Page 869 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

LEONTES

No: not these twenty years.

PERDITA
So long could I
Stand by, a looker on.

PAULINA
Either forbear, [85]

Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you
For more amazement. If you can behold it,
I’ll make the statue move indeed; descend,
And take you by the hand: but then you’ll think
(Which I protest against) I am assisted [90]

By wicked powers.

LEONTES
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.

PAULINA
It is requir’d
You do awake your faith. Then all stand still: [95]
Or − those that think is unlawful business
I am about, let them depart.

LEONTES

Proceed:
No foot shall stir.

PAULINA
Music, awake her; strike!
(Music)

’Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;
Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come! [100]