1580Time. I that please some, try all: both ioy and terror

1581Of good, and bad: that makes, and vnfolds error,

1582Now take vpon me (in the name of Time)

1583To vse my wings: Impute it not a crime

1584To me, or my swift passage, that I slide

1585Ore sixteene yeeres, and leaue the growth vntride

1586Of that wide gap, since it is in my powre

1587To orethrow Law, and in one selfe-borne howre

1588To plant, and ore-whelme Custome. Let me passe

1589The same I am, ere ancient'st Order was,

1590Or what is now receiu'd. I witnesse to

1591The times that brought them in, so shall I do

1592To th' freshest things now reigning, and make stale

1593The glistering of this present, as my Tale

1594Now seemes to it: your patience this allowing,

1595I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing

1596As you had slept betweene: Leontes leauing

1597Th' effects of his fond iealousies, so greeuing

1598That he shuts vp himselfe. Imagine me

1599(Gentle Spectators) that I now may be

1600In faire Bohemia, and remember well,

1601I mentioned a sonne o'th' Kings, which Florizell

1602I now name to you: and with speed so pace

1603To speake of Perdita, now growne in grace

1604Equall with wond'ring. What of her insues

1605I list not prophesie: but let Times newes

1606Be knowne when 'tis brought forth. A shepherds daugh-(ter

1607And what to her adheres, which followes after,

1608Is th' argument of Time: of this allow,

1609If euer you haue spent time worse, ere now:

1610If neuer, yet that Time himselfe doth say,

1611He wishes earnestly, you neuer may. Exit.