Part 33

_Clo._ Pray heartily he be at palace.

_Aut._ [_Aside_] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's 695 excrement. [_Takes off his false beard._] How now, rustics! whither are you bound?

_Shep._ To the palace, an it like your worship.

_Aut._ Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names, 700 your ages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that is fitting to be known, discover.

_Clo._ We are but plain fellows, sir.

_Aut._ A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us 705 soldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not give us the lie.

_Clo._ Your worship had like to have given us one, if you had not taken yourself with the manner.

_Shep._ Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir? 710

_Aut._ Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? receives not thy nose court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate, or 715 toaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to open thy affair.

_Shep._ My business, sir, is to the king. 720

_Aut._ What advocate hast thou to him?

_Shep._ I know not, an't like you.

_Clo._ Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you have none.

_Shep._ None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen. 725

_Aut._ How blessed are we that are not simple men! Yet nature might have made me as these are, Therefore I will not disdain.

_Clo._ This cannot be but a great courtier.

_Shep._ His garments are rich, but he wears them not 730 handsomely.

_Clo._ He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking on's teeth,

_Aut._ The fardel there? what's i' the fardel? Wherefore that box? 735

_Shep._ Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, which none must know but the king; and which he shall know within this hour, if I may come to the speech of him.

_Aut._ Age, thou hast lost thy labour.

_Shep._ Why, sir? 740

_Aut._ The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for, if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must know the king is full of grief.

_Shep._ So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have 745 married a shepherd's daughter.

_Aut._ If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly: the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.

_Clo._ Think you so, sir? 750

_Aut._ Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to him, though removed fifty times, shall all come under the hangman: which though it be great pity, yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have his 755 daughter come into grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death is too soft for him, say I: draw our throne into a sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.

_Clo._ Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't like you, sir? 760

_Ant._ He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication 765 proclaims, shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences being so capital? Tell me, for you seem to be 770 honest plain men, what you have to the king: being something gently considered, I'll bring you where he is aboard, tender your persons to his presence, whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man besides the king to effect your suits, here is man shall do it. 775

_Clo._ He seems to be of great authority: close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.' 780

_Shep._ An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.

_Aut._ After I have done what I promised?

_Shep._ Ay, sir. 785

_Aut._ Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?

_Clo._ In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.

_Aut._ O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang 790 him, he'll be made an example.

_Clo._ Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does when the business is 795 performed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it be brought you.

_Aut._ I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side; go on the right hand: I will but look upon the hedge and follow you. 800

_Clo._ We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.

_Shep._ Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good. [_Exeunt Shepherd and Clown._

_Aut._ If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would 805 not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means to do the prince my master good; which who knows how that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to 810 shore them again and that the complaint they have to the king concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far officious; for I am proof against that title and what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present them: there may be matter in it. [_Exit._ 815

LINENOTES:

## SCENE IV.] SCENE III. Capell.

The Shepherd's cottage.] The prospect of a Shepherd's Cotte. Theobald. A Room in the Shepherd's House. Capell.

Enter F. and P.] Rowe. Enter F., P., Shepherd, Clowne, Polixenes, Camillo, Mopsa, Dorcas, Servants, Autolicus. Ff.

[2] _Do_] Theobald. _Do's_ Ff. _Does_ Rowe.

[4] _Is as_] _Is_ Rowe.

_a meeting_] F1. _a merry meeting_ F2 F3 F4.

[5] _Sir_] _Sure_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[12] _Digest it_] F2 F3 F4. _Digest_ F1.

[12, 13] _custom, I should blush ... think,_] _custom (sworn I think) To see you so attired, I should blush_ Steevens conj.

[13] _sworn_] F3 F4. _sworne_ F1 F2. _swoon_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.). _scorn_ Mitford conj. _so worn_ Collier (Jackson conj.).

[13, 14] _sworn, I think ... glass_] _swoon, I think, To see myself i' the glass_ Theobald conj. _and more I think ... a glass_ Ingleby conj. _frown, I think, ... a glass or sorely shrink ... i' th' glass_ or _more, I think ... a glass or more, I think ... i' th' glass_ Bailey conj.

[22] _Vilely_] Hanmer. _Vildly_ Ff.

[28] _the green_] _sea green_ Anon. conj.

