The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all ANT. And I wish, my liege, You had only in your silent judgment tried it, : LEON. How could that be? Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight, (Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture, That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation, But only seeing,' all other circumstances Made up to the deed,) doth push on this proceeding: Yet, for a greater confirmation, (For, in an act of this importance, 'twere 2 Of stuff'd sufficiency: Now, from the oracle They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had, Shall stop, or spur me. Have I done well? 1 LORD. Well done, my lord. LEON. Though I am satisfied, and need no more Than what I know, yet shall the oracle Give rest to the minds of others; such as he, Come up to the truth: So have we thought it good, 1 nought for approbation, But only seeing,] Approbation, in this place, is put for proof. stuff'd sufficiency:] That is, of abilities more than enough. JOHNSON. Lest that the treachery of the two,3 fled hence, ANT. [Aside.] To laughter, as I take it, SCENE II. [Exeunt. The same. The outer Room of a Prison. Enter PAULINA and Attendants. PAUL. The keeper of the prison,-call to him ; [Exit an Attendant. Let him have knowledge who I am.-Good lady! No court in Europe is too good for thee, What dost thou then in prison?-Now, good sir, Re-enter Attendant, with the Keeper. You know me, do you not? KEEP. For a worthy lady, PAUL. Pray you then, And one whom much I honour. Conduct me to the queen. KEEP. I may not, madam; to the contrary I have express commandment. PAUL. Here's ado, To lock up honesty and honour from Lest that the treachery of the two, &c.] He has before declared, that there is a plot against his life and crown, and that Hermione is federary with Polixenes and Camillo. JOHNSON. Pray you, to see her women? any of them? KEEP. So please you, madam, to put PAUL. I pray now, call her. Withdraw yourselves. KEEP. [Exeunt Attend. And, madam, I must be present at your conference. PAUL. Well, be it so, pr'ythee. [Exit Keeper. Here's such ado to make no stain a stain, As passes colouring. Re-enter Keeper, with EMILIA. Dear gentlewoman, how fares our gracious lady? EMIL. A daughter; and a goodly babe, Lusty, and like to live: the queen receives Much comfort in't: says, My poor prisoner, I am innocent as you. PAUL. I dare be sworn :: These dangerous unsafe lunes o' the king!' beshrew them! * These dangerous unsafe lunes o' the king!] I have no where, but in our author, observed this word adopted in our tongue, to signify frenzy, lunacy. But it is a mode of expression with the French.-Il y a de la lune: (i. e. he has got the moon in his head; he is frantick.) Cotgrave. "Lune, folie. Les femmes ont des lunes dans la tete. Richelet." THEOBALD. He must be told on't, and he shall: the office The trumpet any more :-Pray you, Emilia, Persuades, when speaking fails. EMIL. Most worthy madam, Your honour, and your goodness, is so evident, That your free undertaking cannot miss A thriving issue; there is no lady living, Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer; PAUL. EMIL. Now be you blest for it! I'll to the queen: Please you, come something nearer. A similar expression occurs in The Revenger's Tragedy, 1608: "I know 'twas but some peevish moon in him." Again, in As you like it, Act III. sc. ii: "At which time would I, being but a moonish youth," &c. STEEVENS. The old copy has- the king. This slight correction was made by Mr. Steevens. MALone. KEEP. Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe, I know not what I shall incur, to pass it, PAUL. KEEP. I do believe it. PAUL. queen. Do not you fear: : upon [Exeunt. Mine honour, I will stand 'twixt you and danger. SCENE III. The same. A Room in the Palace. Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and other Attendants. LEON. Nor night, nor day, no rest: It is but weakness To bear the matter thus; mere weakness, if out of the blank And level of my brain,] Beyond the aim of any attempt that I can make against him. Blank and level are terms of archery. JOHNSON, VOL. IX. T |