Array ( [TITLE] => The Winter's Tale [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => LEONTES, king of Sicilia. [1] => MAMILLIUS, young prince of Sicilia. [2] => POLIXENES, King of Bohemia. [3] => FLORIZEL, Prince of Bohemia. [4] => ARCHIDAMUS, a Lord of Bohemia. [5] => Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita. [6] => Clown, his son. [7] => AUTOLYCUS, a rogue. [8] => A Mariner. [9] => A Gaoler. [10] => HERMIONE, queen to Leontes. [11] => PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. [12] => PAULINA, wife to Antigonus. [13] => EMILIA, a lady attending on Hermione [14] => Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, and Servants, Shepherds, and Shepherdesses. [15] => Time, as Chorus. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => CAMILLO [1] => ANTIGONUS [2] => CLEOMENES [3] => DION ) [GRPDESCR] => Four Lords of Sicilia. ) [1] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => MOPSA [1] => DORCAS ) [GRPDESCR] => Shepherdesses. ) ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Sicilia, and Bohemia. [PLAYSUBT] => THE WINTER'S TALE [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Antechamber in LEONTES' palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on [1] => the like occasion whereon my services are now on [2] => foot, you shall see, as I have said, great [3] => difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia [1] => means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be [1] => justified in our loves; for indeed-- ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Beseech you,-- ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: [1] => we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know [2] => not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks, [3] => that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, [4] => may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse [5] => us. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me [1] => and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. [1] => They were trained together in their childhoods; and [2] => there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, [3] => which cannot choose but branch now. Since their [4] => more mature dignities and royal necessities made [5] => separation of their society, their encounters, [6] => though not personal, have been royally attorneyed [7] => with interchange of gifts, letters, loving [8] => embassies; that they have seemed to be together, [9] => though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and [10] => embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed [11] => winds. The heavens continue their loves! ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think there is not in the world either malice or [1] => matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable [2] => comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a [3] => gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came [4] => into my note. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it [1] => is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the [2] => subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on [3] => crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to [4] => see him a man. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Would they else be content to die? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should [1] => desire to live. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ARCHIDAMUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the king had no son, they would desire to live [1] => on crutches till he had one. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A room of state in the same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants [1] => Exit [2] => Re-enter POLIXENES [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nine changes of the watery star hath been [1] => The shepherd's note since we have left our throne [2] => Without a burthen: time as long again [3] => Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks; [4] => And yet we should, for perpetuity, [5] => Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher, [6] => Yet standing in rich place, I multiply [7] => With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe [8] => That go before it. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stay your thanks a while; [1] => And pay them when you part. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, that's to-morrow. [1] => I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance [2] => Or breed upon our absence; that may blow [3] => No sneaping winds at home, to make us say [4] => 'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd [5] => To tire your royalty. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We are tougher, brother, [1] => Than you can put us to't. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => No longer stay. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => One seven-night longer. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Very sooth, to-morrow. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll part the time between's then; and in that [1] => I'll no gainsaying. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Press me not, beseech you, so. [1] => There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world, [2] => So soon as yours could win me: so it should now, [3] => Were there necessity in your request, although [4] => 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs [5] => Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder [6] => Were in your love a whip to me; my stay [7] => To you a charge and trouble: to save both, [8] => Farewell, our brother. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tongue-tied, our queen? [1] => speak you. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until [1] => You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir, [2] => Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure [3] => All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction [4] => The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him, [5] => He's beat from his best ward. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Well said, Hermione. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong: [1] => But let him say so then, and let him go; [2] => But let him swear so, and he shall not stay, [3] => We'll thwack him hence with distaffs. [4] => Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure [5] => The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia [6] => You take my lord, I'll give him my commission [7] => To let him there a month behind the gest [8] => Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes, [9] => I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind [10] => What lady-she her lord. You'll stay? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => No, madam. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Nay, but you will? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => I may not, verily. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Verily! [1] => You put me off with limber vows; but I, [2] => Though you would seek to unsphere the [3] => stars with oaths, [4] => Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily, [5] => You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's [6] => As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? [7] => Force me to keep you as a prisoner, [8] => Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees [9] => When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? [10] => My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,' [11] => One of them you shall be. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your guest, then, madam: [1] => To be your prisoner should import offending; [2] => Which is for me less easy to commit [3] => Than you to punish. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not your gaoler, then, [1] => But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you [2] => Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys: [3] => You were pretty lordings then? ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We were, fair queen, [1] => Two lads that thought there was no more behind [2] => But such a day to-morrow as to-day, [3] => And to be boy eternal. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Was not my lord [1] => The verier wag o' the two? ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, [1] => And bleat the one at the other: what we changed [2] => Was innocence for innocence; we knew not [3] => The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd [4] => That any did. Had we pursued that life, [5] => And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd [6] => With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven [7] => Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd [8] => Hereditary ours. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By this we gather [1] => You have tripp'd since. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my most sacred lady! [1] => Temptations have since then been born to's; for [2] => In those unfledged days was my wife a girl; [3] => Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes [4] => Of my young play-fellow. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Grace to boot! [1] => Of this make no conclusion, lest you say [2] => Your queen and I are devils: yet go on; [3] => The offences we have made you do we'll answer, [4] => If you first sinn'd with us and that with us [5] => You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not [6] => With any but with us. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Is he won yet? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => He'll stay my lord. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => At my request he would not. [1] => Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest [2] => To better purpose. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Never? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Never, but once. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What! have I twice said well? when was't before? [1] => I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's [2] => As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless [3] => Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. [4] => Our praises are our wages: you may ride's [5] => With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere [6] => With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal: [7] => My last good deed was to entreat his stay: [8] => What was my first? it has an elder sister, [9] => Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace! [10] => But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? [11] => Nay, let me have't; I long. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, that was when [1] => Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death, [2] => Ere I could make thee open thy white hand [3] => And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter [4] => 'I am yours for ever.' ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis grace indeed. [1] => Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice: [2] => The one for ever earn'd a royal husband; [3] => The other for some while a friend. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. [2] => I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances; [3] => But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment [4] => May a free face put on, derive a liberty [5] => From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, [6] => And well become the agent; 't may, I grant; [7] => But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, [8] => As now they are, and making practised smiles, [9] => As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere [10] => The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment [11] => My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius, [12] => Art thou my boy? ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Ay, my good lord. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I' fecks! [1] => Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast [2] => smutch'd thy nose? [3] => They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain, [4] => We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain: [5] => And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf [6] => Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling [7] => Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf! [8] => Art thou my calf? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Yes, if you will, my lord. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have, [1] => To be full like me: yet they say we are [2] => Almost as like as eggs; women say so, [3] => That will say anything but were they false [4] => As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false [5] => As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes [6] => No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true [7] => To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page, [8] => Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain! [9] => Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?-- [10] => Affection! thy intention stabs the centre: [11] => Thou dost make possible things not so held, [12] => Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?-- [13] => With what's unreal thou coactive art, [14] => And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent [15] => Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost, [16] => And that beyond commission, and I find it, [17] => And that to the infection of my brains [18] => And hardening of my brows. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => What means Sicilia? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => He something seems unsettled. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How, my lord! [1] => What cheer? how is't with you, best brother? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You look as if you held a brow of much distraction [1] => Are you moved, my lord? ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, in good earnest. [1] => How sometimes nature will betray its folly, [2] => Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime [3] => To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines [4] => Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil [5] => Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd, [6] => In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled, [7] => Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, [8] => As ornaments oft do, too dangerous: [9] => How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, [10] => This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend, [11] => Will you take eggs for money? ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => No, my lord, I'll fight. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother, [1] => Are you so fond of your young prince as we [2] => Do seem to be of ours? ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If at home, sir, [1] => He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter, [2] => Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy, [3] => My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all: [4] => He makes a July's day short as December, [5] => And with his varying childness cures in me [6] => Thoughts that would thick my blood. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So stands this squire [1] => Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord, [2] => And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione, [3] => How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome; [4] => Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap: [5] => Next to thyself and my young rover, he's [6] => Apparent to my heart. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you would seek us, [1] => We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found, [1] => Be you beneath the sky. [2] => I am angling now, [3] => Though you perceive me not how I give line. [4] => Go to, go to! [5] => How she holds up the neb, the bill to him! [6] => And arms her with the boldness of a wife [7] => To her allowing husband! [8] => Gone already! [9] => Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and [10] => ears a fork'd one! [11] => Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I [12] => Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue [13] => Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour [14] => Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play. [15] => There have been, [16] => Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now; [17] => And many a man there is, even at this present, [18] => Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm, [19] => That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence [20] => And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by [21] => Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't [22] => Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd, [23] => As mine, against their will. Should all despair [24] => That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind [25] => Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none; [26] => It is a bawdy planet, that will strike [27] => Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it, [28] => From east, west, north and south: be it concluded, [29] => No barricado for a belly; know't; [30] => It will let in and out the enemy [31] => With bag and baggage: many thousand on's [32] => Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy! ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Aside [1] => Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => I am like you, they say. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Ay, my good lord. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man. [1] => Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit MAMILLIUS ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You had much ado to make his anchor hold: [1] => When you cast out, it still came home. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Didst note it? ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He would not stay at your petitions: made [1] => His business more material. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Didst perceive it? [1] => They're here with me already, whispering, rounding [2] => 'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone, [3] => When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo, [4] => That he did stay? ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => At the good queen's entreaty. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent [1] => But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken [2] => By any understanding pate but thine? [3] => For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in [4] => More than the common blocks: not noted, is't, [5] => But of the finer natures? by some severals [6] => Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes [7] => Perchance are to this business purblind? say. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Business, my lord! I think most understand [1] => Bohemia stays here longer. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Ha! ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Stays here longer. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Ay, but why? ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To satisfy your highness and the entreaties [1] => Of our most gracious mistress. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Satisfy! [1] => The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy! [2] => Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo, [3] => With all the nearest things to my heart, as well [4] => My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou [5] => Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed [6] => Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been [7] => Deceived in thy integrity, deceived [8] => In that which seems so. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Be it forbid, my lord! ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or, [1] => If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward, [2] => Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining [3] => From course required; or else thou must be counted [4] => A servant grafted in my serious trust [5] => And therein negligent; or else a fool [6] => That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn, [7] => And takest it all for jest. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My gracious lord, [1] => I may be negligent, foolish and fearful; [2] => In every one of these no man is free, [3] => But that his negligence, his folly, fear, [4] => Among the infinite doings of the world, [5] => Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord, [6] => If ever I were wilful-negligent, [7] => It was my folly; if industriously [8] => I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, [9] => Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful [10] => To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, [11] => Where of the execution did cry out [12] => Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear [13] => Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord, [14] => Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty [15] => Is never free of. But, beseech your grace, [16] => Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass [17] => By its own visage: if I then deny it, [18] => 'Tis none of mine. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha' not you seen, Camillo,-- [1] => But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass [2] => Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,-- [3] => For to a vision so apparent rumour [4] => Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation [5] => Resides not in that man that does not think,-- [6] => My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess, [7] => Or else be impudently negative, [8] => To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say [9] => My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name [10] => As rank as any flax-wench that puts to [11] => Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would not be a stander-by to hear [1] => My sovereign mistress clouded so, without [2] => My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart, [3] => You never spoke what did become you less [4] => Than this; which to reiterate were sin [5] => As deep as that, though true. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is whispering nothing? [1] => Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? [2] => Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career [3] => Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible [4] => Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot? [5] => Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift? [6] => Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes [7] => Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only, [8] => That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing? [9] => Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing; [10] => The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing; [11] => My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, [12] => If this be nothing. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, be cured [1] => Of this diseased opinion, and betimes; [2] => For 'tis most dangerous. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Say it be, 'tis true. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => No, no, my lord. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is; you lie, you lie: [1] => I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee, [2] => Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave, [3] => Or else a hovering temporizer, that [4] => Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, [5] => Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver [6] => Infected as her life, she would not live [7] => The running of one glass. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Who does infect her? