Ch. 771: SCENE IV. Another part of the forest

SCENE IV. Another part of the forest****

Enter Jailer’s Daughter.

DAUGHTER.

I am very cold, and all the stars are out too,

The little stars and all, that look like aglets.

The sun has seen my folly. Palamon!

Alas, no; he’s in heaven. Where am I now?

Yonder’s the sea, and there’s a ship; how ’t tumbles!

And there’s a rock lies watching under water;

Now, now, it beats upon it; now, now, now,

There’s a leak sprung, a sound one! How they cry!

Run her before the wind, you’ll lose all else.

Up with a course or two, and tack about, boys!

Good night, good night; you’re gone. I am very hungry.

Would I could find a fine frog; he would tell me

News from all parts o’ th’ world; then would I make

A carrack of a cockle shell, and sail

By east and north-east to the king of pygmies,

For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,

Twenty to one, is trussed up in a trice

Tomorrow morning. I’ll say never a word.

[_Sings. _]

_For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee,

And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine eye.

Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.

He’s buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,

And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.

Hey nonny, nonny, nonny. _

O, for a prick now, like a nightingale,

To put my breast against. I shall sleep like a top else.

[_Exit. _]