And mar the seeds within!--Lift up thy looks :- Am heir to my affection. Cam. Be advis'd. Flo. I am; and by my fancy: if my reason Will thereto be obedient, I have reason; If not, my senses, better pleas'd with madness, Cam. This is desperate, sir. Flo. So call it : but it does fulfil my vow ; To this my fair belov'd: Therefore, I pray you, With her, whom here I cannot hold on shore; Cam. O, my lord, I would your spirit were easier for advice, Or stronger for your need. Flo. Hark, Perdita. I'll hear you by and by. Cam. He's irremovable, [Takes her aside. [To CAMILLO, Resolv'd for flight: Now were I happy, if His going I could frame to serve my turn; Save him from danger, do him love and honour ; And that unhappy king, my master, whom Flo. Now, good Camillo, I am so fraught with curious business, that [4] It must be remembered that fancy in our author very often, as in this place, means love. JOHNSON. 1 I leave out ceremony. Cam. Sir, I think, You have heard of my poor services, i'the love Flo. Very nobly Have you deserv'd it is my father's music [Going. If you may please to think I lov'd the king; I'll point you where you shall have such receiving Flo. How, Camillo, May this, almost a miracle, be done? That I may call thee something more than man, Cam. Have you thought on A place whereto you'll go? Flo. Not any yet: But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do; so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows. Cam. Then list to me: This follows. If you will not change your purpose, But undergo this flight ;-make for Sicilia ; And there present yourself, and your fair princess, The partner of your bed. Methinks, I see His welcomes forth: asks thee, the son, forgiveness, "Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one He chides to hell, and bids the other grow, Faster than thought, or time. Flo. Worthy Camillo, What colour for my visitation shall I Hold up before him? Cam. Sent by the king your father To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir, Flo. I am bound to you: There is some sap in this. Cam. A course more promising To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores; most certain Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Per. One of these is true: I think, affliction may subdue the cheek, But not take in the mind. Cam. Yea, say you so? There shall not, at your father's house, these seven years, Be born another such. Flo. My good Camillo, She is as forward of her breeding, as I'the rear of birth. Cam. I cannot say, 'tis pity She lacks instructions; for she seems a mistress To most that teach. Per. Your pardon, sir, for this; I'll blush you thanks. Flo. My prettiest Perdita. But, O, the thorns we stand upon !-Camillo,- The medicin of our house-how shall we do? Cam. My lord, Fear none of this: I think, you know, my fortunes To have you royally appointed, as if The scene you play, were mine. For instance, sir, That you may know you shall not want,-one word. [They talk aside. Enter AUTOLYCUS. Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a riband, glass, pomander, 5 brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who should buy first; as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer: by which means, I saw whose purse was best in picture; and, what I saw, to my good use, I remembered. My clown (who wants but something to be a reasonable man,) grew so in love with the wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes, till he had both tune and words! which so drew the rest of the herd to me, that all their other senses stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a cod-piece of a purse; I would have filed keys off, that hung in chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song, and admiring the nothing of it. So that, in this time of lethargy, I picked and cut most of their festival purses: and had not the old man come in with a whoobub against his daughter and the king's son, and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not left a purse alive in the whole army. [CAM. FLOR. and PER. come forward. Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being there So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. Flo. And those that you'll procure from king LeontesCam. Shall satisfy your father. Per. Happy be you! [5] A pomander was a little ball made of perfumes, and worn in the pocket or about the neck, to prevent infection in times of plague. GREY. [6] This alludes to beads often sold by the Romanists, as made particularly efficacious by the touch of some relick. JOHNS. All, that you speak, shews fair. Cam. Who have we here? [Seeing AUTOLYCUS. -We'll make an instrument of this; omit Aut. If they have overheard me now,-why, hanging. Cam. Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee; yet for the outside of thy poverty, we must make an exchange; therefore,discase thee instantly, thou must think, there's necessity in't, and change garments with this gentleman: Though the pennyworth, on his side, be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot.7 Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir: I know ye well enough. [Aside. Cam. Nay, pr'y thee, despatch: the gentleman is half flayed already. it. Aut. Are you in earnest, sir?—I smell the trick of Flo. Despatch, I pr'ythee. [Aside. Aut. Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with conscience take it. Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle. [FLO. and AUT. exchange garments. -Fortunate mistress,-let my prophecy Come home to you!-you must retire yourself Into some covert: take your sweet-heart's hat, And pluck it o'er your brows; muffle your face ; Dismantle you; and, as you can, disliken The truth of your own seeming; that you may, (For I do fear eyes over you,) to ship-board Get undescried. Per. I see, the play so lies, That I must bear a part. Cam. No remedy. Have you done there? Flo. Should I now meet my father, He would not call me son. Cam. Nay, you shall have no hat : Come, lady, come.— -Farewell, my friend. [7]_i. e, something over and above, or, as we now say, something to boot. JOHNS |