I LADY. Why, my sweet lord ? MAM. You'll kiss me hard, and fpeak to me as I were a baby ftill. I love you better. 2 LADY. And why fo, my lord? MAM. Not for becaufe Your brows are blacker; (yet black brows, they fay, 2 LADY. Who taught you this? MAM. I learn'd it out of women's faces: pray now, What colour be your eye-brows? I LADY. Blue, my ford. MAM. Nay, that's a mock: I've feen a lady's nofe That has been blue, but not her eye-brows. I LADY. Hark ye, The queen, your mother, rounds apace; we shall One of thefe days; and then you'll wanton with us, 2 LADY. She is spread of late Into a goodly bulk; good time encounter her! HER. What wisdom ftirs among you? Come, fir, now I am for you again. Pray you fit by us, HER. Let's have that, good fir. Come on, fit down. Come on, and do your best To fright me with your spright: you're powerful at it. MAM. There was a man HRR. Nay, come fit down; then on. MAM. Dwelt by a church-yard ;-I will tell it foftly: Yond crickets fhall not hear it. HER. Come on then, and give't me in mine ear. SCENE II. Enter Leontes, Antigonus, and lords. LEO. Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him? LORD. Behind the tuft of pines I met them: never Saw I men fcowr fo on their way: I ey'd them Even to their fhips. LEO. How bleft am I In my just cenfure! in my true opinion! Th' abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known There is a plot against my life, my crown; All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain, Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick For them to play at will: how came the posterns LORD. By his great authority, Which often hath no less prevail'd, than fo On your command. Give me the boy; I'm glad you did not nurse him: [To Herm. Though he doth bear fome signs of me, yet you Have too much blood in him. HER. What, is this sport? LEO. Bear the boy hence, he shall not come about her ; Away with him, and let her fport herself With that she's big with for it is Polixenes Has made thee fwell thus. HER. But I'd fay, he had not; And, I'll be fworn, you would believe my faying, LEO. You, my lords, Look on her, mark her well; be but about To say, she is a goodly lady, and The justice of your hearts will thereto add, "Tis pity, fhe's not honest, honourable, Praise her but for this her without-door form, (Which on my faith deserves high speech), and straight The shrug, the hum, or ha,—these petty brands, That calumny doth use: oh, I am out, That mercy does; Virtue itself. for calumny will fear -These fhrugs, these hums and ha's, When you have faid fhe's goodly, come between, Ere you can fay fhe's honeft: but be't known, (From him, that has most cause to grieve it should be); She's an adultrefs. HER. Should a villain fay fo, The most replenish'd villain in the world, He were as much more villain: you, my lord, LEO. You have miftook, my lady, Polixenes for Leontes. O thou thing, A federary with her; and one that knows HER. No, by my life, and privy Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you, When you fhall come to clearer knowledge, that You thus have publish'd me? Gentle my lord, You scarce can right me thoroughly then, to say You did miftake. LEO. No, if I mistake In thefe foundations which I build upon, A school-boy's top. Away with her to prison: HER. There's fome ill planet reigns; That honourable grief lodg'd here, which burns Worfe than tears drown: 'befeech you all, my lords, Shall best instruct you, measure me; and fo The king's will be perform'd!· LEO. Shall I be heard? HER. Who is't that goes with me? 'befeech your highness, My women may be with me, for, you see, My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools, [To her ladies. There is no caufe; when you fhall knów, your mistress As I come out; this action, I now go on, I trust I fhall. My women,-come, you've leave. [Exit Queen, guarded; and ladies. LORD. For her, my lord, I dare my life lay down, and will do't, fir, ANT. If it prove She's otherwife, I'll keep my stable where I lodge my wife, I'll go in couples with her ; ' |