Ay every dram of woman's flesh is falfe, If the bé. LEO. Hold your peaces. LORD. Good my lord, ANT. It is for you we speak, not for ourselves s That will be damn'd for't; 'would I knew the villain, LEO. Ceafe; no more: You smell this business with a fenfe as cold As you feel doing thus; and fee withal ANT. If it be fo, We need no grave to bury honesty; [ftriking his brow. There's not a grain of it, the face to fweeten Of the whole dungy earth. LEO. What? lack I credit? LORD. I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, LEO. Why, what need we Commune with you of this? but rather follow Calls not your counfels, but our natural goodness Or feeming fo in skill, cannot, or will not ANT. And I wish, my liege, You had only in your filent judgment try'd it, LEO. How could that be? Either thou art moft ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight, (Which was as grofs as ever touch'd conjecture, That lack'd fight only; nought for approbation, But only feeing; all other circumftances Made up to th'deed) do push on this proceeding; For, in an act of this importance, 'twere LORD. Well done, my lord. LEO. Tho' I am fatisfy'd, and need no more Whose ignorant credulity will not Come up to th' truth, So have we thought it good From our free person, she should be confin'd: ANT. To laughter, as I take it, If the good truth were known. [Afide. [Exeunt. SCENE III. Changes to a prifon. Enter Paulina, and gentlemen. PAUL. The keeper of the prison,call to him: Let him have knowledge who I am. [Exit gentleman. Good lady, No court in Europe is too good for thee; What doft thou then in prison ? Re-enter Gentleman, with the Goaler. Now, good fir, You know me, do you not? GOAL. For a worthy lady, And one whom much I honour. Conduct me to the queen. GOAL. I may not, madam; To the contrary I have express commandment. Is it lawful, pray you, to see her woman? Any of them? Emilia? GOAL. So please you, madam, To put apart these your attendants, I PAUL, I pray you now, call her: Withdraw yourselves. GOAL. And, madam, I must be Prefent at your conference. PAUL. Well, be it fo, pr'ythee. Here's fuch ado to make no stain a stain, As paffes colouring. Enter Emilia. [Exeunt Gent. [Exit Goaler, Dear gentlewoman, How fares our gracious lady? EMIL. As well, as one fo great and so forlorn EMIL. A daughter, and a goodly babe, I'm innocent as you. PAUL. I dare be sworn ; These dangerous, unfafe lunes i'th'king! befhrew them, Perfuades, when speaking fails. EMIL. Moft worthy madam, Your honour and your goodness is so evident, A thriving issue: there is no lady living So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship.j Acquaint the queen of your moft noble offer, Who but to day hammer'd of this design; But durft not tempt a minifter of honour, PAUL. Tell her, Emilia, I'll use that tongue I have; if wit flow from't EMIL. Now be you bleft for it! I'll to the queen: please you, come something nearer. GOAL. Madam, if't please the queen to fend the babe, I know not what I fhall incur, to pass it, Having no warrant, PAUL. You need not fear it, fir ; The child was prifoner to the womb, and is GOAL. I do believe it. PAUL. Do not you fear; upon my honour, I Will ftand 'twixt you and danger. SCENE IV. Changes to the palace. [Exeunt. Enter Leontes, Antigonus, lords and other attendants. LEO. Nor night, nor day no rest ;-it is but weaknes |