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Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason
The father (all whose joy is nothing else
But fair posterity) should hold some counsel
In such a business.

FLORIZEL
I yield all this;

But for some other reasons, my grave sir, [405]
Which ’tis not fit you know, I not acquaint
My father of this business.

POLIXENES
Let him know ’t.

FLORIZEL

He shall not.

POLIXENES

Prithee, let him.

FLORIZEL
No, he must not.

SHEPHERD
Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve
At knowing of thy choice.

FLORIZEL
Come, come, he must not. [410]
Mark our contract.

POLIXENES
Mark your divorce, young sir,
(Discovering himself)
Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base
To be acknowledg’d: thou a sceptre’s heir,

That thus affects a sheep-hook! Thou, old traitor,