3011Aut. Beseech you (Sir) were you present at this Re-

3012lation?

3013Gent.1. I was by at the opening of the Farthell, heard

3014the old Shepheard deliuer the manner how he found it:

3015Whereupon (after a little amazednesse) we were all com-

3016manded out of the Chamber: onely this (me thought) I

3017heard the Shepheard say, he found the Child.

3018Aut. I would most gladly know the issue of it.

3019Gent.1. I make a broken deliuerie of the Businesse;

3020but the changes I perceiued in the King, and Camillo, were

3021very Notes of admiration: they seem'd almost, with sta-

3022ring on one another, to teare the Cases of their Eyes.

3023There was speech in their dumbnesse, Language in their

3024very gesture: they look'd as they had heard of a World

3025ransom'd, or one destroyed: a notable passion of Won-

3026der appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew

3027no more but seeing, could not say, if th' importance were

3028Ioy, or Sorrow; but in the extremitie of the one, it must

3029needs be. Enter another Gentleman.

3030Here comes a Gentleman, that happily knowes more:

3031The Newes, Rogero.

3032Gent.2. Nothing but Bon-fires: the Oracle is fulfill'd:

3033the Kings Daughter is found: such a deale of wonder is

3034broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers cannot

3035be able to expresse it. Enter another Gentleman.

3036Here comes the Lady Paulina's Steward, hee can deliuer

3037you more. How goes it now (Sir.) This Newes (which

3038is call'd true) is so like an old Tale, that the veritie of it is

3039in strong suspition: Ha's the King found his Heire?

3040Gent.3. Most true, if euer Truth were pregnant by

3041Circumstance: That which you heare, you'le sweare

3042you see, there is such vnitie in the proofes. The Mantle

3043of Queene Hermiones: her Iewell about the Neck of it:

3044the Letters of Antigonus found with it, which they know

3045to be his Character: the Maiestie of the Creature, in re-

3046semblance of the Mother: the Affection of Noblenesse,

3047which Nature shewes aboue her Breeding, and many o-

3048ther Euidences, proclayme her, with all certaintie, to be

3049the Kings Daughter. Did you see the meeting of the

3050two Kings?

3051Gent.2. No.

3052Gent.3. Then haue you lost a Sight which was to bee

3053seene, cannot bee spoken of. There might you haue be-

3054held one Ioy crowne another, so and in such manner, that

3055it seem'd Sorrow wept to take leaue of them: for their

3056Ioy waded in teares. There was casting vp of Eyes, hol-

3057ding vp of Hands, with Countenance of such distraction,

3058that they were to be knowne by Garment, not by Fauor.

3059Our King being ready to leape out of himselfe, for ioy of

3060his found Daughter; as if that Ioy were now become a

3061Losse, cryes, Oh, thy Mother, thy Mother: then askes

3062Bohemia forgiuenesse, then embraces his Sonne-in-Law:

3063then againe worryes he his Daughter, with clipping her.

3064Now he thanks the old Shepheard (which stands by, like

3065a Weather-bitten Conduit, of many Kings Reignes.) I

3066neuer heard of such another Encounter; which lames Re-

3067port to follow it, and vndo's description to doe it.

3068Gent.2. What, 'pray you, became of Antigonus, that

3069carryed hence the Child?

3070Gent.3. Like an old Tale still, which will haue matter

3071to rehearse, though Credit be asleepe, and not an eare o-

3072pen; he was torne to pieces with a Beare: This auouches

3073the Shepheards Sonne; who ha's not onely his Innocence

3074(which seemes much) to iustifie him, but a Hand-kerchief

3075and Rings of his, that Paulina knowes.

3076Gent.1. What became of his Barke, and his Fol-

3077lowers?

3078Gent.3. Wrackt the same instant of their Masters

3079death, and in the view of the Shepheard: so that all the

3080Instruments which ayded to expose the Child, were euen

3081then lost, when it was found. But oh the Noble Combat,

3082that 'twixt Ioy and Sorrow was fought in Paulina. Shee

3083had one Eye declin'd for the losse of her Husband, ano-

3084ther eleuated, that the Oracle was fulfill'd: Shee lifted the

3085Princesse from the Earth, and so locks her in embracing,

3086as if shee would pin her to her heart, that shee might no

3087more be in danger of loosing.

3088Gent.1. The Dignitie of this Act was worth the au-

3089dience of Kings and Princes, for by such was it acted.

3090Gent.3. One of the prettyest touches of all, and that

3091which angl'd for mine Eyes (caught the Water, though

3092not the Fish) was, when at the Relation of the Queenes

3093death (with the manner how shee came to't, brauely con-

3094fess'd, and lamented by the King) how attentiuenesse

3095wounded his Daughter, till (from one signe of dolour to

3096another) shee did (with an Alas) I would faine say, bleed

3097Teares; for I am sure, my heart wept blood. Who was

3098most Marble, there changed colour: some swownded, all

3099sorrowed: if all the World could haue seen't, the Woe

3100had beene vniuersall.

