Page 741 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4
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ACT I IT
Scene I IT
Enter Camillo and Archidamus.
ARCHIDAMUS
If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon
my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference
betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.
CAMILLO
I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia [5] means to pay Bohemia the
visitation which he justly owes him.
ARCHIDAMUS
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us: we will be justified in our loves:
for indeed −
CAMILLO
Beseech you − [10]
ARCHIDAMUS
Verily I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge; we cannot with such
magnificence − in so rare − I know not what to say − We will give you sleepy
drinks, that your senses (unintelligent of our insufficience) may, though they
cannot praise us, as little accuse [15] us.
CAMILLO
You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.
ARCHIDAMUS
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty
