[CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward]
CAMILLO Nay, but my letters, by this means being there
So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.
FLORIZEL And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--
CAMILLO Shall satisfy your father.
PERDITA Happy be you!
All that you speak shows fair.
CAMILLO Who have we here?
[Seeing AUTOLYCUS]
We'll make an instrument of this, omit
Nothing may give us aid.
AUTOLYCUS If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.
CAMILLO How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear
not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.
AUTOLYCUS I am a poor fellow, sir.
CAMILLO Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from
thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must
make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,
--thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and
change garments with this gentleman: though the
pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,
there's some boot.
AUTOLYCUS I am a poor fellow, sir.
[Aside]
I know ye well enough.
CAMILLO Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half
flayed already.
AUTOLYCUS Are you in earnest, sir?
[Aside]
I smell the trick on't.
FLORIZEL Dispatch, I prithee.
AUTOLYCUS Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with
conscience take it.
CAMILLO Unbuckle, unbuckle.
[FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments]
Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy
Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself
Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat
And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,
Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken
The truth of your own seeming; that you may--
For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard
Get undescried.
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