Clo. If I were not in love with Mopfa, thou fhould't take no money of me; but being enthrall'd

Mop. Let's have fome merry ones.

Aut. Why, this is a paffing merry one; and goes

as I am, it will also be the bondage of certain rib-to the tune of, Two maids wooing a man: there's fcarce a maid weftward, but the fings it; 'tis in

bons and gloves.

Mop. I was promis'd them against the feaft; request, I can tell you. but they come not too late now.

Mop. We can both fing it; if thou'lt bear a

Dor. He hath promis'd you more than that, or part, thou fhalt hear; 'tis in three parts, there be liars.

Mop. He hath paid you all he promis'd you: may be, he has paid you more; which will fhame you to give him again.

Clo. Is there no manners left among maids? will they wear their plackets, where they should bear their faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kill-hole, to whistle off these fecrets; but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? 'Tis well they are whifpering: Clamour 1 your tongues, and not a word more.

Mop. I have done. Come, you promis'd me a tawdry lace, and a pair of sweet gloves 2.

Clo. Have I not told thee, how I was cozen'd by the way, and loft all my money?

Aut. And, indeed, fir, there are cozeners abroad; therefore it behoves men to be wary.

Clo. Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lofe nothing

here.

Aut. I hope fo, fir; for I have about me many parcels of charge.

Ch. What haft here? ballads?

Map Pray now, buy fome: I love a ballad in print, a'-life 3; for then we are fure they are true.

Aut. Here's one, to a very doleful tune, How an ufurer's wife was brought to bed with twenty money-bags at a burden; and how the long'd to eat adders' heads, and toads carbonado`d.

Mop. Is it true, think you?

Aut. Very true; and but a month old. Dor. Blefs me from marrying a ufurer ! Aut. Here's the midwife's name to't, one miftrefs Taleporter; and five or fix honeft wives' that were prefent: Why should I carry lies abroad? Mop. Pray you now, buy it.

Dor. We had the tune on't a month ago.
Aut. I can bear my part; you must know, 'tis
my occupation: have at it with you.
S O N G.

A. Get you bence, for I must go;
Where, it fits not you to know.

D. Whither? M. 0, whither? Whitber?
M. It becomes thy oath full well,
Thou to me thy fecrets tell:

D. Me too, let me go thither.
M. Or thou got to the grange, or mill:
D. If to either, thou doft ill.

A. Neither. D. What, neither? A. Neither.
D. Thou haft fworn my love to be ;

M. Thou haft fworn it more to me :

Then, whither go'fi? say, whither?

Clo. We'll have this fong out anon by ourselves: My father and the gentlemen are in fad 4 talk, and we'll not trouble them: come, bring away thy pack after me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both; --Pedler, let's have the first choice.-Follow me, girls.

lut. And you fhall pay well for 'em.
Fill you buy any tape,
Or lace for your cape,
My dainty duck, my deur-a?
ry plk, any thread,
Any toys for your bad,

[Ajide.

Of the new, and fin'fi, jin ji wear-a?
Come to the pedler ;

Money's a midler,

That doth utter 5 all mens ave ar-n.

[Exe. Clown, Autolycus, Dorcas, and Mapfa.

Enter a Servant.

Ser. Mafter, there are three carters, three fhep

Clo. Come on, lay it by: And let's first see more herds, three neat-herds, three fwine-herds, that ballads; we'll buy the other things anon. have made themselves all men of hair; they call

Aut. Here's another ballad, Of a fish, that ap-themfelves, faltiers: and they have a dance, which pear'd upon the conft, on Wednesday the fourfcore the wenches fay is a gallimautry of gambols, because of April, forty thoufand fathom above water, and they are not in't; but they themselves are o'the fung this ballad against the hard hearts of maids :ind, (if it be not too rough for fonie, that know it was thought, fhe was a woman, and was turn'd little but bowling) it will pleafe plentifully. into a cold fish, for fhe would not exchange flesh

Shep, Away! we'll none on 't; here has been too with one that lov'd her: The ballad is very piti-much homely foolery already :-I know, fir, we

ful, and as true.

