5 word. Enter Autolycus. And there present yourself, and your fair princess [That you may know you shall not want,-one Flo. Worthy Camillo, What colour for my visitation shall I Cam. Sent by the king your father To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir, Flo. I am bound to you: Cam. A course more promising Than a wild dedication of yourselves [certain, To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores; most [They talk aside. Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool honesty is! and trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterteit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, tablebook, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tye, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting: they 10throng who should buy first; as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer: by which means, I saw whose purse was best in picture; and, what I saw, to my good use, I remember'd. My clown (who wants but some15thing to be a reasonable man) grew so in love with the wenches' song, that he would not stir his petti toes, 'till he had both tune and words: which so drew the rest of the herd to me, that all their other senses stuck in ears: you might have pinched a 20 placket', it was senseless; 'twas nothing, to geld a codpiece of a purse; I would have filed keys off, that bung in chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, and admiring the nothing of it So that in this time of lethargy, I pick'd and cut most of 25 their festival purses: and bad not the old man come in with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's son, and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not a purse alive in the whole army. [Camillo, Florizel, and Perdita, come forward. Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. [there Flo. And those that you'll procure from king Cam. Shall satisfy your father. [Leontes,Per. Happy be you! 30 Whose fresh complexion and whose heart toge-35 Per. One of these is true: I think, affliction may subdue the cheek, [ther All, that you speak, shews fair. Cam. Who have we here?-[Seeing Autolycus. [years, 40 hanging. There shall not at your father's house, these seven 1 45 Aut. If they have over-heard me now,-why [Aside. Cum. How now, good fellow? Why shakest thou so? Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee. Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir. Cam. Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee: Yet, for the outside of thy poverty, we must make an exchange: therefore, discase thee instantly, (thou must think, there's necessity in't) and change garments with this gentleman: 50 Though the pennyworth, on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot. 6 Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir: I know ye well enough. Aside. Cam. Nay, pr'ythee, dispatch, the gentleman is 55 half tlead already. Aut. Are you in earnest, sir?I smell the trick of it. Flo. Dispatch, I pr'ythee. [Aside. Aut. Indeed, I have had earnest: but I can. 30 not with conscience take it. Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle. The council-days, in our author's time, were called, in common speech, the sittings. 2 Nothing, i. e. by no means. 'i. e. subdue or overcome. A pomander was a little ball made of perfuines, and worn in the pocket, or about the neck, to prevent infection in times of plague. properly the opening in a woman's petticoat. Fortunate mistress,-let my prophecy Come home to you! you must retire yourself The truth of your own seeming; that you may Flo. I see the play so lies, That I must bear a part. Have you done there? Flo. Should I now meet my father, He would not call me son. Cam. Nay, you shall have no hat :— Come, lady, come.-Farewell, my friend. Aut. Adieu, sir. Flo. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot? Pray you, a word. Cam. What I do next, shall be, to tell the king Of this escape, and whither they are bound; Flo. Fortune speed us!- honest man neither to his father, nor to me, to go about to make me the king's brother-in-law. Clo. Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him; and then your 5 blood had been the dearer by I know how much 10 an ounce. Aut. Very wisely; puppies! [Aside. Shep. Well; let us to the king; there is that in this farthel, will make him scratch his beard. Aut. I know not, what impediment this com plaint may be to the flight of my master. Clo. 'Pray heartily, he be at palace. Aut. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance:- Let me pocket up my 15 pedler's excrement.-How now, rusticks? whi ther are you bound? Shep. To the palace, an it like your worship. Aut. Your affairs there? what? with whom? the condition of that farthel, the place of your 20 dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that is fitting to be known, discover. Clo. We are but plain fellows, sir. Aut. A lie: you are rough and hairy: let me 25 have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the he: but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel: therefore they do not give us the lie. Clo. Your worship had like to have given us one, ngs? hath not my gait in it the measure of the [Exeunt Flo. Per. and Cam.|30|if Aut. I understand the business, I hear it: To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requi-See'st thou not the air of the court, in these enfoldsite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see, this is the time that the unjust man doth 35 thrive. What an exchange had this been, without boot? what a boot is here, with this exchange? Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thing extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity: stealing away from his 40 father, with his clog at his heels: If I thought it were not a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession. 43 Enter Clown and Shepherd. Clo. See, see; what a man you are now! there 50 55 Clo. She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the king and, so, your flesh and blood is not to be punish'd by him. Shew those things you found about her; those secret things, all but what she has with her:60 This being done, let the law go whistle, I warrant you. Shep. I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no Shep. My business, sir, is to the king. Clo. Advocate's the court word for a pheasant; say you have none. Shep. None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen. Aut. How bless'd are we that are not simple men! Yet nature might have made me as these are, Therefore I will not disdain.. Clo. This cannot be but a great courtier. Shep. His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely. Clo. He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: a great man, I'll warrant; I know, by the picking on's teeth. Aut. The farthel there? what's i' the farthel? Wherefore that box? Shop. Sir, there lies such secrets in this farthel, and box, which none must know but the king; and which he shall know within this hour, if I may come to the speech of him. Aut. Age, thou hast lost thy labour. 