accompanied, as a good actress ought to represent it, by an expression and recoil of apprehension that she had gone too far.
“At my request, he would not:”—
The first working of the jealous fit;—
“Too hot, too hot:”—
The morbid tendency of Leontes to lay hold of the merest trifles, and his grossness immediately afterwards,—
“Paddling palms and pinching fingers;”—
followed by his strange loss of self-control in his dialogue with the little boy.
Act iii. sc. 2. Paulina's speech:—
“That thou betray'dst Polixenes, 'twas nothing;
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant,