[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
Archidamus
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed –
Camillo
Beseech you –
Archidamus
Camillo
Archidamus
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
Camillo
Archidamus
Camillo
Archidamus
Would they else be content to die?
Camillo
Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.
Archidamus
[Exeunt.]
Scene II
Sicilia. The palace of Leontes.
[Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, CAMILLO, and Attendants.]
Polixenes
Nine changes of the wat’ry star hath been
The shepherd’s note since we have left our throne
Without a burden. Time as long again
Would be fill’d up, my brother, with our thanks;
Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher,
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
With one ‘We thank you’ many thousands moe
That go before it.
Leontes
Stay your thanks a while,
And pay them when you part.
Polixenes
I am question’d by my fears of what may chance
Or breed upon our absence, that may blow
No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
‘This is put forth too truly’. Besides, I have stay’d
To tire your royalty.
Leontes
Than you can put us to’t.
Polixenes
No longer stays.
Leontes
One sev’night longer.
Polixenes
Very sooth, to-morrow.