Page 851 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Were I the ghost that walk’d, I’d bid you mark
Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in ’t
You chose her: then I’d shriek, that even your ears [65]
Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow’d

Should be ‘Remember mine’.

LEONTES
Stars, stars,
And all eyes else, dead coals! Fear thou no wife;
I’ll have no wife, Paulina.

PAULINA
Will you swear

Never to marry, but by my free leave? [70]

LEONTES
Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!

PAULINA
Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.

CLEOMENES
You tempt him over-much.

PAULINA
Unless another,
As like Hermione as is her picture,

Affront his eye.

CLEOMENES
Good madam, −

PAULINA
I have done. [75]
Yet, if my lord will marry, − if you will, sir;
No remedy but you will, − give me the office

To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young