Will take again your queen as yours at first, Even for your son's sake; and thereby forsealing

The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms
Known and allied to yours.
Leon.
Thou dost advise me
Even so as I mine own course have set down.
I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.
Cam. My lord,

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Go then; and with a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohe mia

And with your queen. I am his cupbearer: 345 If from me he have wholesome beverage, Account me not your servant.

Leon. This is all. Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart; Do 't not, thou split'st thine own. Cam. I'll do 't, my lord. Leon. I will seem friendly, as thou hast advis'd me. [Exit. 350

Cam. O miserable lady! But, for me, What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do 't Is the obedience to a master, one

Who in rebellion with himself will have
All that are his so too. To do this deed,
Promotion follows. If I could find example
Of thousands that had struck anointed kings
And flourish'd after, I'd not do 't; but since
Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not