The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [1144]
The First Folio, 1623
‘Autolycus’ by Charles Robert Leslie, 1836
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I. SCENE I. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
SCENE II. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
ACT II. SCENE I. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
SCENE II. Sicilia. A prison
SCENE III. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
ACT III. SCENE I. Sicilia. On the road to the Capital
SCENE II. Sicilia. A court of justice
SCENE III. Bohemia. The sea-coast
ACT IV. SCENE I.
SCENE II. Bohemia. The palace of POLIXENES
SCENE III. Bohemia. A road near the SHEPHERD'S cottage
SCENE IV. Bohemia. The SHEPHERD'S cottage
ACT V. SCENE I. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
SCENE II. Sicilia. Before the palace of LEONTES
SCENE III. Sicilia. A chapel in PAULINA's house
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
LEONTES, King of Sicilia
MAMILLIUS, his son, the young Prince of Sicilia
CAMILLO, lord of Sicilia
ANTIGONUS, " " "
CLEOMENES, " " "
DION, " " "
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia
FLORIZEL, his son, Prince of Bohemia
ARCHIDAMUS, a lord of Bohemia
OLD SHEPHERD, reputed father of Perdita
CLOWN, his son
AUTOLYCUS, a rogue
A MARINER
A GAOLER
TIME, as Chorus
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes
PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione
PAULINA, wife to Antigonus
EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen
MOPSA, shepherdess
DORCAS, "
Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds,
Shepherdesses
SCENE: Sicilia and Bohemia
ACT I. SCENE I. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
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 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-
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 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 puts it to utterance.
CAMILLO.
Sicilia cannot show himself overkind to Bohemia. They were
train'd together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt
them then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now.
Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made
separation of their society, their encounters, though not
personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts,
letters, loving embassies; that they have seem'd to be together,
though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it
were from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves!
ARCHIDAMUS.
I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young
Prince Mamillius; it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that
ever came into my note.
CAMILLO.
I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a
gallant child; one that indeed physics the subject, makes old
hearts fresh; they that went on crutches ere he was born desire
yet their life to see him a man.
ARCHIDAMUS.
Would they else be content to die?
CAMILLO.
Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.
ARCHIDAMUS.
If the King had no son, they would desire to live on
crutches till he had one.
Exeunt
SCENE II. Sicilia. The palace of LEONTES
Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, CAMILLO, and
ATTENDANTS
POLIXENES.
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