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  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

    train'd 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 seem'd to be

together,

    though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd 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.