Your 'difcontenting father I'll strive to qualify,
And bring him up to liking.

Flo. How, Camillo,

May this, almost a miracle, be done?

That I may call thee fomething more than man,
And, after that, truft 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; fo we profefs

Ourselves to be the flaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

Cam. Then lift 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,
(For fo, I see, she must be) 'fore Leontes;
She shall be habited, as it becomes

The partner of your bed. Methinks, I fee
Leontes, opening his free arms, and weeping
His welcomes forth: afks thee, the fon, forgiveness,
As 'twere i'the father's perfon: kiffes the hands
Of

your fresh princess: o'er and o'er divides him ''Twixt his unkindnefs and his kindness; the one He chides to hell, and bids the other grow,

Fafter than thought, or time.

Flo. Worthy Camillo,

What colour for my visitation shall I
Hold up before him?

i difcontenting father]-with whom you have caufe to be diffatisfied. * But as the unthought-on accident is guilty, &c.]—As the late unexpected discovery hath forc'd me upon these measures, fo I commit myfelf entirely to the guidance of chance through the whole adventure.

'Twixt bis unkindness and his kindnefs ;]-Betwixt the thoughts of his past unkindness and prefent kindness.

Cam.

Cam. Sent by the king your father

To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir,
The manner of your bearing towards him, with
What you, as from your father, shall deliver,
Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
The which shall point you forth, at every TM fitting,
What you must fay; that he shall not perceive,
But that you have your father's bofom there,
And speak his very heart.

Flo. I am bound to you:
There is fome " fap in this.

Cam. A courfe more promifing Than a wild dedication of yourselves

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To unpath'd waters, undream'd fhores; moft certain,
To miferies enough: no hope to help you;
But, as you shake off one, to take another:
Nothing fo certain, as your anchors; who
Do their best office, if they can but stay you
Where you'll be loth to be: Befides, you know,
Profperity's the very bond of love;

Whose fresh complexion and whofe heart together
Affliction alters.

Per. One of thefe is true :

I think, affliction may fubdue the cheek,

There shall not, at your father's house, these seven years,

Be born another fuch.

Flo. My good Camillo,

She is as forward of her breeding, as

I'the rear of birth.

fitting,]-audience, interview-fitting-fit occafion. "Sap]-relish.

I'the rear of birth.]-Behind hand in point of descent.

• take in]-reach, affect.

Cam. I cannot fay, 'tis pity

She lacks inftructions; for fhe feems a mistress
To moft that teach."

Per. Your pardon, fir; for this

I'll blush you thanks.

Flo. My prettieft Perdita.

But, oh, the thorns we ftand upon !-Camillo,-
Preferver of my father, now of me;

The medicin of our house!-how fhall we do?

We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's fon;

Nor fhall appear in Sicily

Cam. My lord,

Fear none of this; I think, you know, my fortunes
Do all lie there: it fhall be fo my care

To have you royally appointed, as if

The scene, you play, were mine. For instance, fir,

That you may

know you

fhall not want,-one word.

[They talk afide.

Enter Autolycus.

Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool honesty is! and truft, his fworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have fold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit ftone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, fhoe-tye, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting; they throng who fhould buy firft; as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer by which means, I faw whofe purse was best in picture; and, what I faw, to my good ufe, I remember'd. My clown, (who wants but fomething to be a reasonable man) grew fo in love with the wenches' fong, that he

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pemander, 1-a perfum'd ball, us'd to prevent infection. ballowed,]-by the touch of fome precious relick.

was beft in picture ;]-had moft coin in it; was beft-lined.

would

would not ftir his pettitoes, 'till he had both tune and words; which fo drew the reft of the herd to me, that all their other fenfes ftuck in their ears: you might have pinch'd a placket, it was fenfelefs; 'twas nothing, to geld a codpiece of a purfe; I would have filed keys off, that hung in chains no hearing, no feeling, but my fir's fong, 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 fon, and fcar'd my choughs from the chaff, I had not left a purse alive in the whole

army.

[Camillo, Florizel and Perdita, come forward. Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being there So foon as you arrive, fhall clear that doubt.

Fio. And thofe that you'll procure from king Leontes,― Cam. Shall fatisfy your father.

Per. Happy be you !

All, that you speak, fhews fair.

Cam. Who have we here?

We'll make an inftrument of this; omit

Nothing, may give us aid.

[Seeing Autolycus.

Aut. If they have over-heard me now,-why hanging.

[Afide. Cam. How now, good fellow? Why shakeft thou fo? Fear not man; here's no harm intended to thee.

Aut. I am a poor fellow, fir.

Cam. Why, be fo ftill; here's nobody will steal that from thee: Yet, for the outfide of thy poverty, we must mike an exchange: therefore, difcafe thee inftantly, (thou muft think, there's neceffity in't) and change garments with this gentleman: Though the pennyworth, on his fide, be the worst, yet hold thee, there's fome boot.

Aut. I am a poor fellow, fir: I know ye well enough.

[Afide. Cam.

Cam. Nay, pr'ythee, dispatch: the gentleman is 'half flead already.

Aut. Are you in earnest, fir ?—I fmell the trick of it.—

Flo. Difpatch, I pr'ythee.

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[Afide.

Aut. Indeed, " I have had earneft; but I cannot with confcience take it.

Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle.-
Fortunate mistress,-let my prophecy

Come home to you!-you must retire yourself
Into fome covert: take your fweet-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 feeming; that you may
(For I do fear eyes over you) to ship-board
Get undefcry'd.

Per. I fee, the play fo 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 fon.

Cam. Nay, you fhall have no hat:

Come, lady, come.-Farewel, my friend.

Aut. Adieu, fir.

Flo. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot?

Pray you, a word.

Cam. What I do next, fhall be, to tell the king [Afide. Of this escape, and whither they are bound;

Wherein, my hope is, I fhall fo prevail,

To force him after: in whofe company

"half flead]-difrob'd.

"I have had earneft;]-fome jewel, perhaps, found in Florizel's pockets, which he had return'd to it's owner.

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