I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, that may Be thereat glean'd; for all the sun sees, or With her, whom here I cannot hold on shore ; For this design. What course I mean to hold, Cam. O, my lord, I would your spirit were easter for advice, Flo. Hark, Perdita.[Takes her aside. [TO CAMILLO. I'll hear you by and by. Cam. He's irremovable, Resolv'd for flight: Now were I happy, if And that unhappy king, my master, whom Flo. I am so fraught with curious business, that I leave out ceremony. Cam. Now, good Camillo, [Going. Sir, I think, You have heard of my poor services, i'the love Flo. Very nobly Have you deserv'd it is my father's musick, Well, my lord, I'll point you where you shall have such receiving Flo. How, Camillo, May this, almost a miracle, be done? That I may call thee something more than man, And, after that, trust to thee. Cam. A place, whereto you'll go? Flo. Have you thought on Not any yet: But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do ;' so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Cam. Then list to me: This follows,-if you will not change your purpose, • Your discontenting father strive to qualify.] Discontenting is In our author's language the same as discontented. 'But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do ;] Guilty to, though it sounds harsh to our ears, was the phraseology of the time, or at least of Shakspeare; and this is one of those passages that should caution us not to disturb his text merely because the language appears different from that now in use. MALONE. But undergo this flight ;-Make for Sicilia; The partner of your bed. Methinks, I see Flo. Worthy Camillo, What Cam. Sent by the king your father To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir, The manner of your bearing towards him, with you, as from your father, shall deliver, Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down: The which shall point you forth at every sitting, What you must say; that he shall not perceive, But that you have your father's bosom there, And speak his very heart. Flo. There is some sap in this. I am bound to you: A course more promising Than a wild dedication of yourselves To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores; most certain, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Per. One of these is true: I think, affliction may subdue the cheek, But not take in the mind.2 Cam. Yea, say you so? There shall not, at your father's house, these seven My good Camillo, She is as forward of her breeding, as I'the rear of birth. Cam. I cannot 'tis pity say, She lacks instructions; for she seems a mistress To most that teach. Per. I'll blush you thanks. Your pardon, sir, for this: Flo. My prettiest Perdita. But, O, the thorns we stand upon!-Camillo,- The medicin of our house!-how shall we do? Nor shall appear in Sicily Cam. My lord, Fear none of this: I think, you know, my fortunes Do all lie there: it shall be so my care To have you royally appointed, as if That The scene you play, were mine. For instance, sir, you may know you shall not want,-one word. [They talk aside. Enter AUTOLYCUS. Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool honesty is! and trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not But not take in the mind.] To take in anciently meant to conquer, to get the better of. a riband, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tye, bracelet, hornring, to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who should buy first; as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer : by which means, I saw whose purse was best in picture; and, what I saw, to my good use, I remembered. My clown, (who wants but something to be a reasonable man,) grew so in love with the wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes, till he had both tune and words; which so drew the rest of the herd to me, that all their other senses stuck in ears you might have pinched a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing, to geld a codpiece of a purse; I would have filed keys off, that hung in chains no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, and admiring the nothing of it. So that, in this time of lethargy, I picked and cut most of their festival purses and had not the old man come in with a whoobub against his daughter and the king's son, and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not left a purse alive in the whole army. CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA, come forward. Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being there So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. Flo. And those that you'll procure from king Leontes, Cam. Shall satisfy your father. Per. All, that you speak, shows fair. 3 Cam. Happy be you! Who have we here? [Seeing AUTOLYCUS. pomander,] A pomander was a little ball made of perfumes, and worn in the pocket, or about the neck, to prevent infection in times of plague. |