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Or resolve you for more amazement.
''If you can behold it, I'll make the statue move...
Descend, and take you by the hand...
It is required you do awake your faith.
Then all stand still.
''Those who think it unlawful business...
let them depart.
Proceed. No foot shall stir.
Music, awake her.
''Strike!
'''Tis time:
Descend, be stone no more...
''Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,
I'll fill your grave up. Come away...
''Bequeath to death your numbness,
''For from him dear life redeems you...
Start not: her actions shall be holy
as you hear my spell is lawful.
''Do not shun her... for then you kill her double.
''Nay, present your hand.
''When she was young you wooed her.
''Now, in age, is she become the suitor?
''O, she's warm!
If this be magic,
let it be an art lawful as eating.
She embraces him.
''She hangs about his neck.
''If she pertain to life, let her speak too.
Ay, and make it manifest where she has lived,
''or how stol'n from the dead.
That she is living, were it but told you,
should be hooted at...
But it appears she lives,
though yet she speak not.
''Mark a little while.
''Interpose fair madam, kneel and pray your mother's blessing.
Turn, good lady, Turn, good lady,
our Perdita is found.
''You gods! Look down and from your sacred vials pour...
''your graces upon my daughter's head!
Tell me, mine own,
''where has thou been preserved? Where lived?
''How found thy father's court?
Thou shalt hear that I, knowing
the oracle gave hope thou wast in being,
''have preserved myself to see the issue''