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Page 54
LEONTES.
My lord,
Is this the daughter of a king?
FLORIZEL.
She is,
When once she is my wife.
LEONTES.
That once, I see by your good father's speed,
Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,
Most sorry, you have broken from his liking,
Where you were tied in duty; and as sorry
Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,
That you might well enjoy her.
FLORIZEL.
Dear, look up:
Though Fortune, visible an enemy,
Should chase us with my father, power no jot
Hath she to change our loves.--Beseech you, sir,
Remember since 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.
LEONTES.
Would he do so, I'd beg your precious mistress,
Which he counts but a trifle.
PAULINA.
Sir, my liege,
Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month
'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes
Than what you look on now.
LEONTES.
I thought of her
Even in these looks I made.--[To FLORIZEL.] But your petition
Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father.
Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,
I am 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 II. The same. Before the Palace.
[Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman.]
AUTOLYCUS.
Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
I was by at the opening of the fardel, 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.
AUTOLYCUS.
I would most gladly know the issue of it.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
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 almost, with staring on one another, to tear the
cases of their eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard of a world
ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable passion of wonder appeared
in them; but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing
could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow;--but in the
extremity of the one, it must needs be. Here comes a gentleman
that happily knows more.
[Enter a Gentleman.]
The news, Rogero?
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