Have I here touch'd Sicilia, and from him Give you all greetings, that a King, (at friend) Which waits upon worn times, hath fomething feiz'd The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his Leo. Oh, my brother! Good gentleman, the wrongs I have done thee ftir Afresh within me; and these thy offices, So rarely kind, are as interpreters Of my behind hand flackness. Welcome hither,· And hath he too Expos'd this paragon to th' fearful usage (At leaft, ungentle) of the dreadful Neptune, Flo. Good my lord, She came from Libya. Leo. Where the warlike Smalus, That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd, and lov'd? · Flo. Moft royal Sir, From thence; from him, whofe daughter His tears proclaim'd his parting with ner; thence Leo. The bleffed Gods Purge all infection from our air, whilst you Have left me iffue-lefs; and your father's bless'a, Worthy his goodness. What might I have been, Enter a Lord. Lord. Moft noble Sir, That, which I fhall report, will bear no credit, Defires you to attach his fon, who has, His dignity and duty both caft off, Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with Leo. Where's Bohemia? fpeak. Lord. Here in your city;. I now came from him. My marvel, and my meffage: to your court The father of this feeming lady, and way Her brother, having both their country quitted! Flo. Camilo has betray'd me.; Whose honour and whofe honesty 'till now Endur'd all weathers. Lord. Lay't fo to his charge; He's with the king your father. Lord. Camillo, Sir, I fpake with him; who now Per. Oh, my poor father! The heav'n fets fpies upon us, will not have Leo. You are marry'd ? Fla. Flo.. We are not, Sir, nor are we like to be; When once the is my wife. Leo. That once, I fee, by your good father's speed, Will come on very flowly. I am forry, (Moft forry) you have broken from his liking; Flo. Dear, look up; Though Fortune, vifible an enemy, Should chafe us, with my father; power no jot Leo. Would he do fo, I'd beg your precious miftrefs, Which he counts but a trifle. Pau. Sir, my liege, Your eye hath too much youth in't; not a month 'Eore your Queen dy'd, fhe was more worth fuch gazes Than what you look on now. Leo. I thought of her, Even in these looks I made. Is yet unanfwer'd; I will to your father; And mark what way I make: come, good my lord. [Exeunt. SCENE SCENE, near the Court in Sicilia. Enter Autolicus, and a Gentleman. Aut. BEfeech you, Sir, were you present at this re 1 Gent. I was by at the opening of the farthel, 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 fay, he found the child. Aut. I would most gladly know the iffue of it. 1 Gent. I make a broken delivery of the business; but the changes I perceived in the King, and Camillo, were very notes of admiration; they feem'd almost, with staring on one another, to tear the cafes of their eyes. There was fpeech in their dumbnefs, language in their very gefture; they look'd, as they had heard of a world ranfom'd, or one deftroy'd; a notable paffion of wonder appear'd in them; but the wifeft beholder, that knew no more but feeing, could not fay if th' importance were joy or forrow; but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. Enter another Gentleman. Here comes a gentleman, that, happily, knows more: the news, Rogero? 2 Gent. Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfill'd; the King's daughter is found; fuch a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour, that ballad-makers cannot be able to exprefs it. Enter another Gentleman. Here comes the lady Paulina's Steward, he can deli ver you more. How goes it now, Sir? this news, which is call'd true, is fo like an old tale, that the verity of it is in ftrong fufpicion; has the King found his heir ? 3 Gent. Moft true, if ever truth were pregnant by circum circumftance: That which you hear, you'll fwear you fee, there is fuch unity in the proofs. The mantle of Queen Hermione- -her jewel about the neck of it, the letters of Antigonus found with it, which they know to be his character,the majefty of the creature, in refemblance of the mother,- the affection of nobleness, which nature fhews above her breeding, and many other evidences proclaim her with all certainty to be the King's daughter. Did you fee the meeting of the two Kings? 2 Gent. No. 3 Gent. Then have you loft a fight, which was to be feen, cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one joy crown another, fo and in fuch manner, that it feem'd, forrow wept to take leave of them, for their joy waded in tears. There was cafting up of eyes, holding up of hands, with countenance of fuch distraction, that they were to be known by garment, not by favour. Our King being ready to leap out of himself, for joy of his found daughter; as if that joy were now become a lofs, cries, oh, thy mother, thy mother! then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then embraces his fonin-law; then again worries he his daughter, with clipping her. Now he thanks the old fhepherd, who ftands by, like a weather-beaten conduit of many Kings' reigns. I never heard of fuch another encounter, which lames report to follow it, and undoes description to do it. 2 Gent. What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carry'd hence the child? 3 Gent. Like an old tale ftill, which will have matters to rehearse, tho' credit be afleep, and not an ear open; he was torn to pieces with a bear; this avouches the fhepherd's fon, who has not only his innocence, which feems much to justifie him, but a handkerchief and rings of his, that Paulina knows. I Gent. What became of his bark, and his followers? 3 Gent. Wreckt the fame inftant of their master's death, and in the view of the fhepherd; fo that all the inftruments, which aided to expose the child, were even then |