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Page 40
POLIXENES.
What follows this?--
How prettily the young swain seems to wash
The hand was fair before!--I have put you out:
But to your protestation; let me hear
What you profess.
FLORIZEL.
Do, and be witness to't.
POLIXENES.
And this my neighbour, too?
FLORIZEL.
And he, and more
Than he, and men,--the earth, the heavens, and all:--
That,--were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,
Thereof most worthy; were I the fairest youth
That ever made eye swerve; had force and knowledge
More than was ever man's,--I would not prize them
Without her love: for her employ them all;
Commend them, and condemn them to her service,
Or to their own perdition.
POLIXENES.
Fairly offer'd.
CAMILLO.
This shows a sound affection.
SHEPHERD.
But, my daughter,
Say you the like to him?
PERDITA.
I cannot speak
So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:
By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
The purity of his.
SHEPHERD.
Take hands, a bargain!--
And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to't:
I give my daughter to him, and will make
Her portion equal his.
FLORIZEL.
O, that must be
I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,
I shall have more than you can dream of yet;
Enough then for your wonder: but come on,
Contract us 'fore these witnesses.
SHEPHERD.
Come, your hand;--
And, daughter, yours.
POLIXENES.
Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;
Have you a father?
FLORIZEL.
I have; but what of him?
POLIXENES.
Knows he of this?
FLORIZEL.
He neither does nor shall.
POLIXENES.
Methinks a father
Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest
That best becomes the table. Pray you, once more;
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid
With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?
Know man from man? dispute his own estate?
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing
But what he did being childish?
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