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.

Cam.

I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.

Arch.

Wherein our entertainment shall shame us: we will be justified in our loves; for indeed—

Cam.

'Beseech you—

Arch.

Verily I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge; we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare—I know not what to say—we will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses

(unintelligent of our insufficience) may, tho' they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.

Cam.

You pay a great deal too dear, for what's given freely.

Arch.

Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.

Cam.

Sicilia cannot shew himself over-kind to Bohemia; they were train'd together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot chuse but branch now. Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society; their incounters, though not personal, have been royally attornied with enterchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies, that they have seem'd to be together, tho' absent; shook hands, as over a vast sea, and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds. The heav'ns continue their loves.

Arch.

I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young Prince Mamillus: it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note.

Cam.

I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child, one that, indeed, physicks the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man.

Arch.

Would they else be content to die?

Cam.

Yes, if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.

Arch.

If the King had no son, they would desire to live on crutches 'till he had one.