Together working with thy jealousies, Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle Of the young prince; whose honourable thoughts Not dropp'd down yet. 1 Lord. The higher powers forbid! Paul. I say, she's dead; I'll swear't: if word, nor oath, Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll serve you 20 The same construction occurs in the second book of Phaer's version of the Aeneid: "When this the young men heard me speak, of wild they waxed wood. 21 Damnable is used here adverbially. So in All's Well that Ends Well:"Tis not meant damnable in us.' 22 The poet forgot that Paulina was absent during the king's self-accusation. 23 i. e. a devil would have shed tears of pity, ere he would have perpetrated such an action. で Do not repent these things; for they are heavier Leon. Go on, go on: Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserv'd All tongues to talk their bitterest. 1 Lord. Say no more; Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault Pthe boldness of your speech. -Paul. I am sorry for't; All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, I do repent: Alas, I have show'd too much To the noble heart.-What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief: Do not receive affliction Let me be punish'd, that have minded you Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege, The love I bore your queen,-lo, fool again!- Who is lost too: Take your patience to you, Léon. Nature will bear up with this exercise, So long I daily vow to use it. Come, SCENE III. Bohemia. A desert Country near the Sea. [Exeunt. Enter ANTIGONUS, with the Child; and a Mariner. Ant. Thou art perfect1 then, our ship hath touch'd upon The deserts of Bohemia ? Mar. Ay, my lord; and fear We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly, And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, The heavens with that we have in hand are angry, And frown upon us. Ant. Their sacred wills be done!-Go, get aboard; Look to thy bark; I'll not be long, before I call upon thee. Mar. Make your best haste; and go not Too far i'the land: 'tis like to be loud weather; Besides, this place is famous for the creatures Of prey, that keep upon't. Go thou away: I am glad at heart [Exit. To be so rid o' the business. Ant. Come, poor babe:I have heard (but not believ'd), the spirits of the dead May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother Appear'd to me last night; for ne'er was dream So like a waking. To me comes a creature,es Sometimes her head on one side, some another; I never saw a vessel of like sorrow, So fill'd, and so becoming: in pure white robes, Like very sanctity, she did approach 1 i. e. well assured. My cabin where I And, gasping to begin rice bow'd before me; some speech, her eyes 2 There weep, and leave it crying; and, for the babe I pr'ythee, call't; for this ungentle business, I did in time collect myself; and thought Th That, for thy mother's fault, art thus expos'd The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour3 !— 2 i. e. description. Perdita. The writing afterward discovered with 3A savage clamour. This clamour was the cry of the dogs and hunters; then seeing the bear, he cries this is the chase, i. e. the animal pursued. Well may I get aboard!This is the chase; Shep. I would, there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty; or that youth would sleep out the rest: for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.-Hark you now!-Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen, and two-and-twenty, hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my best sheep; which, I fear, the wolf will sooner find, than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by the sea-side, browzing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy will! what have we here![Taking up the Child.] Mercy on's, a barne; a very pretty barne! A boy, or a childs, I wonder? A pretty one; a very pretty one: Sure some scape: though I am not bookish, yet I can read waitinggentle-woman in the scape. This has been some stair-work, some trunk-work, some behind-door work: they were warmer that got this, than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he holla'd but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa! Clo. Hilloa, loa! Enter Clown. Shep. What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What ailest thou, man? Clo. I have seen two such sights, by sea, and by 4 This is from the novel. It is there said to be 'sea ivie, on which they do greatly feed.' 5 A barne. This word is still in use in the northern dialects for a child. It is supposed to be derived from born, things born seeming to answer the Latin nati. Steevens says that he had been told that in some of our inland counties a child signified a female infant in contradistinction to a male one; but the assertion wants confirmation, and we may rather refer this use of it to the simplicity of the shepherd. |