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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Winter's Tale
[I, 2] |
Leontes |
450 |
Thou dost advise me
Even so as I mine own course have set down:
I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.
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2 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 1] |
Hermione |
631 |
Let's have that, good sir.
Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best
To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it.
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3 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 1] |
Hermione |
635 |
Nay, come, sit down; then on.
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4 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 1] |
First Lord |
752 |
For her, my lord,
I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,
Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless
I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,
In this which you accuse her.
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5 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 3] |
(stage directions) |
1009 |
[Laying down the child]
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6 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Hermione |
1294 |
Sir,
You speak a language that I understand not:
My life stands in the level of your dreams,
Which I'll lay down.
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7 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Officer |
1361 |
Ay, my lord; even so
As it is here set down.
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8 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Paulina |
1377 |
This news is mortal to the queen: look down
And see what death is doing.
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9 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Paulina |
1410 |
What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?
In leads or oils? what old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
Together working with thy jealousies,
Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
For girls of nine, O, think what they have done
And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,
Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,
To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,
More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter
To be or none or little; though a devil
Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:
Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death
Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,
Laid to thy answer: but the last,—O lords,
When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,
The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,
and vengeance for't
Not dropp'd down yet.
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10 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Clown |
2078 |
He could never come better; he shall come in. I
love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful
matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing
indeed and sung lamentably.
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11 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Florizel |
2255 |
Old sir, I know
She prizes not such trifles as these are:
The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd
Up in my heart; which I have given already,
But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life
Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,
Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,
As soft as dove's down and as white as it,
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd
snow that's bolted
By the northern blasts twice o'er.
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12 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Camillo |
2505 |
Sent by the king your father
To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,
The manner of your bearing towards him, with
What you as from your father shall deliver,
Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:
The which shall point you forth at every sitting
What you must say; that he shall not perceive
But that you have your father's bosom there
And speak his very heart.
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13 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
Cleomenes |
2820 |
Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd
A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,
Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down
More penitence than done trespass: at the last,
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.
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14 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 3] |
Paulina |
3408 |
Music, awake her; strike!
[Music]
'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;
Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,
I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,
Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him
Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:
[HERMIONE comes down]
Start not; her actions shall be holy as
You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her
Until you see her die again; for then
You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:
When she was young you woo'd her; now in age
Is she become the suitor?
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15 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 3] |
Hermione |
3437 |
You gods, look down
And from your sacred vials pour your graces
Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own.
Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found
Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,
Knowing by Paulina that the oracle
Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved
Myself to see the issue.
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