Aut. I would most gladly know the issue of it

Gent.1. I make a broken deliuerie of the Businesse;

but the changes I perceiued in the King, and Camillo, were

very Notes of admiration: they seem'd almost, with staring

on one another, to teare the Cases of their Eyes.

There was speech in their dumbnesse, Language in their

very gesture: they look'd as they had heard of a World

ransom'd, or one destroyed: a notable passion of Wonder

appeared in them: but the wisest beholder, that knew

no more but seeing, could not say, if th' importance were

Ioy, or Sorrow; but in the extremitie of the one, it must

needs be.

Enter another Gentleman.

Here comes a Gentleman, that happily knowes more:

The Newes, Rogero

Gent.2. Nothing but Bon-fires: the Oracle is fulfill'd:

the Kings Daughter is found: such a deale of wonder is

broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers cannot

be able to expresse it.

Enter another Gentleman.

Here comes the Lady Paulina's Steward, hee can deliuer

you more. How goes it now (Sir.) This Newes (which

is call'd true) is so like an old Tale, that the veritie of it is

in strong suspition: Ha's the King found his Heire?

Gent.3. Most true, if euer Truth were pregnant by

Circumstance: That which you heare, you'le sweare

you see, there is such vnitie in the proofes. The Mantle

of Queene Hermiones: her Iewell about the Neck of it:

the Letters of Antigonus found with it, which they know

to be his Character: the Maiestie of the Creature, in resemblance

of the Mother: the Affection of Noblenesse,

which Nature shewes aboue her Breeding, and many other

Euidences, proclayme her, with all certaintie, to be

the Kings Daughter. Did you see the meeting of the

two Kings?

Gent.2. No

Gent.3. Then haue you lost a Sight which was to bee

seene, cannot bee spoken of. There might you haue beheld

one Ioy crowne another, so and in such manner, that

it seem'd Sorrow wept to take leaue of them: for their

Ioy waded in teares. There was casting vp of Eyes, holding

vp of Hands, with Countenance of such distraction,

that they were to be knowne by Garment, not by Fauor.

Our King being ready to leape out of himselfe, for ioy of

his found Daughter; as if that Ioy were now become a

Losse, cryes, Oh, thy Mother, thy Mother: then askes

Bohemia forgiuenesse, then embraces his Sonne-in-Law:

then againe worryes he his Daughter, with clipping her.

Now he thanks the old Shepheard (which stands by, like

a Weather-bitten Conduit, of many Kings Reignes.) I

neuer heard of such another Encounter; which lames Report

to follow it, and vndo's description to doe it

Gent.2. What, 'pray you, became of Antigonus, that

carryed hence the Child?

Gent.3. Like an old Tale still, which will haue matter

to rehearse, though Credit be asleepe, and not an eare open;

he was torne to pieces with a Beare: This auouches

the Shepheards Sonne; who ha's not onely his Innocence

(which seemes much) to iustifie him, but a Hand-kerchief

and Rings of his, that Paulina knowes

Gent.1. What became of his Barke, and his Followers?

Gent.3. Wrackt the same instant of their Masters

death, and in the view of the Shepheard: so that all the

Instruments which ayded to expose the Child, were euen

then lost, when it was found. But oh the Noble Combat,

that 'twixt Ioy and Sorrow was fought in Paulina. Shee

had one Eye declin'd for the losse of her Husband, another

eleuated, that the Oracle was fulfill'd: Shee lifted the

Princesse from the Earth, and so locks her in embracing,

as if shee would pin her to her heart, that shee might no

more be in danger of loosing

Gent.1. The Dignitie of this Act was worth the audience

of Kings and Princes, for by such was it acted

Gent.3. One of the prettyest touches of all, and that

which angl'd for mine Eyes (caught the Water, though

not the Fish) was, when at the Relation of the Queenes

death (with the manner how shee came to't, brauely confess'd,

and lamented by the King) how attentiuenesse

wounded his Daughter, till (from one signe of dolour to

another) shee did (with an Alas) I would faine say, bleed

Teares; for I am sure, my heart wept blood. Who was

most Marble, there changed colour: some swownded, all

sorrowed: if all the World could haue seen't, the Woe

had beene vniuersall

Gent.1. Are they returned to the Court?

Gent.3. No: The Princesse hearing of her Mothers

Statue (which is in the keeping of Paulina) a Peece many

yeeres in doing, and now newly perform'd, by that rare

Italian Master, Iulio Romano, who (had he himselfe Eternitie,

and could put Breath into his Worke) would beguile

Nature of her Custome, so perfectly he is her Ape:

He so neere to Hermione, hath done Hermione, that they

say one would speake to her, and stand in hope of answer.

Thither (with all greedinesse of affection) are they gone,

and there they intend to Sup

Gent.2. I thought she had some great matter there in

hand, for shee hath priuately, twice or thrice a day, euer

since the death of Hermione, visited that remoued House.

Shall wee thither, and with our companie peece the Reioycing?

Gent.1. Who would be thence, that ha's the benefit

of Accesse? euery winke of an Eye, some new Grace

will be borne: our Absence makes vs vnthriftie to our

Knowledge. Let's along.

Enter.

Aut. Now (had I not the dash of my former life in

me) would Preferment drop on my head. I brought the

old man and his Sonne aboord the Prince; told him, I

heard them talke of a Farthell, and I know not what: but

he at that time ouer-fond of the Shepheards Daughter (so

he then tooke her to be) who began to be much Sea-sick,

and himselfe little better, extremitie of Weather continuing,

this Mysterie remained vndiscouer'd. But 'tis all

one to me: for had I beene the finder-out of this Secret,

it would not haue rellish'd among my other discredits.

Enter Shepheard and Clowne.

Here come those I haue done good to against my will,

and alreadie appearing in the blossomes of their Fortune

Shep. Come Boy, I am past moe Children: but thy

Sonnes and Daughters will be all Gentlemen borne

Clow. You are well met (Sir:) you deny'd to fight

with mee this other day, because I was no Gentleman

borne. See you these Clothes? say you see them not,

and thinke me still no Gentleman borne: You were best

say these Robes are not Gentlemen borne. Giue me the

Lye: doe: and try whether I am not now a Gentleman

borne

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