1 Lady. She is spread of late Into a goodly bulk: Good time encounter her! Her. What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now I am for you again: Pray you, sit by us, Come on, sit down:-Come on, and do your best To fright me with your sprites: you're powerful at it. Mam. There was a man, Her. Nay, come, sit down; then on. Mam. Dwelt by a church-yard; - I will tell it softly; Yon crickets shall not hear it. Her. And give't me in mine ear. Come on then, Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Others. Leon. Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him? 1 Lord. Behind the tuft of pines I met them; ' never Saw I men scour so on their way: I ey'd them Even to their ships. Leon. How bless'd am I In my just censure? in my true opinion? 2 Judgment. Alack, for lesser knowledge!? How accurs'd, The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known spider. Camillo was his help in this, his pander :- 6 Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick For them to play at will:-How came the posterns Give me the boy; I am glad, you did not nurse him: Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you Have too much blood in him. Her. What is this? sport? Leon. Bear the boy hence, he shall not come about her; Away with him :--and let her sport herself 3 O that my knowlege were less. + Spiders were esteemed poisonous in our author's time. 5 Heavings. 6 A thing pinched out of clouts, a puppet. 7 Brand as infamous. Has made thee swell thus. But I'd say, he had not, And, I'll be sworn, you would believe my saying, Howe'er you lean to the nayward. Leon. You, my lords, Look on her, mark her well; be but about The justice of your hearts will thereto add, Praise her but for this her without-door form, (Which, on my faith, deserves high speech,) and straight The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands, Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, She's an adultress. Her. Should a villain say so, The most replenish'd villain in the world, Do but mistake. Leon. You have mistook, my lady, Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing, Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, She's an adultress; I have said with whom: A federary with her; and one that knows To this their late escape. Her. No, by my life, Privy to none of this: How will this grieve you, Leon. No, no; if I mistake In those foundations which I build upon, The center is not big enough to bear A school-boy's top.-Away with her to prison : But that he speaks.2 Her. There's some ill planet reigns : I must be patient, till the heavens look With an aspéct more favourable.-Good my lords, I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are; the want of which vain dew, Shall best instruct you, measure me;-and so • Remotely guilty. 8 Confederate. 9 Only. 2 In merely speaking. The king's will be perform'd! Shall I be heard? [To the Guards. Her. Who is't, that goes with me?-'Beseech your highness, My women may be with me; for, you see, My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools; There is no cause: when you shall know, your ✓ mistress Has deserv'd prison, then abound in tears, As I come out: this action, I now go on, Is for my better grace.-Adieu, my lord: I never wish'd to see you sorry; now, I trust, I shall.-My women, come; you have leave. Leon. Go, do our bidding; hence. [Exeunt Queen and Ladies. 1 Lord. 'Beseech your highness, call the queen again. Ant. Be certain what you do, sir; lest your justice Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer, Yourself, your queen, your son. 1 Lord. For her, my lord, I dare my life lay down, and will do't, sir, I'the eyes of heaven, and to you; I mean, In this which you accuse her. Ant. If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables 3 where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel, and see her, no further trust her; Take my station. |