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CAMILLO
565O my lord!
I would your spirit were easier for advice,
Or stronger for your need.
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CAMILLO Oh, my lord! I wish you had a greater inclination to take advice, or that you were stronger.
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FLORIZEL Hark, Perdita.
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FLORIZEL Listen, Perdita.
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Drawing her aside
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Drawing Perdita aside
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I’ll hear you by and by.
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(to Camillo) Camillo, I’ll listen to you in a moment.
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CAMILLO
570He’s irremoveable,
Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if
His going I could frame to serve my turn,
Save him from danger, do him love and honour,
Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia
575And that unhappy king, my master, whom
I so much thirst to see.
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CAMILLO He’s made his mind up to flee. I would be happy if I could make this departure serve my own purposes. I can save him from danger and treat him with love and honor, and I can also gain sight of dear Sicilia and that unhappy king who is my master, and whom I long to see again.
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FLORIZEL Now, good Camillo;
I am so fraught with curious business that
I leave out ceremony.
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FLORIZEL Now, good Camillo, I’m so overwhelmed with this strange undertaking that I’ve forgotten my manners.
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CAMILLO
580Sir, I think
You have heard of my poor services, i’ the love
That I have borne your father?
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CAMILLO Sir, I think you have heard of the modest services and the love I have given your father?
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FLORIZEL Very nobly
Have you deserved: it is my father’s music
585To speak your deeds, not little of his care
To have them recompensed as thought on.
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FLORIZEL The praise is well-deserved. My father delights to speak of your actions, and he hopes that he repays them as much as he praises them.
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