Sirrah, Grumio, go to your mistress ; l Kath. Fie, fie ! unknit that threat'ning unSay, I command her to come to me. kind brow; [Exit. GRUMIO. And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, Hor, I know her answer. To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: Pet. What? It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads ; Hor. She will not come. Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair Pel. The fouler fortune mine, and there an | And in no sense is meet, or amiable. [buds ; end. A woman moy'u, is like a fountain troubled ; | Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty i Enter CATHARINA. And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Bap. Now, my holidame, here comes Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. Katharina ! | Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Kath. What is you will, Sir, that you send Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for for me? thee, Pet. Where is your sister, and Hortensio's And for thy maintenance : commits his body wife? To painful labour, both by sea and land; Kath. They sit conferring by the parlour fire. To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Pet. Go fetch them bither; if they deny to Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and come, safe ; Swinge me them soundly forth unto their hus. And craves no other tribute at thy bands, bands : But love, fair looks, and true obedience;Away, I say, and bring them hither straight. Too little payment for so great a debt. [Erit KATHARINA. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Luc. Here is a wonder, if you talk of won- Even such, a woman oweth to her husband : der. And, when she's forward, peevish, sullen, sour, Hor. and so it is; I wonder what it bodes. And, not obedient to his honest will, Pet. Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and What is she, but a foul contending rebel, quiet life, And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? An awful rule, and right supremacy; I am asham'd that women are so simple Ind, to be short, what not, that's sweet and To offer war, where they should kneel for happy. peace ; Bap. Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio! Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, The wager thou hast won; and I will add When they are bound to serve, love, and obey, Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns; Why are our bodies soft, and weak and smooth, Another dowry to another daughter, Unapt to toil and trouble in the world; For she is chang'd, as she had never been. But that our soft conditions* and our hearts, Pet. Nay, I will win my wager better yet; 1 Should well agree with our external parts ? And show more sign of her obedience, Come, come, you froward and unable worms! Her new-built virture and obedience. My mind hath been as big as one of yours, My heart as great; my reason haply more, Re-Enter KATHARINA, with Bianca, and To bandy word for word, and frown for frown: WIDOW. But now, I see our lances are but straws; See, where she coines; and brings your froOur strength as weak, our weakness past comward wives pare, is prisoners to her womanly persuasion. That seeming to be most which we least are. Katharine, that cap of yours becomes you not; | Then vail your stomachst for it is no boot; Off with that bauble, throw it under foot. And place your hands below your husbands's [KATHARINA pulls off her cap, and throws In token of which duty, if he please, {foot : it doun. My hand is ready, may it do him ease! Tid. Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh, Pet. Why, there's a wench!-Come on, and Till I be brought to such a silly pass! kiss me Kate. Bian. Fie! what a foolish duty call you Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou this? shalt ha't. Lue. I would, your duty were as foolish too: Vin. 'Tis a good hearing, when children The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca, are toward. Hath cost me a hundred crowns since supper Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are time. froward Bian. The more fool you, for laying on my / Pei. Come, Kate, we'll to bed: duty. We three are married, but we two are sped. Pd. Katharine, I charge thee, tell these 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the headstrong women white; [ To LUCENTIO. What duty they do owe their lords and hus. And, being a winner, God give you good night! bands. Exeunt PETRUCHIO and Kath. Wid. Come, come, you're mocking; we will Hor. Now go thy ways, thou hast tam'd a have no telling. curst shrew. Pet. Come on, I say; and first begin with Luc. "Tis a wonder. by you leave, she will her. be tamed so. | Exeunt. Ifid. She shall not. Pet. I say, she sball:-and first begin with * Gentle tempers. + Alac vous spirits. hor WINTER'S TALE. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Dion, LEONTES, King of Sicilia. AUTOLYCUS, a Rogue. TIME, as Chorus. HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes. PERDITA, Daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Paulina, Wife to Antigonus. Another Sincian Lord. EMILIA, a Lady, ROGERO, a Silician Gentleman. Two other Ladies, Attending the Queen. DORCAS, } Shepherdesses. Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord. a dance. A Mariner. Jailer. Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Guards, &c. An old Sheppard, reputed Father of Perditia. Clown, his Son. SCENE, sometimes in Sicilia ; sometimes in Servant to the old Shepherd. Bohemia, ACT 1. | embasssies : that they have seemed to be toSCENE I-Sicilia.-an Antechamber in Leon gether, though absent; shook hands, as over | a vast ;* and embraced, as it were, from the Tes' Palace. ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS. their loves! Arch. I think, their is not in the world either Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my l unspeakable comfort of your young prince services are now on foot, you shall see, as I Mamillius; it is a gentleman of the greatest have said, great difference betwixt our Bo- promise, that ever came into my note. hemia, and your Sicilia. Cam. I very well agree with you in the Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king | hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation indeed. physics the subiect.t makes old nearts which he justly owes him." fresh ; they, that went on crutches ere he was Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. shame us, we will be justified in our loves: for Arch. Would they else be content to die? indeed, Cam. Yes; if there were no other excuse Cam. 'Beseech you, why they should desire to live. Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of Arch. If the king had no son, they would my knowledge: we cannot with such magni- I desire to live on crutches till he had one. ficence-in so rare-I know not what to say. [Exeunt. We will give you sleepy drinks; that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, SCENE II.-The same. A rooin of state in though they cannot praise us, as little accuse the Palace. us. Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for | Enter LrONTES dear, for Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MA. what's given freely. Arch. Believe me, I speak as my under. MILLIUS, Canillo, and allendants. standing instructs me, and as mine honesty Pol. Nine changes of the wat'ry star have puts it to utterance. been. [throne Cam. Sicilia cannot show herself over-kind the shepherd's note since we have left our to Bohemia. They were trained together in ned together in Without a burden : time as long again their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks; them then such an affection, which cannot And yet we should, for perpetuity, choose but branch now. Since their more Go hence in debt: And therefore, like a cipher, mature dignities, and royal necessities, made Yet standing in rich place. I multiply, separation of their society, their encounters, with one we-thank-you, many thousands more though not personal, have been royally attor. That go before it. nied," with interchange of gifts,letters, loving * Wide waste of country * Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies, Affords a cordial to the State, Cocon. Stay your thanks awhile; I Her. Not your jailer then, [yota I pay them when you part. But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question Pol. Sir, that's to-morrow. Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you m question d by my fears, of what may You were pretty lordings* then. (were boys; chance, Pol. We were, fair queen, breed upon our absence: That may blow | Two lads, that thought there was no more be- sneaping* winds at home, to make us say, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, hind, is is put forth too truly! Besides, I have | And to be boy eternal. tire your royalty (stay'd Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o’the Leon. We are together, brother, two? ran you can put us to't. Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did Pol. No longer stay. frisk i'the sun, [chang'd Leon. One seven-night longer. And bleat the one at the other : what we Pol. Very sooth, to-morrow. Was innocence for innocence; we knew not Leon. W e'll part the time between's thien : 1 The doctrine of ill-doing, no nor dream'd and in that That any did : Had we purgued that life, 1 no gain-saying. And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd Pol. Press me not, 'beseech you, so ; With stronger blood, we should have answer'd here is no tongue that moves, none, none heaven i'the world, now, Boldly. Not guilly; the imposition clear’d soon as yours, could win me : so it should Hereditary ours.t You have tripp'd since. (for Tere, in your love, a whip to me; my stay, Temptations have since then been born to us : To you a charge, and trouble : to save both, In those unfledg'd days was my wife a girl ; Carewell, our brother. Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes Leon. Tongue-tied, our queen ? speak you. Of my young playfellow, Her. I had thought, Sir, to have held my Her Grace to boot! peace, until of this make no conclusion; lest you say, You had drawn oaths from him, not to stay. | Your queen and I are devils : Yei, go on; You, Sir, The offences we have made you do, we'll an. Charge him too coldly : Tell him, you are sure, swer; All iv Bohemia's well: this satisfaction If you first sinn'd with us, and that with us The by-gone day proclaim'd : say this to him, You did continue fault, and that you slipp'd not He's beat from his best ward. With any but with us, Leon. Well said, Hermione. Leon. Is he won yet? Her. To tell, he longs to see his son, were Her. He'll stay, my lord. stron: : Leon. At my request, he would not. But let him say so then, and let him go; Hermione, my dearest, thou never spok's i But let him swear so, and he shall not stay, To better purpose. Her. Never? Her. What? have I twice said well ? when 'The borrow of a week When at Bohemia was't before? (make us You take my lord, I'll give him my commis. | I pr'y thee, tell me: Cram us with praise, and sion, As fast as tame things : One good deed, dying To let him there a month, behind the gestt tongueless, Prefix'd for his parting : yet, good deed, Le Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. ontes, Our praises are our wages : You may ride us, I love thee not a jaro o'the clock behind With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere What lady she her lord.