[31, 32] _now. Their ... beauty rarer,_] Rowe. _now. Their ... beauty, rarer,_ Ff. _now_:--_Their ... beauty rarer,--_ Dyce.

[33] _in a way_] _any way_ Collier (Ritson conj.).

[35] _faith_] _faith does_ Keightley conj.

_sir_] F1. _deere sir_ F2. _dear sir_ F3 F4.

[38] _must be necessities_] _necessities must be_ Hanmer.

[40] _dearest_] F3 F4. _deer'st_ F1. _deerest_ F2.

[46] _gentle_] _gentlest_ Hanmer. _girl_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[49] _your_] _you_ F4.

_it were_] _'twere_ Pope.

[54] Enter....] Enter All. F2 F3 F4 (after _auspicious!_ line 52). om. F1.

[55] SCENE V. Pope.

[60] _and_] _and on_ Keightley conj.

[61] _thing_] _things_ F4.

[68] _come on_] Pol. _Come on_ Theobald conj.

[70] [To Pol.] _Sir, welcome_] Malone. _Sir, welcome_, Ff. _Sirs, welcome_ [To Polix. and Cam. Rowe. _Sirs, you're welcome_ [To Pol. and Cam. Hanmer. _Welcome, sir_ Capell.

[72] [To Cam.] Malone.

_sir_] _sirs_ Rowe.

[76] _to you_] _unto you_ Pope.

[78, 79] _well ... winter._] _will ... winter?_ Staunton conj.

[81] _fairest_] _fair'st_ S. Walker conj.

[82] _gillyvors_] _Gilly-vors_ Ff. _giily-flowers_ Rowe. See note (XIV).

[83] _call_] _cail_ F2.

[84] _garden's_] F2 F3 F4. _gardens_ F1.

[90] _over_] _o'er_ Capell. _ever_ or _e'er_ Anon. conj. _even_ Craik conj.

[93] _scion_] Steevens (1793). _sien_ Ff. _scyon_ Pope, _scyen_ Capell. _cyon_ Steevens (1778).

_wildest_] _wilder_ Anon. conj.

[98] _your_] _you_ F1.

_gillyvors_] _Gilly 'vors_ Ff. _gillyflowers_ Rowe.

[104] _mints_] _mint_ S. Walker conj. (withdrawn).

[105] _wi' the_] Capell. _with'_ Ff. _with th_' Rowe.

[108] _You're_] _Y'are_ Ff.

_very welcome_] _welcome_ F4.

[112] _my fair'st friend_] Ff. _my fairest friends_ Rowe (ed. 2). _fairest friend_ Hanmer.

[118] _Dis's_] _Dysses_ F1. _Disses_ F2 F3 F4.

_daffodils_] _early daffodils_ Hanmer. _golden daffodils_ Coleridge conj. _yellow daffodils_ Keightley conj.

[125] _bold_] _gold_ Hanmer.

[127] _flower-de-luce_] _flower-de-lis_ Rowe.

[134] _Whitsun_] Johnson. _Whitson_ Ff. _Whitsund'_ Hanmer.

[137, 138] _I'ld_] F1 F2 F3. _I'le_ F4. _I'll_ Rowe.

[142] _move_] _but so move_ Keightley conj.

_still so_] _still so, my fair_ Capell.

[142, 143] _still so, And own no_] _still so, and own No_ Malone.

[145] _you are_] _you're_ Pope.

_deeds_] _deed_ Spedding conj.

[146] _queens_] _queen's_ Singer.

[148] _peeps ... through't_] F3 F4. _peepes ... through't_ F1 F2. _peeps forth ... through it_ Rowe. _peeps so ... through t'_ Capell. _fairly peeps through it_ Steevens (1793). _peeps ... through it_ Collier. _through it ... peeps_ Staunton conj. _peepeth ... through't_ Anon. conj.

[152] _to fear_] _in fear_ Hanmer.

[155, 156] _Per. I'll ... 'em._ Pol. _This_] Pol. [Aside] _I'll ... This_ Johnson conj.

[155] _I'll swear_] _Elsewhere_ Jackson conj.

_for 'em_] _for them_ [Music. Dance forming. Capell. _for one_ Rann (Theobald and Ritson conj.).

[157] _green-sward_] Steevens. _greensord_ Ff.

_seems_] _says_ Collier (Collier MS.). _deems_ Anon. conj.

