The Winters Tale.
1Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter Camillo and Archidamus. 4IF you
shall chance (
Camillo) to vi
sit
Bohemia, on
5the like occa
sion whereon my
seruices are now
6on-foot, you
shall
see (as I haue
said) great dif
- 7ference betwixt our
Bohemia, and your
Sicilia. 8Cam. I thinke, this comming Summer, the King of
9Sicilia meanes to pay
Bohemia the Vi
sitation, which hee
11Arch. Wherein our Entertainment
shall
shame vs: we
12will be iu
sti
fied in our Loues: for indeed---
14Arch. Verely I
speake it in the freedome of my know
- 15ledge: we cannot with
such magni
ficence--- in
so rare---
16I know not what to
say--- Wee will giue you
sleepie
17Drinkes, that your Sences (vn-intelligent of our in
su
ffi- 18cience) may, though they cannot pray
se vs, as little ac
- 20Cam. You pay a great deale to deare, for what's giuen
22Arch. 'Beleeue me, I
speake as my vnder
standing in
- 23stru
cts me, and as mine hone
stie puts it to vtterance.
24Cam. Sicilia cannot
shew him
selfe ouer-kind to
Bohe- 25mia: They were trayn'd together in their Child-hoods;
26and there rooted betwixt them then
such an a
ffe
ction,
27which cannot chu
se but braunch now. Since their more
28mature Dignities, and Royall Nece
ssities, made
seperati
- 29on of their Societie, their Encounters (though not Per
so
- 30nall) hath been Royally attornyed with enter-change of
31Gifts, Letters, louing Emba
ssies, that they haue
seem'd to
32be together, though ab
sent:
shooke hands, as ouer a Va
st;
33and embrac'd as it were from the ends of oppo
sed Winds.
34The Heauens continue their Loues.
35Arch. I thinke there is not in the World, either Malice
36or Matter, to alter it. You haue an vn
speakable comfort
37of your young Prince
Mamillius: it is a Gentleman of the
38greate
st Promi
se, that euer came into my Note.
39Cam. I very well agree with you, in the hopes of him:
40it is a gallant Child; one, that (indeed) Phy
sicks the Sub
- 41ie
ct, makes old hearts fre
sh: they that went on Crutches
42ere he was borne, de
sire yet their life, to
see him a Man.
43Arch. Would they el
se be content to die?
44Cam. Yes; if there were no other excu
se, why they
should
46Arch. If the King had no Sonne, they would de
sire to
47liue on Crutches till he had one.
Exeunt.