Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast, Apollo be my judge. Enter Dion and Cleomenes. Lord. This your request Is altogether just: therefore, bring forth, Her. The emperor of Russia was my father: Ljustice, [Her heart is but o'ercharg'd; she will recover. [Exeunt Paulina and Ladies, with Hermione. I have too much believ'd mine own suspicion :~~Beseech you, tenderly apply to her 5 Some remedies for life.-Apollo, pardon New woo my queen; recall the good Camillo; Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy: 10 For, being transported by my jealousies To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose My friend Polixenes: which had been done, 25 Off. You here shall swear upon the sword of Cleo. Dion. All this we swear. 35 Offi. "Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless,) Lords. Now blessed be the great Apollo ! Leo. Hast thou read truth? Offi. Ay, my lord; even so as it is here set down. Ser. My lord the king, the king! Leo. What is the business? Ser. O sir, I shall be hated to report it: The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear Leo. How! gone? Ser. Is dead. No richer than his honour:-How he glisters Re-enter Paulina. O, cut my lace; lest my heart, cracking it, [me? Lord. What fit is this, good lady? 50 Of the young prince; whose honourable thoughts Leo. Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves Do strike at my injustice.How now there? [Hermione faints. Paul. This news is mortal to the queen:-Look And see what death is doing. [down, 60 Leo. Take her hence: Paul. I am sorry for't; I'll follow instantly. Mar. I am glad at heart [Exit. [dead 5 I have heard, (but not believ'd) the spirits of the So fill'd, and so becoming: in pure white robes, My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me; All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, Leon. Thou didst speak but well, SCENE III. [Exeunt. Mar. Av, my lord; and fear "I pr'ythee, call't: for this ungentle business, "Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see 25" Thy wife Paulina more:"-and so, with shrieks, She melted into air. Affrighted much, I did in time collect myself; and thought That, for thy mother's fault, art thus expos'd The heavens so dim by day.-A savage clamour!-- We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly, 50I am gone for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear. And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, [aboard Mur. Make your best haste; and go not 2 Ant. Go thou away: Enter an old Shepherd. Shep. I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between 55but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.-Hark you now!Would any but these boil'd brains of nineteen, and two-and-twenty, hunt this weather? They have scar'd away two of my best sheep; which, I fear, 60 the wolf will sooner find, than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by the sea-side, brouzing as in many other passages of our Author's Plays. Perfect here means certain, or well assured, Meaning, the writing afterwards discovered with Perdita. of of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy will! what have Clo. Hilloa, loa! Shep. What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What ail'st thou, man? Clo. I have seen two such sights, by sea, and by land; but I am not to say, it is a sea, for it is now the sky; betwixt the firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. Shep. Why, boy, how is it? 15 Clo. Now, now; I have not wink'd since I saw these sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor the bear half-din'd on the gentleman; he's at it now. Shep. Would I had been by, to have help'd the old man! Clo. I would you had been by the ship-side, to have help'd her; there your charity would have iack'd footing. [Aside. Shep. Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here, boy. Now bless thyself; thou mett'st with things dying, I with things new born. Here's a sight for thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth' for a squire's child! Look thee here; take up, take up, boy; open't. So, let's see ;-It was told me, I should be rich by the fairies: this is some changeling':-open't: What's within, boy? Čio. You're a mad old man: if the sins of your youth are forgiven you, you're well to live. 20 Gold! all gold! Shep. This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up with it, keep it close; home, home, the next way. We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires nothing but secrecy.-Let my sheep go: 25-Come, good boy, the next way home. Cl. I would, you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the shore ! but that's not to the point: Oh, the most piteous cry of the poor souls! sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em: now the ship boring the moon with her main-mast; and anon swallow'd with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead. And then for the land service,-To see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone; how he cry'd to me 30 for help, and said, his name was Antigonus, a nobleman :-But to make an end of the ship;to see how the sea flap-dragon'd it: but, first, how the poor souls roar'd, and the sea. mock'd them; and Low the poor gentleman roar'd, and 35 "the bear mock'd him, both roaring louder than the sea, or weather. Shep. 