'That is, pedler's beard. ? To teaze, or toze, is to disentangle wool or flax. It here implies, to draw out by importunity. Shep Clo. Think you so, sir? Aut. Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy, and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to him, though removed tifty times, 15 shall all come under the hangman: which, though it be great pity, yet it is necessary. An old sheepwhistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into grace! Some say, he shall be ston'd; but that death is too soft for him, say 1:20 Draw our throne into a sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy. Clo. Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't like you, sir? dut. He has a son, who shall be flay'd alive; 25 then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest; then stand, till he be three quarters and a dram dead: then recover'd again with aquavitæ, or some other hot infusion: then, raw as he is,and in the hottest day prognostication proclainis', 30 - he shall be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him; where he is to behold him, with flies blown to death. But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smil'd at, their offences being so 35 capital? Tell me, (for you seem to be honest plain men) what you have to the king: being something gently consider'd2, I'll bring you where he is aboard, tender your persons to his presence, whis per him in your behalfs; and, if it be in man, be-40 sides the king, to effect your suits, here is man shall do it. Clo. He seems to be of great authority: close with him, give him gold; and though Authority be al SCENE I, stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: shew the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado: "Remember, ston'd, and flay'd alive. Shep. An 't please you, sir, to undertake the business for us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much more; and leave this young man in pawn 'till I bring it you, Aut. After I have done what I promised? Aut. Well, give me the moiety:-Are you a party in this business? Clo. In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful one, I hope I shall not be flay'd out of it. Aut. Oh, that's the case of the shepherd's son:--Hang him, he'll be made an example. Clo. Comfort, good comfort: We must to the king, and shew our strange sights: he must know, 'tis none of your daughter, nor my sister; we are gone else.-Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does, when the business is perform'd; and remain, as he says, your pawn, 'till it be brought you. Aut. I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side; go on the right hand; I will but look upon the hedge, and follow you. Clo. We are bless'd in this man, as I may say, even bless'd. Shop. Let's before, as he bid us: he was provided to do us good. [Exeunt Shep. and Clo. Aut. If I had a mind to be honest, I see, fortune would not suffer me; she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now on a double occasion; gold, and a means to do the prince my master good, which, who knows how that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again,and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing, let him call me, rogue, for being so far officious; for I am proof against that title, and what shame else belongs to't: To him will I present them, there may be matter in it. ACT [Exit. 2 'That is, the hottest day foretold in the almanack. The meaning is, "If you will give me a "consideration, or bribe, worthy of a gentleman, I'll bring you, &c." Have done the time more benefit, and grac'd Paul. You are one of those, Dio. If you would not so, You pity not the state, nor the remembrance Paul. There is none worthy, Leo. Good Paulina,→→ Who hast the memory of Hermione, Had squar'd me to thy counsel! then even now, Paul. And left them More rich, for what they yielded. Leo. Thou speak'st truth. No more such wives; therefore, no wife; one worse, Pant. Had she such power, Leo. She had; and would incense me To murder her I married, 30 And those but mean. Leo. His princess, say you, with him? That e'er the sun shone bright on. Paul. Oh Hermione, As every present time dost boast itself 35 Give way to what's seen now. Sir, you yourself Gent. Pardon, madam: The one I have almost forgot: (your pardon) Of who she but bid follow. Paul. How? not women? (Jewel of children) seen this hour, he had pair'd Well with this lord; there was not a full month 60 Between their births. Leo. Pr'ythee, no more; cease; thou know'st, Affront here signifies to meet, Enter Act 5. Scene 1.] WINTER'S TALE. Enter Florizel, Perdita, Cleomenes, and others. And your fair princess, goddess!-O alas! Flo. Sir, by his command Bohemia greets you from himself, by me; Leo. Where's Bohemia? speak. Lord. Here in your city; I now came from him: My marvel, and my message. To your court 13 Have I here touched Sicilia; and from him, The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his Leo. Oh, my brother! [stin (Good gentleman) the wrongs I have done thee,] Flo. Good my lord, She came from Libya. Leo. Where the warlike Smalos, That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd, and lov'd? His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence Leo. The blessed gods Purge all infection from our air, whilst you 25 30 The father of this seeming lady, and Her brother, having both their country quitted Flo. Camillo has betray'd me; Whose honour, and whose honesty, till now, Lord. Lay 't so, to his charge; [now Lord. Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who Per. Oh, my poor father! The heaven sets spies on us, will not have Leo. You are marry'd ? Flo. We are not, sir, nor are we like to be! Leo. My lord, 35 Is this the daughter of a king? wife. Leo. That once, I see,by your good father's speed, Flo. Dear, look up: 45 Though fortune, visible an enemy, Should chase us, with my father; power no jot Paul. Sir, my liege, 55 Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month For which the heavens, taking angry note, Enter a Lord. [gazes Even in these looks I made.--But your petition Is yet unanswer'd: I will to your father; I am friend to them and you: upon which errand 65 And mark what way I make: Come, good my lord. [Exeunt. 1 That is, in high descent. SCENE |