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging [1] => About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I [2] => Had servants true about me, that bare eyes [3] => To see alike mine honour as their profits, [4] => Their own particular thrifts, they would do that [5] => Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou, [6] => His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form [7] => Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see [8] => Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven, [9] => How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup, [10] => To give mine enemy a lasting wink; [11] => Which draught to me were cordial. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, my lord, [1] => I could do this, and that with no rash potion, [2] => But with a lingering dram that should not work [3] => Maliciously like poison: but I cannot [4] => Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, [5] => So sovereignly being honourable. [6] => I have loved thee,-- ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Make that thy question, and go rot! [1] => Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled, [2] => To appoint myself in this vexation, sully [3] => The purity and whiteness of my sheets, [4] => Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted [5] => Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps, [6] => Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son, [7] => Who I do think is mine and love as mine, [8] => Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this? [9] => Could man so blench? ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must believe you, sir: [1] => I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't; [2] => Provided that, when he's removed, your highness [3] => Will take again your queen as yours at first, [4] => Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing [5] => The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms [6] => Known and allied to yours. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou dost advise me [1] => Even so as I mine own course have set down: [2] => I'll give no blemish to her honour, none. ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, [1] => Go then; and with a countenance as clear [2] => As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia [3] => And with your queen. I am his cupbearer: [4] => If from me he have wholesome beverage, [5] => Account me not your servant. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is all: [1] => Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart; [2] => Do't not, thou split'st thine own. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => I'll do't, my lord. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O miserable lady! But, for me, [1] => What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner [2] => Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't [3] => Is the obedience to a master, one [4] => Who in rebellion with himself will have [5] => All that are his so too. To do this deed, [6] => Promotion follows. If I could find example [7] => Of thousands that had struck anointed kings [8] => And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't; but since [9] => Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one, [10] => Let villany itself forswear't. I must [11] => Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain [12] => To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now! [13] => Here comes Bohemia. ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is strange: methinks [1] => My favour here begins to warp. Not speak? [2] => Good day, Camillo. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Hail, most royal sir! ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => What is the news i' the court? ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => None rare, my lord. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The king hath on him such a countenance [1] => As he had lost some province and a region [2] => Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him [3] => With customary compliment; when he, [4] => Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling [5] => A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and [6] => So leaves me to consider what is breeding [7] => That changeth thus his manners. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => I dare not know, my lord. ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not? [1] => Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts; [2] => For, to yourself, what you do know, you must. [3] => And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo, [4] => Your changed complexions are to me a mirror [5] => Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be [6] => A party in this alteration, finding [7] => Myself thus alter'd with 't. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is a sickness [1] => Which puts some of us in distemper, but [2] => I cannot name the disease; and it is caught [3] => Of you that yet are well. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! caught of me! [1] => Make me not sighted like the basilisk: [2] => I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better [3] => By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,-- [4] => As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto [5] => Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns [6] => Our gentry than our parents' noble names, [7] => In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you, [8] => If you know aught which does behove my knowledge [9] => Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not [10] => In ignorant concealment. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => I may not answer. ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A sickness caught of me, and yet I well! [1] => I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo, [2] => I conjure thee, by all the parts of man [3] => Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least [4] => Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare [5] => What incidency thou dost guess of harm [6] => Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near; [7] => Which way to be prevented, if to be; [8] => If not, how best to bear it. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I will tell you; [1] => Since I am charged in honour and by him [2] => That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel, [3] => Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as [4] => I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me [5] => Cry lost, and so good night! ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => On, good Camillo. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => I am appointed him to murder you. ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => By whom, Camillo? ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => By the king. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => For what? ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears, [1] => As he had seen't or been an instrument [2] => To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen [3] => Forbiddenly. ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, then my best blood turn [1] => To an infected jelly and my name [2] => Be yoked with his that did betray the Best! [3] => Turn then my freshest reputation to [4] => A savour that may strike the dullest nostril [5] => Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd, [6] => Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection [7] => That e'er was heard or read! ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Swear his thought over [1] => By each particular star in heaven and [2] => By all their influences, you may as well [3] => Forbid the sea for to obey the moon [4] => As or by oath remove or counsel shake [5] => The fabric of his folly, whose foundation [6] => Is piled upon his faith and will continue [7] => The standing of his body. ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => How should this grow? ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to [1] => Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born. [2] => If therefore you dare trust my honesty, [3] => That lies enclosed in this trunk which you [4] => Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night! [5] => Your followers I will whisper to the business, [6] => And will by twos and threes at several posterns [7] => Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put [8] => My fortunes to your service, which are here [9] => By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain; [10] => For, by the honour of my parents, I [11] => Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove, [12] => I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer [13] => Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon [14] => His execution sworn. ) ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do believe thee: [1] => I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand: [2] => Be pilot to me and thy places shall [3] => Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and [4] => My people did expect my hence departure [5] => Two days ago. This jealousy [6] => Is for a precious creature: as she's rare, [7] => Must it be great, and as his person's mighty, [8] => Must it be violent, and as he does conceive [9] => He is dishonour'd by a man which ever [10] => Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must [11] => In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me: [12] => Good expedition be my friend, and comfort [13] => The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing [14] => Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo; [15] => I will respect thee as a father if [16] => Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is in mine authority to command [1] => The keys of all the posterns: please your highness [2] => To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away. ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies [1] => Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords and others [2] => Exit HERMIONE, guarded; with Ladies [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take the boy to you: he so troubles me, [1] => 'Tis past enduring. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lady [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, my gracious lord, [1] => Shall I be your playfellow? ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => No, I'll none of you. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lady [LINE] => Why, my sweet lord? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if [1] => I were a baby still. I love you better. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lady [LINE] => And why so, my lord? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not for because [1] => Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say, [2] => Become some women best, so that there be not [3] => Too much hair there, but in a semicircle [4] => Or a half-moon made with a pen. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lady [LINE] => Who taught you this? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now [1] => What colour are your eyebrows? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lady [LINE] => Blue, my lord. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose [1] => That has been blue, but not her eyebrows. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lady [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hark ye; [1] => The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall [2] => Present our services to a fine new prince [3] => One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us, [4] => If we would have you. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lady [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is spread of late [1] => Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her! ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now [1] => I am for you again: pray you, sit by us, [2] => And tell 's a tale. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Merry or sad shall't be? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => As merry as you will. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A sad tale's best for winter: I have one [1] => Of sprites and goblins. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let's have that, good sir. [1] => Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best [2] => To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => There was a man-- ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Nay, come, sit down; then on. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MAMILLIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly; [1] => Yond crickets shall not hear it. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, then, [1] => And give't me in mine ear. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never [1] => Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them [2] => Even to their ships. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How blest am I [1] => In my just censure, in my true opinion! [2] => Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed [3] => In being so blest! There may be in the cup [4] => A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart, [5] => And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge [6] => Is not infected: but if one present [7] => The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known [8] => How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, [9] => With violent hefts. I have drunk, [10] => and seen the spider. [11] => Camillo was his help in this, his pander: [12] => There is a plot against my life, my crown; [13] => All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain [14] => Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him: [15] => He has discover'd my design, and I [16] => Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick [17] => For them to play at will. How came the posterns [18] => So easily open? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By his great authority; [1] => Which often hath no less prevail'd than so [2] => On your command. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know't too well. [1] => Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him: [2] => Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you [3] => Have too much blood in him. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => What is this? sport? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her; [1] => Away with him! and let her sport herself [2] => With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes [3] => Has made thee swell thus. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But I'ld say he had not, [1] => And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying, [2] => Howe'er you lean to the nayward. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You, my lords, [1] => Look on her, mark her well; be but about [2] => To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and [3] => The justice of your bearts will thereto add [4] => 'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:' [5] => Praise her but for this her without-door form, [6] => Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight [7] => The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands [8] => That calumny doth use--O, I am out-- [9] => That mercy does, for calumny will sear [10] => Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's, [11] => When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between [12] => Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known, [13] => From him that has most cause to grieve it should be, [14] => She's an adulteress. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Should a villain say so, [1] => The most replenish'd villain in the world, [2] => He were as much more villain: you, my lord, [3] => Do but mistake. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have mistook, my lady, [1] => Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing! [2] => Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, [3] => Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, [4] => Should a like language use to all degrees [5] => And mannerly distinguishment leave out [6] => Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said [7] => She's an adulteress; I have said with whom: [8] => More, she's a traitor and Camillo is [9] => A federary with her, and one that knows [10] => What she should shame to know herself [11] => But with her most vile principal, that she's [12] => A bed-swerver, even as bad as those [13] => That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy [14] => To this their late escape. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, by my life. [1] => Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you, [2] => When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that [3] => You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord, [4] => You scarce can right me throughly then to say [5] => You did mistake. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No; if I mistake [1] => In those foundations which I build upon, [2] => The centre is not big enough to bear [3] => A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison! [4] => He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty [5] => But that he speaks. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's some ill planet reigns: [1] => I must be patient till the heavens look [2] => With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords, [3] => I am not prone to weeping, as our sex [4] => Commonly are; the want of which vain dew [5] => Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have [6] => That honourable grief lodged here which burns [7] => Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords, [8] => With thoughts so qualified as your charities [9] => Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so [10] => The king's will be perform'd! ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Shall I be heard? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness, [1] => My women may be with me; for you see [2] => My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools; [3] => There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress [4] => Has deserved prison, then abound in tears [5] => As I come out: this action I now go on [6] => Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord: [7] => I never wish'd to see you sorry; now [8] => I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Go, do our bidding; hence! ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Beseech your highness, call the queen again. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice [1] => Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer, [2] => Yourself, your queen, your son. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For her, my lord, [1] => I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir, [2] => Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless [3] => I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean, [4] => In this which you accuse her. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it prove [1] => She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where [2] => I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; [3] => Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her; [4] => For every inch of woman in the world, [5] => Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Hold your peaces. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Good my lord,-- ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is for you we speak, not for ourselves: [1] => You are abused and by some putter-on [2] => That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain, [3] => I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd, [4] => I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven [5] => The second and the third, nine, and some five; [6] => If this prove true, they'll pay for't: [7] => by mine honour, [8] => I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see, [9] => To bring false generations: they are co-heirs; [10] => And I had rather glib myself than they [11] => Should not produce fair issue. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cease; no more. [1] => You smell this business with a sense as cold [2] => As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't [3] => As you feel doing thus; and see withal [4] => The instruments that feel. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it be so, [1] => We need no grave to bury honesty: [2] => There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten [3] => Of the whole dungy earth. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => What! lack I credit? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, [1] => Upon this ground; and more it would content me [2] => To have her honour true than your suspicion, [3] => Be blamed for't how you might. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, what need we [1] => Commune with you of this, but rather follow [2] => Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative [3] => Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness [4] => Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied [5] => Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not [6] => Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves [7] => We need no more of your advice: the matter, [8] => The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all [9] => Properly ours. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I wish, my liege, [1] => You had only in your silent judgment tried it, [2] => Without more overture. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How could that be? [1] => Either thou art most ignorant by age, [2] => Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight, [3] => Added to their familiarity, [4] => Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture, [5] => That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation [6] => But only seeing, all other circumstances [7] => Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding: [8] => Yet, for a greater confirmation, [9] => For in an act of this importance 'twere [10] => Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post [11] => To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple, [12] => Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know [13] => Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle [14] => They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had, [15] => Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Well done, my lord. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Though I am satisfied and need no more [1] => Than what I know, yet shall the oracle [2] => Give rest to the minds of others, such as he [3] => Whose ignorant credulity will not [4] => Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good [5] => From our free person she should be confined, [6] => Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence [7] => Be left her to perform. Come, follow us; [8] => We are to speak in public; for this business [9] => Will raise us all. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => To laughter, as I take it, [2] => If the good truth were known. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants [1] => Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The keeper of the prison, call to him; [1] => let him have knowledge who I am. [2] => Good lady, [3] => No court in Europe is too good for thee; [4] => What dost thou then in prison? [5] => Now, good sir, [6] => You know me, do you not? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Gentleman [1] => Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For a worthy lady [1] => And one whom much I honour. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray you then, [1] => Conduct me to the queen. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I may not, madam: [1] => To the contrary I have express commandment. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's ado, [1] => To lock up honesty and honour from [2] => The access of gentle visitors! [3] => Is't lawful, pray you, [4] => To see her women? any of them? Emilia? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So please you, madam, [1] => To put apart these your attendants, I [2] => Shall bring Emilia forth. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray now, call her. [1] => Withdraw yourselves. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And, madam, [1] => I must be present at your conference. