Say, I command her come to me. Pet. Bap. Now, by my holidame, here comes Katha- Kath. What is your will, sir, that you send for me? Pet. Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife? • come, [Exit Grumio. Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands: An awful rule, and right supremacy; Re-enter Katharina, with Bianca, and Widow. See, where she comes; and brings your froward wives As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.- [Katharina pulls off her cap, and throws it down. Wid. Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh, Till I be brought to such a silly pass! Bian. Fie! what a foolish duty call you this? Pet. Katharine, I charge thee, tell these head strong women What duty they do owe their lords and husbands. Pet. Come on, I say; and.first begin with her. Pet. I say, she shall;-and first begin with her. And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled, (1) Gentle temper. 2 That seeming to be most, which we least are. Pet. Why, there's a wench!-Come on, and kiss Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't. Vin. 'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward. Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are froward. Pet. Come, Kate, we'll to bed: We three are married, but you two are sped. And, being a winner, God give you good night! Luc. 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be ACT I. Clown, his son. Servant to the old shepher u. Hermione, queen to Leontes. Perdita, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Paulina, wife to Antigonus. Emilia, a ladies, attending the queen. Two other Mopsa, Shepherdesses. Lords, ladies, and attendants; satyrs for a dance, shepherds, shepherdesses, guards, &c. [Scene, sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia. malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius; SCENE I-Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leon-it is a gentleman of the greatest promise, that ever tes' palace. Enter Camillo and Archidamus. Archidamus. IF you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which ne justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in our loves: for, indeed, Cam. 'Beseech you, Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence came into my note. Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, phywent on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their sics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they, that life, to see him a man. Arch. Would they else be content to die? Cum. Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. [Exeunt. SCENE II.—The same. A room of state in the palace. Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Hermione, Mamillius, Camillo, and attendants. Pol. Nine changes of the wat'ry star have been in so rare-I know not what to say.We will The shepherd's note, since we have left our throne give you sleepy drinks; that your senses, unintelli-Without a burden: time as long again gent of our insufficience, may, though they can- Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks: not praise us, as little accuse us. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utter And yet we should, for perpetuity, Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's Go hence in debt: And therefore, like a cipher, given freely. Yet standing in rich place, I multiply, With one we-thank-you, many thousands more That go before it. Leon. Stay your thanks awhile; And pay them when you part. ance. Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their Pol. Sir, that's to-morrow. childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance, such an affection, which cannot choose but branch Or breed upon our absence: That may blow now. Since their more mature dignities, and royal No sucaping winds at home, to make us say, necessities, made separation of their society, their This is put forth too truly! Besides, I have stay'd encounters, though not personal, have been royally To tire your royalty. attornied' with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves! Arch. I think, there is not in the world either (1) Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. (2) Wide waste of country. Leon. Than you can put us to❜t. We are tougher, brother, No longer stay. longer. Pol. (3) Affords a cordial to the state. (4) Nipping. I'll no gain-saying. Pol. Press me not, 'beseech you, so; There is no tongue that moves, none, none i'the world, So soon as yours, could win me: so it should now, Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder, Leon. Tongue-tied, our queen? speak you. until You had drawn oaths from him, not to stay. You, sir, Leon. The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia 2 With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven Boldly, Not guilty; the imposition clear'd, Her. Is he won yet? At my request, he would not. I Her. Leon. Never ? Never, but once. Her. What? have I twice said well? when was't before? pr'ythee, tell me : Cram us with praise, and make us tongueless, Prefix'd for his parting: yet, good deed, Leontes, As fat as tame things: One good deed, dying No, madam. You put me off with limber vows: But I, Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with Or I mistake you: 0, would her name were Grace! oaths, Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, You shall not go; a lady's verily is As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees, When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread verily, One of them you shall be. Pol. Your guest then, madam: To be your prisoner, should import offending; Which is for me less easy to commit, Than you to punish. Her. Not your gaoler then, But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you were boys; You were pretty lordings' then. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two? i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other: what we chang'd, (1) Gests were the names of the stages where the king appointed to lie, during a royal progress. (2) Indeed. (3) Tick. (5) A diminutive of lords. (4) Flimsy. But once before I spoke to the purpose. When? Nay, let me have't; I long. Leon. Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, Her. [Giving her hand to Polixenes. Leon. Too hot, too hot: [Aside. To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances; But not for joy,-not joy.-This entertainment May a free face put on; derive a liberty From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, And well become the agent: it may, I grant: B. to be paddling palms, and pinching fingers, As now they are; and making practis'd smiles, As in a looking-glass-and then to sigh, as 'twere The mort o'the deer; O, that is entertainment My bosom likes not, nor my brows.-Mamillius, Art thou my boy? Ay, my good lord. |