What wheels? racks? fires? What flaying? boiling, k And damnable ungrateful: nor was't much, Of the young prince; whose honourable thoughts 1 Lord. The higher powers forbid ! Paul. I say, she's dead: I'll swear't: if word, nor oath, Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring Tincture, or lustre, in her lip, her eye, Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll serve you As I would do the gods,-But, O thou tyrant! Do not repent these things; for they are heavier k of a fool,] By a mode of speech, anciently much in use, this means, "It shewed thee first a fool, then inconstant."-JOHNSON. 1 Thou would'st have poison'd good Camillo's honour,] How should Paulina know this? No one had charged the king with this crime except himself, while Paulina was absent, attending on Hermione. The poet seems to have forgotten this." Notwithstanding this remark of Mr. Malone's, the words may allude to the reproach of treason against himself, which Leontes cast on Camillo. Than all thy woes can stir: therefore betake thee Leon. 1 Lord. Say no more; Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault I'the boldness of your speech. Paul. I am sorry for't;m All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, I do repent: Alas, I have show'd too much The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd To the noble heart.-What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief: Do not receive affliction At my petition, I beseech you; rather Let me be punish'd, that have minded you Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege, Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman : The love I bore your queen,-lo, fool, again!- Leon. Thou didst speak but well, Than to be pitied of thee. Pr'ythee, bring me One grave shall be for both; upon them shall The chapel where they lie; and tears, shed there, Nature will bear up with this exercise, m I am sorry for't;] This is another instance of the sudden changes incident to vehement and ungovernable minds.-JOHNSON. So long I daily vow to use it. Come, And lead me to these sorrows. SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea. [Exeunt. Enter ANTIGONUS, with a Child; and a Mariner. Ant. Thou art perfect then," our ship hath touch'd upon The deserts of Bohemia? Mar. I call upon thee. Mar. Make your best haste; and go not Of prey, that keep upon't. I have heard, (but not believ'd,) the spirits of the dead So fill'd, and so becoming: in pure white robes, My cabin where I lay: thrice bow'd before me ; n Thou art perfect then,] Perfect is often used for certain,well assured, or well informed.-JOHNSON. Since fate, against thy better disposition, There weep, and leave it crying; and, for the babe I pr'ythee, call't: for this ungentle business, [Laying down the Child. There lie; and there thy character: there these; [Laying down a bundle. Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee pretty, And still rest thine.--The storm begins:-Poor wretch, That, for thy mother's fault, art thus expos'd To loss, and what may follow!-Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds and most accurs'd am I, To be by oath enjoin'd to this.-Farewell! The day frowns more and more; thou art like to have The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour?"— [Exit, pursued by a bear. Enter an old Shepherd. Shep. I would, there were no age between ten and three thy character:] Thy description; i. e. The writing afterwards discovered with Perdita.-STEEVENS. PA savage clamour?] This clamour was the cry of the dogs and hunters;→ then seeing the bear, he cries, this is the chace or the animal pursued.—JOHNSON. and-twenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.—Hark you now!Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen, and two-and-twenty, hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my best sheep; which, I fear, the wolf will sooner find, than the master; if any where I have them, 'tis by the sea-side, browzing on ivy. Good luck, an't be thy will! what have we here? [Taking up the Child.] Mercy on's, a barne; a very pretty barne! A boy, or a child,' I wonder? A pretty one; a very pretty one: Sure, some scape: though I am not bookish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the scape. This has been some stair-work, some trunk-work, some behinddoor-work they were warmer that got this, than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hollaed but even now. Whoa, ho hoa! Clo. Hilloa, loa! Enter Clown. Shep. What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What ailest 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? Clo. 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: O, 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 swallowed 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 barne,]i. e. Infant,-barnes for borns, or things born; answering to the Latin nati.-STEEVENS. — a boy, or a child,] Child is used for a female infant. Even within ten miles of London, on admiring "a fine child" in the arms of a cottager, 1 was corrected and told that it was a boy. |