[160] _makes ... out_] _wakes her blood: look on't_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_look out_] Theobald. _look on't_ Ff.

[162, 163] Arranged as in Capell. As prose in Ff.

_marry, garlic, To ... with!_] _marry Garlick to ... with._ Ff. _marry, garlick to ... with--_ Johnson.

[165] _strike up_] _strike up, pipers_ Capell, ending lines 166, 167 _at what ... daughter?_

[165] [Music.] Malone. om. Ff.

[166] _Pray_] _I pray_ Hanmer. _Pray you_ S. Walker conj.

[167] _Which_] _Who_ Pope.

[168] _and boasts_] _and he boasts_ Rowe. _he boasts_ Capell. _'a boasts_ Steevens conj.

[169] _feeding_] _breeding_ Hanmer.

_but I have it_] _I have it but_ Hunter conj.

[176] _Who loves another_] _Which loves the other_ Hanmer. _Who loves the other_ Mason conj.

[177] _So she_] _She_ Warburton.

[181] SCENE VI. Pope.

[185] _grew_] _grow_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[193] _fadings_] _fapings_ Rowe (ed. 2). _fa-dings_ Theobald.

[196] _gap_] _jape_ Singer (Collier MS.).

[200] _admirable conceited_] Ff. _admirable-conceited_ Theobald.

[201] _unbraided_] _braided_ Johnson conj. _embroided_ Collier (Collier MS.).

_wares_] _warres_ F2.

[206] _or_] _and_ Pope.

[207] _sleeve-hand_] _sleeve-band_ Hanmer. _Silesia_ or _sleasie holland_ Peck conj.

[211] Exit....] Capell.

[212] _them_] _'em_ Warburton.

[216] _Cypress_] _Cyprus_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[219] _Bugle bracelet_] _Bugle-bracelets_ F4.

[225] _come;_] _come buy;_ Keightley conj.

[226, 227] _Buy ... Come buy._] _Buy ... Come buy, &c._ Theobald. As one line in Ff.

[238] _bear_] _wear_ Warburton.

[239, 240] _kiln-hole_] Malone. _kill-hole_ Ff.

[240] _whistle off_] Hanmer. _whistle of_ Ff. _whisper off_ Collier MS.

[242] _clamour_] _charm_ Hanmer. _chamber_ Jackson conj. _chommer_ Cornish conj. _clammer_ Keightley conj. _chawmer_ Singer conj.

[253] _ballad_] F3 F4. _ballet_ F1 F2.

[253, 254] _o' life_] _o'-life_ Collier, _a life_ Ff. _or a life_ Rowe (ed. 2). _a'-life_ Malone.

[256] _of_] F1 F2. _with_ F3 F4.

_burthen_] _birth_ Anon. conj.

[262] _midwife's_] Rowe. _midwives_ Ff.

[263] _wives_] _wives'_ Steevens. See note (xv).

[266] _moe_] _more_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[268] _ballad of_] Ff. _ballad, Of_ Capell.

[269] _Wednesday_] _Wensday_ F1 F2.

[270] _fathom_] Johnson, _fadom_ Ff.

[272] _cold_] _cod_ Anon conj.

[288] SONG] See note (XVI).

[289] _Where it_] _Whither_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[290, 299] _whither_] F4. _whether_ F1 F2 F3.

[293] _thither_] F3 F4. _thether_ F1 F2.

[301] _gentlemen_] Rowe. _Gent._ Ff.

[304] Exit....] Dyce om. Ff. Exeunt Cl., A., D., and M. Rowe (after line 314).

[305] [Follows singing.] Edd. Song. Ff.

[306-314] As six lines in Ff.

[306] _buy_] _by_ Pope (ed. i).

[307] _cape_] _crpe_ F1.

[309] _Any ... any_] _And ... and_ Theobald.

[311] _wear-a_] _ware-a_ Rowe.

[315] SCENE VII. Pope.

Re-enter....] Enter a Servant. Rowe.

_Master_] _Mayster_ F1.

_there is_] _there are_ Rowe.

_carters_] _goatherds_ Theobald.

[316] _three swine-herds_] _and three swine-herds_ Rowe.

[328] _squier_] _squire_ Ff. _square_ Rowe. See note (XVII).

[331] Serv. _Why ... sir_] Ff. Omitted by Rowe and all Edd. before Capell.

