I, that please some, try all; both joy and terror

4.1.21581Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,

4.1.31582Now take upon me, in the name of Time,

4.1.41583To use my wings. Impute it not a crime

4.1.51584To me or my swift passage that I slide

4.1.61585O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried

4.1.71586Of that wide gap, since it is in my power

4.1.81587To o'erthrow law, and in one self-born hour

4.1.91588To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass

4.1.101589The same I am ere ancient'st order was

4.1.111590Or what is now received. I witness to

4.1.121591The times that brought them in. So shall I do

4.1.131592To th' freshest things now reigning and make stale

4.1.141593The glistering of this present, as my tale

4.1.151594Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,

4.1.161595I turn my glass and give my scene such growing

4.1.171596As you had slept between: Leontes leaving

4.1.181597Th'effects of his fond jealousies, so grieving

4.1.191598That he shuts up himself. Imagine me,

4.1.201599Gentle spectators, that I now may be

4.1.211600In fair Bohemia. And remember well,

4.1.221601I mentioned a son o'th'king's, which Florizel

4.1.231602I now name to you, and with speed so pace

4.1.241603To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace

4.1.251604Equal with wond'ring. What of her ensues

4.1.261605I list not prophesy, but let Time's news

4.1.271606Be known when 'tis brought forth. A shepherd's daughter

4.1.281607And what to her adheres, which follows after,

4.1.291608Is th'argument of Time; of this allow,

4.1.301609If ever you have spent time worse, ere now.

4.1.311610If never, yet that Time himself doth say

4.1.321611He wishes earnestly you never may.