From him that has most cause to grieve it should be, She's an adult'refs. Her. Should a villain fay fo, The most replenish'd villain in the world, He were as much more villain: you, my lord, Leo. You have miftook, my lady, The vulgar give bold'ft titles; ay, and privy Her. No, by my life, Privy to none of this: how will this grieve you, Leo. No, if I do mistake In those foundations which I build upon, A fchoolboy's top. Away with her to prison: Her. There's fome ill planet reigns; Uuu 2 I am I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Shall best instruct you, measure me; and fo The king's will be perform❜d! Leo. Shall I be heard? Her. Who is't that goes with me? 'befeech your highness, My women may be with me; for, you see, My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools; There is no caufe: when you fhall know your mistress As I come out; this action, I now go on, Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord, I never wifh'd to fee you forry; now, I truft, I fhall. My women, come; you've leave. [Exe. Queen guarded, and Ladies. Lord. For her, my lord, I dare my life lay down, and will do't, fir, Ant. If it prove a She's otherwife, I'll keep my ftablestand where Stableftand (ftabilis ftatio as Spelman interprets it) is a term of the foreft-laws, and fignifies a place where a deer-Stealer fixes his stand under fome convenient cover, and keeps watch for the purpose of killing deer as they pass by. From the place it came to be applied alfo to the perfon, and any man taken in a forest in that fituation with a gun or bow in his hand was prefumed to be an offender and had the name of a stableftand. In all former editions this hath been printed stables, and it may perhaps be objected Than when I feel, and fee her, no further truft her; For every inch of woman in the world, Ay, every dram of woman's flesh, is false, If the be. Leo. Hold your peaces. Lord. Good my lord! Ant. It is for you we speak, not for ourselves: You are abused by fome putter-on, That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain, I would land-damm him: be fhe honour-flaw'd, I have three daughters; th' eldest is eleven ; The fecond, and the third, nine, and fome five; Leo. Ceafe; no more: You smell this bufinefs with a fenfe as cold As is a dead man's nofe: I fee't, and feel't, As you feel doing thus; and fee withal [laying hold of his arm. The inftruments I feel. Ant. If it be fo, We need no grave to bury honefty; There's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten Of the whole dungy earth. Leo. What? lack I credit? Lord. I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, Leo. Why, what need we Commune with you for this? not rather follow objected that another fyllable added spoils the smoothness of the verfe. But by pronouncing table fort. the measure will very well bear it according to the liberty allowed in this kind of writing, and which Shakespear never fcruples to use. Our Our forceful instigation? our prerogative Ant. And I wish, my liege, You had only in your filent judgment try'd it, Leo. How could that be? Either thou art most ignorant by age, Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight (Which was as grofs as ever touch'd conjecture, Made up to th' deed) doth push on this proceeding; (For, in an act of this importance, 'twere Most piteous to be wild) I've despatch'd in post, Of stuff'd fufficiency: now, from the oracle Leo. Though I am fatisfy'd, and need no more Come up to th' truth. So we have thought it good * The word approbation here fignifies, proof. Be Be left her to perform. Come, follow us, We are to speak in publick; for this business Ant. To laughter, as I take it, SCENE III. A Prison. [afide. [Exeunt. Pau. Enter Paulina, and a Gentleman, with other Attendants. T HE keeper of the prison, call to him: [Exit. Gent: No court in Europe is too good for thee; What doft thou then in prison? Now, good fir, You know me, do you not? [Reenter Gentleman with the jailer. Jai. For a worthy lady, And one whom much I honour. Pau. Pray you then, Conduct me to the queen. Jai. I may not, madam; To th' contrary I have express commandment. Pau. Here's ado To lock up honefty and honour from Th' accefs of gentle vifitors! Is't lawful, Pray you, to fee her women? any of them? Jai. If it so please you, madam, To put apart these your attendants, I Shall bring Emilia forth. Pau. I pray now, call her: Withdraw yourselves. Jai. And, madam, I must be [to her attendants who go out.. Enter |