Who for Bohemia bend, to fignify Not only my fuccefs in Libya, fir, But my arrival, and my wife's, in safety Leo. The bleffed gods Purge all infection from our air, whilst you For which the heavens, taking angry note, Enter a Lord. Lord. Moft noble fir, That, which I fhall report, will bear no credit, (His dignity and duty both caft off) Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with Leo. Where's Bohemia? fpeak. Lord. Here in your city; I now came from him: My marvel, and my meffage. To your court The father of this feeming lady, and U u 4 Flo. Flo. Camillo has betray'd me; Whose honour, and whofe honefty, 'till now, Lord. Lay't fo, to his charge; Lord. Camillo, fir; I spake with him; who now Has these poor men in queftion. Never faw I Wretches fo quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth; Forfwear themselves as often as they speak: Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them With divers deaths in death. Per. Oh, my poor father! The heaven fets fpies upon us, will not have Leo. You are marry'd? Flo. We are not, fir, nor are we like to be; The stars, I fee, will kifs the valleys first :* The odds for high and low's alike. Leo. My lord, Is this the daughter of a king? Flo. She is, When once she is my wife. Leo. That once, I see, by your good father's speed, Will come on very flowly. I am sorry, Moft forry, you have broken from his liking, Where you were ty'd in duty and as forry, Your choice is not fo rich in worth as beauty, Flo. Dear, look up: Though fortune, visible an enemy, * The odds for high and low's alike. ]-The difparity between us is as great as the distance between earth and heaven, and the improbability of our union is no lefs. a fo rich in worth]-fo worthy in point of defcent-in birth. Should Should chafe us, with my father; power no jot b Than I do now: with thought of such affections, Leo. Would he do fo, I'd beg your precious mistress, Which he counts but a trifle. Paul. Sir, my liege, Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month 'Fore your queen dy'd, fhe was more worth fuch gazes Than what you look on now. Leo. I thought of her, Even in these looks I made. But your petition Is yet unanswer❜d: I will to your father; [To Florizel. I am friend to them, and you: upon which errand And mark what way I make: Come, good my lord. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The fame. Enter Autolycus, and a Gentleman. Aut. 'Befeech you, fir, were you prefent at this relation? 1 Gent. I was by at the opening of the farthel, heard the old fhepherd 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 fhepherd fay, he found the child. ↳ fince you cw'd no more to time than I do now :]—when your love was coeval with mine. Aut. 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 feem'd almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cafes of their eyes; there was fpeech in their dumbnefs, language in their very gesture; they look'd, as they had heard of a world ranfom'd, or one destroy'd: A notable paffion of wonder appear'd in them but the wifeft beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not fay, if the importance were joy, or forrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. Enter a fecond Gentleman. Here comes a gentleman, that, happily, knows more: The news, Rogero? 2 Gent. Nothing but bonfires: The oracle is fulfill'd; the king's daughter is found: fuch a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour, that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it. Enter a third Gentleman. Here comes the lady Paulina's steward, he can deliver you more.-How goes it now, fir? this news, which is call'd true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in ftrong fufpicion Has the king found his heir? d 3 Gent. Moft true; if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance: that, which you hear, you'll swear you see, there is fuch unity in the proofs. The mantle of queen Hermione; her jewel about the neck of it;-the letters of Antigonus, found with it, which they know to be his character;-the majesty of the creature, in resemblance of the mother; the affection of noblenefs, which nature the importance]-import, fubject matter of their deliberation. fhews fhews above her breeding,-and many other evidences, proclaim her, with all certainty, to be the king's daughter. Did you see the meeting of the two kings? 2 Gent. No. 3 Gent. Then have you seen, cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one joy crown another; fo, and in fuch manner, that, it feem'd, forrow wept to take leave of them; for their joy waded in tears. There was cafting up of loft a fight, which was to be eyes, holding up of hands; with countenance of fuch distraction, that they were to be known by garment, not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of himself for joy of his found daughter; as if that joy were now become, a lofs, cries, Oh, thy mother, thy mother! then asks Bohemia forgivenefs; then embraces his fon-in-law; then again worries he his daughter, with clipping her: now he thanks the old fhepherd, which stands by, like a weather-beaten 'conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of fuch another encounter, which lames report to follow it, and undoes defcription to do it. 2 Gent. What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carry'd hence the child? 3 Gent. Like an old tale ftill; which will have matters to rehearse, though credit be asleep, and not an ear open: He was torn to pieces with a bear: this avouches the fhepherd's fon; who has not only his innocence (which feems much) to justify him, but a handkerchief, and rings, of his, that Paulina knows. I Gent. What became of his bark and his followers? 3 Gent. Wreck'd, the fame inftant of their master's death; and in the view of the fhepherd: fo that all the inftruments, which aided to expofe the child, were even to be known by garment, not by favour.]-to be diftinguished rather by their drefs, than their features. conduit]-conduits, under a human form, were heretofore common. then |