Question

Please Help!!!! Translate this to our days English!!!!! -Shakespearean---Winters Tale-Act2

"Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe, / I know not what I shall incur to pass it, / Having no warrant."

What is the best translation of these lines, spoken by the jailer to Pauline in the prison, in Act II?

Answer 1

Madam, if the queen wants to send the baby, I don't know what will happen to me for allowing it to pass through, since I don't have permission