PALAMON.
We dare not fail thee, Theseus.
[They shake hands.]
THESEUS.
Come, I’ll give ye
Now usage like to princes, and to friends.
When ye return, who wins, I’ll settle here;
Who loses, yet I’ll weep upon his bier.
[Exeunt.]
ACT IV
SCENE I. Athens. A room in the prison
Enter Jailer and his Friend.
JAILER.
Hear you no more? Was nothing said of me
Concerning the escape of Palamon?
Good sir, remember.
FIRST FRIEND.
Nothing that I heard,
For I came home before the business
Was fully ended. Yet I might perceive,
Ere I departed, a great likelihood
Of both their pardons; for Hippolyta
And fair-eyed Emily, upon their knees,
Begged with such handsome pity that the Duke
Methought stood staggering whether he should follow
His rash oath or the sweet compassion
Of those two ladies. And, to second them,
That truly noble prince, Pirithous,
Half his own heart, set in too, that I hope
All shall be well. Neither heard I one question
Of your name or his ’scape.
JAILER.
Pray heaven it hold so.