To see him any more), cast your good counsels 771 With her, whom here I cannot hold on shore; Cam. O my lord ! I would your spirit were easier for advice, Flo. Hark, Perdita I'll hear you by and by. Cam. [Aside.] He's irremoveable; 780 [To CAMILLO. Resolv'd for flight: Now were I happy, if And that unhappy king, my master, whom Flo. Now, good Camillo I am so fraught with curious business, that I leave out ceremony. Cam. Sir, I think, You have heard of my poor services, i'the love That I have borne your father? 790 Flo. Very nobly Have you deserv'd: it is my father's musick 800 Το To have them recompens'd, as thought on. If you may please to think I love the king; And, through him, what is nearest to him, which is I'll point you where you shall have such receiving To qualify, and bring him up to liking. Flo. How, Camillo, May this, almost a miracle, be done? That I may call thee something more than man, And, after that, trust to thee. 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. 820 Cam. Then list to me. This follows. If you will not change your purpose, But undergo this flight; make for Sicilia ;、 830 And there present yourself, and your fair princess (For so, I see, she must be), 'fore Leontes. She shall be habited, as it becomes The partner of your bed. Methinks, I see 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, 840 The manner of your bearing towards him, with Flo. I am bound to you: There is some sap in this. Cam. A course more promising Than a wild dedication of yourselves To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores; most certain But, as you shake off one, to take another : 860 Do Do their best office, if they can but stay you 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 ? 870 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 She is 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, oh, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo, Preserver of my father, now of me; The medicine of our house! how shall we do? Nor shall appear in Sicily Cam. My lord, 880 Fear none of this: I think, you know, my fortunes Do all lie there: it shall be so my care To have you royally appointed, as if 890 The The scene, you play, were mine. For instance, sir, That you may know you shall not want; one word-[They talk aside. Enter AUTOLICUS. Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman 1 I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, 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 remember'd. 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 pinch'd a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing, to geld a codpiece 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 pick'd and cut most of their festival purses: and had not the old man come in with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's son, and scar'd my choughs from the chaff, I had not left a purse alive in the whole army. 916 [CAM. FLO, and PER, come forward. Cam, |