—You'll stay; With spur we heat an acre. But to the jail:-Pol. No madam. My last good was, to entreat his stay; Her. Nay, but you will? What was my first ? it has an elder sister, Pol. I may not, verily. Or I mistake you : 0, would her name were Her. Verily! Grace ? You put me off with limber|| vows; But I, But once before I spoke to the purpose : When? Though you would seek to unsphere the stars Nay, let me have't ; I long. with oaths, Leon. Why, that was when [to deatlı, Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, You shall not go ; a lady's verily is Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, Force me to keep you as a prisoner. And clap thyself my love; then didst thou (utter, Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees, Her. It is grace, indeed. [iwice : When you depart, and save your thanks. Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose How say you? (verily, My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread The one for ever earn'd royal husband; The other, for some while a friend. [giving her hand to POLIXENES. Leon. Too hot, too hot: [Aside. To be your prigoner, should import offending; Which is for me less easy to commit, sii To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. Than you to punish. I have tremor cordist on me :—my heart dances; May a free face put on; derive a liberty Setting aside original sin. · Trembline of the hear!. From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, | Are you so fond of your young prince, as My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all : [lius, | Thoughts that would thick my blood. Mam. Ay, my good lord. Leon. So stands this squire Leon. I'fecks? Offic'd with me: We two will walk, my lor Why that's my hawcock.+ What, hast smutch'd | And leave you to your graver steps.-her thy nose? moine, welcome : They say, it's a copy out of mine. Come cap- How thou lov'st us, show in our brothers tain, (tain : Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap: We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, cap- Next to thyself, and my young rover, he's And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf, Apparent* to my heart. Are all call'd, neat.-Still virginallingt Her. If you would seck us (there [Obsering POLIXENES and HERMIONE. We are yours i'the garden : Shall's attend you U pon his palm -How now, you wanton calf? | Leon. To your own bents dispose you: you Art thou my call? be found, Mam. Yes, if you will, my lord. Be you beneath the sky:-I am angling not, Leon. Thou want'st a rough pash, and the Though vou perceive me not how live line. shoot's that I have, i Go to, go to! To be full like me :-yet, they say, we are 11. Aside. Obserring POLIXERES and HER MOISE Almost as like as eggs : women say so, How she holds up the neb,t the bill to him! That will say any thing: But were they false And arms her with the boldness of a wife As o'er-died blacks, as wind, as waters; false To her allowingt husband! Gone already: As dice are to be wish d, by one that fixes | Inch-thick, knee-deep ; o'er head and ears a No bourn| twixt his and mine; yet were it fork'd one. 5 true [Exeunt POLISEXES, HERMOLJE, To say this boy were like me,-Come, Sir page, Altendants. Look on me with your welkin eye: Sweet Go, play, boy, play ;-thy mother plays, and I villain! Play too; but so disgrac'd a part, whose 80e Most dear'st! my collop!-Can thy dam? | Will hiss me to my grave; contempt and dis. may't be? mour Affection! thy intention stabs the centre: Will be my knell.-Go, play, boy, playThou dost make possible, things not so held There have been, dost; 1 (sence. Thou may'st co-join with something; and thou | That little thinks she has been slucil in his ab(And that beyond commission; and I find it,) | And his pond fish'd by his next neigibow, And that to the infection of my brains, Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay there's comic And hardening of my brows. in't, (open Pol. What means Silicia ? . Whiles other men have gates; and those gates Her. He something seems unsettled. As mine, against their will: Should all descans. Pol. How, my lord ? That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankin TVhat cheer? how is't with you, best brother? Would hang themselves. Physic for 't there Her. You look, is none; As if you held a brow of much distraction: It is a bawdy planet that will strike Are you mov'd, my lord ? Where ótis predominant; and 'tis poweriai Leon. No, in good earnest. think it, fcluded How sometimes nature will betray its folly, From east, west, north and south: Be it can. Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime No barricado for a belly ; know it; To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines It will let in and out the enemy, boy? | What! Camillo there? How like, methought, I then was to this ker Cam. Ay my good lori. nel, friend, Leon. Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an be This quash ti this gentleman:- Mine honest nest man. (En MAMILIOS Will you take eggs for money:I1 Camillo, this great Şir will yet stay longer. Mam. No, my lorů, I'll fight. Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor Leon. You will? why, happy man be his hold: dole ;08-My brother, When you cast out it still came home. * The tune played at the death of the deer, Leon. Did'st note it? I Hearty fellow. Cam. He would not stay at your peutia: , Il.e. Plasing with ber fingers as if on a spinnet. | His business more material. Thou wantest a rough head, and the budding horns hat I have. Il Boundary. Leon. Didst perceive it? 11 Will you be cajoled. * Heir apparcct. noul claimant Plaringia Souza il Boredible ley're here with me already ; whispering, 1 Can. I would not be a stander-by, to hear rounding,* My soverign mistress clouded so, without ilia is a so-forth : 'Tis far gone, My present vengeance taken: 'Shrew my heart, en I shall gustt it last-How came't, Ca. You never spoke what did become you less at he did stay? (millo, Than this ; which to reiterate, were sin Cam. At the good queen's entreaty. As deep as that, though true. Leon. At the queen's, be it: good, should be Leon. Is whispering nothing? pertinent ; Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses ! so it is, it is not. Was this taken Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career any understanding pate but thine ? of laughter with a sigh ? (a note infallible thy conceit is soaking, will draw in [is't, Of breaking honesty :) horsing foot on foot ? e than the common blocks :-Not noted, Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more of the finer natures? by some severals, swift? [blind • nead-piece extraordinary ? lower messes, Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight? and all eyes Perchance, are to this business purblind : say. With the pin and web,* but theirs, theirs only, Cam. Business, my lord ? I think, most un- That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing? Bohemia stays here longer. [derstand Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is noLeon. Ha ! thing; Cam. Stays here longer. The covering sky is nothing: Bohemia nothing; Leon. Ay, but why? My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the en If this be nothing. [nothings of our most gracious mistress. [treaties Cam. Good my lord, be cur'd Leon. Satisfy Of this diseas'd opinion, and betimes ; I say, thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee; Hast cleans'd my bosom; 1 from thee departed Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave ; Thy penitent reform’d: but we have been Or else a hovering temporizer, that [evil, Deceiv'd in thy integrity, deceiv'd Canst with thine eyes at once see good and In that which seems so. Inclining to them both: Were my wife's liver Cam. Be it forbid, my lord! Infected as her life, she would not live Leon. To bide upon't ; thou art not honest : | The running of one glass.t or, Cam. Who does infect her ? If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward; Leon. Why he, that wears herlike her medal, Which hoaxes honesty behind, restraining hanging From course requir'd: or else thou must be | About his neck, Bohemia : Who-if I counted Had servants true about me : that bare eyes A servant, grafted in my serious trust, To see alike mine honour as their profits, And therein negligent ; or else a fool, Their own particular thrifts,-they would do That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake that And tak't it all for jest. [drawn, Which should undo more doing ; Ay, and thou, C'am. My gracious lord, His cup-bearer,-whom I from meaner form I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful; | Have bench'd, and reard to worship ; who In every one of these no man is free, may'st see (heaven, But that his negligence, his folly, fear, Plainly, as heaven sees earth, and earth sees Amongst the infinite doings of the world, How I am galled,-might'st bespice a cup, Somtiemes puts forth ; In your affairs, my lord | To give mine enemy a lasting wink; If ever I were wilful-negligent, Which draught to me were cordial. It was my folly; if industriously Cam. Sir, my lord, I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, | I could do this; and that with no rasht portion, Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful But with a lingering dram, that should not To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, work Whereof the execution did cry out Maliciously like poison : But I cannot Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress Which oft affects the wisest : these, my lord, So sovereignly being honourable. Are such allow'd infirmities, that honesty I have lov'd thee, Is never free of. But, 'beseech your grace, Leon. Make't thy question, and go rot! Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass | Dost think, I am so muddy, so unsettled, By its own visage : If I then deny it, To appoint myself in this vexation ? sully Tis none of mine The purity and whiteness of my sheets, Leon. Have not you seen, Camillo, (glass Which to preserve, is sleep; which being (But that's past doubt: you have; or your eye spotted, Is thicker than a cuckold's horn ;) or heard, 1s goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps ? (For, to a vision so apparent, rumour Give scandal to the blood o'the prince my son, (annot be mute,) or thought, for cogitation Who, I do think is mine, and love as mine ; Resides not in that man, that does not think Without ripe moving to't ? Would I do this? | Could man so blench ?!! My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess, Cam. I must believe you, Sir; (Or eise be impudently negative, (say, I do and will fetch off Bohemia fort: To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then Provided, that when he's remov'd, your highMy wife's a hobby horse ; deserves a name ness 1s rank as any flax-wench, that puts to Will take again your queen, as yours at first ; Before her troth-plight: say it, and justify it. * Disorders of the eye. Hour.glass. Hasty Maliciously, with effects openly hurtful. • T'n round in the ear was to tell secretly. Ý Taste. lll. e. Could any man o start off from propriety! Toboay |