Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes' Palace.
 Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS.

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.

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

Archidamus	Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be 
	justified in our loves; for indeed-

Camillo	Beseech you-

Archidamus	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, though they cannot 
	praise us, as little accuse us.

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

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

Camillo	Sicilia cannot show himself overkind to Bohemia. They were 
	trained together in their childhoods, and there rooted 
	betwixt them then such an affection which cannot choose but 
	branch now. Since their more mature dignities and royal 
	necessities made separation of their society, their 
	encounters, though not personal, have been royally 
	attorneyed with interchange of gifts, letters, loving 
	embassies, that they have seemed to be together, though 
	absent; shook hands as over a vast, and embraced, as it 
	were, from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue 
	their loves!

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

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

Archidamus	Would they else be content to die?

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

Archidamus	If the king had no son they would desire to live on crutches 
	till he had one.
													[Exeunt.
