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

Leo. Where's Bithynia? fpeak.

Lord. Here in your city. I now came from him.

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I speak amazedly, and it becomes
My marvel, and my message: to your court
Whilft he was haft'ning, in the chace, it feems,
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?

Lord. Camillo, Sir, I spake with him; who now Has these poor men in question. Never faw I Wretches fo quake; they kneel, they kiss the earth, Forswear themselves as often as they fpeak. Bithynia stops his ears, and threatens them With divers deaths in death.

Per. Oh, my poor father !

The heav'n fets spies upon us, will not have
Our contract celebrated.

Leo. You are marry'd?

Flo. We are not, Sir, nor are we like to be;

The stars, I fee, 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.

Leo. That once, I fee, by your good father's speed,

Will come on very flowly. I am forry
(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 birth 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, fince 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 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, she was more worth such gazes Than what you look on now.

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 defires,
I'm 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 V. Near the court in Sicilia.

Enter Autolicus and a Gentleman.

Aut. 'Befeech you, Sir, were you present at this reJation?

I 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 almoft, with staring on one another, to tear the cafes 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 paf fion of wonder appear'd in them; but the wifeft be holder, that knew no more but feeing, could not say if th' importance were joy or forrow; but in the extremity of the one it mu must needs be.

Enter another Gentleman.

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 ballad-makers cannot be able to express it.

Enter another Gentleman.

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 fufpicion. Has the King found his heir ?

3 Gent. Moft true, if ever truth were pregnant by circumftance. That which you hear, you'll swear you fee, there is fuch unity in the proofs. The mantle of Queen Hermione-her jewel about the neck of itthe letters of Antigonus found with it, which they know to be his character, the majesty of the creature, in resemblence 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 fee the meeting of the two Kings?

2 Gent. No.

3 Gent. Then have you lost a fight, which was to be seen, cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one joy crown another, so 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 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 himfelf, for joy of his found daughter; as if that joy were now become a lofs, cries, Oh, thy mother, thy mother! then asks Bithynia forgiveness; then embrace his fon-in-law; then again worries he his daughter, with clipping her. Now he thanks the old fhepherd, who 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 description to do it.

2 Gent. What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carry'd hence the child ?

3 Gent. Like an old tale still, which will have matters to rehearse, tho' credit be asleep, and not an ear open; he was torn to pieces with a bear: this avouches the shepherd'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 instant of their master's death, and in the view of the shepherd; fo that all the instruments which aided to expose the child, were even then loft, when it was found. But, oh, the noble combat, that 'twixt joy and forrow was fought in Paulina! She had one eye declin'd for the lofs of her hufband, another elevated that the oracle was fulfill'd. She lifted the Princess from the earth, and so locks her in embracing, as if the would pin her to her heart, that she might no more be in danger of lofing.

i Gent. The dignity of this act was worth the au dience of Kings and Princes; for by such was it acted.

3 Gent. One of the prettiest touches of all, and that which angled for mine eyes, was, when at the relation of the Queen's death, with the manner how she came to it, bravely confefs'd' and lamented by the King, how attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one fign of dolour to another, she did, with an Alas! I would fain say, bleed tears; for I am fure my heart wept blood. Who was most marble, there changed colour; some swooned, all forrowed; if all the world could have feen't, the woe had been univerfal.

1 Gent. Are they return'd to the court?

3 Gent. No. The Princess hearing of her mother's statue, which is in the keeping of Paulina; a piece many years in doing, and now newly perform'd by that rare Italian master Julio Romano; who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would be

guile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her ape; he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione, that they say, one would speak to her, and stand in hope of anfwer: thither with all greediness of affection are they gone, and there they intend to fup.

2 Gent. I thought she had fome great matter there in hand; for she hath privately twice or thrice a-day, ever fince the death of Hermione, visited that removed house. Shall we thither, and with our company piece the rejoicing?

Gent. Who would be thence, that has the benefit of access ? every wink of an eye, some new grace will be born: our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge. Let's along. [Exeunt.

Aut. Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old man and his fon aboard the Prince; told him, I heard them talk of a farthel, and I know not what : but he at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter, (fo he then took her to be), who began to be much fea-fick, and himself little better, extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remained undifcovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I been the finder out of this secret, it would not have relish'd among my other difcredits.

SCENE VI. Enter Shepherd and Clown. Here come those I have done good to against my will, and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.

Shep. Come, boy, I am past more children; but thy sons and daughters will be all gentlemen born.

Clo. "You are well met, Sir. You denied to fight " with me this other day, because I was no gentleman "born: fee you these cloaths? say, you fee them not, " and think me still no gentleman born. You were "beft say, these robes are not gentleman born. Give me the lye; do, and try whether I am not now a " gentleman born.

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Aut. I know you are now, Sir, a gentleman born. Clo. Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.

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