[Exit.] Capell.

Here....] Ff. Enter twelve Rusticks, presenting Satyrs. Company seat themselves. Dance, and Exeunt Rusticks. Capell.

[332, 333] Pol. _O, father ... Is it_] Flo. _O, father ... hereafter_ (Here a dance of twelve Satyrs). Pol. _Is it_ Hanmer.

[332] [Aside. Johnson. [Rising from beside the Shepherd. Capell.

[333] [To Cam.] Edd [Aside. Capell.

[337] _handed_] _handled_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[344] _reply, at least_] _reply, at least,_ Theobald, _reply at least_, Ff.

_a care_] _care_ Theobald.

[349] _life_] _love_ Theobald.

[350] _who_] _whom_ F1.

[353, 354] _Or ... o'er_] Arranged as in F1. In F2 F3 F4 line 353 ends at _snow_.

[353] _Ethiopian's_] _Ethiop's_ Dyce conj. _Ethiop_ Lettsom conj.

[354] _blasts_] F1. _blast_ F2 F3 F4.

[356] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[360] _the heavens_] _and heavens_ F4.

[363] _force_] _sense_ Collier MS.

[369] _him?_] Rowe. _him._ Ff.

[378] _your_] _you_ F4.

[380] _awhile, beseech you;_] Capell. _a-while, beseech you,_ F1. _a-while; 'beseech you,_ F2 F3 F4.

[389] _dispute_] _compute_ Johnson conj. _dispose_ Collier MS. _dispense_ Anon. conj.

[395] _my_] _the_ Anon. conj.

[406] [_Discovering ..._] Rowe.

[408] _acknowledged_] _acknowledge_ F1.

[409] _affects_] Ff. _affect'st_ Pope.

[410] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[410, 411] _can But shorten_] _can but Shorten_ Warburton.

[412] _who_] _whom_ F1.

[413] _copest with,_--] _coap'st with_-- Pope. _coap'st with._ Ff.

Shep.] Per. Theobald conj.

[415] _fond_] _found_ F4.

[417] _shalt_] Rowe. _shalt never_ Ff. See note (XVIII).

[420] _Far than_] F4. _Farre then_ F1. _Farre than_ F2 F3. _Less than_ Hanmer. _Far' than_ Warburton. _Far as_ Capell (Johnson conj.). _Farther than_ Heath conj. _Far'r than_ Grant White.

[423] _dead_] _dread_ Anon. conj.

_you_] _your_ F3 F4. _thou_ Anon. conj.

[426] _thee,--if_] thee. _If_ Ff.

[428] _hoop_] _hoope_ Pope. _hope_ Ff.

[430] _to't_] _to it_ Rowe.

[Exit.] Rowe.

## SCENE VIII. Pope.

[431] _afeard_] _afraid_ Rowe.

[435] _on_] _on both_ Malone conj. _on all_

Singer (Hunter conj.). _on's_ Anon. conj.

_Will't_] Hanmer. _Wilt_ Ff.

[To Flo. Rowe.

[437] _this dream of mine,_--] Johnson. _this dream of mine,_ Ff. _from this my dream_ Hanmer. _as for this dream of mine,_-- Capell conj.

[441] [To Flo. Rowe.

[444] _died_] _died on_ Keightley conj.

[447] [To Perdita. Rowe.

[451] SCENE IX. Pope.

_upon me_] om. Steevens conj.

[452] _afeard_] _afraid_ Rowe.

[456] _your_] _my_ F1.

[459] _sight as yet_] Hanmer. _sight, as yet_ Ff.

[462] _Camillo?_] _Camillo?_-- Johnson. _Camillo._ Ff. _Camillo_-- Theobald.

[465] _fail_] _fall_ Anon. conj.

[469] _my_] _thy_ Capell.

[473] _better pleased with madness,_] F1. _better (pleas'd with madness)_ F2 F3 F4.

[478] _thereat_] _thereout_ Hanmer.

_all_] F1. _all that_ F2 F3 F4.

_or_] om. Long MS.

[479] _sea hides_] Capell. _seas hides_ F1. _seas hide_ F2 F3 F4.

[480] _fathoms_] Johnson. _fadomes_ Ff.

[482] _As you have ever_] Ff. _As you have e'er_ Malone. _As y' have e'er_ S. Walker conj.

_honour'd_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[488] _whom_] F2 F3 F4. _who_ F1.

[489] _our_] Theobald. _her_ Ff. _the_ Capell.

[495] [Drawing....] Capell.

[496] [To Camillo. Theobald.

_irremoveable_] _immovable_ Anon. conj.

[497] _Resolved_] _Rosolv'd_ F2.

[503] _curious_] _serious_ Collier MS.

[504] [Going. Malone. See note (XIX).

[511] _through him what is_] Hanmer. _through him, what's_ Ff. _thorough him, what's_ Theobald.

_nearest_] _near'st_ S. Walker conj.

[514] _alteration, on_] _alteration. On_ F1. _alteration: On_ F2 F3 F4.

[520] _And_] _I'll_ Long MS.

[521] _discontenting_] _discontented_ Rowe.

_strive to qualify_] _I'll strive to qualifie_ Rowe (ed. 2). _I will strive To qualifie_ Hanmer.

[522] _him up_] om. Rowe.

[528] _To_] Of Rowe. _Towards_ Hanmer.

[538] _asks_] _ask_ Long MS.

_thee the son_] F3 F4. _thee there Sonne_ F1 F2. _there the son_ Ritson conj.

[539] _kisses_] _kiss_ Long MS.

[540] _divides_] _divide_ Long MS.

[546] _comforts_] _comfort_ Anon conj.

[550] _sitting_] _fitting_ Theobald. _sifting_ Thirlby conj.

[558, 559] _another: Nothing_] _another Nothing_ Hanmer.

[559] _who_] _which_ Hanmer.

[569] _She is_] Pope. _She's_ Ff.

[570] _She is i' the rear o' our birth_] Rowe (ed. 2). _She is i' th' reare 'our birth_ F1 F2 F3. _She is i' th' reare 'our birth_ F4. _She is i' the rear o' her birth_ Rowe (ed. 1). _I' th' rear of birth_ Hanmer. _She is i' th' rear of birth_ Johnson. _She is i' the rear our birth_ Boswell. _She is i' th' rear'f our birth_ Grant White.

[572] _sir; for this_] Hanmer. _sir, for this,_ F1. _sir, for this,_ F2 F3 F4.

[576] _medicine_] _medecin_ Theobald conj.

[578] _appear in Sicilia._] _appeare in Sicilia._ F1. _appeare in Sicily._ F2. _appear in Sicily._ F3 F4. _appear in Sicily_-- Rowe. _appear in Sicilia_-- Boswell. _appear't in Sicilia._ Collier (Collier MS.). _appear so in Sicilia._ Staunton conj.

[582] _mine_] _true_ Collier MS.

[583] [They talk aside.] Rowe.

[587] _brooch_] Steevens. _browch_ Ff. _broch_ Capell.

[588] _fasting_] F1. _fastning_ F2 F3 F4.

[589] _throng_] _thronged_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[591] _picture_] _pasture_ Anon. conj.

[592] _My clown_] _My good clown_ Rowe.

[594] _wenches'_] Johnson. _wenches_ Ff.

[596] _ears_] _their ears_ Rann (Mason conj.).

[598] _would_] _could_ Long MS.

_filed keys off_] F3 F4. _fill'd keyes of_ F1 F2.

[600] _nothing_] _noting_ Anon. conj.

[604] [Camillo....] Theobald.

[607] _Leontes_--] Rowe. _Leontes?_ Ff.

[609] _Who_] _Whom_ Collier.

[Seeing A.] Theobald.

[612] [Aside. Theobald.

[613, 614] As three lines in Ff, ending _fellow ... man ... thee_; as prose first in Malone.

[613] _why_] _come, why_ Hanmer. _wherefore_ Capell, reading 613, 614 as two lines of verse.

[619] _a necessity_] _necessity_ Steevens.

[621] [Giving money. Dyce.

[622, 626] [Aside]. Indicated by brackets in Ff.

[624] _dispatch ... gentleman is_] _now dispatch ... gentleman_ 'S Capell, reading as verse.

[625] _flayed_] _fled_ Ff. _flead_ Rowe.

[631] [Florizel....] Capell.

[635] _your_] _thy_ Boswell.

[638] _over_] _over you_ Rowe. _ever_ Collier (Egerton and Collier MS.). _overt_ Jervis conj.

