More monftrous ftanding by; whereof I reckon Would have shed water out of fire, ere don't: Of the young Prince, whofe honourable thoughts When I have faid, cry, woe! the Queen, the Queen,The fweeteft, deareft, creature's dead; and vengeance for't Not dropt down yet. Lord. The higher Powers forbid ! Pau. I fay, fhe's dead: I'll fwear't: if word, nor Prevail not, go and fee: if you can bring Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll ferve you Leo. Go on, go on : Thou canst not speak too much; I have deferv'd Lord. Say no more; Howe'er the bufinefs goes, you have made fault Pau. I am 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 The rafhness of a woman; he is touch'd To th' noble heart. What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief. Do not receive affliction Let me be punish'd, that have minded you Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege, The love I bore your Queen-lo, fool again!- Who is loft too. Take you your patience to you, Leo. Thou didft fpeak but well, When most the truth; which I receive much better I daily vow to use it. Come, and lead me SCENE VI. [Exeunt. Changes to Bohemia. A defart Country; the Sea at a little Distance. Enter Antigonus with a Child, and a Mariner. Ant. THOU HOU art perfect then, our fhip hath touch'd upon The defarts of Bohemia ? Mar. Ay, my lord; and fear, We've landed in ill time: the skies look grimly, And threaten present blufters. In my confcience, The heav'ns with that we have in hand are angry, And frown upon's. Ant. Their facred wills be done! get thee aboard, Look to thy bark, I'll not be long before I call upon thee. Mar. Make your best hafte, and go nót Too far i'th' land; 'tis like to be loud weather. I'll follow inftantly. Mar. I'm glad at heart To be fo rid o' th' business. Ant. Come, poor babe; [Exit. I have heard, but not believ'd, the fpirits of the dead So fill'd, and fo becoming; in pure white robes, My cabin 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 ungentle business, And fo, with fhrieks, She She melted into air. Affrighted much, I will be fquar'd by this. I do believe, one, And ftill reft thine. The ftorm begins; wretch, That for thy mother's fault art thus expos'd Poor The day frowns more and more; thou art like to have A lullaby too rough: I never faw The heav'ns fo dim by day. A favage clamour! I am gone for ever. S [Exit, purfued by a bear. 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, 66 5 This was so,] I rather think Shakespear wrote sooтH, i. e. a truth, a reality. 66 ftealing, fighting hark you now! would any but these boil'd brains of nineteen, and two "and twenty, hunt this weather? They have fcar'd "away two of my beft fheep, which, I fear, the "wolf will fooner find than the master; if any where "I have them, 'tis by the fea-fide, brouzing of ivy. "Good luck, an't be thy will! what have we here? [Taking up the child.] Mercy on's, a bearne! a very pretty bearne! a boy, or a child, I wonder! a pret66 ty one, a very pretty one; fure, fome 'fcape: tho' "I am not bookish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewo"man in the 'fcape. This has been some stair-work, "fome trunk-work, fome behind-door-work :" they were warmer that got this, than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for pity, yet I'll tarry 'till my fon come: he hollow'd but even now; Whoa, ho-hoa! 66 Clo. Hilloa, loa! Enter Clown. Shep. What, art fo near? if thou'lt fee a thing to talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What ail'ft thou, man? Clo. I have feen two fuch fights, by fea and by land; but I am not to fay, it is a fea; for it is now the sky; betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. Shep. Why, boy, how is it? Clo." I would, you did but fee how it chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the fhore; but that's not to "the point; oh, the most piteous cry of the poor "fouls, fometimes to fee 'em, and not to see 'em: "now the fhip boring the moon with her main-mast, "and anon fwallow'd with yeft and froth, as you'd "thrust a cork into a hogfhead. And then for the 6 6 And then for the land fervice,] Every one fees the humour of this military expreffion of land-fervice; and how well it is adapted to the character. Yet the Oxford Editor alters it to landfight. "land |