When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches Re-enter CLEOMENES, with FLORIZEL, PErdita, and Attendants. Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; Flo. By his command Have I here touch'd Sicilia: and from him Give you all greetings, that a king, at friend,' (Which waits upon worn times,) hath something seiz'd His wish'd ability, he had himself The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his Leon. O, my brother, 9 — that a king, at friend,] At friend, perhaps means, at friendship. (Good gentleman!) the wrongs I have done thee, stir Afresh within me; and these thy offices, Flo. She came from Libya. Leon. Good my lord, Where the warlike Smalus, That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd, and lov'd? Flo. Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence To execute the charge my father gave me, Leon. For which the heavens, taking angry note, Enter a Lord. Lord. Most noble sir, That, which I shall report, will bear no credit, Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with Leon. Where's Bohemia? speak, My marvel, and my message. To your court Her brother, having both their country quitted Flo. Camillo has betray'd me; Whose honour, and whose honesty, till now, Lord. Lay't so, to his charge; Who? Camillo ? He's with the king your father. Leon. Lord. Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now Has these poor men in question.' Never saw I Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; Forswear themselves as often as they speak: Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them With divers deaths in death. Per. O, my poor father! The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have Leon. You are married? 1 in question.] i. e. conversation. Flo. We are not, sir, nor are we like to be; The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first The odds for high and low's alike.2 When once she is my wife. My lord, She is, Leon. That once, I see, by your good father's speed, Will come on very slowly. I am sorry, Most sorry, you have broken from his liking, Flo. Dear, look up: Should chase us, with my father; power no jot Which he counts but a trifle. Paul. Sir, my liege, Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month 'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes Than what you look on now. Leon. [TO FLORIZEL. 2 The odds for high and low's alike.] A quibble upon the false dice so called." 3 9 Remember since you ow'd no more to time, &c.] Recollect the period when you were of my age. Is yet unanswer'd: I will to your father; I am a friend to them, and you: upon which errand SCENE II. The same. Before the Palace, Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman. Aut. 'Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation? 1 Gent. I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old shepherd deliver the manner how he found it: whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all commanded out of the chamber; only this, methought I heard the shepherd say, he found the child. Aut. I would most gladly know the issue of it. 1 Gent. I make a broken delivery of the business;-But the changes I perceived in the king, and Camillo, were very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cases of their eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture; they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. if the importance were joy, or sorrow:] Importance here means, the thing imported. |