Would be filled up, my brother, with our thanks; Yet of your royal presence [to POLIXENES] I'll And yet we should, for perpetuity, 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, Leon. Tongue-tied, our queen? speak you. until adventure You put me off with limber vows: but I, Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths, Should yet say, "Sir, no going." Verily, When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? My prisoner, or my guest? By your dread "verily," We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, And to be boy eternal. Boldly, "Not guilty;"- the imposition cleared, the imposition cleared, Hereditary ours. Her. By this, we gather You have tripped since. Pol. O my most sacred lady, The one for ever earned a royal husband; Leon. [Giving her hand to POLIXENES. Too hot, too hot : [Aside. To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. Temptations have since then been born to us: for I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances; In those unfledged days was my wife a girl: Of my young playfellow. But not for joy, not joy. This entertainment were They say it's a copy out of mine. Come, captain, I pr'y thee, tell me : cram us with praise, and make us [Observing POLIXENES and HERMIONE. Upon his palm? How now, you wanton calf? As fat as tame things. One good deed, dying tongue- Art thou my calf? As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters; false Three crabbed months had soured themselves to Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam death, be? Affection! thy intention stabs the center: And clap thyself my love:- then didst thou ut- Thou dost make possible, things not so held, Why, lo you now, I have spoken to the purpose Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou Leon. What cheer? how is 't with you, best And arms her with the boldness of a wife How sometimes nature will betray its folly, How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, Mam. No, my lord, I'll fight. Leon. You will? why, happy man be his dole! Are you so fond of your young prince as we To her allowing husband! Gone already; Inch-thick, knee-deep; o'er head and cars a forked one. [Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants. Go, play, boy, play; thy mother plays, and I Play too; but so disgraced a part, whose issue Will hiss me to my grave; contempt and clamor Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play. There have been, Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now; And many a man there is, even at this present, And his pond fished by his next neighbor; by in 't, Whiles other men have gates; and those gates opened, As mine, against their will: should all despair, That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. Physic for 't there's none; It is a bawdy planet, that will strike Where 't is predominant; and 't is powerful, think it, From east, west, north and south. Be it concluded, No barricado for a belly; know it; It will let in and out the enemy, With bag and baggage. Many a thousand of us Have the disease, and feel 't not. - How now, boy? Mam. I am like you, they say. Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor A servant, grafted in my serious trust, hold: When you cast out, it still came home. Leon. Didst note it? And therein negligent: or else a fool, That seest a game played home, the rich stake drawn, Cam. He would not stay at your petitions; And tak'st it all for jest. They're here with me already: whispering, round- But that his negligence, his folly, fear, ing, Didst perceive it? Amongst the infinite doings of the world, It was my folly if industriously I played the fool, it was my negligence, : Leon. At the queen's, be 't: "good" should be Not weighing well the end if ever fearful pertinent; But so it is, it is not. Was this taken For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in Against the non-performance, 't was a fear More than the common blocks. Not noted, is 't, Are such allowed infirmities, that honesty But of the finer natures? by some severals, Of head-piece extraordinary? Lower messes, Is never free of. But, 'beseech your grace, By its own visage: if I then deny it, Cam. Business, my lord? I think, most under-'T is none of mine. Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the en- Cannot be mute), or thought (for cogitation (Or else be impudently negative, To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought), then say, Cam. I would not be a stander-by, to hear thou art not hon- As deep as that, though true. If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward; Leon. Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek; is meeting noses; From course required: or else thou must be Of laughter with a sigh (a note infallible counted Of breaking honesty); horsing foot on foot; About his neck; Bohemia: who—if I see [Exit. Cam. O miserable lady!— But for me, Plainly as heaven sees earth, and earth sees Who, in rebellion with himself, will have heaven, All that are his, so too. To do this deed |