Der. Is it true too, think you?

weary you.

Pol. You weary thofe that refresh us: Pray, let's

Aut. Five juftices' hands at it; and witneffes, fee these four threes of herdsmen.

more than my pack will hold.

Ser. One three of them, by their own report, fir, hath danc'd before the king; and not the worit Aut. This is a merry ballad; but a very pretty of the three, but jumps twelve foot and a half by

Clo. Lay it by too: Another.

1 When bells are at the height, in order to cease them, the repetition of the ftrokes becomes much quicker than before; this is called clamouring them. 2 Sweet, or perfumed gloves, were very fashionable in the age of Elizabeth, and long afterwards. Tawdry laces were worn about the ladies heads, necks, and waifts. 31. e. at life. 4 i. e. ferious. si. e bring out, or produce. of hair, are hairy men, or fatyrs. A dance of fatyrs was no unufual entertainment in thole times.

6 Men

Shep

Shep. Leave your prating; fince thefe good men are pleas'd, let them come in; but quickly now. Ser. Why, they stay at door, fir.

Here a dance of twelve Satyrs.

Pol. [Afide.] O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.

Is it not too far gone?-'Tis time to part them.-
He's fimple, and tells much-How now, fair
fhepherd ?

Your heart is full of fomething, that doth take
Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young,
And handed love, as you do, I was wont
To load my the with knacks: I would have ranfack'd
The pedler's filken treasury, and have pour'd it
To her acceptance; you have let him go,
And nothing marted with him: If your lafs
Interpretation fhould abuse; and call this,
Your lack of love, or bounty; you were straited
For a reply, at leaft, if you make a care
Of happy holding her.

Flo. Old fir, I know,

She prizes not fuch trifles as these are :

The gifts, she looks from me, are pack'd, and lock'd,
Up in my heart; which I have given already,
But not deliver'd.-O, hear me breathe my life
Before this ancient fir, who, it should feem,
Hath fometime lov'd: I take thy hand; this hand,
As foft as dove's down, and as white as it;
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd fnow,
That's bolted by the northern blafts twice o'er.
Pol. What follows this?

How prettily the young fwain feems to wash
The hand, was fair before!I have put you out :—
But, to your proteftation; let me hear

What you profefs.

Flo. Do, and be witness to't.

Pel. And this my neighbour too?
Flo. 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 faireft youth
That ever made eye fwerve; had force, and know-
ledge,
[them,
More than was ever man's,-I would not prize
Without her love: for her, employ them all;
Commend them, and condemn them, to her fervice,
Or to their own perdition.

Pol. Fairly offer'd.

Cam. This fhews a found affection.
Shep. But my daughter,

Say you the like to him?

Per. I cannot speak

So well, nothing fo well; no, nor mean better:
By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out
The purity of his.

Shep. Take hands, a bargain;

But, for fome other reasons, my grave fir,
Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
My father of this business.

Pol. Let him know't.
Flo. He thall not.
Pol. Pr'ythee, let him.
Flo. No, he must not.

Shep. Let him, my fon; he shall not need to grieve
At knowing of thy choice.

Flo. Come, come, he must not :--
Mark our contract.

Pol. Mark your divorce, young fir,

[Difcovering himself.
Whom fon I dare not call; thou art too bafe
To be acknowledg'd: Thou a icepter's heir,
That thus affect'it a fheep-hook!-Thou old traytor,
I am forry, that, by hanging thee, I can but
Shorten thy life one week.-And thou, fresh piece
Of excellent witchcraft; who, of force, muft know
The royal fool thou cop'ft with ;-

Shep. O, my heart!

[made

Pol. I'll have thy beauty fcratch'd with briars,and
More homely than thy ftate.-For thee, fond boy,-
If I may ever know, thou doft but figh, [never
That thou no more fhalt never fee this knack, (as
I mean thou fhalt) we'll bar thee from fucceflion;
Not hold thee of our blood, no not our kin,
Far than Deucalion off: Mark thou my words;
Follow us to the court.-Thou churl, for this time,
Though full of our difpleafure, yet we free thee

And, friends unknown, you thall bear witnefs to't: From the dead blow of it. And you, enchant

Per. Even here undone!