'Name of mercy, when was this, boy? Clo. Go you the next way with your findings; I'll go see if the bear be gone from the gentleman, and how much he hath eaten: they are never curst, but when they are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury it. Shep. That's a good deed: if thou may'st discern by that which is left of him, what he is, fetch me to the sight of him. Clo. Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground. Shep. 'Tis a lucky day, boy; and we'll do good deeds on't. [Exeunt. Time. I Enter Time, as Chorus. ACT IV. THAT please some, try all; both joy, Of good and bad; that make, and unfold error,- |45|[ turn my glass; and give my scene such growing I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel daughter, And what to her adheres, which follows after, Tothe freshest things now reigning; and make stale 60 If you have ever spent time worse ere now; The glistering of this present, as my tale Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing, 3 If ever yet, that Time himself doth say, [Exit. 1i. e. child. 2 The mantle or cloth with which a child is usually covered, when carried to church to be baptized. Meaning, some child left behind by the fairies, in place of one which they had stolen. i. e. subject. SCENE Enter Polixenes and Camillo. Pol. I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more 5 importunate: 'tis a sickness, denying thee any thing; a death, to grant this. Cum. It is fifteen years, since I saw my country: though I have, for the most part, been aired abroad, I desire to lay my bones there. Besides, 10 the penitent king, my master, hath sent for me: to whose feeling sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to think so; which is another spur to my departure. Pol. As thou lov'st me, Camillo, wipe not out 15 the rest of thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of thee, thine own goodness hath made; better not to have had thee, than thus to want thee: thou, having made me businesses, which none, without thee, can sufficiently manage, 20 must either stay to execute them thyself, or take away with thee the very services thou hast done: which if I have not enough consider'd, (as too much I cannot) to be more thankful to thee, shall be my study; and my profit therein, the heaping 25 friendships. Of that fatal country Sicilia, pr'ythee speak no more: whose very naming punishes me with the remembrance of that penitent, as thou call'st him, and reconciled king, my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen, and children, are 30 even now to be afresh lamented. Say to me, when saw'st thou the prince Florizel my son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being gracious; than they are in losing them, when they have approved their virtues. Cam. Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince: What his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I have, missingly', noted, he is of late much retired from court; and is less frequent to his princely exercises, than formerly he hath 40 appeared. Enter Autolycus singing. Why, then comes in the sweet o' the I With, hey! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!— For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. With, hey! with, hey! the thrush and the jay:— three-pile'; but now am out of service: But shall I go mourn for that, my dear? If tinkers may have leave to live, And bear the sow-skin budget; And in the stocks arouch it. 35 My traffick is sheets"; when the kite builds. look to lesser linen. My father named me Auto lycus; who being, as I am, litter'd under Mer cury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsider'd trifles: With die, and drab, I purchas'd this caparison'; and my revenue is the silly cheat": Gallows, and knock, are too powerful on the high-way: beating, and hanging, are terrors to me; for the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.- -A prize! a prize! Pol. I have consider'd so much, Camillo; and with some care; so far, that I have eyes under my service, which look upon his removedness; from whom I have this intelligence: That he is seldom 45 from the house of a most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate. Cam. I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a daughter of most rare note: the report of her is extended more, than can be thought to begin from such a cottage. Pol. That's likewise part of my intelligence. But, I fear the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not appearing what we are, have some ques tion with the shepherd; from whose simplicity, I 50 Enter Clown. Clo. Let me see:-Every 'leven wether-tods"; every tod yields pound and odd shilling: fifteen hundred shorn,-What comes the wool to? Clo. I cannot do't without counters.---Let me see; Aut. Ifthespringe hold, the cock's mine. [Aside. what I am to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound of sugar:five pound of currants; rice---What will this sister of mine do with rice? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it 55on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for the shearers: three-man' song-men all, and and bases: but one puritan among them, and be very good ones; but they aremost of them means", 1i. e. occasionally. Meaning, the fishing-rod. The meaning is, the spring, or red blood, reigns over the winter's pale blood. 4 A cant word for a bawd. i. e. rich velvet. a hawker or vender of sheet ballads, and other publications. Meaning, with gaming and whoring, Meaning, that he was I brought myself to this reduced dress. The cant term for picking pockets. pounds of wool. i. e. singers or catches in three parts. Means are trebles. A tod is twenty-eight а 9 sings sings psalms to horn-pipes. I must have saffron, to colour the warden-pies: mace-dates-none; that's out of my note: nutmegs, seven: a race or two of ginger;-but that I may beg:-four pound of prunes, and as many raisins of the sun. 5 Aut. Oh, that ever I was born! [Groveling on the ground. Clo. P' the name of me,Aut. Oh, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and then, death, death! Clo. Alack, poor soul; thou hast need of more rags to lay on thee, rather than have these off. Aut. Oh, sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me, more than the stripes I have receiv'd; which are mighty ones, and millions. Clo. Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a great matter. Aut. I am robb'd, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon me. Clo. What, by a horse-man, or a foot-man? Clo. Indeed, he should be a foot-man, by the garments he hath left with thee; if this be a horse and having flown over many knavish professions, he settled only in a rogue: some call him Autolycus. Clo. Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig; he haunts wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings. Aut. Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue, that put me into this apparel. Clo. Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia; if you had but looked big, and spit at him, 10 he'd have run. 15 20 man's coat, it hath seen very hot service. Lend 25 me thy hand, I'll help thee; come, lend me thy band. [Helping him up. Aut. Oh! good sir: tenderly, oh! Aut. O good sir, softly, good sir: I fear, sir, my shoulder-blade is out. Clo. How now? canst stand?. 30 Aut. Softly, dear sir; [Picks his pocket] good|35| sir, softly: you ha' done me a charitable office. Clo. Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee. Aut. No, good sweet sir, no, I beseech you, sir: I have a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile 40 hence, unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or any thing I want: Offer me no money, I pray you that kills my heart. Clo. What manner of fellow was he that robb'd you? Aut. A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with trol-my-dames: I knew him once a servant of the prince; I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court. Clo. His vices, you would say; there's novirtue whipp'd out of the court: they cherish it, to make it stay there: and yet it will no more but abide3. Aut. I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter I am false at heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant him. Clo. How do you now? Aut. Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand, and walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace softly towards my kinsman's. Clo. Shall I bring thee on thy way? Aut. No, good-fac'd sir: no, sweet sir. Clo. Then fare thee well; I must go to buy spices for our sheep-shearing. [Exit. -Your purse Aut. Prosper you, sweet sir! is not hot enough to purchase your spice. I'll be Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, Your sad tires in a mile-a. [Exit. Flo. These your unusual weeds to each part of Per. Sir, my gracious lord, To chide at your extremes, it not becomes me; Aut. Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he hath been since an ape-bearer; then a 55 process-server, a bailiff; then he compass'd a motion of the prodigal son, and married a tinker's wife within a mile where my land and living lies; 3 4 Flo. I bless the time, When my good falcon made her flight across Per. Now Jove afford you cause! To me, the difference forges dread; your greatness 6 That is, pies made of wardens, a species of large pears. Trou-madame, French. The game of nine-holes. That is, reside but for a time. That is, the puppet-show, then called motions. This term frequently occurs in our author. Begging gypsies, in the time of our author, were in gangs and companies, that had something of the shew of an incorporated body. From this noble society he wishes he may be unrolled if he does not so and so. That is, take hold of it. The object of all men's notice and expectation. To prank is to dress with ostentation. i. e. One would think that in putting on this habit of a shepherd, you had sworn to put me out of countenance; for in this, as in a glass, you shew how much below yourself you must descend before you can get upon a level with me. |