You have heard of my poor services, i' the love Flo. If Well, my lord, you may please to think I love the king, And, through him, what is nearest to him, which is Your gracious self, embrace but my direction, (If your more ponderous and settled project May suffer alteration,) on mine honour I'll point you where you shall have such receiving 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 Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Cam. Then list to me: This follows,-if you will not change your purpose, But undergo this flight,-make for Sicilia; And there present yourself, and your fair princess, The partner of your bed. Methinks, I see a His welcomes forth: asks thee, the son, forgiveness, Flo. Hold up before him? down: Cam. Flo. There is some sap in this. Cam. you 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. Cam. Yea, say you so? There shall not, at your father's house, these seven years, Be born another such. Flo. My good Camillo, a The. In the original, there. But, O, the thorns we stand upon !-Camillo,- The medicine of our house!-how shall we do? We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son; Nor shall appear in Sicilia Do all lie there it shall be so my care To have you royally appointed, as if The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir, Enter AUTOLYCUS. one word. 14 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 a riband, glass, pomander,' brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, 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 a The original reads "She is i' th' reere 'our birth." The apostrophes indicate the sense; but Steevens, sacrificing everything to uniformity of metre, has simply i' th' rear of birth, omitting she is, and substituting of for our. have pinched a placket, it was senseless; 't was 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.. [CAM., FLO., and PER. 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. We'll make an instrument of this; omit Aut. If they have overheard me now,——why, hanging. [Aside. Cam. How now, good fellow? why shakest thou so? Fear not, man; here 's no harm intended to thee. Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir. Cam. Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee: Yet, for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange: therefore, discase thee instantly, (thou must think there's a necessity in 't,) and change garments with this gentleman: Though the pennyworth, on his side, be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot. Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir :-I know ye well enough. [Aside. Cam. Nay, prithee, despatch: the gentleman is half flay'd already. Aut. Are you in earnest, sir?-I smell the trick on 't. Flo. Despatch, I prithee. [Aside. Aut. Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with conscience take it. Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle. [FLO. and AUTOL. exchange garments. Fortunate mistress,-let my prophecy Come home to you!-you must retire yourself Adieu, sir. He would not call me son. Cam. Come, lady, come.-Farewell, my friend. Aut. Flo. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot! Pray you, a word. [They converse apart. Cam. What I do next shall be, to tell the king Flo. Fortune speed us !— Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side. Cam. The swifter speed the better. [Aside. [Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO. Aut. I understand the business, I hear it: To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been, without boot! what a boot is here, with this exchange! Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do anything a You, which was wanting in the original, was added by Rowe. |