Of all incertainties himself commended, SCENE PAUL. Woe the while! IV. Enter Paulina. O, cut my lace, left my heart, cracking it, Break too. LORD. What fit is this, good lady? PAUL. What study'd torments, tyrant, haft for me? What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling? burn In leads or oils? what old, or newer, torture Muft I receive? whofe every word deferves Would have thed water out of fire, ere don't: [ing? That could conceive a grofs and foolish fire When I have faid, cry, Woe ! O lords, -the queen, the queen, The sweetest, deareft, creature's dead; and vengeance for't Not drop down yet. LORD. The higher powers forbid ! PAUL. I fay, fhe's dead: I'll fwear't: if word, nor oath, Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll serve you LEO. Go on, go on : Thou can'ft not speak too much: I have deferv'd LORD. Say no more; Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault I' th' boldness of your fpeech. PAUL. I'm forry for't. All faults I make, when I fhall come to know them, I do repent: alas, I've fhew'd too much The rafhnefs of a woman; he is touch'd To th'noble heart. What's gone, and what's past help, At my petition, I beseech you; rather Let me be punish'd, that have minded you The love I bore your queen-lo, fool again! Who is loft too. Take you your patience to you. And I'll fay nothing. LEO. Thou did'st say but well, When most the truth; which I receive much better Will bear up with this exercise, So long I daily vow to use it. Come, And lead me to these forrows. 145 [Exeunt. SCENE VI. Changes to Bohemia. A defert country; the fea at a little distance. Enter Antigonus with a child, and a mariner. ANT. Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon The deferts of Bohemia ? MAR. Ay, my lord; and fear We've landed in ill time: the skies look grimly, ANT. Their facred wills be done! get thee aboard, L Look to thy bark, I'll not be long before MAR. Make your beft hafte, and go not Too far i' th'land; 'tis like to be loud weather. ANT. Go thou away. I'll follow inftantly. MAR. I'm glad at heart to be fo rid o' th' bufinefs. [Exit. ANT. Come, poor babe; I have heard, But not believ'd, the fpirits of the dead May walk again; if fuch things be, thy mother So fill'd, and fo becoming; in pure white robes, My cabbin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me, "There weep, and leave it crying; and, for the babe "I pr'ythee, call't. For this ungentie business, And fo with fhrieks, She melted into air. Affrighted much, I did in time collect myself, and thought This was fo, and no flumber : Dreams are toys, I will be fquar'd by this. I do believe, [Laying down the child. There lie, and there thy character: there these, [Laying down a bundle. Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee pretty one, And still reft thine. The ftorm begins ; -poor wretch, That for thy mother's fault art thus expos'd To be by oath enjoin'd to this. -Farewel! The day frowns more and more; thou art like to have A lullaby too rough: I never faw The heaven's fo dim by day. A favage clamour! Well may I get aboard I am gone for ever. this is the chace; [Exit, purfued by a bear. Enter an old Shepherd. SHEP. I would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would fleep out the reft: for there is nothing in the BETWEEN but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, ftealing, fighting-hark you now!would any but these boil'd brains of nineteen, and two and twenty, hunt this weather? They have fcarr'd away two of my best fheep, which, I fear, the wolf will fooner find than the master; if any where I have them, 'tis by the |