Acquaint the Queen of your most noble offer, Paul. Tell her, Emilia, I'll use that tongue I have; if wit flow from't, Emil. Now be you blest for it! I'll to the Queen: please you come fomething nearer. Goal. Madam, if't please the Queen to fend the babe, I know not what I fhall incur, to pass it, Having no warrant. Paul. You need not fear it, Sir; The child was prifoner to the womb, and is Paul. Do not you fear; upon mine honour, I [Exeunt. Enter Leontes, Antigonus, Lords and other attendants. OR night, nor day, no reft;it is but weakness Leo. N To bear the matter thus; meer weakness, if Is quite beyond mine arm; out of the blank 2 2. out of the blank that I can make against him. Blank and level, are terms of archery. -] And level of my brain ;Beyond the aim of any attempt And And level of my brain; plot-proof; but she Enter an Attendant. Atten. My Lord. Leo. How does the boy? Atten. He took good reft to night; 'tis hop'd, His fickness is discharg❜d. Leo. To fee his noblenefs! Conceiving the difhonour of his mother, Laugh at me; make their paftime at my forrow; SCENE V. Enter Paulina, with a Child. Lord. You must not enter. Paul. Nay rather, good my Lords, be fecond to me: Fear you his tyrannous paffion more, alas, Than the Queen's life? a gracious innocent foul, Ant. That's enough. Atten. Atten. [within] Madam, he hath not slept to night: commanded, None fhould come at him. Paul. Not fo hot, good Sir; I come to bring him fleep. 'Tis fuch as you, Do come with words, as medicinal as true; Leo. What noise there, ho? Paul. No noife, my Lord, but needful conference, About fome goffips for your Highness. Leo. How? Away with that audacious lady-Antigonus, I charg'd thee, that she should not come about me; I knew, fhe would. Ant. I told her fo, my Lord, On your displeasure's peril and on mine, Leo. What? canit not rule her? Paul. From all dishonesty he can; in this, Unless he take the courfe that you have done, Commit me, for committing honour, truft it, He fhall not rule me. Ant. Lo-you now, you hear, When she will take the rein, I let her run, Paul. Good my Liege, I come-- Leo. Good Queen? Paul. Good Queen, my Lord, Good Good Queen, I fay, good Queen; And would by combat make her good, fo were I 1 A man, the worst about you. Leo. Force her hence. Paul. Let him, that makes but trifles of his eyes, Firft hand me. On mine own accord, I'll off; But firft, I'll do my errand. The good Queen, For fhe is good, hath brought you forth a daughter, Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing. Leo. Out! [Laying down the child. A mankind witch! hence with her, out o'door : Paul. Not fo; I am as ignorant in that, as you In fo intit❜ling me; and no lefs honeft Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant, As this world goes,, to pafs for honest. Leo. Traitors! Will you not push her out? give her the baftard. [To Antigonus. of these fycophants that are about WARBURTON. you, The worst means only the lowest. Were I the meanest of your fervants, I would yet claim the combat against my accufer. + A mankind witch? A mankind woman is yet used in the midland counties, for a woman violent, ferocious, and mifchievous. It has the fame fenfe in this paffage. Witches are supposed to be mankind, to put off the foftnefs and delicacy of women, therefore Sir Hugh, in the Merry Wives of Windjor, fays, of a woman fufpected to be a witch, that he does not like when a woman has a beard. Of this meaning Mr. Theobald has given examples. Thou Thou dotard, thou art woman-tyr'd; unroofted Paul. For ever Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'ft up the Princess, by that forced baseness 5 Leo. He dreads his wife. Paul. So I would you did; then 'twere paft all doubt, You'd call your children yours. Leo. A neft of traytors! Ant. I am none, by this good light, Paul. Nor I; nor any But one, that's here; and that's himself. The facred honour of himself, his Queen's, For he His hopeful fon's, his babe's, betrays to flander, Whofe fting is sharper than the fword's; and will not (For as the cafe now ftands, it is a curfe . He cannot be compell'd to't) once remove The root of his opinion, which is rotten, As ever oak or ftone was found, Leo. A callat Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband, Hence with it, and together with the dam, Paul. It is yours; And, might we lay th' old proverb to your charge, The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley, 5 Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'ft up the Princefs by that fore'd bafenefs] Leontes had ordered Antigonus to take up the baftard; Paulina forbids him to touch the Princefs under that appellation. Forced is false, uttered with violence to truth. The |