Leo. No, not these twenty years. Per. So long could I Stand by, a looker on. Pau. Either forbear, Quit presently the chapel, or refolve you And take you by the hand: but then you'll think, Leo. What you can make her do, I am content to look on; what to speak, Pau. It is requir'd You do awake your faith: then, all stand still; I am about, let them depart. Leo. Proceed; No foot fhall ftir. Pau. Mufick; awake her: ftrike; 'Tis time, defcend; be ftone no more; approach, [mufick. Dear life redeems you. You perceive, fhe ftirs; [Her. comes down. Start not, her actions shall be holy, as, You hear, my spell is lawful; do not fhun her Until you fee her die again, for then You kill her double: nay, prefent your hand; When he was young, you woo'd her; now in age, Is fhe become the fuitor. Leo. O, fhe's warm; If this be magick, let it be an art Lawful as eating. Pol. She embraces him. [embracing her. Cam. Cam. She hangs about his neck; If the pertain to life, let her speak too. Pol. Ay, and make manifest where she has liv'd, Or how ftol'n from the dead. Pau. That he is living, Were it but told you, fhould be hooted at Like an old tale; but it appears, the lives, Pleafe you to interpofe, fair madam, kneel, And pray your mother's bleffing. Turn, good lady, [prefenting Perdita, who kneels to Her. Her. You gods, look down, And from your facred vials pour your graces Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own, Where haft thou been preferv'd? where liv'd? how found Thy father's court? for thou fhalt hear that I, Knowing by Paulina that the oracle Gave hope thou waft in being, have preferv'd Pau. There's time enough for that; Left they defire, upon this pufh, to trouble Will wing me to fome wither'd bough, and there Leo. O, peace, Paulina: 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 haft found mine, But how, is to be queftion'd; for I faw her, As I thought, dead; and have, in vain, faid many (For him, I partly know his mind) to find thee And And take her by the hand; whofe worth, and honesty, By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place. [to Her. [Exeunt omnes. THE END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. VILLE DE LYON |