paulina, As she liv'd peerless, So her dead likeness, I do well believe, I like your silence, it the more shows off Pol. Per. And give me leave; And do not say 'tis superstition, that O, patience The statue is but newly fix'd, the colors Dear my brother Shep. You may say it, but not swear it. Let him, that was the cause of this, have nower Clo. Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let To take off so much grief from you, as bɔ boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it. Will piece up in himself. Stout. • Yeomen Indeed, my lord, If I had thought the sight of my poor image Start not: her actions shall be holy, as, Would thus have wrought you, (for the stone is Until you see her die again; for then mine.) Id not have show'd it. Do not draw the curtain. Paul No longer shall you gaze on't; lest your fancy May think anon, it moves. Iron. Let be, let be. Would I were dead, but that, methinks already- Make me to think so twenty years together; Her. [Presenting PERDITA, who kneels to HERMIONE. You gods, look down, Faul. I am sorry, sir, I have thus far surr'd you: And from your sacred vials pour your graces but For this affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort.-Still, methinks. Paul. Good my lord, forbear: The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,- Paul. You'll mar it, if you kiss it; stain your own But how, is it to be question'd; for I saw her, What you can make her do, A prayer upon her grave: I'll not seek far 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; ir those, that think it is unlawful business I am about, let them depart. Lan. No foot shall stir. Proceed; Music; awake her: strike. Music. is time; descend; be stone no more: approach, Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come: fill your grave up; stir; nay, come away; Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him Dear life redeems you.-You perceive she stirs: [HERMIONE comes down from the Pedestal. 1 As if. SCENE I-A Hall in the Duke's Palace. Age. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, If any born at Ephesus, be seen To quit the penalty, and to ransome him. are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun. Duke. Well, Syracusan, say, in brief, the cause 1 Name of a coin. 252 And soon, and safe, arrived where I was. We came aboard: A league from Epidamnum had we sailed, Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast; For we may pity, though not pardon thee. Ege. O, had the gods done so, I had not now For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues, Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst, And therefore homeward did they bend their course. Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss; Duke. And, for the sake of them thou sorrowest for, Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befall'n of them, and thee, till now. Dake. Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have mark'd To bear the extremity of dire mishap! And live: if not, then thou art doom'd to die:- Gal. I will, my lord. Ege. Hopeless, and helpless, doth Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. SCENE II-A public place. [Exeunt. Enter ANTIPHOLUS and DROMIO of Syracuse, and a Merchant. Mer. Therefore, give out, you are of Epidamnum, And not being able to buy out his life, Lies ere the weary sun set in the west: There is your money that I had to keep. What, will you walk with me about the town, Commends me to the thing I cannot get. Here comes the almanac of my true date,- The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit; Ant. S. Stop in your wind, sir; tell me this, I pray; Where have you left the money that I gave you? Dro. E. 0,-sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last, To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper ;- Ant. S. I am not in a sportive humor now: Dro. E. I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner I from my mistress come to you in post; If I return, I shall be post indeed; For she will score your fault upon my pate. Methinks, your maw, like mine, should be your clock, And strike you home without a messenger. Ant. S. Coine, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season; Reserve them till a merrier hour than this: Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee? Dro. E. To me, sir? why you gave no gold to me. Ant. S. Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness, And tell me, how thou hast dispos'd thy charge. Dro. E. My charge was but to fetch you from the mart Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner; My mistress, and her sister, stay for you. Ant. S. Now, as I am a christian, answer me, Ant. 8. Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, But not a thousand marks between you both. Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders, And stay there. Dromio, till I come to thee. Within this hour it will be dinner-time: E that I'll view the manners of the town, Dr. S. Many a man would take you at your word, * Bereft, deprived. 13. Clear, completely. i. e. Servant If I should pay your worship those again, Dro. E. Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix: She that doth fast, till you come home to dinner, And prays, that you will hie you home to dinner. Ant. S. What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face, Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave. Dro. E. What mean you, sir? for heaven's sake, hold your hands; Nay, an you will not, sir, I'll take my heels. SCENE I-A public place. Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA. ACT II. Adr. Neither my husband, nor the slave return'd, That in such haste I sent to seek his master! Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock. Luc. Perhaps, some merchant hath invited him, And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner. Good sister, let us dine, and never fret: A man is master of his liberty: Time is their master; and, when they see time, Adr. Why should their liberty than ours be more? Luc. Because their business still lies out o'door. Alr. Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill. Luc. O, know, he is the bridle of your will. Addr. There's none but asses will be bridled so. Luc. Why headstrong liberty is lash'd with woc. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye, But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky: The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, Are their males' subjects, and at their controls: Men, more divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas, Indued with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords: Then let your will attend on their accords. Adr. This servitude makes you to keep unwed. Luc. Not this, but troubles of the marriage bed. Adr. But were you wedded, you would bear some pause; They can be meek, that have no other cause. Lic. Well, I will marry one day, but to try;Here comes your man, now is your husband nigh. Enter DROMIO of Ephesus. A tr. Say, is your tardy master now at hand? Dro. E. Nay, he is at two hands with me, and that my two cars can witness. Adr. Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind? Dro. E. Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear: Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it. Luc. Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning! Dro. E. Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his blows; and withal so doubtfully, that I could scarce understand them.8 Adr. But say, I prythee, is he coming home? It seems, he hath great care to please his wife. Dro. E. Why, mistress, sure iny master is hornmad. Adr. Horn-mad, thou villain? Dro. E. I mean not cuckold-mad; but, sure, stark mad: The pig, quoth I, is burn'd; My gold. quoth he. My mistress, sir, quoth I; Hang up thy mistress, I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress! Luc. Quoth who? Dro. E. Quoth my master: So that my errand, due unto my tongue, I thank him, I bear home upon my shoulders; Adr. Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him For God's sake, send some other messenger. Between you I shall have a holy head. Adr. Hence, prating peasant; fetch thy master home. Dro. E. Am I so round with you, as you with me, That like a football you do spurn me thus! You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither If I last in this service, you must case me in leather [Era A sunny look of his would soon repair; pense, I know his eye doth homage otherwhere, SCENE 11-The same. Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse. Ant. S. The gold, I gave to Dromio, is laid up Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out. By computation, and mine host's repert, I could not speak with Dromio, since at frt I sent him from the mart: See, here he comes he's Enter DROMIO of Syracuse. How now, sir! is your merry humor alter's! As you love strokes, so jest with me again. You know no Centaur? you receiv d no gold! My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad Your mistress sent to have me horne to dinner? That thus so madly thou didst answer me! When I desired him to come home to dinner, 9 Alteration of features. Stalking-horse. 1 Fair, for fairne allinders. |