Gent. Pardon, madam : The one I have almost forgot,-your pardon,The other, when she has obtain'd your eye, Will have your tongue too. This is a creature, Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal Of all professors else, make proselytes Of who she but bid follow. Paul. How! not women? Gent. Women will love her, that she is a woman 110 More worth than any man; men, that she is The rarest of all women. Leon. Go, Cleomenes; Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends, Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange [Exeunt Cleomenes and others. He thus should steal upon us. Had our prince, Paul. Leon. Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; His very air, that I should call you brother, 120 130 I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth Amity too, of your brave father, whom, Flo. By his command Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him Give you all greetings that a king, at friend, Which waits upon worn times hath something seized The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his Leon. O my brother, Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee, stir Afresh within me, and these thy offices, So rarely kind, are as interpreters Of my behind-hand slackness. 140 150 Welcome hither, And hath he too Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage, Flo. She came from Libya. Leon. Good my lord, Where the warlike Smalus, That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved? Flo. Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter 138. him, an idiomatic repeti- 140. at friend, as being on tion of the object already ex- friendly terms, in friendship. pressed in the relative 'whom.' His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence, 16 Not only my success in Libya, sir, But my arrival and my wife's in safety Leon. The blessed gods Purge all infection from our air whilst you Worthy his goodness. What might I have been, 170 Lord. Enter a Lord. Most noble sir, That which I shall report will bear no credit, Please you, great sir, 180 Bohemia greets you from himself by me; His dignity and duty both cast off— Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with Lord. Here in your city; I now came from him : I speak amazedly; and it becomes My marvel and my message. To your court While he was hastening, in the chase, it seems Her brother, having both their country quitted Flo. Whose honour and whose honesty till now Endured all weathers. Lord. Camillo has betray'd me; Lay't so to his charge: Who? Camillo ? He's with the king your father. Leon. Lord. Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now Has these poor men in question. Never saw I Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; Forswear themselves as often as they speak: Per. O my poor father! Leon. You are married? Flo. We are not, sir, nor are we like to be; The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: The odds for high and low's alike. Leon. That once,' I see by your good father's speed, Will come on very slowly. I am sorry, 187. amazedly, confusedly. 190 200 210 Most sorry, you have broken from his liking That you might well enjoy her. Flo. Dear, look up: Though Fortune, visible an enemy, Should chase us with my father, power no jot Which he counts but a trifle. Paul. Sir, my liege, Your eye hath too much youth in 't: not a month 'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes Than what you look on now. Leon. I thought of her, Even in these looks I made. [To Florizel.] But your petition Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father: I am friend to them and you: upon which errand lord. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Before LEONTES' palace. Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman. Aut. Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation? 220 230 |