3101Gent.1. Are they returned to the Court?

3102Gent.3. No: The Princesse hearing of her Mothers

3103Statue (which is in the keeping of Paulina) a Peece many

3104yeeres in doing, and now newly perform'd, by that rare

3105Italian Master, Iulio Romano, who (had he himselfe Eter-

3106nitie, and could put Breath into his Worke) would be-

3107guile Nature of her Custome, so perfectly he is her Ape:

3108He so neere to Hermione, hath done Hermione, that they

3109say one would speake to her, and stand in hope of answer.

3110Thither (with all greedinesse of affection) are they gone,

3111and there they intend to Sup.

3112Gent.2. I thought she had some great matter there in

3113hand, for shee hath priuately, twice or thrice a day, euer

3114since the death of Hermione, visited that remoued House.

3115Shall wee thither, and with our companie peece the Re-

3116ioycing?

3117Gent.1. Who would be thence, that ha's the benefit

3118of Accesse? euery winke of an Eye, some new Grace

3119will be borne: our Absence makes vs vnthriftie to our

3120Knowledge. Let's along. Exit.

3121Aut. Now (had I not the dash of my former life in

3122me) would Preferment drop on my head. I brought the

3123old man and his Sonne aboord the Prince; told him, I

3124heard them talke of a Farthell, and I know not what: but

3125he at that time ouer-fond of the Shepheards Daughter (so

3126he then tooke her to be) who began to be much Sea-sick,

3127and himselfe little better, extremitie of Weather conti-

3128nuing, this Mysterie remained vndiscouer'd. But 'tis all

3129one to me: for had I beene the finder-out of this Secret,

3130it would not haue rellish'd among my other discredits.

3132Here come those I haue done good to against my will,

3133and alreadie appearing in the blossomes of their For-

3134tune.

3135Shep. Come Boy, I am past moe Children: but thy

3136Sonnes and Daughters will be all Gentlemen borne.

3137Clow. You are well met (Sir:) you deny'd to fight

3138with mee this other day, because I was no Gentleman

3139borne. See you these Clothes? say you see them not,

3140and thinke me still no Gentleman borne: You were best

3141say these Robes are not Gentlemen borne. Giue me the

3142Lye: doe: and try whether I am not now a Gentleman

3143borne.

3144Aut. I know you are now (Sir) a Gentleman borne.

3145Clow. I, and haue been so any time these foure houres.

3146Shep. And so haue I, Boy.

3147Clow. So you haue: but I was a Gentleman borne be-

3148fore my Father: for the Kings Sonne tooke me by the

3149hand, and call'd mee Brother: and then the two Kings

3150call'd my Father Brother: and then the Prince (my Bro-

3151ther) and the Princesse (my Sister) call'd my Father, Father;

3152and so wee wept: and there was the first Gentleman-like

3153teares that euer we shed.

3154Shep. We may liue (Sonne) to shed many more.

3155Clow. I: or else 'twere hard luck, being in so preposte-

3156rous estate as we are.

3157Aut. I humbly beseech you (Sir) to pardon me all the

3158faults I haue committed to your Worship, and to giue

3159me your good report to the Prince my Master.

3160Shep. 'Prethee Sonne doe: for we must be gentle, now

3161we are Gentlemen.

3162Clow. Thou wilt amend thy life?

3163Aut. I, and it like your good Worship.

3164Clow. Giue me thy hand: I will sweare to the Prince,

3165thou art as honest a true Fellow as any is in Bohemia.

3166Shep. You may say it, but not sweare it.

3167Clow. Not sweare it, now I am a Gentleman? Let

3168Boores and Francklins say it, Ile sweare it.

3169Shep. How if it be false (Sonne?)

3170Clow. If it be ne're so false, a true Gentleman may

3171sweare it, in the behalfe of his Friend: And Ile sweare to

3172the Prince, thou art a tall Fellow of thy hands, and that

3173thou wilt not be drunke: but I know thou art no tall Fel-

3174low of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunke: but Ile

3175sweare it, and I would thou would'st be a tall Fellow of

3176thy hands.

3177Aut. I will proue so (Sir) to my power.

3178Clow. I, by any meanes proue a tall Fellow: if I do not

3179wonder, how thou dar'st venture to be drunke, not being

3180a tall Fellow, trust me not. Harke, the Kings and Prin-

3181ces (our Kindred) are going to see the Queenes Picture.

3182Come, follow vs: wee'le be thy good Masters. Exeunt.