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, be't so, prithee. [1] => Here's such ado to make no stain a stain [2] => As passes colouring. [3] => Dear gentlewoman, [4] => How fares our gracious lady? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Gaoler [1] => Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EMILIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As well as one so great and so forlorn [1] => May hold together: on her frights and griefs, [2] => Which never tender lady hath born greater, [3] => She is something before her time deliver'd. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => A boy? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EMILIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A daughter, and a goodly babe, [1] => Lusty and like to live: the queen receives [2] => Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner, [3] => I am innocent as you.' ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I dare be sworn [1] => These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king, [2] => beshrew them! [3] => He must be told on't, and he shall: the office [4] => Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me: [5] => If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister [6] => And never to my red-look'd anger be [7] => The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia, [8] => Commend my best obedience to the queen: [9] => If she dares trust me with her little babe, [10] => I'll show't the king and undertake to be [11] => Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know [12] => How he may soften at the sight o' the child: [13] => The silence often of pure innocence [14] => Persuades when speaking fails. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EMILIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most worthy madam, [1] => Your honour and your goodness is so evident [2] => That your free undertaking cannot miss [3] => A thriving issue: there is no lady living [4] => So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship [5] => To visit the next room, I'll presently [6] => Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer; [7] => Who but to-day hammer'd of this design, [8] => But durst not tempt a minister of honour, [9] => Lest she should be denied. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tell her, Emilia. [1] => I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't [2] => As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted [3] => I shall do good. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EMILIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now be you blest for it! [1] => I'll to the queen: please you, [2] => come something nearer. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe, [1] => I know not what I shall incur to pass it, [2] => Having no warrant. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You need not fear it, sir: [1] => This child was prisoner to the womb and is [2] => By law and process of great nature thence [3] => Freed and enfranchised, not a party to [4] => The anger of the king nor guilty of, [5] => If any be, the trespass of the queen. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gaoler [LINE] => I do believe it. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do not you fear: upon mine honour, [1] => I will stand betwixt you and danger. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A room in LEONTES' palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants [1] => Enter PAULINA, with a child [2] => Laying down the child [3] => Exit [4] => Exit with the child [5] => Enter a Servant [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness [1] => To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If [2] => The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause, [3] => She the adulteress; for the harlot king [4] => Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank [5] => And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she [6] => I can hook to me: say that she were gone, [7] => Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest [8] => Might come to me again. Who's there? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => My lord? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => How does the boy? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He took good rest to-night; [1] => 'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To see his nobleness! [1] => Conceiving the dishonour of his mother, [2] => He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply, [3] => Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself, [4] => Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep, [5] => And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go, [6] => See how he fares. [7] => Fie, fie! no thought of him: [8] => The thought of my revenges that way [9] => Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty, [10] => And in his parties, his alliance; let him be [11] => Until a time may serve: for present vengeance, [12] => Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes [13] => Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow: [14] => They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor [15] => Shall she within my power. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Servant ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => You must not enter. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me: [1] => Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, [2] => Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul, [3] => More free than he is jealous. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => That's enough. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded [1] => None should come at him. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so hot, good sir: [1] => I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you, [2] => That creep like shadows by him and do sigh [3] => At each his needless heavings, such as you [4] => Nourish the cause of his awaking: I [5] => Do come with words as medicinal as true, [6] => Honest as either, to purge him of that humour [7] => That presses him from sleep. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => What noise there, ho? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No noise, my lord; but needful conference [1] => About some gossips for your highness. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! [1] => Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus, [2] => I charged thee that she should not come about me: [3] => I knew she would. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I told her so, my lord, [1] => On your displeasure's peril and on mine, [2] => She should not visit you. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => What, canst not rule her? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From all dishonesty he can: in this, [1] => Unless he take the course that you have done, [2] => Commit me for committing honour, trust it, [3] => He shall not rule me. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => La you now, you hear: [1] => When she will take the rein I let her run; [2] => But she'll not stumble. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my liege, I come; [1] => And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess [2] => Myself your loyal servant, your physician, [3] => Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare [4] => Less appear so in comforting your evils, [5] => Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come [6] => From your good queen. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Good queen! ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good queen, my lord, [1] => Good queen; I say good queen; [2] => And would by combat make her good, so were I [3] => A man, the worst about you. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Force her hence. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes [1] => First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off; [2] => But first I'll do my errand. The good queen, [3] => For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter; [4] => Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out! [1] => A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door: [2] => A most intelligencing bawd! ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so: [1] => I am as ignorant in that as you [2] => In so entitling me, and no less honest [3] => Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant, [4] => As this world goes, to pass for honest. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Traitors! [1] => Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard. [2] => Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted [3] => By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard; [4] => Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For ever [1] => Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou [2] => Takest up the princess by that forced baseness [3] => Which he has put upon't! ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => He dreads his wife. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt [1] => You'ld call your children yours. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => A nest of traitors! ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => I am none, by this good light. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor I, nor any [1] => But one that's here, and that's himself, for he [2] => The sacred honour of himself, his queen's, [3] => His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander, [4] => Whose sting is sharper than the sword's; [5] => and will not-- [6] => For, as the case now stands, it is a curse [7] => He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove [8] => The root of his opinion, which is rotten [9] => As ever oak or stone was sound. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A callat [1] => Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband [2] => And now baits me! This brat is none of mine; [3] => It is the issue of Polixenes: [4] => Hence with it, and together with the dam [5] => Commit them to the fire! ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is yours; [1] => And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge, [2] => So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords, [3] => Although the print be little, the whole matter [4] => And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip, [5] => The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley, [6] => The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek, [7] => His smiles, [8] => The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger: [9] => And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it [10] => So like to him that got it, if thou hast [11] => The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours [12] => No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does, [13] => Her children not her husband's! ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A gross hag [1] => And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd, [2] => That wilt not stay her tongue. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hang all the husbands [1] => That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself [2] => Hardly one subject. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Once more, take her hence. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A most unworthy and unnatural lord [1] => Can do no more. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => I'll ha' thee burnt. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I care not: [1] => It is an heretic that makes the fire, [2] => Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant; [3] => But this most cruel usage of your queen, [4] => Not able to produce more accusation [5] => Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours [6] => Of tyranny and will ignoble make you, [7] => Yea, scandalous to the world. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => On your allegiance, [1] => Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant, [2] => Where were her life? she durst not call me so, [3] => If she did know me one. Away with her! ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone. [1] => Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours: [2] => Jove send her [3] => A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands? [4] => You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, [5] => Will never do him good, not one of you. [6] => So, so: farewell; we are gone. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. [1] => My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast [2] => A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence [3] => And see it instantly consumed with fire; [4] => Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight: [5] => Within this hour bring me word 'tis done, [6] => And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life, [7] => With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse [8] => And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so; [9] => The bastard brains with these my proper hands [10] => Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire; [11] => For thou set'st on thy wife. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did not, sir: [1] => These lords, my noble fellows, if they please, [2] => Can clear me in't. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lords [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We can: my royal liege, [1] => He is not guilty of her coming hither. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => You're liars all. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Beseech your highness, give us better credit: [1] => We have always truly served you, and beseech you [2] => So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg, [3] => As recompense of our dear services [4] => Past and to come, that you do change this purpose, [5] => Which being so horrible, so bloody, must [6] => Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a feather for each wind that blows: [1] => Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel [2] => And call me father? better burn it now [3] => Than curse it then. But be it; let it live. [4] => It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither; [5] => You that have been so tenderly officious [6] => With Lady Margery, your midwife there, [7] => To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard, [8] => So sure as this beard's grey, [9] => --what will you adventure [10] => To save this brat's life? ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Any thing, my lord, [1] => That my ability may undergo [2] => And nobleness impose: at least thus much: [3] => I'll pawn the little blood which I have left [4] => To save the innocent: any thing possible. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It shall be possible. Swear by this sword [1] => Thou wilt perform my bidding. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => I will, my lord. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail [1] => Of any point in't shall not only be [2] => Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife, [3] => Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee, [4] => As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry [5] => This female bastard hence and that thou bear it [6] => To some remote and desert place quite out [7] => Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it, [8] => Without more mercy, to its own protection [9] => And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune [10] => It came to us, I do in justice charge thee, [11] => On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture, [12] => That thou commend it strangely to some place [13] => Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I swear to do this, though a present death [1] => Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe: [2] => Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens [3] => To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say [4] => Casting their savageness aside have done [5] => Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous [6] => In more than this deed does require! And blessing [7] => Against this cruelty fight on thy side, [8] => Poor thing, condemn'd to loss! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, I'll not rear [1] => Another's issue. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Please your highness, posts [1] => From those you sent to the oracle are come [2] => An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, [3] => Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed, [4] => Hasting to the court. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So please you, sir, their speed [1] => Hath been beyond account. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Twenty-three days [1] => They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells [2] => The great Apollo suddenly will have [3] => The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords; [4] => Summon a session, that we may arraign [5] => Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath [6] => Been publicly accused, so shall she have [7] => A just and open trial. While she lives [8] => My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me, [9] => And think upon my bidding. ) ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A sea-port in Sicilia. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOMENES and DION [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The climate's delicate, the air most sweet, [1] => Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing [2] => The common praise it bears. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DION [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall report, [1] => For most it caught me, the celestial habits, [2] => Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence [3] => Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice! [4] => How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly [5] => It was i' the offering! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But of all, the burst [1] => And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle, [2] => Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense. [3] => That I was nothing. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DION [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the event o' the journey [1] => Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!-- [2] => As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy, [3] => The time is worth the use on't. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Great Apollo [1] => Turn all to the best! These proclamations, [2] => So forcing faults upon Hermione, [3] => I little like. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DION [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The violent carriage of it [1] => Will clear or end the business: when the oracle, [2] => Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up, [3] => Shall the contents discover, something rare [4] => Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses! [5] => And gracious be the issue! ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A court of Justice. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers [1] => Enter HERMIONE guarded; PAULINA and Ladies attending [2] => Exeunt certain Officers [3] => Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION [4] => Enter Servant [5] => Re-enter PAULINA [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce, [1] => Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried [2] => The daughter of a king, our wife, and one [3] => Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd [4] => Of being tyrannous, since we so openly [5] => Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, [6] => Even to the guilt or the purgation. [7] => Produce the prisoner. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is his highness' pleasure that the queen [1] => Appear in person here in court. Silence! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Read the indictment. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and [2] => arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery [3] => with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring [4] => with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign [5] => lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence [6] => whereof being by circumstances partly laid open, [7] => thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance [8] => of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for [9] => their better safety, to fly away by night. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Since what I am to say must be but that [1] => Which contradicts my accusation and [2] => The testimony on my part no other [3] => But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me [4] => To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity [5] => Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, [6] => Be so received. But thus: if powers divine [7] => Behold our human actions, as they do, [8] => I doubt not then but innocence shall make [9] => False accusation blush and tyranny [10] => Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know, [11] => Who least will seem to do so, my past life [12] => Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, [13] => As I am now unhappy; which is more [14] => Than history can pattern, though devised [15] => And play'd to take spectators. For behold me [16] => A fellow of the royal bed, which owe [17] => A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter, [18] => The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing [19] => To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore [20] => Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it [21] => As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour, [22] => 'Tis a derivative from me to mine, [23] => And only that I stand for. I appeal [24] => To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes [25] => Came to your court, how I was in your grace, [26] => How merited to be so; since he came, [27] => With what encounter so uncurrent I [28] => Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond [29] => The bound of honour, or in act or will [30] => That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts [31] => Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin [32] => Cry fie upon my grave! ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I ne'er heard yet [1] => That any of these bolder vices wanted [2] => Less impudence to gainsay what they did [3] => Than to perform it first. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's true enough; [1] => Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => You will not own it. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => More than mistress of [1] => Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not [2] => At all acknowledge. For Polixenes, [3] => With whom I am accused, I do confess [4] => I loved him as in honour he required, [5] => With such a kind of love as might become [6] => A lady like me, with a love even such, [7] => So and no other, as yourself commanded: [8] => Which not to have done I think had been in me [9] => Both disobedience and ingratitude [10] => To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke, [11] => Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely [12] => That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy, [13] => I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd [14] => For me to try how: all I know of it [15] => Is that Camillo was an honest man; [16] => And why he left your court, the gods themselves, [17] => Wotting no more than I, are ignorant. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You knew of his departure, as you know [1] => What you have underta'en to do in's absence. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => You speak a language that I understand not: [2] => My life stands in the level of your dreams, [3] => Which I'll lay down. