Present our services to a fine néw prince, One of these days; and then you'd wanton with us, I LADY. She is spread of late Into a goodly bulk: Good time encounter her! HER. What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, fir, now I am for you again: Pray you, fit by us, And tell 's a tale. MAM. Merry, or fad, fhall't be? HER. As merry as you will. MAM. A fad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. Come on, fit down :-Come on, and do your best To fright me with your fprites; you're powerful at it. HER. Nay, come, fit down; then on. MAM. Dwelt by a church-yard;—I will tell it softly; Yon crickets fhall not hear it. HER. Come on then, And give't me in mine ear. Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, LORDS, and Others. LEON. Was he met there? his train?, Camillo with him? I LORD. Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never Saw I men fcour fo on their way: I ey'd them Even to their fhips. LEON. How blefs'd am I In my just cenfure? in my true opinion?- The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick For them to play at will:-How came the posterns I LORD. By his great authority; Which often hath no lefs prevail'd than fo, LEON. I know't too well. Give me the boy; I am glad, you did not nurse him': Though he does bear fome figns of me, yet you Have too much blood in him. HER. What is this? sport? [her; LEON. Bear the boy hence, he fhall not come about Away with him :—and let her sport herself With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes HER. But I'd fay, he had not, And, I'll be fworn, you would believe my faying, Howe'er you lean to the nayward. LEON. You, my lords, Look on her, mark her well; be but about To fay, he is a goodly lady, and The justice of your hearts will thereto add, 'Tis pity, he's not bonet, honourable: Praise her but for this her without-door form, (Which, on my faith, deferves high speech,) and straight VOL. II. Hh The fhrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands, That mercy does; for calumny will fear Virtue itself:-these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, When you have faid, fhe's goodly, come between, Ere you can fay the's honeft: But it be known, From him that has moft caufe to grieve it should be, She's an adultrefs. HER. Should a villain fay fo, The most replenish'd villain in the world, LEON. You have miftook, my lady, Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing, HER. No, by my life, Privy to.none of this: How will this grieve you, LEON. No, no; if I mistake In thofe foundations which I build upon, A schoolboy's top.-Away with her to prison : HER. There's fome ill planet reigns: I must be patient, till the heavens look With an afpéct more favourable.-Good my lords, Perchance, fhall dry your pities: but I have The king's will be perform'd! LEON. Shall I be heard? [To the guards. [highness, HER. Who is't, that goes with me?-'befeech your My women may be with me; for, you fee, My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools; There is no caufe: when you fhall know, your mistress I trust, I shall....—My women, come; you have leave. [Exeunt QUEEN and LADIES. I LORD. 'Beseech your highness, call the queen again ANT. Be certain what you do, fir; left your juftice Prove violence; in the which three great ones fuffer, Yourself, your queen, your fon. I LORD. For her, my lord, I dare my life lay down, and will do't, fir, In this which you accuse her. ANT. If it prove She's otherwife, I'll keep my ftables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Ay, every dram of woman's flesh, is false, If the be. LEON. Hold your peaces. I LORD. Good my lord, ANT. It is for you we speak, not for ourselves: You are abus'd, and by fome putter-on, That will be damn'd for't; 'would I knew the villain, I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven ; LEON. Ceafe; no more. You fmell this bufinefs with a fenfe as cold As you feel doing thus; and fee withal The inftruments that feel. ANT. If it be so, We need no grave to bury honesty; There's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten |