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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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1 |
Winter's Tale
[I, 1] |
Camillo |
37 |
I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it
is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the
subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on
crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to
see him a man.
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2 |
Winter's Tale
[I, 2] |
Polixenes |
143 |
O my most sacred lady!
Temptations have since then been born to's; for
In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;
Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes
Of my young play-fellow.
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3 |
Winter's Tale
[I, 2] |
Camillo |
560 |
I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to
Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.
If therefore you dare trust my honesty,
That lies enclosed in this trunk which you
Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!
Your followers I will whisper to the business,
And will by twos and threes at several posterns
Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put
My fortunes to your service, which are here
By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;
For, by the honour of my parents, I
Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,
I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer
Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon
His execution sworn.
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4 |
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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5 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 2] |
Emilia |
871 |
As well as one so great and so forlorn
May hold together: on her frights and griefs,
Which never tender lady hath born greater,
She is something before her time deliver'd.
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6 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 3] |
Autolycus |
1775 |
O that ever I was born!
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7 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Camillo |
2530 |
Yea, say you so?
There shall not at your father's house these
seven years
Be born another such.
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8 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
First Gentleman |
3217 |
Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?
every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:
our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.
Let's along.
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9 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Old Shepherd |
3236 |
Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and
daughters will be all gentlemen born.
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10 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Clown |
3238 |
You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me
this other day, because I was no gentleman born.
See you these clothes? say you see them not and
think me still no gentleman born: you were best say
these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the
lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.
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11 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Autolycus |
3244 |
I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.
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12 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Clown |
3247 |
So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my
father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and
called me brother; and then the two kings called my
father brother; and then the prince my brother and
the princess my sister called my father father; and
so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like
tears that ever we shed.
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