[642, 643] _no hat ... friend_] As one line in Hanmer.

[642] [Giving....] Capell.

[643] _Adieu, sir._] _Adieu, sir._ [retiring, Capell.

[645] [Talking with her aside. Capell.

[646] [Aside] Rowe.

[649] _whose_] _his_ Anon. conj.

[653] [Exeunt....] Capell. Exit Ff. Exit Flo and Per. (after 652). Exit (after line 653) Rowe.

[654] SCENE XI. Pope.

_hear_] _heard_ Hanmer.

[663, 664] _thought it were ... would not do't_] _thought it were not ... would do't_ Hanmer. _thought not it were ... would do't_ Capell.

[665] Re-enter....] Dyce. Enter.... Ff.

[666] _here is_] F1 F2. _here's_ F3 F4.

[677] _those_] _these_ Theobald.

[687] _know_] _know not_ Hanmer.

[688] [Aside] Rowe.

[690, 700] _fardel_] Steevens. _Farthell_ F1 F2 F3. _Farthel_ F4. And passim.

[691, 694] [Aside] So marked by Capell.

[693] _at palace_] _at 'Pallace_ F1. _at Pallace_ F2 F3 F4. _at the palace_ Rowe. See note (XX).

[696] [Takes off....] Steevens (1793).

[698] _an_] Hanmer. _and_ Ff.

[701] _ages_] _age_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[702] _to be_] _for to be_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[707] _not stabbing_] _note-stabbing_ Theobald conj.

_not give_] _give_ Hanmer.

[709] _manner_] _manour_ Hanmer.

[710] _an't_] Hanmer. _and't_ F1 F2 F3. _and'_ F4. and Rowe.

[715] _or_] F2 F3 F4. _at_ F1. _to_ Capell. _and_ Malone. See note (XXI).

[718] _pluck_] _push_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[722, 759, 781] _an't_] Hanmer. _and't_ Ff.

[723] _pheasant_] _present_ Kenrick conj.

[725] _pheasant, cock_] Capell. _pheazant cock,_ Ff (_pheasant_ F4).

[726] _blessed_] Ff. _bless'd_ Pope.

[729] _be but_] _but be_ Hanmer.

[732] _to be_] _to me_ S. Walker conj.

[733] _on's_] _of's_ Capell conj.

[734] _fardel_] Steevens. _Farthell_ F1 F2. _Farthel_ F3 F4.

[747] _hand-fast_] _band, fast_ Grant White conj.

[752] _germane_] _Iermaine_ F1 F2. _Jermain_ F3 F4.

[763] _then stand_] _there stand_ Capell.

[774] _behalfs_] _behalf_ F4.

[775] _man_] F1 F2. _a man_ F3 F4. _the man_ Long MS.

[799] _look_] F3 F4. _looke_ F1 F2. _leake_ Theobald conj.

[801, 802] _blest_] _bless'd_ Ff.

[804] Exeunt S. and C.] Rowe. Exeunt. F2 F3 F4. om. F1.

[809] _back_] _luck_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[815] [Exit.] Rowe. [Exeunt. Ff.

## ACT V.

## SCENE I. _A room in_ LEONTES' _palace_.

_Enter_ LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, _and Servants_.

_Cleo._ Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make, Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down More penitence than done trespass: at the last, Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; 5 With them forgive yourself.

_Leon._ Whilst I remember Her and her virtues, I cannot forget My blemishes in them, and so still think of The wrong I did myself: which was so much, That heirless it hath made my kingdom; and 10 Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man Bred his hopes out of.

_Paul._ True, too true, my lord: If, one by one, you wedded all the world, Or from the all that are took something good, To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd 15 Would be unparallel'd.

_Leon._ I think so. Kill'd! She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter Upon my tongue as in my thought: now, good now, Say so but seldom.

_Cleo._ Not at all, good lady: 20 You might have spoken a thousand things that would Have done the time more benefit and graced Your kindness better.

_Paul._ You are one of those Would have him wed again.

_Dion._ If you would not so, You pity not the state, nor the remembrance 25 Of his most sovereign name; consider little What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue, May drop upon his kingdom and devour Incertain lookers on. What were more holy Than to rejoice the former queen is well? 30 What holier than, for royalty's repair, For present comfort and for future good, To bless the bed of majesty again With a sweet fellow to't?