Page 871 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

You gods, look down,
And from your sacred vials pour your graces
Upon my daughter’s head! Tell me, mine own,
Where hast thou been preserv’d? where liv’d? how found

Thy father’s court? for thou shalt hear that I, [125]
Knowing by Paulina that the Oracle
Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserv’d
Myself to see the issue.

PAULINA

There’s time enough for that;
Lest they desire (upon this push) to trouble
Your joys with like relation. Go together, [130]
You precious winners all; your exultation
Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,

Will wing me to some wither’d bough, and there
My mate (that’s never to be found again)
Lament, till I am lost.

LEONTES
O, peace, Paulina! [135]

Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,
As I by thine a wife: this is a match,
And made between’s by vows. Thou hast found mine;
But how, is to be question’d; for I saw her,

As I thought, dead; and have in vain said many [140]
A prayer upon her grave. I’ll not seek far −
For him, I partly know his mind − to find thee
An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,

And take her by the hand; whose worth and honesty
Is richly noted; and here justified [145]
By us, a pair of kings. Let’s from this place.
(To Hermione) What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,

That e’er I put between your holy looks
My ill suspicion. This your son-in-law,
And son unto the king, whom, heavens directing, [150]
Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,

Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely