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| <H3>SCENE II. A court of Justice.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>The daughter of a king, our wife, and one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Of being tyrannous, since we so openly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Even to the guilt or the purgation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Produce the prisoner.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=9>It is his highness' pleasure that the queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Appear in person here in court. Silence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HERMIONE guarded; PAULINA and Ladies attending</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>Read the indictment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=12>[Reads] Hermione, queen to the worthy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>their better safety, to fly away by night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=22>Since what I am to say must be but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Which contradicts my accusation and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>The testimony on my part no other</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Be so received. But thus: if powers divine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Behold our human actions, as they do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>I doubt not then but innocence shall make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>False accusation blush and tyranny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Who least will seem to do so, my past life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>As I am now unhappy; which is more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Than history can pattern, though devised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>And play'd to take spectators. For behold me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>A fellow of the royal bed, which owe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>'Tis a derivative from me to mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And only that I stand for. I appeal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Came to your court, how I was in your grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>How merited to be so; since he came,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>With what encounter so uncurrent I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>The bound of honour, or in act or will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Cry fie upon my grave!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=55>I ne'er heard yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>That any of these bolder vices wanted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Less impudence to gainsay what they did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Than to perform it first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>That's true enough;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=61>You will not own it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=62>More than mistress of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>With whom I am accused, I do confess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>I loved him as in honour he required,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>With such a kind of love as might become</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>A lady like me, with a love even such,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>So and no other, as yourself commanded:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Which not to have done I think had been in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Both disobedience and ingratitude</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>For me to try how: all I know of it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Is that Camillo was an honest man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>And why he left your court, the gods themselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>You knew of his departure, as you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>What you have underta'en to do in's absence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=82>Sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>You speak a language that I understand not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>My life stands in the level of your dreams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Which I'll lay down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=86>Your actions are my dreams;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>You had a bastard by Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>No father owning it,--which is, indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>More criminal in thee than it,--so thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Look for no less than death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=96>Sir, spare your threats:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>The bug which you would fright me with I seek.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>To me can life be no commodity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>But know not how it went. My second joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>And first-fruits of my body, from his presence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Haled out to murder: myself on every post</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>Here to this place, i' the open air, before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>Tell me what blessings I have here alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>But what your jealousies awake, I tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>I do refer me to the oracle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>Apollo be my judge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=122>This your request</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>And in Apollos name, his oracle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt certain Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=125>The Emperor of Russia was my father:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>O that he were alive, and here beholding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>His daughter's trial! that he did but see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>Of pity, not revenge!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=130>You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>You have not dared to break the holy seal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>Nor read the secrets in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOMENES</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DION</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=137>All this we swear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=138>Break up the seals and read.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=139>[Reads] Hermione is chaste;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>and the king shall live without an heir, if that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>which is lost be not found.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Lords</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=144>Now blessed be the great Apollo!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HERMIONE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=145>Praised!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=146>Hast thou read truth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=147>Ay, my lord; even so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>As it is here set down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=149>There is no truth at all i' the oracle:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=151>My lord the king, the king!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=152>What is the business?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=153>O sir, I shall be hated to report it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>Of the queen's speed, is gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=156>How! gone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=157>Is dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=158>Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>Do strike at my injustice.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>HERMIONE swoons</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=160>How now there!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=161>This news is mortal to the queen: look down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>And see what death is doing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=163>Take her hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>I have too much believed mine own suspicion:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>Beseech you, tenderly apply to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>Some remedies for life.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=168>Apollo, pardon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>For, being transported by my jealousies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>Camillo for the minister to poison</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>My friend Polixenes: which had been done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>But that the good mind of Camillo tardied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>My swift command, though I with death and with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>Reward did threaten and encourage him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>Which you knew great, and to the hazard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>Of all encertainties himself commended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>No richer than his honour: how he glisters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>Thorough my rust! and how his pity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>Does my deeds make the blacker!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter PAULINA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=188>Woe the while!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=190>Break too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=191> What fit is this, good lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=192>What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=194>In leads or oils? what old or newer torture</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>Must I receive, whose every word deserves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=196>To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>Together working with thy jealousies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=198>Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>For girls of nine, O, think what they have done</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=200>And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=201>Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=203>That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=207>More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>To be or none or little; though a devil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=212>Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=213>Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>That could conceive a gross and foolish sire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=215>Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=216>Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=218>The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=219>and vengeance for't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=220>Not dropp'd down yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=221>The higher powers forbid!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=222>I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=224>Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=226>As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=227>Do not repent these things, for they are heavier</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>To nothing but despair. A thousand knees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>Upon a barren mountain and still winter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=232>In storm perpetual, could not move the gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=233>To look that way thou wert.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=234>Go on, go on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=236>All tongues to talk their bitterest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=237>Say no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=238>Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=239>I' the boldness of your speech.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech41><b>PAULINA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=240>I am sorry for't:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=241>All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=242>I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=243>The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=244>To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=245>Should be past grief: do not receive affliction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=246>At my petition; I beseech you, rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=247>Let me be punish'd, that have minded you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=248>Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=249>Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=250>The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=251>I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=252>I'll not remember you of my own lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=253>Who is lost too: take your patience to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=254>And I'll say nothing.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech42><b>LEONTES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=255>Thou didst speak but well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=256>When most the truth; which I receive much better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=258>To the dead bodies of my queen and son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=259>One grave shall be for both: upon them shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=260>The causes of their death appear, unto</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=261>Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=262>The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=263>Shall be my recreation: so long as nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=264>Will bear up with this exercise, so long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=265>I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=266>Unto these sorrows.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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