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A prison.
[Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants]
PAULINA
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The keep|er of | the pris|on, call | to him:
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Let him have | knowledge | who I | am. Good |
lady,
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No court | in Eur|ope is / too good | for thee,
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What dost | thou then | in pris|on? Now | good*
sir,
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You know | me, do you | not?
JAILER
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For a | worthy | lady,
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And one,| whom much | I hon|or.
PAULINA
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Pray | you then,
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Conduct | me to the | queen.
JAILER
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I | may not |(madam)
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To the contra|ry I | have express |
command||ment.
PAULINA
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Here's | ado, to | lock up hon|esty | and hon|or
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The ac|cess of | gentle | visi|tors. Is it |
lawful | pray you, (hept with prev)
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To see | her wom|en? an|y of | them?
|| Emil|ia?
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So please | you (mad|am)
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To put | apart | these your | attend|ants, I
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Shall bring | Emil|ia forth.
PAULINA
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I pray | now call her:
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Withdraw | yourselves.
[Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants]
JAILER
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And | madam,|
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I must | be pres|ent at | your conf|erence.
PAULINA
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Well: be | it so:| prithee. \\
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Here's^such | ado,| to make no stain,| a stain,
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As pas|ses col|oring.| Dear gentlewom||an,
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How | fares our | gracious | lady?|
EMILIA
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As well | as one | so great,| and so | forlorn
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May hold | togeth|er: on | her frights,| and
griefs
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(Which never | tender | lady | hath born |
greater)
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She is,| something | before | her time,|
deliv||ered.
PAULINA
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A boy?
EMILIA
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A daught|er, and | a good|ly babe,
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Lusty,| and like | to live:| the queen | receives
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Much com|fort in it:| says, my | poor pris/oner,
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I am | inno|cent as | you.
PAULINA
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I | dare be | sworn:
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These dang|erous,/ unsafe | lunes in the | king,
be|shrew them: (hex with prev)
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He must | be told | on it, and he | shall: the |
office
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Becomes | a wom|an best.| I'll take it | upon me,
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If I prove hon|ey-mouthed,| let my tongue |
blister.
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And never | to my | red-looked ang|er be
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The trump|et any | more: Pray / you (Em|ilia)
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Commend | my best | obed|ience to | the queen,
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If she / dares trust | me with | her lit|tle
babe,
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I'll show it | the king,| and und|ertake | to be
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Her ad|vocate | to the loudst.| We do | not know
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How he | may soft|en at | the sight | of the
child:
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The sil|ence oft|en of / pure in|nocence
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Persuades,| when speak|ing fails.
EMILIA
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Most^worth|y madam,
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Your hon|or, and | your good|ness is so |
evident,
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That your / free und|ertak|ing can|not miss
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A thriv|ing issue:| there is no | lady | living
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So meet | for this great | errand;| Please your |
ladyship
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To vis|it the / next room,| I'll pres|ently
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Acquaint | the queen | of your / most noble |
offer,
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Who, but | today | hammered | of this | design,
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But durst | not^tempt | a min|ister | of hon||or
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Lest she | should be | denied.
PAULINA
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Tell her (Em|ilia)
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I'll use | that tongue | I have:| if wit flow |
from it
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As bold|ness from | my bos|om, let it | not be |
doubted (hex with prev)
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I shall | do good.
EMILIA
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Now | be you | blessed for it.
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I'll to the | queen: please / you come |
something | nearer.
JAILER
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Madam,| if it please | the queen | to send | the
babe,
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I know | not what | I shall | incur,| to pass it,
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Having | no war|rant.
PAULINA
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You need | not fear | it (sir)
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This child | was pris|oner to | the womb,| and is
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By law | and pro|cess of / great nat|ure, thence
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Freed, and | enfran|chised, not a part|y to
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The ang|er of | the king,| nor guil|ty of
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(If an|y be)| the tres|pass^of | the queen.
JAILER
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I do | believe it. \\
PAULINA
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Do not | you fear:| upon | mine hon|or, I
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Will stand | betwixt | you, and | danger.|
[Exeunt]