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your actions are my dreams; [1] => You had a bastard by Polixenes, [2] => And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,-- [3] => Those of your fact are so--so past all truth: [4] => Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as [5] => Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself, [6] => No father owning it,--which is, indeed, [7] => More criminal in thee than it,--so thou [8] => Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage [9] => Look for no less than death. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, spare your threats: [1] => The bug which you would fright me with I seek. [2] => To me can life be no commodity: [3] => The crown and comfort of my life, your favour, [4] => I do give lost; for I do feel it gone, [5] => But know not how it went. My second joy [6] => And first-fruits of my body, from his presence [7] => I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort [8] => Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast, [9] => The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth, [10] => Haled out to murder: myself on every post [11] => Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred [12] => The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs [13] => To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried [14] => Here to this place, i' the open air, before [15] => I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege, [16] => Tell me what blessings I have here alive, [17] => That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed. [18] => But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life, [19] => I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour, [20] => Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd [21] => Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else [22] => But what your jealousies awake, I tell you [23] => 'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all, [24] => I do refer me to the oracle: [25] => Apollo be my judge! ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This your request [1] => Is altogether just: therefore bring forth, [2] => And in Apollos name, his oracle. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The Emperor of Russia was my father: [1] => O that he were alive, and here beholding [2] => His daughter's trial! that he did but see [3] => The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes [4] => Of pity, not revenge! ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You here shall swear upon this sword of justice, [1] => That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have [2] => Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought [3] => The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd [4] => Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then, [5] => You have not dared to break the holy seal [6] => Nor read the secrets in't. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => CLEOMENES [1] => DION ) [LINE] => All this we swear. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Break up the seals and read. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes [2] => a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten; [3] => and the king shall live without an heir, if that [4] => which is lost be not found. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lords [LINE] => Now blessed be the great Apollo! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Praised! ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Hast thou read truth? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Officer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my lord; even so [1] => As it is here set down. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is no truth at all i' the oracle: [1] => The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => My lord the king, the king! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => What is the business? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sir, I shall be hated to report it! [1] => The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear [2] => Of the queen's speed, is gone. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => How! gone! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Is dead. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves [1] => Do strike at my injustice. [2] => How now there! ) [STAGEDIR] => HERMIONE swoons ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This news is mortal to the queen: look down [1] => And see what death is doing. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take her hence: [1] => Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover: [2] => I have too much believed mine own suspicion: [3] => Beseech you, tenderly apply to her [4] => Some remedies for life. [5] => Apollo, pardon [6] => My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle! [7] => I'll reconcile me to Polixenes, [8] => New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo, [9] => Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy; [10] => For, being transported by my jealousies [11] => To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose [12] => Camillo for the minister to poison [13] => My friend Polixenes: which had been done, [14] => But that the good mind of Camillo tardied [15] => My swift command, though I with death and with [16] => Reward did threaten and encourage him, [17] => Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane [18] => And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest [19] => Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here, [20] => Which you knew great, and to the hazard [21] => Of all encertainties himself commended, [22] => No richer than his honour: how he glisters [23] => Thorough my rust! and how his pity [24] => Does my deeds make the blacker! ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Woe the while! [1] => O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, [2] => Break too. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => What fit is this, good lady? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? [1] => What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling? [2] => In leads or oils? what old or newer torture [3] => Must I receive, whose every word deserves [4] => To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny [5] => Together working with thy jealousies, [6] => Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle [7] => For girls of nine, O, think what they have done [8] => And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all [9] => Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it. [10] => That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing; [11] => That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant [12] => And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much, [13] => Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour, [14] => To have him kill a king: poor trespasses, [15] => More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon [16] => The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter [17] => To be or none or little; though a devil [18] => Would have shed water out of fire ere done't: [19] => Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death [20] => Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts, [21] => Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart [22] => That could conceive a gross and foolish sire [23] => Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no, [24] => Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords, [25] => When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen, [26] => The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead, [27] => and vengeance for't [28] => Not dropp'd down yet. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => The higher powers forbid! ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath [1] => Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring [2] => Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye, [3] => Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you [4] => As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant! [5] => Do not repent these things, for they are heavier [6] => Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee [7] => To nothing but despair. A thousand knees [8] => Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, [9] => Upon a barren mountain and still winter [10] => In storm perpetual, could not move the gods [11] => To look that way thou wert. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go on, go on [1] => Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved [2] => All tongues to talk their bitterest. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say no more: [1] => Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault [2] => I' the boldness of your speech. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sorry for't: [1] => All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, [2] => I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much [3] => The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd [4] => To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help [5] => Should be past grief: do not receive affliction [6] => At my petition; I beseech you, rather [7] => Let me be punish'd, that have minded you [8] => Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege [9] => Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman: [10] => The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!-- [11] => I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children; [12] => I'll not remember you of my own lord, [13] => Who is lost too: take your patience to you, [14] => And I'll say nothing. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou didst speak but well [1] => When most the truth; which I receive much better [2] => Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me [3] => To the dead bodies of my queen and son: [4] => One grave shall be for both: upon them shall [5] => The causes of their death appear, unto [6] => Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit [7] => The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there [8] => Shall be my recreation: so long as nature [9] => Will bear up with this exercise, so long [10] => I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me [11] => Unto these sorrows. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert country near the sea. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner [1] => Exit [2] => Exit, pursued by a bear [3] => Enter a Shepherd [4] => Enter Clown [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon [1] => The deserts of Bohemia? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Mariner [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my lord: and fear [1] => We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly [2] => And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, [3] => The heavens with that we have in hand are angry [4] => And frown upon 's. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard; [1] => Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before [2] => I call upon thee. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Mariner [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Make your best haste, and go not [1] => Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather; [2] => Besides, this place is famous for the creatures [3] => Of prey that keep upon't. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go thou away: [1] => I'll follow instantly. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Mariner [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am glad at heart [1] => To be so rid o' the business. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIGONUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, poor babe: [1] => I have heard, but not believed, [2] => the spirits o' the dead [3] => May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother [4] => Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream [5] => So like a waking. To me comes a creature, [6] => Sometimes her head on one side, some another; [7] => I never saw a vessel of like sorrow, [8] => So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes, [9] => Like very sanctity, she did approach [10] => My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me, [11] => And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes [12] => Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon [13] => Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus, [14] => Since fate, against thy better disposition, [15] => Hath made thy person for the thrower-out [16] => Of my poor babe, according to thine oath, [17] => Places remote enough are in Bohemia, [18] => There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe [19] => Is counted lost for ever, Perdita, [20] => I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business [21] => Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see [22] => Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks [23] => She melted into air. Affrighted much, [24] => I did in time collect myself and thought [25] => This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys: [26] => Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously, [27] => I will be squared by this. I do believe [28] => Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that [29] => Apollo would, this being indeed the issue [30] => Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid, [31] => Either for life or death, upon the earth [32] => Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well! [33] => There lie, and there thy character: there these; [34] => Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty, [35] => And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch, [36] => That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed [37] => To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot, [38] => But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I [39] => To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell! [40] => The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have [41] => A lullaby too rough: I never saw [42] => The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour! [43] => Well may I get aboard! This is the chase: [44] => I am gone for ever. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would there were no age between sixteen and [1] => three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the [2] => rest; for there is nothing in the between but [3] => getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, [4] => stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but [5] => these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty [6] => hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my [7] => best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find [8] => than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by [9] => the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy [10] => will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very [11] => pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A [12] => pretty one; a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape: [13] => though I am not bookish, yet I can read [14] => waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been [15] => some stair-work, some trunk-work, some [16] => behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this [17] => than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for [18] => pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hallooed [19] => but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa! ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Hilloa, loa! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk [1] => on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What [2] => ailest thou, man? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land! [1] => but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the [2] => sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust [3] => a bodkin's point. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Why, boy, how is it? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, [1] => how it takes up the shore! but that's not the [2] => point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! [3] => sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the [4] => ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon [5] => swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a [6] => cork into a hogshead. And then for the [7] => land-service, to see how the bear tore out his [8] => shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said [9] => his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an [10] => end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned [11] => it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the [12] => sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared [13] => and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than [14] => the sea or weather. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Name of mercy, when was this, boy? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these [1] => sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor [2] => the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it [3] => now. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Would I had been by, to have helped the old man! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would you had been by the ship side, to have [1] => helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here, [1] => boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things [2] => dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for [3] => thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's [4] => child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy; [5] => open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be [6] => rich by the fairies. This is some changeling: [7] => open't. What's within, boy? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth [1] => are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold! ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up [1] => with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way. [2] => We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires [3] => nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good [4] => boy, the next way home. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see [1] => if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much [2] => he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they [3] => are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury [4] => it. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that [1] => which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the [2] => sight of him. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => 'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Time, the Chorus [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Time [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror [1] => Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error, [2] => Now take upon me, in the name of Time, [3] => To use my wings. Impute it not a crime [4] => To me or my swift passage, that I slide [5] => O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried [6] => Of that wide gap, since it is in my power [7] => To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour [8] => To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass [9] => The same I am, ere ancient'st order was [10] => Or what is now received: I witness to [11] => The times that brought them in; so shall I do [12] => To the freshest things now reigning and make stale [13] => The glistering of this present, as my tale [14] => Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing, [15] => I turn my glass and give my scene such growing [16] => As you had slept between: Leontes leaving, [17] => The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving [18] => That he shuts up himself, imagine me, [19] => Gentle spectators, that I now may be [20] => In fair Bohemia, and remember well, [21] => I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel [22] => I now name to you; and with speed so pace [23] => To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace [24] => Equal with wondering: what of her ensues [25] => I list not prophecy; but let Time's news [26] => Be known when 'tis brought forth. [27] => A shepherd's daughter, [28] => And what to her adheres, which follows after, [29] => Is the argument of Time. Of this allow, [30] => If ever you have spent time worse ere now; [31] => If never, yet that Time himself doth say [32] => He wishes earnestly you never may. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Bohemia. The palace of POLIXENES. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate: [1] => 'tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to [2] => grant this. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though [1] => I have for the most part been aired abroad, I [2] => desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent [3] => king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling [4] => sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to [5] => think so, which is another spur to my departure. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of [1] => thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of [2] => thee thine own goodness hath made; better not to [3] => have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having [4] => made me businesses which none without thee can [5] => sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute [6] => them thyself or take away with thee the very [7] => services thou hast done; which if I have not enough [8] => considered, as too much I cannot, to be more [9] => thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit [10] => therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal [11] => country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more; whose very [12] => naming punishes me with the remembrance of that [13] => penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king, [14] => my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen [15] => and children are even now to be afresh lamented. [16] => Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my [17] => son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not [18] => being gracious, than they are in losing them when [19] => they have approved their virtues. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What [1] => his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I [2] => have missingly noted, he is of late much retired [3] => from court and is less frequent to his princely [4] => exercises than formerly he hath appeared. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some [1] => care; so far that I have eyes under my service which [2] => look upon his removedness; from whom I have this [3] => intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a [4] => most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from [5] => very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his [6] => neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a [1] => daughter of most rare note: the report of her is [2] => extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I [1] => fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou [2] => shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not [3] => appearing what we are, have some question with the [4] => shepherd; from whose simplicity I think it not [5] => uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither. [6] => Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and [7] => lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => I willingly obey your command. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A road near the Shepherd's cottage. