For more amazement: if you can behold it, Ile make the Statue moue indeed; descend, And take you by the hand: but then you’le thinke (Which I protest against) I am assisted
By wicked Powers
Leo. What you can make her doe,
I am content to looke on: what to speake, I am content to heare: for ’tis as easie To make her speake, as moue
Paul. It is requir’d
You doe awake your Faith: then, all stand still: On: those that thinke it is vnlawfull Businesse I am about, let them depart
Leo. Proceed:
No foot shall stirre
Paul. Musick; awake her: Strike:
‘Tis time: descend: be Stone no more: approach: Strike all that looke vpon with meruaile: Come: Ile fill your Graue vp: stirre: nay, come away: Bequeath to Death your numnesse: (for from him, Deare Life redeemes you) you perceiue she stirres: Start not: her Actions shall be holy, as You heare my Spell is lawfull: doe not shun her, Vntill you see her dye againe; for then
You kill her double: Nay, present your Hand: When she was young, you woo’d her: now, in age, Is she become the Suitor?
Leo. Oh, she’s warme:
If this be Magick, let it be an Art Lawfull as Eating
Pol. She embraces him
Cam. She hangs about his necke,
If she pertaine to life, let her speake too
Pol. I, and make it manifest where she ha’s liu’d, Or how stolne from the dead?
Paul. That she is liuing,
Were it but told you, should be hooted at Like an old Tale: but it appeares she liues, Though yet she speake not. Marke a little while: Please you to interpose (faire Madam) kneele, And pray your Mothers blessing: turne good Lady, Our Perdita is found
Her. You Gods looke downe,
And from your sacred Viols poure your graces Vpon my daughters head: Tell me (mine owne) Where hast thou bin preseru’d? Where liu’d? How found Thy Fathers Court? For thou shalt heare that I Knowing by Paulina, that the Oracle
Gaue hope thou wast in being, haue preseru’d My selfe, to see the yssue
Paul. There’s time enough for that, Least they desire (vpon this push) to trouble Your ioyes, with like Relation. Go together You precious winners all: your exultation Partake to euery one: I (an old Turtle)
Will wing me to some wither’d bough, and there My Mate (that’s neuer to be found againe) Lament, till I am lost
Leo. O peace Paulina:
Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent, As I by thine a Wife. This is a Match,
And made betweene’s by Vowes. Thou hast found mine, But how, is to be question’d: for I saw her (As I thought) dead: and haue (in vaine) said many A prayer vpon her graue. Ile not seeke farre (For him, I partly know his minde) to finde thee An honourable husband. Come Camillo,
And take her by the hand: whose worth, and honesty Is richly noted: and heere iustified
By Vs, a paire of Kings. Let’s from this place. What? looke vpon my Brother: both your pardons, That ere I put betweene your holy lookes My ill suspition: This your Son-in-law,
And Sonne vnto the King, whom heauens directing Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina, Leade vs from hence, where we may leysurely Each one demand, and answere to his part Perform’d in this wide gap of Time, since first We were disseuer’d: Hastily lead away.
Exeunt.
The Names of the Actors.
Leontes, King of Sicillia.
Mamillus, yong Prince of Sicillia. Camillo.
Antigonus.
Cleomines.
Dion.
Foure
Lords of Sicillia.
Hermione, Queene to Leontes.
Perdita, Daughter to Leontes and Hermione. Paulina, wife to Antigonus.
Emilia, a Lady.
Polixenes, King of Bohemia.
Florizell, Prince of Bohemia.
Old Shepheard, reputed Father of Perdita. Clowne, his Sonne.
Autolicus, a Rogue.
Archidamus, a Lord of Bohemia.
Other Lords, and Gentlemen, and Seruants. Shepheards, and Shephearddesses.
FINIS. The Winters Tale.