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The Winter's Tale (Folio 1, 1623)
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The Winters Tale. 299
2802Were I the Ghost that walk'd, Il'd bid you marke
2803Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't
2805Should rift to heare me, and the words that follow'd,
2806Should be, Remember mine.
2807Leo. Starres, Starres,
2808And all eyes else, dead coales: feare thou no Wife;
2809Ile haue no Wife, Paulina.
2811Neuer to marry, but by my free leaue?
2814Cleo. You tempt him ouer-much.
2816As like Hermione, as is her Picture,
2817Affront his eye.
2818Cleo. Good Madame, I haue done.
2819Paul. Yet if my Lord will marry: if you will, Sir;
2820No remedie but you will: Giue me the Office
2824To see her in your armes.
2825Leo. My true Paulina,
2827Paul. That
2829Neuer till then.
2830Enter a Seruant.
2834To your high presence.
2835Leo. What with him? he comes not
2836Like to his Fathers Greatnesse: his approach
2838'Tis not a Visitation fram'd, but forc'd
2839By need, and accident. What Trayne?
2840Ser. But few,
2841And those but meane.
2844That ere the Sunne shone bright on.
2845Paul. Oh Hermione,
2850Is colder then that Theame: she had not beene,
2851Nor was not to be equall'd, thus your Verse
2852Flow'd with her Beautie once; 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
2854Ser. Pardon, Madame:
2855The one, I haue almost forgot (your pardon:)
2856The other, when she ha's obtayn'd your Eye,
2857Will haue your Tongue too. This is a Creature,
2860Of who she but bid follow.
2861Paul. How? not women?
2863More worth then any Man: Men, that she is
2864The rarest of all Women.
2865Leo. Goe Cleomines,
2867Bring them to our embracement. Still 'tis strange,
2869Paul. Had our Prince
2870(Iewell of Children) seene this houre, he had payr'd
2871Well with this Lord; there was not full a moneth
2872Betweene their births.
2874He dyes to me againe, when talk'd-of: sure
2876Will bring me to consider that, which may
2878Enter Florizell, Perdita, Cleomines, and others.
2879Your Mother was most true to Wedlock, Prince,
2881Conceiuing you. Were I but twentie one,
2882Your Fathers Image is so hit in you,
2883(His very ayre) that I should call you Brother,
2885By vs perform'd before. Most dearely welcome,
2887I lost a couple, that 'twixt Heauen and Earth
2888Might thus haue stood, begetting wonder, as
2889You (gracious Couple) doe: and then I lost
2890(All mine owne Folly) the Societie,
2891Amitie too of your braue Father, whom
2893Once more to looke on him.
2894Flo. By his command
2895Haue I here touch'd Sicilia, and from him
2896Giue you all greetings, that a King (at friend)
2900The Lands and Waters, 'twixt your Throne and his,
2901Measur'd, to looke vpon you; whom he loues
2903And those that beare them, liuing.
2904Leo. Oh my Brother,
2905(Good Gentleman) the wrongs I haue done thee, stirre
2907(So rarely kind) are as Interpreters
2909As is the Spring to th' Earth. And hath he too
2910Expos'd this Paragon to th' fearefull vsage
2911(At least vngentle) of the dreadfull Neptune,
2912To greet a man, not worth her paines; much lesse,
2913Th' aduenture of her person?
2914Flo. Good my Lord,
2915She came from Libia.
2916Leo. Where the Warlike Smalus,
2917That Noble honor'd Lord, is fear'd, and lou'd?
2919From thence: from him, whose Daughter
2920His Teares proclaym'd his parting with her: thence
2921(A prosperous South-wind friendly) we haue cross'd,
2922To execute the Charge my Father gaue me,
2924I haue from your Sicilian Shores dismiss'd;
2927But my arriuall, and my Wifes, in safetie
2928Here, where we are.
2931Doe Clymate here: you haue a holy Father,
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