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The Winters Tale.
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The Names of the Actors.
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Dion.Foure Lords of Sicillia.
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[Mariner.]
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Enter Camillo and Archidamus .
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If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on
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Sicilia meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation , which hee
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Cam. ’Beseech you —
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Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my know-
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Cam. You pay a great deale to deare, for what’s giuen
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Arch. ’Beleeue me, I speake as my vnderstanding in-
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structs me, and as mine honestie puts it to vtterance .
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Cam. Sicilia cannot shew himselfe ouer-kind to Bohe-
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Leo. Stay your Thanks a while,
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Pol. Sir, that’s to morrow :
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Leo. We are tougher (Brother)
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There is no Tongue that moues; none, none i’th’World
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Doe euen drag me home-ward: which to hinder ,
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Were (in your Loue) a Whip to me ; my stay,
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To you a Charge , and Trouble: to saue both ,
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Farewell (our Brother.)
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Leo. Tongue-ty’d our Queene? speake you.
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Her. To tell, he longs to see his Sonne , were strong :
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Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture
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Mam. I, my good Lord .
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Mam. Yes, if you will (my Lord.)
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Leo. Thou want’st a rough pash , & the shoots that I haue
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Pol. What meanes Sicilia?
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How like (me thought) I then was to this Kernell ,
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Pol. If at home (Sir)
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Leo. So stands this Squire
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And leaue you to your grauer steps. Hermione ,
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Leo. Didst note it?
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Leo. Didst perceiue it?
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By any vnderstanding Pate but thine?
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Perchance are to this Businesse purblind ? say.
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Cam. Businesse, my Lord? I thinke most vnderstand
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Cam. To satisfie your Highnesse, and the Entreaties
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Of our most gracious Mistresse.
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