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Winter's Tale
[II, 1] |
Leontes |
804 |
How could that be?
Either thou art most ignorant by age,
Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,
Added to their familiarity,
Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,
That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation
But only seeing, all other circumstances
Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:
Yet, for a greater confirmation,
For in an act of this importance 'twere
Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post
To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,
Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know
Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle
They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,
Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?
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Winter's Tale
[II, 3] |
Servant |
1163 |
Please your highness, posts
From those you sent to the oracle are come
An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,
Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,
Hasting to the court.
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3 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1181 |
[Enter CLEOMENES and DION]
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4 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
(stage directions) |
1343 |
[Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION]
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5 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Officer |
1344 |
You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,
You have not dared to break the holy seal
Nor read the secrets in't.
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6 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
(stage directions) |
2819 |
[Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants]
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7 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
Paulina |
2910 |
Unless another,
As like Hermione as is her picture,
Affront his eye.CLEOMENES. Good madam,—
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8 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
Leontes |
2961 |
Go, Cleomenes;
Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,
Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange
[Exeunt CLEOMENES and others]
He thus should steal upon us.
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Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
Leontes |
2970 |
Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st
He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,
When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches
Will bring me to consider that which may
Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.
[Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA]
Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;
For she did print your royal father off,
Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,
Your father's image is so hit in you,
His very air, that I should call you brother,
As I did him, and speak of something wildly
By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!
And your fair princess,—goddess!—O, alas!
I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth
Might thus have stood begetting wonder as
You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost—
All mine own folly—the society,
Amity too, of your brave father, whom,
Though bearing misery, I desire my life
Once more to look on him.
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