ll the occurrence of my fortune since But nature to her bias drew in that. blood. If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, Oli. Did he write this? Duke. This savours not much of distraction. My lord, so please you, these things farther To think me as well a sister as a wife, [you, I shall have share in this most happy wreck.- Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. Duke. Oli. He shall enlarge him :-fetch Malvolio And yet, alas, now I remember me, Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end, as well as a man in his case may do he has here writ a letter to you; I should have given it to you to-day morning; but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much when they are delivered. Oli. Open it, and read it. Clo. Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman.-" By the Lord, madam." Oli. How now! art thou mad? Clo. No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow vox. Oli. Pr'ythee, read i' thy right wits. Clo. So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits, is to read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear. Oli. [To Fabian.] Read it you, sirrah. Fab. [Reads.] "By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it: though you have put me into darkness, and given your drunken cousin rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right, or you much shame. Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury. The madly-used MALVOLIO." Viola.] Your master quits you; and, for So much against the mettle of your sex, Oli. Ay, my lord, this same. Mal. Madam, you have done me wrong, Notorious wrong. Oli. Have I, Malvolio? no. Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter: You must not now deny it is your hand, Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing. [pos'd thee; [of it, But when we know the grounds and authors Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge Of thine own cause. Fab. Good madam, hear me speak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Taint the condition of this present hour, Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not, Most freely I confess, myself and Toby Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts [thee! Oli. Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled Clo. Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them." I was one, sir, in this interlude,-one Sir Topas, sir; but that's all one. By the Lord, fool, I am not mad:"but do you remember? Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gaggd:" and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mal. I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of [Exit. you. Oli. He hath been most notoriously abus'd. Duke. Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace ; He hath not told us of the captain yet: When that I was and a little tiny boy, For the rain it raineth every day. With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came unto my bed, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, With toss-pots still had drunken head, For the rain it raineth every day. A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain · But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day. [Exit. Officers of a Court of Judicature. Sicilian Gentlemen. Rogero, a Sicilian Gentleman. Polixenes, King of Bohemia. Florizel, his Son. Archidamus, a Bohemian Lord. A Mariner. Gaoler. DRAMATIS PERSONE. An old Shepherd, reputed Father of Perdita. Clown, his Son. Servant to the old Shepherd. Autolycus, a Rogue. Time, as Chorus. Hermione, Queen to Leontes. Perdita, Daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Emilia, a Lady, attending the Queen. Mopsa, Shepherdesses. Dorcas, Sicilian Lords and Ladies, Attendants, Guards, Satyrs, Shepherds, Shepherdesses, &c. SCENE, Sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia. ACT I. SCENE I.-Sicilia. An Antechamber in Enter Camillo and Archidamus. 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 he justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in our loves; for, indeed, — Cam. Beseech you, Leon. No sneaping winds at home, to make us say, Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of " This is put forth too truly." Besides, I have iny knowledge: we cannot with such magnifi- To tire your royalty. cence-in so rare-I know not what to say.— We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little ac cuse us. Cam. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. [stay'd We are tougher, brother, No longer stay. That you can put us to't. [now, Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind So soon as yours could win me: so it should to Bohemia. They were trained together in Were there necessity in your request, although their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt | 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs them then such an affection, which cannot Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder, choose but branch now. Since their more Were in your love a whip to me; my stay mature dignities and royal necessities made To you a charge and trouble: to save both, separation of their society, their encounters, Farewell, our brother. though not personal, have been royally attorneyed, 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 malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note. Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh they that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life to see him a man. Arch. Would they else be content to die? Cam. 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.-Sicilia. A Room of State in the been Palace. Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Hermione, Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher, Leon. Or breed upon our absence, that may blow peace until Leon. Tongue-tied our queen? speak you. Well said, Hermione. Her. To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong: But let him say so then, and let him go; I'll adventure The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind Her. Nay, but you will? Her. Verily! " No, madam. I may not, verily. You put me off with limber vows; but I, My prisoner, or my guest? by your dread verily, Pol. Your guest, then, madam: Her. Not your gaoler, then, But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you [boys; Her. twice: It is Grace indeed. The one for ever earn'd a royal husband; Th' other for some while a friend. Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two? [i' the sun, Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk And bleat the one at th' other: what we chang'd, Was innocence for innocence; we knew not Boldly, "Not guilty;" the imposition clear'd, Her. Leon. Never ? Never but once. Her. What! have I twice said well? when was't before? I pr'ythee tell me; cram us with praise, and But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter, "I am yours for ever." [Giving her hand to Polixenes. The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment Ay, my good lord. They say, it is a copy out of mine. Come, Upon his palm?-How now, you wanton calf! shoots that I have, To be full like me :-yet they say we are With what's unreal thou coactive art, dost; (And that beyond commission; and I find it,) What means Sicilia ? As if you held a brow of much distraction : No, in good earnest.— [Aside.] How sometimes nature will betray its Would hang themselves. Physic for't, there folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms ![To her.] Looking on Of my boy's face, methought I did recoil [friend, Are you so fond of your young prince, as we Pol. there? is none; It is a bawdy planet, that will strike (cluded, [boy! Why, that's some comfort. Leon. Cam. He would not stay at your petitions; [made Didst perceive it ?—[Aside.] They're here with me already; whispering, rounding, "Sicilia is a so-forth;" 'tis far gone, But so it is, it is not. Was this taken Her. If you would seek us, By any understanding pate but thine? We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in [be found, More than the common blocks:-not noted, is't, Leon. To your own bents dispose you: you'll But of the finer natures? by some severals Be you beneath the sky.-[Aside.] I am ang-Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes, Perchance, are to this business purblind? say. Cam. Business, my lord! I think, most unBohemia stays here longer. [derstand ling now, Though you perceive me not how I give line. Go to, go to ! [Observing Polixenes and Hermione. Go play, boy, play :-thy mother plays, and I arm, Leon. Ha? Stays here longer. Leon. Ay, but why? Satisfy The entreaties of your mistress !-satisfy !- or, If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward, Whiles other men have gates, and those gates |