I'd not have show'd it. Leon. Do not draw the curtain. Pau. No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy May think anon, it moves. Leon. Let be, let be. Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already— What was he, that did make it ?-See, my lord, Would you not deem, it breathed, and that those veins Did verily bear blood? Pol. The very Masterly done :` life seems warm upon her lip. Leon. The fixure of her eye has motion in 't,1 As 2 we are mock'd with art. Pau. I'll draw the curtain: My lord's almost so far transported, that He'll think anon, it lives. O sweet Paulina, Leon. The pleasure of that madness. Let't alone. I could afflict you farther. you: Leon. in it. Do, Paulina; Though her eye be fixed, yet it seems to have motion 2 As if. For this affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks, There is an air comes from her. What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me, For I will kiss her. Pau. Good my lord, forbear: The ruddiness upon her lip is wet: You'll mar it, if you kiss it; stain your own With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? Per. Stand by, a looker-on. Pau. So long could I Either forbear; Quit presently the chapel; or resolve you For more amazement. If you can behold it, And take you by the hand. But then you'll think, (Which I protest against) I am assisted By wicked powers. Leon. What you can make her do, I am content to look on; what to speak, I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy To make her speak, as move. Pau. It is required, You do awake your faith. Then, all stand still; Or those, that think it is unlawful business I am about, let them depart. Leon. Proceed; Pau. [music. Music; awake her: strike. Come ; 'Tis time; descend; be stone no more: approach; [Hermione comes down from the pedestal. Start not her actions shall be holy, as, You kill her double. Nay, present your hand : When she was young, you woo'd her; now, in age, Is she become the suitor. If she pertain to life, let her speak too. Pol. Ay, and make 't manifest where she has lived, Or how stolen from the dead. Pau. That she is living, Were it but told you, should be hooted at Like an old tale; but it appears, she lives, Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while. Please you to interpose, fair madam ; kneel, And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady; Our Perdita is found. [presenting Perdita, who kneels to Hermione. Her. You gods, look down, And from your sacred vials pour your graces Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear, that I,— Gave hope thou wast in being,-have preserved Pau. Will wing me to some wither'd bough; and there Leon. O, peace, Paulina ! Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent, As I by thine a wife: this is a match, mine; Thou hast found But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her, As I thought, dead; and have, in vain, said many A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far (For him, I partly know his mind) to find thee An honorable husband. Come, Camillo, 1 Communicate. And take her by the hand, whose worth, and ho nesty, Is richly noted, and here justified By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place.What?-Look upon my brother:-both your pardons, That e'er I put between your holy looks And son unto the king, (whom Heavens directing) END OF VOL. V. |