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Flo. Good my lord,

She came from Libya.

Leo. 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

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His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence
(A prosperous south-wind friendly) we have cross'd,
To execute the charge my father gave me,
For visiting your highness: my best train
I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;
Who for Bohemia bend, to signify

Not only my success in Libya, sir,

But my arrival, and my wife's, in safety
Here, where we are.

Lea. The blessed gods

Purge all infection from our air, whilst you
Do climate here! You have a holy father,
A graceful gentleman; against whose person,
So sacred as it is, I have done sin :

For which the heavens, taking angry note,
Have left me issue-less; and your father's bless'd
(As he from heaven merits it), with you,
Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,
Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,
Such goodly things as you!

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Enter a Lord.

Lord. Most noble sir,

That, which I shall report, will bear no credit,

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Were not the proof so high. Please you, great sir, Bohemia greets you from himself, by me;

Desires you to attach his son, who has,

His dignity and duty both cast off,

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Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with
A shepherd's daughter.

Leo. Where's Bohemia? speak.

Lord. Here in your city; I now came from him. I speak amazedly; and it becomes,

My marvel, and my message. To your court
Whilst he was hastning (in the chase, it seems,
Of this fair couple), meets he on the way
The father of this seeming lady, and

Her brother, having both their country quitted
With this young prince.

Flo. Camillo has betray'd me ;;

Whose honour and whose honesty, 'till now

Endur'd all weathers.

Lord. Lay't so to his charge;

He's with the king your father.

Leo. Who? Camillo ?

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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. Oh, my poor father !

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The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have
Our contract celebrated,

Leo.

Leo. You are marry'd?

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.

Leo. My lord,

Is this the daughter of a king?

Flo. She is,

When once she is my wife.

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Leo. 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,

Where you were ty'd in duty

and as sorry,

Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
That you might well enjoy her.

Flo. Dear, look up :

Though Fortune, visible an enemy,

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Should chase us, with my father; power no jot
Hath she to change our loves. 'Beseech you, sir,
Remember, since you ow'd no more to time
Than I do now: with thought of such affections,
Step forth mine advocate. At your request,
My father will grant precious things, as trifles.
Leo. Would he do so, I'd beg your precious mis-
tress,

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, she was more worth such

gazes

Than what you look on now.

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Leo.

Leo. I thought of her,

Even in these looks I made.

But your petition

[TO FLORIZEL.

Is yet unanswer'd: I will to your father;
Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,

I am friend to them, and you: upon which errand
I now go toward him; therefore, follow me,

And mark what way I make. Come, good my lord.

[Exeunt.

SCENE II.

The same.

Enter AUTOLICUS, and a Gentleman.

Aut. 'Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?

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1 Gent. I was by at the opening of the farthel, 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 seem'd 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 look'd, as they had heard of a world ransom'd, or one destroy'd: A notable passion

passion of wonder appear'd 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.

Enter another Gentleman.

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Here comes a gentleman, that, haply, knows more: The news, Rogero?

2 Gent. Nothing but bonfires. The oracle is fulfill'd; the king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour, that balladmakers cannot be able to express it.

Enter another Gentleman.

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Here comes the lady Paulina's steward, he can deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news, which is call'd true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion: Has the king found his heir ?

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3 Gent. Most true; if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance: That which you hear, you'll swear you see, there is such 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 nobleness, which nature shews 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?

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