Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and others. CLEO. Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd LEON. Whilst I remember She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strik'st me Upon thy tongue as in my thought. Now, good now, You might have spoken a thousand things that would a In Antony and Cleopatra' we have an explanation of the text: "We use to say, the dead are well." Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'd bid you mark Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd [TO LEONTES. We have shifted the place of the parenthesis, making "her sainted spirit" the nominative case to " appear." By this arrangement, "where we offenders now" are must be understood. By any other construction we lose the force of the word "appear," as applied to “sainted spirit.” Malone proposed to read,― "Again possess her corpse, (and on this stage Where we offenders now appear soul-vex'd,) Steevens, whom Mr. Collier follows, reads b Just cause. "(Where we offenders now appear) soul-vex'd, In the original just such cause. In modern editions such is omitted, following the authority of the third folio. e Stars, stars. So the original, but diluted by Hanmer into stars, very stars. Never to marry, but by my free leave? LEON. Never, Paulina: so be bless'd my spirit! PAUL. Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath,— As like Hermione as is her picture, Affront his eye";— CLEO. No remedy but you will; give me the office As, walk'd your first queen's ghost, it should take joy GENT. One that gives out himself prince Florizel, LEON. What with him? he comes not LEON. His princess, say you, with him? GENT. Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think, That e'er the sun shone bright on. O Hermione, PAUL. a The vehemence of Paulina overbears the interruption of Cleomenes, and he says "I have done." The modern editors give "I have done" to Paulina; when she is evidently going on, perfectly regardless of any opposition. PAUL. LEON. Re-enter CLEOMENES, with FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and Attendants. Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; For she did print your royal father off, His very air, that I should call you brother, |