To this my fair belov'd: Therefore, I pray you,
As you have ever been my father's friend,
When he fhall mifs me, (as, in faith, I mean not
To fee him any more) caft your good counfels
Upon his paffion; Let myfelf, and fortune,

I was not much aferd: for once, or twice,
I was about to speak; and tell him plainly,
The felf-fame fun, that thines upon his court,
Hides not his vifage from our cottage, but
Looks on alike.-Wilt pleafe you, fir, be gone?Tug for the time to come. This you may know,
[To Fiorizel. And fo deliver,-I am put to fea

I told you, what would come of this: 'Beleech you, With her, whom here I cannot hold on fhore;
Of your own flate take care: this dream of mine,-And, moft opportune to our need, I have

Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,

But milk my ewes, and weep.

Cam. Why, how now, father?

Speak, ere thou diest.

Shep. I cannot fpeak, nor think,

Nor dare to know that which I know.-9, fir,
[To Florizel.
You have undone a man of fourscore three,
That thought to fill his grave in quiet; yea,
To die upon the bed my father dy'd,
To lie clofe by his honeft bones: but now
Some hangman must put on my throwd, and lay me
Where no prieft fhovels-in duft'.-Ocurk dwretch!
[ Perdita.
That knew it this was the prince, and would'?!
adventure

To mingle faith with him.-Undone! undone !
If I might die within this hour, I have liv'd
To die when I defire.

Flo. Why look you so upon me?

[Exit.

I am but forry, not afeard; delay'd,
But nothing alter'd: What I was, I am :
More ftraining on, for plucking back; not following
My leath unwillingly.

Cam. Gracious my lord,

You know your father's temper: at this time
He will allow no ipeech,--which, I do guefs,
You do not purpose to him ;--and as hardly
Will he endure your fight as yet, I fear:
Then, 'till the fury of his highness fettle,
Come not before him.

Flo. I not purpofe it.

I think, Camillo.

Cam. Even he, my lord.

A veffel rides faft by, but not prepar'd

For this defign. What courie I mean to hold,
Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor
Concern me the reporting.

Cam. O my lord,

If

you may pleate to think I love the king;
And, through him, what is neareft to him, which is
Your gracious felf; embrace but my direction,

(If your more ponderous and fettled project
May fuffer alteration) on mine honour,

Il point you where you fhall have fuch re-
ceiving

Per. How often have I told you, 'twould be thus? As fhall become your highnefs; where you may

How often faid, my dignity would lait

But 'till 'twere known?

Fl. It cannot fail, but by

The violation of my faith; And then

Let nature cruth the fides o' the earth together,
And mar the feeds within!-Lift up tuy looks
From my fuccellion wipe me, father! I
Am heir to my affection.

Cam. Be advis'd.

Enjoy your miftrefs; from the whom, I fee, There's no disjunction to be made, but by (As heavens forefend!) your ruin: Marry her; And (with my beit endeavours in your abfence) Your difcontenting father I'll ftrive to qualify, :—And bring him up to liking.

Flo. I am; and by my fy: if my reafon
Will thereto be obedient, I have retion;
It not, my tentos, better pleas'd with madhefs,
Do bid it welc me.

Gam. This is defperate, fir.

Flo. So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;
I needs muit think it honeity. Camill,
Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may
Be thereat glean'd; for all the fun fees, or
The close earth wombs, or the profound fea hides
In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath

This part of the priest's office was not left off till the reign of Edward VI. 2 i. c. love.

And

word.

[They talk afide.

And there prefent yourself, and your fair princefs, That you may know you shall not want,-one (For fo, I fee, the muft be) 'fore Leontes; She fhall be habited, as it becomes

The partner of your bed. Methinks, I fee
Leontes, opening his free arms, and weeping
His welcomes forth: afks thee, the fon, forgiveness,
As 'twere i' the father's perfon: kiffes the hands
Of your fresh princefs: o'er and o'er divides him
"Twixt his unkindness and his kindnefs; the one
He chides to hell, and bids the other grow,
Fafter than thought, or time.