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing [1] => Enter Clown [2] => Grovelling on the ground [3] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When daffodils begin to peer, [1] => With heigh! the doxy over the dale, [2] => Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; [3] => For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. [4] => The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, [5] => With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! [6] => Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; [7] => For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. [8] => The lark, that tirra-lyra chants, [9] => With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay, [10] => Are summer songs for me and my aunts, [11] => While we lie tumbling in the hay. [12] => I have served Prince Florizel and in my time [13] => wore three-pile; but now I am out of service: [14] => But shall I go mourn for that, my dear? [15] => The pale moon shines by night: [16] => And when I wander here and there, [17] => I then do most go right. [18] => If tinkers may have leave to live, [19] => And bear the sow-skin budget, [20] => Then my account I well may, give, [21] => And in the stocks avouch it. [22] => My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to [23] => lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who [24] => being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise [25] => a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and [26] => drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is [27] => the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful [28] => on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to [29] => me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought [30] => of it. A prize! a prize! ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me see: every 'leven wether tods; every tod [1] => yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred [2] => shorn. what comes the wool to? ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => If the springe hold, the cock's mine. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am [1] => I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound [2] => of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will [3] => this sister of mine do with rice? But my father [4] => hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it [5] => on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for [6] => the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good [7] => ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but [8] => one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to [9] => horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden [10] => pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note; [11] => nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I [12] => may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of [13] => raisins o' the sun. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => O that ever I was born! ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => I' the name of me-- ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and [1] => then, death, death! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay [1] => on thee, rather than have these off. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more [1] => than the stripes I have received, which are mighty [2] => ones and millions. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a [1] => great matter. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel [1] => ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon [2] => me. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => What, by a horseman, or a footman? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => A footman, sweet sir, a footman. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he [1] => has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat, [2] => it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand, [3] => I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => O, good sir, tenderly, O! ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Alas, poor soul! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my [1] => shoulder-blade is out. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => How now! canst stand? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Picking his pocket ) [1] => Softly, dear sir; good sir, softly. You ha' done me [2] => a charitable office. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have [1] => a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence, [2] => unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or [3] => any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you; [4] => that kills my heart. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => What manner of fellow was he that robbed you? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with [1] => troll-my-dames; I knew him once a servant of the [2] => prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his [3] => virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His vices, you would say; there's no virtue whipped [1] => out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay [2] => there; and yet it will no more but abide. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he [1] => hath been since an ape-bearer; then a [2] => process-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a [3] => motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's [4] => wife within a mile where my land and living lies; [5] => and, having flown over many knavish professions, he [6] => settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts [1] => wakes, fairs and bear-baitings. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that [1] => put me into this apparel. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had [1] => but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am [1] => false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant [2] => him. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => How do you now? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and [1] => walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace [2] => softly towards my kinsman's. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Shall I bring thee on the way? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our [1] => sheep-shearing. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prosper you, sweet sir! [1] => Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice. [2] => I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I [3] => make not this cheat bring out another and the [4] => shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name [5] => put in the book of virtue! [6] => Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, [7] => And merrily hent the stile-a: [8] => A merry heart goes all the day, [9] => Your sad tires in a mile-a. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Clown [1] => Sings ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. The Shepherd's cottage. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA [1] => Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised [2] => Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses [3] => Enter Servant [4] => Exit Servant [5] => Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing [6] => SONG [7] => Exit with DORCAS and MOPSA [8] => Exit [9] => Re-enter Servant [10] => Exit [11] => Here a dance of twelve Satyrs [12] => Exit [13] => Exit [14] => They talk aside [15] => Re-enter AUTOLYCUS [16] => CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward [17] => Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO [18] => Exeunt Shepherd and Clown [19] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These your unusual weeds to each part of you [1] => Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora [2] => Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing [3] => Is as a meeting of the petty gods, [4] => And you the queen on't. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, my gracious lord, [1] => To chide at your extremes it not becomes me: [2] => O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self, [3] => The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured [4] => With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, [5] => Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts [6] => In every mess have folly and the feeders [7] => Digest it with a custom, I should blush [8] => To see you so attired, sworn, I think, [9] => To show myself a glass. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I bless the time [1] => When my good falcon made her flight across [2] => Thy father's ground. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now Jove afford you cause! [1] => To me the difference forges dread; your greatness [2] => Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble [3] => To think your father, by some accident, [4] => Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates! [5] => How would he look, to see his work so noble [6] => Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how [7] => Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold [8] => The sternness of his presence? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Apprehend [1] => Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves, [2] => Humbling their deities to love, have taken [3] => The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter [4] => Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune [5] => A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god, [6] => Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, [7] => As I seem now. Their transformations [8] => Were never for a piece of beauty rarer, [9] => Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires [10] => Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts [11] => Burn hotter than my faith. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, but, sir, [1] => Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis [2] => Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king: [3] => One of these two must be necessities, [4] => Which then will speak, that you must [5] => change this purpose, [6] => Or I my life. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou dearest Perdita, [1] => With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not [2] => The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair, [3] => Or not my father's. For I cannot be [4] => Mine own, nor any thing to any, if [5] => I be not thine. To this I am most constant, [6] => Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle; [7] => Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing [8] => That you behold the while. Your guests are coming: [9] => Lift up your countenance, as it were the day [10] => Of celebration of that nuptial which [11] => We two have sworn shall come. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O lady Fortune, [1] => Stand you auspicious! ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See, your guests approach: [1] => Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, [2] => And let's be red with mirth. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon [1] => This day she was both pantler, butler, cook, [2] => Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all; [3] => Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here, [4] => At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle; [5] => On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire [6] => With labour and the thing she took to quench it, [7] => She would to each one sip. You are retired, [8] => As if you were a feasted one and not [9] => The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid [10] => These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is [11] => A way to make us better friends, more known. [12] => Come, quench your blushes and present yourself [13] => That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on, [14] => And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing, [15] => As your good flock shall prosper. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To POLIXENES ) [1] => It is my father's will I should take on me [2] => The hostess-ship o' the day. [3] => You're welcome, sir. [4] => Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs, [5] => For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep [6] => Seeming and savour all the winter long: [7] => Grace and remembrance be to you both, [8] => And welcome to our shearing! ) [STAGEDIR] => To CAMILLO ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Shepherdess, [1] => A fair one are you--well you fit our ages [2] => With flowers of winter. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, the year growing ancient, [1] => Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth [2] => Of trembling winter, the fairest [3] => flowers o' the season [4] => Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors, [5] => Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind [6] => Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not [7] => To get slips of them. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wherefore, gentle maiden, [1] => Do you neglect them? ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For I have heard it said [1] => There is an art which in their piedness shares [2] => With great creating nature. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say there be; [1] => Yet nature is made better by no mean [2] => But nature makes that mean: so, over that art [3] => Which you say adds to nature, is an art [4] => That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry [5] => A gentler scion to the wildest stock, [6] => And make conceive a bark of baser kind [7] => By bud of nobler race: this is an art [8] => Which does mend nature, change it rather, but [9] => The art itself is nature. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => So it is. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, [1] => And do not call them bastards. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll not put [1] => The dibble in earth to set one slip of them; [2] => No more than were I painted I would wish [3] => This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore [4] => Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you; [5] => Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; [6] => The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun [7] => And with him rises weeping: these are flowers [8] => Of middle summer, and I think they are given [9] => To men of middle age. You're very welcome. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I should leave grazing, were I of your flock, [1] => And only live by gazing. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out, alas! [1] => You'd be so lean, that blasts of January [2] => Would blow you through and through. [3] => Now, my fair'st friend, [4] => I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might [5] => Become your time of day; and yours, and yours, [6] => That wear upon your virgin branches yet [7] => Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina, [8] => For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall [9] => From Dis's waggon! daffodils, [10] => That come before the swallow dares, and take [11] => The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, [12] => But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes [13] => Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses [14] => That die unmarried, ere they can behold [15] => Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady [16] => Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and [17] => The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, [18] => The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack, [19] => To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend, [20] => To strew him o'er and o'er! ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => What, like a corse? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, like a bank for love to lie and play on; [1] => Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried, [2] => But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers: [3] => Methinks I play as I have seen them do [4] => In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine [5] => Does change my disposition. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What you do [1] => Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet. [2] => I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing, [3] => I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms, [4] => Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs, [5] => To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you [6] => A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do [7] => Nothing but that; move still, still so, [8] => And own no other function: each your doing, [9] => So singular in each particular, [10] => Crowns what you are doing in the present deed, [11] => That all your acts are queens. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Doricles, [1] => Your praises are too large: but that your youth, [2] => And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't, [3] => Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd, [4] => With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles, [5] => You woo'd me the false way. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think you have [1] => As little skill to fear as I have purpose [2] => To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray: [3] => Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair, [4] => That never mean to part. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => I'll swear for 'em. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever [1] => Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems [2] => But smacks of something greater than herself, [3] => Too noble for this place. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He tells her something [1] => That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is [2] => The queen of curds and cream. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Come on, strike up! ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic, [1] => To mend her kissing with! ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Now, in good time! ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners. [1] => Come, strike up! ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this [1] => Which dances with your daughter? ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They call him Doricles; and boasts himself [1] => To have a worthy feeding: but I have it [2] => Upon his own report and I believe it; [3] => He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter: [4] => I think so too; for never gazed the moon [5] => Upon the water as he'll stand and read [6] => As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain. [7] => I think there is not half a kiss to choose [8] => Who loves another best. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => She dances featly. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So she does any thing; though I report it, [1] => That should be silent: if young Doricles [2] => Do light upon her, she shall bring him that [3] => Which he not dreams of. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the [1] => door, you would never dance again after a tabour and [2] => pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings [3] => several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he [4] => utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's [5] => ears grew to his tunes. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He could never come better; he shall come in. I [1] => love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful [2] => matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing [3] => indeed and sung lamentably. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no [1] => milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he [2] => has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without [3] => bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate [4] => burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump [5] => her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would, [6] => as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into [7] => the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me [8] => no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with [9] => 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.' ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => This is a brave fellow. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited [1] => fellow. Has he any unbraided wares? ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow; [1] => points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can [2] => learnedly handle, though they come to him by the [3] => gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he [4] => sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you [5] => would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants [6] => to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have of these pedlars, that have more in them [1] => than you'ld think, sister. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Ay, good brother, or go about to think. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lawn as white as driven snow; [1] => Cyprus black as e'er was crow; [2] => Gloves as sweet as damask roses; [3] => Masks for faces and for noses; [4] => Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, [5] => Perfume for a lady's chamber; [6] => Golden quoifs and stomachers, [7] => For my lads to give their dears: [8] => Pins and poking-sticks of steel, [9] => What maids lack from head to heel: [10] => Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; [11] => Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take [1] => no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it [2] => will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I was promised them against the feast; but they come [1] => not too late now. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath paid you all he promised you; may be, he has [1] => paid you more, which will shame you to give him again. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is there no manners left among maids? will they [1] => wear their plackets where they should bear their [2] => faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are [3] => going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these [4] => secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all [5] => our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour [6] => your tongues, and not a word more. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace [1] => and a pair of sweet gloves. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way [1] => and lost all my money? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad; [1] => therefore it behoves men to be wary. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => What hast here? ballads? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o' [1] => life, for then we are sure they are true. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's [1] => wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a [2] => burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and [3] => toads carbonadoed. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Is it true, think you? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Very true, and but a month old. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Bless me from marrying a usurer! ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress [1] => Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were [2] => present. Why should I carry lies abroad? ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Pray you now, buy it. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe [1] => ballads; we'll buy the other things anon. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon [1] => the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April, [2] => forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this [3] => ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was [4] => thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold [5] => fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that [6] => loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Is it true too, think you? ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than [1] => my pack will hold. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Lay it by too: another. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Let's have some merry ones. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to [1] => the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's [2] => scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in [3] => request, I can tell you. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou [1] => shalt hear; 'tis in three parts. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => We had the tune on't a month ago. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my [1] => occupation; have at it with you. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Get you hence, for I must go [1] => Where it fits not you to know. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Whither? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => O, whither? ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Whither? ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It becomes thy oath full well, [1] => Thou to me thy secrets tell. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Me too, let me go thither. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Or thou goest to the orange or mill. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => If to either, thou dost ill. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Neither. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => What, neither? ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Neither. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DORCAS [LINE] => Thou hast sworn my love to be. ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MOPSA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast sworn it more to me: [1] => Then whither goest? say, whither? ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my [1] => father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll [2] => not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after [3] => me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's [4] => have the first choice. Follow me, girls. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And you shall pay well for 'em. [1] => Will you buy any tape, [2] => Or lace for your cape, [3] => My dainty duck, my dear-a? [4] => Any silk, any thread, [5] => Any toys for your head, [6] => Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a? [7] => Come to the pedlar; [8] => Money's a medler. [9] => That doth utter all men's ware-a. ) [STAGEDIR] => Follows singing ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, [1] => three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made [2] => themselves all men of hair, they call themselves [3] => Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches [4] => say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are [5] => not in't; but they themselves are o' the mind, if it [6] => be not too rough for some that know little but [7] => bowling, it will please plentifully. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much [1] => homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see [1] => these four threes of herdsmen. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath [1] => danced before the king; and not the worst of the [2] => three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Leave your prating: since these good men are [1] => pleased, let them come in; but quickly now. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Why, they stay at door, sir. ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter. [1] => Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them. [2] => He's simple and tells much. [3] => How now, fair shepherd! [4] => Your heart is full of something that does take [5] => Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young [6] => And handed love as you do, I was wont [7] => To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd [8] => The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it [9] => To her acceptance; you have let him go [10] => And nothing marted with him. If your lass [11] => Interpretation should abuse and call this [12] => Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited [13] => For a reply, at least if you make a care [14] => Of happy holding her. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => To CAMILLO [1] => To FLORIZEL ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Old sir, I know [1] => She prizes not such trifles as these are: [2] => The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd [3] => Up in my heart; which I have given already, [4] => But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life [5] => Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem, [6] => Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand, [7] => As soft as dove's down and as white as it, [8] => Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd [9] => snow that's bolted [10] => By the northern blasts twice o'er. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What follows this? [1] => How prettily the young swain seems to wash [2] => The hand was fair before! I have put you out: [3] => But to your protestation; let me hear [4] => What you profess. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Do, and be witness to 't. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => And this my neighbour too? ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And he, and more [1] => Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all: [2] => That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch, [3] => Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth [4] => That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge [5] => More than was ever man's, I would not prize them [6] => Without her love; for her employ them all; [7] => Commend them and condemn them to her service [8] => Or to their own perdition. ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Fairly offer'd. ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => This shows a sound affection. ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But, my daughter, [1] => Say you the like to him? ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot speak [1] => So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better: [2] => By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out [3] => The purity of his. ) ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take hands, a bargain! [1] => And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't: [2] => I give my daughter to him, and will make [3] => Her portion equal his. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, that must be [1] => I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead, [2] => I shall have more than you can dream of yet; [3] => Enough then for your wonder. But, come on, [4] => Contract us 'fore these witnesses. ) ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, your hand; [1] => And, daughter, yours. ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you; [1] => Have you a father? ) ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => I have: but what of him? ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Knows he of this? ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => He neither does nor shall. ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Methinks a father [1] => Is at the nuptial of his son a guest [2] => That best becomes the table. Pray you once more, [3] => Is not your father grown incapable [4] => Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid [5] => With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear? [6] => Know man from man? dispute his own estate? [7] => Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing [8] => But what he did being childish? ) ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, good sir; [1] => He has his health and ampler strength indeed [2] => Than most have of his age. ) ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my white beard, [1] => You offer him, if this be so, a wrong [2] => Something unfilial: reason my son [3] => Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason [4] => The father, all whose joy is nothing else [5] => But fair posterity, should hold some counsel [6] => In such a business. ) ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I yield all this; [1] => But for some other reasons, my grave sir, [2] => Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint [3] => My father of this business. ) ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Let him know't. ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => He shall not. ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Prithee, let him. ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => No, he must not. ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve [1] => At knowing of thy choice. ) ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, he must not. [1] => Mark our contract. ) ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mark your divorce, young sir, [1] => Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base [2] => To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir, [3] => That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor, [4] => I am sorry that by hanging thee I can [5] => But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece [6] => Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know [7] => The royal fool thou copest with,-- ) [STAGEDIR] => Discovering himself ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => O, my heart! ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made [1] => More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy, [2] => If I may ever know thou dost but sigh [3] => That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never [4] => I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession; [5] => Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin, [6] => Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words: [7] => Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time, [8] => Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee [9] => From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.-- [10] => Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too, [11] => That makes himself, but for our honour therein, [12] => Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou [13] => These rural latches to his entrance open, [14] => Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, [15] => I will devise a death as cruel for thee [16] => As thou art tender to't. ) ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Even here undone! [1] => I was not much afeard; for once or twice [2] => I was about to speak and tell him plainly, [3] => The selfsame sun that shines upon his court [4] => Hides not his visage from our cottage but [5] => Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone? [6] => I told you what would come of this: beseech you, [7] => Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,-- [8] => Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, [9] => But milk my ewes and weep. ) ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, how now, father! [1] => Speak ere thou diest. ) ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot speak, nor think [1] => Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir! [2] => You have undone a man of fourscore three, [3] => That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea, [4] => To die upon the bed my father died, [5] => To lie close by his honest bones: but now [6] => Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me [7] => Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch, [8] => That knew'st this was the prince, [9] => and wouldst adventure [10] => To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone! [11] => If I might die within this hour, I have lived [12] => To die when I desire. ) ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why look you so upon me? [1] => I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd, [2] => But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am; [3] => More straining on for plucking back, not following [4] => My leash unwillingly. ) ) [132] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gracious my lord, [1] => You know your father's temper: at this time [2] => He will allow no speech, which I do guess [3] => You do not purpose to him; and as hardly [4] => Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear: [5] => Then, till the fury of his highness settle, [6] => Come not before him. ) ) [133] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I not purpose it. [1] => I think, Camillo? ) ) [134] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Even he, my lord. ) [135] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How often have I told you 'twould be thus! [1] => How often said, my dignity would last [2] => But till 'twere known! ) ) [136] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It cannot fail but by [1] => The violation of my faith; and then [2] => Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together [3] => And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks: [4] => From my succession wipe me, father; I [5] => Am heir to my affection. ) ) [137] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Be advised. ) [138] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am, and by my fancy: if my reason [1] => Will thereto be obedient, I have reason; [2] => If not, my senses, better pleased with madness, [3] => Do bid it welcome. ) ) [139] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => This is desperate, sir. ) [140] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So call it: but it does fulfil my vow; [1] => I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, [2] => Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may [3] => Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or [4] => The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides [5] => In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath [6] => To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you, [7] => As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend, [8] => When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not [9] => To see him any more,--cast your good counsels [10] => Upon his passion; let myself and fortune [11] => Tug for the time to come. This you may know [12] => And so deliver, I am put to sea [13] => With her whom here I cannot hold on shore; [14] => And most opportune to our need I have [15] => A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared [16] => For this design. What course I mean to hold [17] => Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor [18] => Concern me the reporting. ) ) [141] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my lord! [1] => I would your spirit were easier for advice, [2] => Or stronger for your need. ) ) [142] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hark, Perdita [1] => I'll hear you by and by. ) [STAGEDIR] => Drawing her aside ) [143] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He's irremoveable, [1] => Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if [2] => His going I could frame to serve my turn, [3] => Save him from danger, do him love and honour, [4] => Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia [5] => And that unhappy king, my master, whom [6] => I so much thirst to see. ) ) [144] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, good Camillo; [1] => I am so fraught with curious business that [2] => I leave out ceremony. ) ) [145] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I think [1] => You have heard of my poor services, i' the love [2] => That I have borne your father? ) ) [146] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very nobly [1] => Have you deserved: it is my father's music [2] => To speak your deeds, not little of his care [3] => To have them recompensed as thought on. ) ) [147] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, my lord, [1] => If you may please to think I love the king [2] => And through him what is nearest to him, which is [3] => Your gracious self, embrace but my direction: [4] => If your more ponderous and settled project [5] => May suffer alteration, on mine honour, [6] => I'll point you where you shall have such receiving [7] => As shall become your highness; where you may [8] => Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see, [9] => There's no disjunction to be made, but by-- [10] => As heavens forefend!--your ruin; marry her, [11] => And, with my best endeavours in your absence, [12] => Your discontenting father strive to qualify [13] => And bring him up to liking. ) ) [148] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How, Camillo, [1] => May this, almost a miracle, be done? [2] => That I may call thee something more than man [3] => And after that trust to thee. ) ) [149] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Have you thought on [1] => A place whereto you'll go? ) ) [150] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not any yet: [1] => But as the unthought-on accident is guilty [2] => To what we wildly do, so we profess [3] => Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies [4] => Of every wind that blows. ) ) [151] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then list to me: [1] => This follows, if you will not change your purpose [2] => But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia, [3] => And there present yourself and your fair princess, [4] => For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes: [5] => She shall be habited as it becomes [6] => The partner of your bed. Methinks I see [7] => Leontes opening his free arms and weeping [8] => His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness, [9] => As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands [10] => Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him [11] => 'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one [12] => He chides to hell and bids the other grow [13] => Faster than thought or time. ) ) [152] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Worthy Camillo, [1] => What colour for my visitation shall I [2] => Hold up before him? ) ) [153] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sent by the king your father [1] => To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir, [2] => The manner of your bearing towards him, with [3] => What you as from your father shall deliver, [4] => Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down: [5] => The which shall point you forth at every sitting [6] => What you must say; that he shall not perceive [7] => But that you have your father's bosom there [8] => And speak his very heart. ) ) [154] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am bound to you: [1] => There is some sap in this. ) ) [155] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A cause more promising [1] => Than a wild dedication of yourselves [2] => To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain [3] => To miseries enough; no hope to help you, [4] => But as you shake off one to take another; [5] => Nothing so certain as your anchors, who [6] => Do their best office, if they can but stay you [7] => Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know [8] => Prosperity's the very bond of love, [9] => Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together [10] => Affliction alters. ) ) [156] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One of these is true: [1] => I think affliction may subdue the cheek, [2] => But not take in the mind. ) ) [157] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, say you so? [1] => There shall not at your father's house these [2] => seven years [3] => Be born another such. ) ) [158] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My good Camillo, [1] => She is as forward of her breeding as [2] => She is i' the rear our birth. ) ) [159] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot say 'tis pity [1] => She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress [2] => To most that teach. ) ) [160] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your pardon, sir; for this [1] => I'll blush you thanks. ) ) [161] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My prettiest Perdita! [1] => But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo, [2] => Preserver of my father, now of me, [3] => The medicine of our house, how shall we do? [4] => We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son, [5] => Nor shall appear in Sicilia. ) ) [162] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, [1] => Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes [2] => Do all lie there: it shall be so my care [3] => To have you royally appointed as if [4] => The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir, [5] => That you may know you shall not want, one word. ) ) [163] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his [1] => sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold [2] => all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a [3] => ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, [4] => knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, [5] => to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who [6] => should buy first, as if my trinkets had been [7] => hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer: [8] => by which means I saw whose purse was best in [9] => picture; and what I saw, to my good use I [10] => remembered. My clown, who wants but something to [11] => be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the [12] => wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes [13] => till he had both tune and words; which so drew the [14] => rest of the herd to me that all their other senses [15] => stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it [16] => was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a [17] => purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in [18] => chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, [19] => and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this [20] => time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their [21] => festival purses; and had not the old man come in [22] => with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's [23] => son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not [24] => left a purse alive in the whole army. ) ) [164] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, but my letters, by this means being there [1] => So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. ) ) [165] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => And those that you'll procure from King Leontes-- ) [166] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Shall satisfy your father. ) [167] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Happy be you! [1] => All that you speak shows fair. ) ) [168] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who have we here? [1] => We'll make an instrument of this, omit [2] => Nothing may give us aid. ) [STAGEDIR] => Seeing AUTOLYCUS ) [169] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => If they have overheard me now, why, hanging. ) [170] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear [1] => not, man; here's no harm intended to thee. ) ) [171] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => I am a poor fellow, sir. ) [172] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from [1] => thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must [2] => make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly, [3] => --thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and [4] => change garments with this gentleman: though the [5] => pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, [6] => there's some boot. ) ) [173] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a poor fellow, sir. [1] => I know ye well enough. ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [174] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half [1] => flayed already. ) ) [175] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Are you in earnest, sir? [1] => I smell the trick on't. ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [176] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Dispatch, I prithee. ) [177] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with [1] => conscience take it. ) ) [178] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unbuckle, unbuckle. [1] => Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy [2] => Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself [3] => Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat [4] => And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face, [5] => Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken [6] => The truth of your own seeming; that you may-- [7] => For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard [8] => Get undescried. ) [STAGEDIR] => FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments ) [179] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I see the play so lies [1] => That I must bear a part. ) ) [180] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No remedy. [1] => Have you done there? ) ) [181] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Should I now meet my father, [1] => He would not call me son. ) ) [182] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, you shall have no hat. [1] => Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend. ) [STAGEDIR] => Giving it to PERDITA ) [183] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Adieu, sir. ) [184] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Perdita, what have we twain forgot! [1] => Pray you, a word. ) ) [185] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Of this escape and whither they are bound; [2] => Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail [3] => To force him after: in whose company [4] => I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight [5] => I have a woman's longing. ) ) [186] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fortune speed us! [1] => Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side. ) ) [187] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => The swifter speed the better. ) [188] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I understand the business, I hear it: to have an [1] => open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is [2] => necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite [3] => also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see [4] => this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. [5] => What an exchange had this been without boot! What [6] => a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do [7] => this year connive at us, and we may do any thing [8] => extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of [9] => iniquity, stealing away from his father with his [10] => clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of [11] => honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not [12] => do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; [13] => and therein am I constant to my profession. [14] => Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain: [15] => every lane's end, every shop, church, session, [16] => hanging, yields a careful man work. ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter Clown and Shepherd ) [189] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See, see; what a man you are now! [1] => There is no other way but to tell the king [2] => she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood. ) ) [190] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Nay, but hear me. ) [191] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Nay, but hear me. ) [192] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Go to, then. ) [193] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh [1] => and blood has not offended the king; and so your [2] => flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show [3] => those things you found about her, those secret [4] => things, all but what she has with her: this being [5] => done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you. ) ) [194] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his [1] => son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, [2] => neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make [3] => me the king's brother-in-law. ) ) [195] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you [1] => could have been to him and then your blood had been [2] => the dearer by I know how much an ounce. ) ) [196] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [197] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, let us to the king: there is that in this [1] => fardel will make him scratch his beard. ) ) [198] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => may be to the flight of my master. ) ) [199] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Pray heartily he be at palace. ) [200] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement. [2] => How now, rustics! whither are you bound? ) [STAGEDIR] => Takes off his false beard ) [201] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => To the palace, an it like your worship. ) [202] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition [1] => of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your [2] => names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any [3] => thing that is fitting to be known, discover. ) ) [203] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => We are but plain fellows, sir. ) [204] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no [1] => lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they [2] => often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for [3] => it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore [4] => they do not give us the lie. ) ) [205] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your worship had like to have given us one, if you [1] => had not taken yourself with the manner. ) ) [206] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir? ) [207] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest [1] => thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? [2] => hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? [3] => receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I [4] => not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou, [5] => for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy [6] => business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier [7] => cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck [8] => back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to [9] => open thy affair. ) ) [208] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => My business, sir, is to the king. ) [209] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => What advocate hast thou to him? ) [210] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => I know not, an't like you. ) [211] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you [1] => have none. ) ) [212] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen. ) [213] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How blessed are we that are not simple men! [1] => Yet nature might have made me as these are, [2] => Therefore I will not disdain. ) ) [214] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => This cannot be but a great courtier. ) [215] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His garments are rich, but he wears [1] => them not handsomely. ) ) [216] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: [1] => a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking [2] => on's teeth. ) ) [217] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fardel there? what's i' the fardel? [1] => Wherefore that box? ) ) [218] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, [1] => which none must know but the king; and which he [2] => shall know within this hour, if I may come to the [3] => speech of him. ) ) [219] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Age, thou hast lost thy labour. ) [220] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Why, sir? ) [221] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a [1] => new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for, [2] => if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must [3] => know the king is full of grief. ) ) [222] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have [1] => married a shepherd's daughter. ) ) [223] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly: [1] => the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall [2] => feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster. ) ) [224] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Think you so, sir? ) [225] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy [1] => and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to [2] => him, though removed fifty times, shall all come [3] => under the hangman: which though it be great pity, [4] => yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a [5] => ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into [6] => grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death [7] => is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a [8] => sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy. ) ) [226] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't [1] => like you, sir? ) ) [227] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then [1] => 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a [2] => wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters [3] => and a dram dead; then recovered again with [4] => aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as [5] => he is, and in the hottest day prognostication [6] => proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the [7] => sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he [8] => is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what [9] => talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries [10] => are to be smiled at, their offences being so [11] => capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain [12] => men, what you have to the king: being something [13] => gently considered, I'll bring you where he is [14] => aboard, tender your persons to his presence, [15] => whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man [16] => besides the king to effect your suits, here is man [17] => shall do it. ) ) [228] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He seems to be of great authority: close with him, [1] => give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn [2] => bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show [3] => the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, [4] => and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.' ) ) [229] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for [1] => us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much [2] => more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you. ) ) [230] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => After I have done what I promised? ) [231] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Ay, sir. ) [232] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business? ) [233] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful [1] => one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it. ) ) [234] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him, [1] => he'll be made an example. ) ) [235] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show [1] => our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your [2] => daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I [3] => will give you as much as this old man does when the [4] => business is performed, and remain, as he says, your [5] => pawn till it be brought you. ) ) [236] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side; [1] => go on the right hand: I will but look upon the [2] => hedge and follow you. ) ) [237] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest. ) [238] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good. ) [239] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would [1] => not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am [2] => courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means [3] => to do the prince my master good; which who knows how [4] => that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring [5] => these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he [6] => think it fit to shore them again and that the [7] => complaint they have to the king concerns him [8] => nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far [9] => officious; for I am proof against that title and [10] => what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present [11] => them: there may be matter in it. ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A room in LEONTES' palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants [1] => Enter a Gentleman [2] => Enter a Lord [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd [1] => A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make, [2] => Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down [3] => More penitence than done trespass: at the last, [4] => Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; [5] => With them forgive yourself. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whilst I remember [1] => Her and her virtues, I cannot forget [2] => My blemishes in them, and so still think of [3] => The wrong I did myself; which was so much, [4] => That heirless it hath made my kingdom and [5] => Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man [6] => Bred his hopes out of. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => True, too true, my lord: [1] => If, one by one, you wedded all the world, [2] => Or from the all that are took something good, [3] => To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd [4] => Would be unparallel'd. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think so. Kill'd! [1] => She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me [2] => Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter [3] => Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now, [4] => Say so but seldom. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not at all, good lady: [1] => You might have spoken a thousand things that would [2] => Have done the time more benefit and graced [3] => Your kindness better. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are one of those [1] => Would have him wed again. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DION [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you would not so, [1] => You pity not the state, nor the remembrance [2] => Of his most sovereign name; consider little [3] => What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue, [4] => May drop upon his kingdom and devour [5] => Incertain lookers on. What were more holy [6] => Than to rejoice the former queen is well? [7] => What holier than, for royalty's repair, [8] => For present comfort and for future good, [9] => To bless the bed of majesty again [10] => With a sweet fellow to't? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is none worthy, [1] => Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods [2] => Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes; [3] => For has not the divine Apollo said, [4] => Is't not the tenor of his oracle, [5] => That King Leontes shall not have an heir [6] => Till his lost child be found? which that it shall, [7] => Is all as monstrous to our human reason [8] => As my Antigonus to break his grave [9] => And come again to me; who, on my life, [10] => Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel [11] => My lord should to the heavens be contrary, [12] => Oppose against their wills. [13] => Care not for issue; [14] => The crown will find an heir: great Alexander [15] => Left his to the worthiest; so his successor [16] => Was like to be the best. ) [STAGEDIR] => To LEONTES ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Paulina, [1] => Who hast the memory of Hermione, [2] => I know, in honour, O, that ever I [3] => Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now, [4] => I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes, [5] => Have taken treasure from her lips-- ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And left them [1] => More rich for what they yielded. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou speak'st truth. [1] => No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse, [2] => And better used, would make her sainted spirit [3] => Again possess her corpse, and on this stage, [4] => Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd, [5] => And begin, 'Why to me?' ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Had she such power, [1] => She had just cause. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She had; and would incense me [1] => To murder her I married. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I should so. [1] => Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark [2] => Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't [3] => You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears [4] => Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd [5] => Should be 'Remember mine.' ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stars, stars, [1] => And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife; [2] => I'll have no wife, Paulina. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Will you swear [1] => Never to marry but by my free leave? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit! ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => You tempt him over-much. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unless another, [1] => As like Hermione as is her picture, [2] => Affront his eye. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOMENES [LINE] => Good madam,-- ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have done. [1] => Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir, [2] => No remedy, but you will,--give me the office [3] => To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young [4] => As was your former; but she shall be such [5] => As, walk'd your first queen's ghost, [6] => it should take joy [7] => To see her in your arms. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My true Paulina, [1] => We shall not marry till thou bid'st us. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That [1] => Shall be when your first queen's again in breath; [2] => Never till then. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One that gives out himself Prince Florizel, [1] => Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she [2] => The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access [3] => To your high presence. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What with him? he comes not [1] => Like to his father's greatness: his approach, [2] => So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us [3] => 'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced [4] => By need and accident. What train? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But few, [1] => And those but mean. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => His princess, say you, with him? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think, [1] => That e'er the sun shone bright on. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Hermione, [1] => As every present time doth boast itself [2] => Above a better gone, so must thy grave [3] => Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself [4] => Have said and writ so, but your writing now [5] => Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been, [6] => Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse [7] => Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd, [8] => To say you have seen a better. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon, madam: [1] => The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,-- [2] => The other, when she has obtain'd your eye, [3] => Will have your tongue too. This is a creature, [4] => Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal [5] => Of all professors else, make proselytes [6] => Of who she but bid follow. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => How! not women? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Women will love her, that she is a woman [1] => More worth than any man; men, that she is [2] => The rarest of all women. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, Cleomenes; [1] => Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends, [2] => Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange [3] => He thus should steal upon us. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt CLEOMENES and others ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Had our prince, [1] => Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd [2] => Well with this lord: there was not full a month [3] => Between their births. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st [1] => He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure, [2] => When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches [3] => Will bring me to consider that which may [4] => Unfurnish me of reason. They are come. [5] => Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; [6] => For she did print your royal father off, [7] => Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one, [8] => Your father's image is so hit in you, [9] => His very air, that I should call you brother, [10] => As I did him, and speak of something wildly [11] => By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome! [12] => And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas! [13] => I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth [14] => Might thus have stood begetting wonder as [15] => You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost-- [16] => All mine own folly--the society, [17] => Amity too, of your brave father, whom, [18] => Though bearing misery, I desire my life [19] => Once more to look on him. ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By his command [1] => Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him [2] => Give you all greetings that a king, at friend, [3] => Can send his brother: and, but infirmity [4] => Which waits upon worn times hath something seized [5] => His wish'd ability, he had himself [6] => The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his [7] => Measured to look upon you; whom he loves-- [8] => He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres [9] => And those that bear them living. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my brother, [1] => Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir [2] => Afresh within me, and these thy offices, [3] => So rarely kind, are as interpreters [4] => Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither, [5] => As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too [6] => Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage, [7] => At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune, [8] => To greet a man not worth her pains, much less [9] => The adventure of her person? ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, [1] => She came from Libya. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where the warlike Smalus, [1] => That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved? ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter [1] => His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence, [2] => A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd, [3] => To execute the charge my father gave me [4] => For visiting your highness: my best train [5] => I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd; [6] => Who for Bohemia bend, to signify [7] => Not only my success in Libya, sir, [8] => But my arrival and my wife's in safety [9] => Here where we are. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The blessed gods [1] => Purge all infection from our air whilst you [2] => Do climate here! You have a holy father, [3] => A graceful gentleman; against whose person, [4] => So sacred as it is, I have done sin: [5] => For which the heavens, taking angry note, [6] => Have left me issueless; and your father's blest, [7] => As he from heaven merits it, with you [8] => Worthy his goodness. What might I have been, [9] => Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on, [10] => Such goodly things as you! ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most noble sir, [1] => That which I shall report will bear no credit, [2] => Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir, [3] => Bohemia greets you from himself by me; [4] => Desires you to attach his son, who has-- [5] => His dignity and duty both cast off-- [6] => Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with [7] => A shepherd's daughter. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Where's Bohemia? speak. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here in your city; I now came from him: [1] => I speak amazedly; and it becomes [2] => My marvel and my message. To your court [3] => Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems, [4] => Of this fair couple, meets he on the way [5] => The father of this seeming lady and [6] => Her brother, having both their country quitted [7] => With this young prince. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Camillo has betray'd me; [1] => Whose honour and whose honesty till now [2] => Endured all weathers. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lay't so to his charge: [1] => He's with the king your father. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Who? Camillo? ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now [1] => Has these poor men in question. Never saw I [2] => Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; [3] => Forswear themselves as often as they speak: [4] => Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them [5] => With divers deaths in death. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my poor father! [1] => The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have [2] => Our contract celebrated. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => You are married? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We are not, sir, nor are we like to be; [1] => The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: [2] => The odds for high and low's alike. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, [1] => Is this the daughter of a king? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is, [1] => When once she is my wife. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That 'once' I see by your good father's speed [1] => Will come on very slowly. I am sorry, [2] => Most sorry, you have broken from his liking [3] => Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry [4] => Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty, [5] => That you might well enjoy her. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FLORIZEL [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dear, look up: [1] => Though Fortune, visible an enemy, [2] => Should chase us with my father, power no jot [3] => Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir, [4] => Remember since you owed no more to time [5] => Than I do now: with thought of such affections, [6] => Step forth mine advocate; at your request [7] => My father will grant precious things as trifles. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress, [1] => Which he counts but a trifle. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, my liege, [1] => Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month [2] => 'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes [3] => Than what you look on now. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thought of her, [1] => Even in these looks I made. [2] => But your petition [3] => Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father: [4] => Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires, [5] => I am friend to them and you: upon which errand [6] => I now go toward him; therefore follow me [7] => And mark what way I make: come, good my lord. ) [STAGEDIR] => To FLORIZEL ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Before LEONTES' palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman [1] => Exeunt Gentlemen [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old [1] => shepherd deliver the manner how he found it: [2] => whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all [3] => commanded out of the chamber; only this methought I [4] => heard the shepherd say, he found the child. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => I would most gladly know the issue of it. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I make a broken delivery of the business; but the [1] => changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were [2] => very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with [3] => staring on one another, to tear the cases of their [4] => eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language [5] => in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard [6] => of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable [7] => passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest [8] => beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not [9] => say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the [10] => extremity of the one, it must needs be. [11] => Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more. [12] => The news, Rogero? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter another Gentleman ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the [1] => king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is [2] => broken out within this hour that ballad-makers [3] => cannot be able to express it. [4] => Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can [5] => deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news [6] => which is called true is so like an old tale, that [7] => the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king [8] => found his heir? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a third Gentleman ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by [1] => circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you [2] => see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle [3] => of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it, [4] => the letters of Antigonus found with it which they [5] => know to be his character, the majesty of the [6] => creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection [7] => of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding, [8] => and many other evidences proclaim her with all [9] => certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see [10] => the meeting of the two kings? ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => No. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen, [1] => cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one [2] => joy crown another, so and in such manner that it [3] => seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their [4] => joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes, [5] => holding up of hands, with countenances of such [6] => distraction that they were to be known by garment, [7] => not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of [8] => himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that [9] => joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother, [10] => thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then [11] => embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his [12] => daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old [13] => shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten [14] => conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such [15] => another encounter, which lames report to follow it [16] => and undoes description to do it. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried [1] => hence the child? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Like an old tale still, which will have matter to [1] => rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear [2] => open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this [3] => avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his [4] => innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a [5] => handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => What became of his bark and his followers? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and [1] => in the view of the shepherd: so that all the [2] => instruments which aided to expose the child were [3] => even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble [4] => combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in [5] => Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of [6] => her husband, another elevated that the oracle was [7] => fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth, [8] => and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin [9] => her to her heart that she might no more be in danger [10] => of losing. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The dignity of this act was worth the audience of [1] => kings and princes; for by such was it acted. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One of the prettiest touches of all and that which [1] => angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not [2] => the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's [3] => death, with the manner how she came to't bravely [4] => confessed and lamented by the king, how [5] => attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one [6] => sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,' [7] => I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my [8] => heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed [9] => colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world [10] => could have seen 't, the woe had been universal. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Are they returned to the court? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue, [1] => which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many [2] => years in doing and now newly performed by that rare [3] => Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself [4] => eternity and could put breath into his work, would [5] => beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her [6] => ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that [7] => they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of [8] => answer: thither with all greediness of affection [9] => are they gone, and there they intend to sup. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thought she had some great matter there in hand; [1] => for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever [2] => since the death of Hermione, visited that removed [3] => house. Shall we thither and with our company piece [4] => the rejoicing? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who would be thence that has the benefit of access? [1] => every wink of an eye some new grace will be born: [2] => our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge. [3] => Let's along. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, [1] => would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old [2] => man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard [3] => them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he [4] => at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter, [5] => so he then took her to be, who began to be much [6] => sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of [7] => weather continuing, this mystery remained [8] => undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I [9] => been the finder out of this secret, it would not [10] => have relished among my other discredits. [11] => Here come those I have done good to against my will, [12] => and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter Shepherd and Clown ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and [1] => daughters will be all gentlemen born. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me [1] => this other day, because I was no gentleman born. [2] => See you these clothes? say you see them not and [3] => think me still no gentleman born: you were best say [4] => these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the [5] => lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => And so have I, boy. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my [1] => father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and [2] => called me brother; and then the two kings called my [3] => father brother; and then the prince my brother and [4] => the princess my sister called my father father; and [5] => so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like [6] => tears that ever we shed. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => We may live, son, to shed many more. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so [1] => preposterous estate as we are. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the [1] => faults I have committed to your worship and to give [2] => me your good report to the prince my master. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are [1] => gentlemen. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Thou wilt amend thy life? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => Ay, an it like your good worship. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou [1] => art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => You may say it, but not swear it. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and [1] => franklins say it, I'll swear it. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Shepherd [LINE] => How if it be false, son? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear [1] => it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to [2] => the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and [3] => that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no [4] => tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be [5] => drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst [6] => be a tall fellow of thy hands. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AUTOLYCUS [LINE] => I will prove so, sir, to my power. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not [1] => wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not [2] => being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings [3] => and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the [4] => queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy [5] => good masters. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A chapel in PAULINA'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA, CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and Attendants [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort [1] => That I have had of thee! ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, sovereign sir, [1] => I did not well I meant well. All my services [2] => You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed, [3] => With your crown'd brother and these your contracted [4] => Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit, [5] => It is a surplus of your grace, which never [6] => My life may last to answer. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Paulina, [1] => We honour you with trouble: but we came [2] => To see the statue of our queen: your gallery [3] => Have we pass'd through, not without much content [4] => In many singularities; but we saw not [5] => That which my daughter came to look upon, [6] => The statue of her mother. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As she lived peerless, [1] => So her dead likeness, I do well believe, [2] => Excels whatever yet you look'd upon [3] => Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it [4] => Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare [5] => To see the life as lively mock'd as ever [6] => Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well. [7] => I like your silence, it the more shows off [8] => Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege, [9] => Comes it not something near? ) [STAGEDIR] => PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE standing like a statue ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Her natural posture! [1] => Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed [2] => Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she [3] => In thy not chiding, for she was as tender [4] => As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina, [5] => Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing [6] => So aged as this seems. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => O, not by much. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So much the more our carver's excellence; [1] => Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her [2] => As she lived now. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As now she might have done, [1] => So much to my good comfort, as it is [2] => Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood, [3] => Even with such life of majesty, warm life, [4] => As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her! [5] => I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me [6] => For being more stone than it? O royal piece, [7] => There's magic in thy majesty, which has [8] => My evils conjured to remembrance and [9] => From thy admiring daughter took the spirits, [10] => Standing like stone with thee. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And give me leave, [1] => And do not say 'tis superstition, that [2] => I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady, [3] => Dear queen, that ended when I but began, [4] => Give me that hand of yours to kiss. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, patience! [1] => The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on, [1] => Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, [2] => So many summers dry; scarce any joy [3] => Did ever so long live; no sorrow [4] => But kill'd itself much sooner. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dear my brother, [1] => Let him that was the cause of this have power [2] => To take off so much grief from you as he [3] => Will piece up in himself. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, my lord, [1] => If I had thought the sight of my poor image [2] => Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine-- [3] => I'ld not have show'd it. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Do not draw the curtain. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy [1] => May think anon it moves. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let be, let be. [1] => Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already-- [2] => What was he that did make it? See, my lord, [3] => Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins [4] => Did verily bear blood? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Masterly done: [1] => The very life seems warm upon her lip. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fixture of her eye has motion in't, [1] => As we are mock'd with art. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll draw the curtain: [1] => My lord's almost so far transported that [2] => He'll think anon it lives. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sweet Paulina, [1] => Make me to think so twenty years together! [2] => No settled senses of the world can match [3] => The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but [1] => I could afflict you farther. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do, Paulina; [1] => For this affliction has a taste as sweet [2] => As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks, [3] => There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel [4] => Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, [5] => For I will kiss her. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, forbear: [1] => The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; [2] => You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own [3] => With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => No, not these twenty years. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERDITA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So long could I [1] => Stand by, a looker on. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Either forbear, [1] => Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you [2] => For more amazement. If you can behold it, [3] => I'll make the statue move indeed, descend [4] => And take you by the hand; but then you'll think-- [5] => Which I protest against--I am assisted [6] => By wicked powers. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What you can make her do, [1] => I am content to look on: what to speak, [2] => I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy [3] => To make her speak as move. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is required [1] => You do awake your faith. Then all stand still; [2] => On: those that think it is unlawful business [3] => I am about, let them depart. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Proceed: [1] => No foot shall stir. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Music, awake her; strike! [1] => 'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach; [2] => Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come, [3] => I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away, [4] => Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him [5] => Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs: [6] => Start not; her actions shall be holy as [7] => You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her [8] => Until you see her die again; for then [9] => You kill her double. Nay, present your hand: [10] => When she was young you woo'd her; now in age [11] => Is she become the suitor? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Music [1] => HERMIONE comes down ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, she's warm! [1] => If this be magic, let it be an art [2] => Lawful as eating. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => She embraces him. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CAMILLO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She hangs about his neck: [1] => If she pertain to life let her speak too. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POLIXENES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived, [1] => Or how stolen from the dead. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That she is living, [1] => Were it but told you, should be hooted at [2] => Like an old tale: but it appears she lives, [3] => Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while. [4] => Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel [5] => And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady; [6] => Our Perdita is found. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERMIONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You gods, look down [1] => And from your sacred vials pour your graces [2] => Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own. [3] => Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found [4] => Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I, [5] => Knowing by Paulina that the oracle [6] => Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved [7] => Myself to see the issue. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAULINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's time enough for that; [1] => Lest they desire upon this push to trouble [2] => Your joys with like relation. Go together, [3] => You precious winners all; your exultation [4] => Partake to every one. I, an old turtle, [5] => Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there [6] => My mate, that's never to be found again, [7] => Lament till I am lost. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONTES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, peace, Paulina! [1] => Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent, [2] => As I by thine a wife: this is a match, [3] => And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine; [4] => But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her, [5] => As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many [6] => A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far-- [7] => For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee [8] => An honourable husband. Come, Camillo, [9] => And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty [10] => Is richly noted and here justified [11] => By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place. [12] => What! look upon my brother: both your pardons, [13] => That e'er I put between your holy looks [14] => My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law, [15] => And son unto the king, who, heavens directing, [16] => Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina, [17] => Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely [18] => Each one demand an answer to his part [19] => Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first [20] => We were dissever'd: hastily lead away. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )