Leon. Never, Paulina: so be bless'd my spirit! oath. Yet, if my lord will marry,-if you will, sir, As, walk'd your first queen's ghost, it should take joy To see her in your arms. Leon. My true Paulina, We shall not marry, till thou bidd'st us. Paul. Shall be, when your first queen's again in breath; Never till then. Enter a Gentleman. Gent. One that gives out himself prince Florizel, Son of Polixenes, with his princess, (she The fairest I have yet beheld,) desires access your high presence. To Leon. What with him? he comes not Like to his father's greatness: his approach, Gent. But few, His princess, say you, with him And those but mean. Leon. 7 Affront his eye.] To affront, is to meet. VOL. III. Gent. Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think, That e'er the sun shone bright on. Paul. O Hermione, As every present time doth boast itself Above a better, gone; so must thy grave Give way to what's seen now. Sir, you yourself Have said, and writ so, (but your writing now Is colder than that theme,) She had not been, Nor was not to be equall'd;-thus your verse Flow'd with her beauty once; 'tis shrewdly ebb'd, To say, you have seen a better. 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 such 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 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, Lords, and Gentleman. He thus should steal upon us. Paul. Had our prince, (Jewel of children,) seen this hour, he had pair'd Well with this lord; there was not full a month Between their births. Leon. Pr'ythee, no more; thou know'st, He dies to me again, when talk'd of: sure, 8 Is colder than that theme,)] i. e. than the lifeless body of Hermione, the theme or subject of your writing. MALONE. When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches Re-enter CLEOMENES, with FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and Attendants. Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; His very air, that I should call you brother, 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 seiz'd His wish'd ability, he had himself The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his Leon. 9— O, my brother, that a king, at friend,] At friend, perhaps means, at friendship. (Good gentleman!) the wrongs I have done thee, stir Afresh within me; and these thy offices, Of my behind-hand slackness !-Welcome hither, (At least, ungentle,) of the dreadful Neptune, Flo. She came from Libya. Leon. Good my lord, Where the warlike Smalus, That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd, and lov'd? Flo. Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence To execute the charge my father gave me, Not only my success in Libya, sir, Leon. For which the heavens, taking angry note, Worthy his goodness. What might I have been, Lord. Enter a Lord. Most noble sir, That, which I shall report, will bear no credit, Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with Leon. Where's Bohemia ? speak. Lord. Here in the city; I now came from him: I speak amazedly; and it becomes My marvel, and my message. To your court Her brother, having both their country quitted Flo. Camillo has betray'd me; Whose honour, and whose honesty, till now, Endur'd all weathers. Lord. 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: Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them Per. O, my poor father!— The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have Our contract celebrated. Leon. You are married? in question.] i. e. conversation. |