Flo. Worthy Camillo,

What colour for my vifitation fhall I
Hold up before him?

Cam. Sent by the king your father
To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir,
The manner of your bearing towards him, with
What you, as from your father, fhall deliver,
Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
The which shall point you forth, at every fitting,
What you must fay; that he fhall not perceive,
But that you have your father's bofom there,
And fpeak his very heart.

Fla. I am bound to you:

There is fome fap in this.

Cam. A courfe more promifing

"Than a wild dedication of yourfelves

Enter Autolycus.

Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool honefty is! and truft, his fworn brother, a very fimple gentleman! I have fold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glafs, pomander 3, brooch, tablebook, ballad, knife, tape, glove, fhoe-tye, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fafting: they throng who should buy firft; as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer: by which means, I faw whofe purfe was beft in picture; and, what I faw, to my good ufe, I remember'd. My clown (who wants but fomething to be a reasonable man) grew fo in love with the wenches' fong, that he would not ftir his pettitoes, 'till he had both tune and words; which fo drew the reft of the herd to me, that all their other fenfes ftuck in ears: you might have pinch'd a placket 4, it was fenfclefs; 'twas nothing, to geld a codpiece of a purfe; I would have filed keys off, that hung in chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my fir's fong, and admiring the nothing of it. So that, in this time of lethargy, I pick'd and cut most of their feftival puries: and had not the old man come in with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's fon, and scar'd my choughs from the

To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores; most certain,chaff, I had not left a purfe alive in the whole army.

To miferies enough: no hope to help you;
But, as you shake off one, to take another:
Nothing fo certain, as your anchors; who
Do their best office, if they can but stay you
Where you'll be loth to be: Befides, you know,
Profperity's the very bond of love;

Whose fresh complexion and whofe heart together
Affliction alters.

Per. One of these is true:

I think, affliction may fubdue the cheek,

But not take in 2 the mind.

Cam. Yea, fay you fo?

[years,

There fhail not, at your father's houfe, thefe feven

[Camillo, Florizel and Perdita, come forward.
Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being
So foon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. [there
Flo. And thofe that you'll procure from king
Cam. Shall fatisfy your father. [Leontes,-
Per. Happy be you!

All, that you fpcak, fhews fair.

Cam. Who have we here?

[Seeing Autolycus.

We'll make an inftrument of this; omit
Nothing, may give us aid.

hanging.

Aut. If they have over-heard me now,- -why [Apide. Cam. How now, good fellow? Why fakeft thou fo? Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.

Aut. I am a poor fellow, fir.

Cam. Why, be fo ftill; here's nobody will steal that from thee: Yet, for the outfide of thy poverty, we must make an exchange: therefore, difcate thee inftantly, (thou must think, there's neceflity in't) and change garments with this gentleman: Though the pennyworth, on his fide, be the worst, yet hold thee, there's fome boot.

Aut. I am a poor fellow, fir:-I know ye well enough. Lide. Cam. Nay, pr'ythee, difpatch: the gentleman is half flead already.

Aut. Are you in earneft, fir?-I fmell the trick of it.

Flo. Difpatch, I pr'ythee.

Aut. Indeed, I have had earneft: but I cannot with confcience take it.

Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle.

2 i. c.

The council-days, in our author's time, were called, in common speech, the fittings. fubdue or overcome. 3 A pomander was a little ba 1 made of perfumes, and worn in the pocket, or about the neck, to prevent infection in times of pl. gu. 4 Placket is properly the opening ta a woman's petticoat. si. c. fome profit, fomething over and above.

A a 2

Fortunate

Fortunate mistress,-let my prophecy
Come home to you !-you mutt retire yourself
Into fome covert; take your fweet-heart's hat,
And pluck it o'er your brows; muffle your face;
Dismantle you; and as you can, difliken
The truth of your own teeming that you may
(For I do fear eyes over you) to ship-board
Get undefcry'd.

Per. I fee, the play fo lies,

That I must bear a part.

Cam. No remedy. Have you done there?

Flo. Should I now meet my father, He would not call me fon.

Cam. Nay, you shall have no hat :Come, lady, come.-Farewel, my friend. Aut. Adieu, fir.

Flo. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot? Pray you, a word.

Cam. What I do next, fhall be, to tell the king
[ide.

Of this escape, and whither they are bound;
Wherein my hope is, I fhall fo prevail,
To force him after: in whofe company
I fhall review Sicilia; for whofe fight
I have a woman's longing.

Flo. Fortune fpeed us !

Thus we fet on, Camillo, to the fea-fide.
Cam. The fwifter fpeed, the better.

[Exeunt Flo. Per. and Cam. Aut. I understand the bufinefs, I hear it: To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand,

Shep. Well; let us to the king; there is that in this farthel, will make him fcratch his heard. Aut. I know not, what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my matter. Clo. 'Pray heartily, he be at palace.

Aut. Though I am not naturally honeft, I am fo fometimes by chance:-Let me pocket up my pedler's excrement --How now, rufticks? whither are you bound?

Shep. To the palace, an it like your worship.

Aut. Your affairs there? what? with whom? the condition of that farthel, the place of your dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that is fitting to be known, difcover.

Clo. We are but plain fellows, fir.

Aut. A lie; you are rough and hairy: Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us foldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with ftamped 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, fir?
Aut. Whether it like me, or no, I am a courtier.

is neceffary for a cut-purfe; a good nofe is requi-Seeft thou not the air of the court, in thefe enfoldfite alfo, to fmell out work for the other fenfes.ings? hath not my gait in it, the meafure of the I fee, this is the time that the unjust man doth court? receives not thy nofe court-odour from me? thrive. What an exchange had this been, without reflect I not on thy baienets, court-contempt ? boot? what a boot is here, with this exchange? Think it thou, for that I infinuate, or toze 2 from Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we thee thy bufinets, I am therefore no courtier? I am may do any thing extempore. The prince himself courtier, cap-a-pe, and one that, will either push. ́is about a piece of iniquity: ftealing away from his; on, or pluck back thy bufiuefs there: whereupon I father, with his clog at his heels: If I thought command thee to open thy affair. it were not a piece of honefty to acquaint the king withal, I would do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I conftant to ny pro-1 feffion.

Enter Clown and Shepherd.

Shep. My bufinefs, fir, is to the king.
Hnt. What advocate hat thou to him?
Shop. I know not, an't like you.

Glo. Advocate's the court-word for a pheafant; fay, you have none.

Shep. None, fir; I have no pheasant, cock, nor

Afide, afide ;--here's more matter for a hot brain: Every lane's end, every thop, church, feflion, hang-hen. ing, yields a careful man work.

lut. How blefs'd are we, that are not fimple men!

Ch. See, fee; what a man you are now! there Yet nature might have made me as thefe are, is no other way, but to tell the king fhe's a change-Therefore I will not difdain.

ling, and none of your fleth and blood.

Shop. Nay, but hear me.

Clo. Nay, but hear me.
Shep. Go to then.

Cis. She being none of your fleth and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the king; and, fo, your flesh and blood is not to be punith'd by him. Shew those things you found about her; thofe fecret things, all but what he has with her: This being done, let the law go white, I warrant you.

Shep. I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his fon's pranks too; who, I may fay, is no

Cio. This cannot be but a great courtier. Shep. His garments are rich, but he wears them not handfomely.

Clo. He feems to be the more noble in being fantaftical: a great man, I'll warrant; I know, by the picking on 's teeth.

it. The farthel there? what's i' the farthel ? Wherefore that box?

Shep. Sir, there lies fuch fecrets in this farthel, and box, which none must know but the king; and which he shall know within this hour, it I may come to the fpeech of him.

it. Age, thou haft loft thy labour.

That is, pedler's beard. 2 To teuze, or toze, is to difestangle wool or flax. It here implies, to raw out by importunity.

Skep.